Our Core Elementary School Program
Grades 3-5
Our Core Elementary School Program is designed to meet the physical, social , and academic development needs for grades 3–5. The program runs five days a week, with two days of writing practice, two days of soccer practice, and Friday Game Days.
Miami SCORES and other America SCORES affiliates are also committed to ensuring equal participation between male and female students. Each school has a boys team and a girls team, each consisting of 15-20 poet-athletes from grades 3-5.
Year-Round
Healthy Living through Soccer
Fall Season
Power of Poetry
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This curriculum is aligned with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts (National Council of Teachers of English) and emphasizes writing components, such as rhyme schemes, meter and alliteration. Our teams create a poem on the topic of their choice to perform at the Community Poetry SLAM.
The curriculum seeks to develop physical skills, teambuilding, leadership, and commitment in student-athletes through practices and weekly games. Teamwork on the field carries over into the classroom, where we encourage an equally collaborative approach to literacy through poetry and service-learning.
Spring Season
Writing for the Community
Aligned with the 8 K-12 Service-Learning Standards (National Youth Leadership Council), this curriculum encourages Poet-Athletes to explore the relationship between self and community. Teams then create a service-learning project on a topic they are passionate about of their choice to present at Jamboree.
Celebratory Events
Fall Frenzy (Fall Season)
Community Poetry SLAM (Fall Season)
Jamboree (Spring Season)
These three joyous, high-energy events end their respective seasons— Fall Frenzy and Community Poetry SLAM in the fall and Jamboree in the spring. They bring school teams together to encourage and applaud each other as Poet-Athletes perform their slam poems and service-learning projects, with awards given for the winning performances.
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