The elementary curriculum serves students from kindergarten through fifth grades. The elementary program provides an education program completely focused on high expectations for all students in a safe and orderly environment.

The highlights of the elementary program are its literacy intervention programs Reading Rescue and Reading Excellence And Discovery (READ), a summer intensive preparation program for expectant kindergartners, teaching assistants in each elementary grade classroom, and foreign language beginning in Kindergarten. During these early years, FLACS pays special attention to cultivating relationships with families and evaluating students for any special needs.

The school’s academic program includes:

• Saxon Math: A research-based program that distributes instruction, practice and assessment of intricate arithmetic concepts and builds on each concept as students advance to the next lesson.
• English Language Arts: At the heart of a balanced approach to literacy are the varying levels of support provided by teachers to students that are gradually removed so that a student becomes an independent, skilled reader. FLACS’ approach takes into consideration the needs of the learner and the supports or challenges that a task presents. On a daily basis, teachers read to students, with students, and provide opportunities for independent reading by students. Teachers model reading aloud with expression and fluency to and with students. The ultimate goal with balanced literacy is to ensure that students develop strong reading skills and that they become life-long readers. In conjunction with the balanced literacy approach, FLACS has incorporated the use of the Trophies Reading Program in grades kindergarten through fifth.
• Harcourt Brace Science: The curriculum brings the physical elements of the world to the students by introducing scientific theories and enlightening students about the material world around them.
• Horizons for Social Studies: Horizons is the school’s main source for teaching social studies. The curriculum covers a range of subjects from a country’s and a people’s beginnings through to contemporary events and issues both in the United States and abroad.
• Spanish Language Arts, “!Viva El Español:” FLACS provides Spanish language instruction to all students. Spanish language instruction makes students aware of all the people and places where Spanish is spoken bringing insight and understanding of the community in which they live. The course highlights rules of usage, principles of composition, matters of structure, and words and expressions commonly misused.

Special Structures:

In its first seven years of existence, a series of special structures evolved, which will be continued in the school’s next middle school phase:

• 105 minute literacy block each day
• D.E.A.R. Time: Students bring books, magazines, or newspapers from home to read during our daily “Drop Everything and Read Time” program where classroom lessons are suspended for 15 minutes and everyone engages in sustained, un-interrupted silent reading.
• Extended day: 8:15AM – 3:15PM
• Saturday Academy
• After School Tutoring and Enrichment