Elementary

Religion

• Learn and recite basic prayers
• God’s creation
• God’s love for us
• Jesus-the Son of God
• The Rosary

Reading

• Emphasize phonics to teach short vowels and consonant sounds
• Identify word beginnings and endings
• Sequencing
• Prediction
• Classifying
• Rhyming’
• Sight word
• Auditory/visual discrimination
• Storia online for skill development

Writing/Composition

• Development of fine motor skills
• Printing letters, words, and simple sentences
• Expression of simple ideas

Grammar

• Construct asking/telling sentences
• Capital letters to start sentences and punctuation

Mathematics

• Count numbers 0–100
• Write numbers to 20
• Sort and classify
• Symmetry
• Patterns, shapes, and understanding data from pictures
• Properties of addition and subtraction
• Problem solving; graphing
• Ordering numbers
• Matching sets
• Calendar, time, money and measurement concepts

Science

• Life cycles
• Seasons
• Five senses
• Weather
• Plants
• Animals habitats

Social Studies

• Natural resources
• Holidays
• Family and Community

Technology

• Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.

Art

• Craft projects
• Drawing
• Painting

Religion

• The Trinity
• Heaven
• God’s Creation
• God’s great love for us
• The Blessed Mother
• The life of Jesus
• The Church and its members
• The Rosary

Reading

• Build a solid foundation using decoding skills
• Emphasize phonemic awareness
• Long vowels
• Consonant clusters
• Vowel pairs
• Blends
• Compound words
• Prediction
• Summarizing
• Develop comprehension and fluency skills through leveled readers and Storia Online

Spelling and Vocabulary

• Identify word beginnings and endings
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Base words
• Prefixes, suffixes, syllables
• Mastery of weekly words

Writing/Composition

• Strengthen fine motor skill development
• Form simple sentences with basic punctuation
• Formulation of information to express an idea

Mathematics

• Use numbers to 100
• Compare and order sets of objects and numbers less than 100
• Problem solving
• Equivalent amounts
• Fact Families
• Place value
• Telling time
• Simple fractions
• Money
• Solid and plane shapes
• Measuring

Science

• Living and nonliving things
• Seasons and weather
• Plants
• Animals
• Scientific method
• The sun, moon, and stars

Social Studies

• Natural resources
• Living in communities
• Traditions, holidays and celebrations

Technology

• Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.

Art

• Craft projects
• Drawing
• Painting

Religion

• Preparation for sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Communion
• The Church
• The Bible
• The Commandments
• Liturgical seasons
• Community outreach
• The Rosary

Reading

• Develop skills for independent reading
• Practice decoding skills and phonemic awareness
• Build skills to compare contrast, predict, infer and draw conclusions
• Identify cause and effect
• Sequence and summarize events
• Predict outcomes and draw conclusions
• Recognize key story elements and main ideas
• Increase reading comprehension and fluency skills through leveled readers and Storia Online
• Synonyms, antonyms and homonyms
• Mastery of weekly word list

Spelling/Vocabulary

• Expand knowledge of long vowels, consonant clusters, vowel pairs and blends
• Reinforce correct spelling  through daily exercises and spelling strategies
• Integrate spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading and writing

Writing/Composition

• Introduction to cursive writing
• Write dictated words and sentences
• Expression of thoughts and ideas
• Write complete sentences
• Construction of simple paragraphs
• Learn punctuation rules

Mathematics

• Round to the nearest 10 to  estimate sums and differences
• Identify and continue number patterns
• Problem-solving strategies
• Make bar models to solve word problems
• Patterns in addition and subtraction
• Identify coins and bills
• Measure weight, capacity and temperature
• Tell time in 5-minut increments
• 2 and 3-dimensional geometric  figures
• Fractions
• Pictographs and bar graphs

Science

• Life cycles
• Rocks and minerals
• Magnets
• Fossils
• Seasons
• Weather
• Animals and habitats
• Water cycle

Social Studies

• Develop understanding of basic  geographic directions and compass skills
• Analyze charts, maps and graphs
• Investigate early inventions and explorers
• Describe the experiences of the  colonists

Technology

• Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.

Art

• Craft projects
• Painting
• Drawing

Religion

• The Trinity
• The Blessed Mother
• How the early Church began
• The four marks of the Church
• Liturgical seasons
• Sacraments
• Community outreach
• The Rosary

Reading

• Develop skills for independent reading
• Review of phonemic awareness
• Graphic organizers for clear understanding of story elements
• Identify main ideas
• Make inferences and generalizations
• Predict outcomes and draw conclusions
• Recognize key story elements
• Read biographies and non-fiction texts
• Increase reading comprehension and fluency skills through leveled readers and Storia Online

Spelling/Vocabulary

• Reinforce correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies
• Review commonly misspelled words and irregular plurals
• Introduce cross-curricular words
• Integrate spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading and writing
• Synonyms, antonyms and homophones
• Mastery of weekly word list

Writing/Composition

• Develop organized writing skills
• Identify parts of a sentence
• Review of possessives
• Graphic organizers to construct paragraphs with clear expression of ideas
• Build skills in basic grammar, punctuation, correction, letter writing and journaling
• Expression of thoughts and ideas
• Create personal narratives and how to articles
• Cross-curricular writing assignments using scientific facts and information

Mathematics

• Read and write numbers with place value through 100,000’s
• Compare and order numbers to 10,000
• Word problems
• Add and subtract up to three-digit numbers
• Add and subtract dollars and cents
• Multiplication (to 11’s) and division
• Multiply two-digit numbers by a single digit, with and without regrouping
• Compare fractions
• Decimals to hundredths
• Pictographs and bar graphs
• Coordinate points on a graph
• Introduction to statistics, probability and graphing measurement
• Units of weight, volume and temperature
• Use customary and metric systems to measure length, mass and capacity
• 2 and 3-dimensional geometric figures
• Fractions
• Identify parallel and perpendicular lines and right angles

Science

• Life cycles
• Rocks and minerals
• Water cycle and erosion
• Force and motion
• States of Matter
• Heat and light
• Solar system
• Animals and habitats
• Weather
• Plants life cycle

Social Studies

• Learn about kinds of communities: rural, suburban and urban
• Develop understanding of place, regions, movement and location
• Analysis of timelines
• Early settlers
• The meaning of good citizenship
• Maps skills and symbols
• Graphs and grids
• Natural resources

Technology

• Smartboard and iPad  lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.

Art

• Craft projects
• Painting
• Learning techniques in drawing perspective and color

Religion

• Love God and one another
• Understand Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life
• Discipleship
• The Ten Commandments
• Liturgical seasons
• Sacraments
• Community outreach
• The Rosary

Reading

• Develop critical thinking skills through cross-curricular lessons coordinated with reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and composition
• Skill development in analyzing text and reading for information
• Graphic organizers for clear understanding of story elements
• Identify main ideas
• Make inferences and generalizations
• Predict outcomes and draw conclusions
• Differentiate between fact and opinion
• Determine cause and effect
• Read biographies and non-fiction texts
• Reinforce skills using leveled readers and Storia Online
• Synonyms, antonyms and homophones
• Mastery of weekly word list

Spelling/Vocabulary

• Reinforce correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies
• Review commonly misspelled words and irregular plurals
• Introduce cross-curricular words
• Integrate spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading and writing

Writing/Composition

• Organize key words into phrases using word webs and graphic organizers
• Graphic organizers to construct paragraphs with clear expression of ideas
• Write factual, creative and descriptive compositions
• Build skills in sentence construction, grammar and punctuation, editing
• Express ideas and thoughts in daily writing journal
• Identify parts of a sentence
• Introduce verbs of being
• Verb tense: regular and irregular verbs
• Pronouns
• Subject complements
• Compare adjectives and adverbs
• Introduce prepositional phrases
• Cross-curricular writing assignments

Mathematics

• Compare and order numbers to 100,000
• Use rounding and front end estimation
• Find factors and multiples of whole numbers
• Find the mean, median, mode and range of a data set
• Determine the probability of an event
• Measure and create angles and line segments
• Fluency and accuracy drills in four operations
• Multiply, divide three digits
• Understand mixed numbers
• Add and subtract decimals
• Geometry
• Compare, add and subtract fractions
• Circle and line graphs
• Measurement

Science

• Rocks and fossils
• Classification of living things
• Mass and matter
• Scientific measurement
• Vertebrates and invertebrates
• Water resource
• Weather
• Planets
• Electricity, circuits and magnets

Social Studies

• Research, compose and present 5  paragraph important historical person report
• Study of U.S. regions, states and capitals
• Introduce trade, production of goods, exports and imports
• Analysis of charts, graphs and timelines
• Focus on the 5 themes of geography to reinforce cardinal directions
• Distance and scale
• Maps
• Longitude and latitude

Technology

• Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.

Art

• Craft projects
• Painting
• Drawing using perspective,  shadowing and dimension

Religion

• The Good News of Jesus
• Our call to discipleship
• The Blessed Mother as a model of discipleship
• Introduction to role and duties of altar servers
• Sacraments
• Community outreach
• The Rosary

Reading

• Develop critical thinking and comprehension skills through cross-curricular lessons coordinated with reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and composition
• Skill development in analyzing text and reading for information
• Graphic organizers for clear understanding of story elements
• Identify main ideas
• Make inferences and generalizations
• Predict outcomes and draw conclusions
• Differentiate between fact and opinion
• Determine cause and effect
• Read biographies and non-fiction texts
• Reinforce skills using leveled readers and Storia Online

Spelling/Vocabulary

• Reinforce correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies
• Review commonly misspelled words and irregular plurals
• Introduce cross-curricular words
• Integrate spelling with vocabulary studies, reading and writing
• Use of context clues for vocabulary development
• Synonyms, antonyms and homophones
• Mastery of weekly word list

Writing/Composition

• Graphic organizers to construct paragraphs with clear expression of ideas
• Write factual reports and creative and original compositions
• Build skills in sentence construction, grammar and punctuation, editing
• Express ideas and thoughts in daily writing journal
• Summary of information
• Outline using subjects from cross-curricular content
• Identify the eight parts of speech
• Types of sentences
• Subject; predicate
• Being verbs
• Verb tense; regular and irregular verbs
• Pronouns
• Subject compliments
• Compare adjectives and adverbs
• Prepositional phrases and clauses

Mathematics

• Multiplying and dividing by tens, hundreds and thousands
• Multiplying multiple-digit numbers by two-digit numbers
• Multiplying up to three digits
• Simplify algebraic expressions
• Graph equations, determine the surface area and volume of 3-dimensional shapes
• Add mixed numerals and decimals
• Multiplying and dividing decimals
• Add, subtract, divide and multiply fractions
• Perimeter, area and volume
• Statistics, graphing and probability
• Ratios and percents
• Geometry points, lines and rays
• Measuring angles

Science

• Plants
• Weather and climate
• Energy
• Matter
• Earth and natural resources
• Ecosystems
• The Human body

Social Studies

• American Indian cultures and colonization
• Exploration in North America
• Early American history
• The Revolution
• Westward expansion
• The Civil War
• Industrialization
• The United States in the 20th century

Technology

• Smartboard and iPad  lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.

Art

• Craft projects
• Painting
• Introduce artists and art history
• Explore diverse artistic mediums and styles