CURRICULUM SUMMARY

  • RELIGION The religion curriculum is built upon the concepts of faith in the Trinity, the importance of the Liturgy and the Sacraments, Scripture and the Commandments, Prayer, Catholic Social Teaching and Services
    • Kdg - God's Love
    • 1 - God's Gifts; We Belong to Catholic Church
    • 2 - Sacraments, Mass, Eucharist, Church Seasons
    • 3 - Faith as members of Community
    • 4 - Christian Morality
    • 5 - Seven Sacraments; Mass; Advent, Lent
  • FAMILY LIFE Family Life education consists of five major themes throughout the K-8 curriculum - God's gifts of family, self, life, love and community.  The Benziger Family Life program has been approved by the U.S. Catholic Bishops and recommended by the Archdiocese.
    • K-1 - Concepts area covered in the Religion curriculum
    • 2 - God's gifts of : family, self, life, love, and community
    • 3 - Family living, respect, Catholic
    • 4 - Christian spirituality
    • 5 - Family relationships - moods, honesty, respect, physical changes, sexuality, puberty
  • READING
    • K - Identifying letters & sounds, journaling, listening, site vocabulary
    • 1 - Reinforce reading skills, read orally and silently, phonics
    • 2 - Reading Skills covered include: short and long vowels, word recognition, comprehension, making predictions, drawing conclusions, main ideas and detail
    • 3 - Word meaning, decoding words, comprehension
    • 4 - Comprehension skills, literary skills, critical analysis, novel study, poetry
    • 5 - Critical thinking, compare and contrast, vocabulary, poetry
  • LANGUAGE ARTS
    • K - Listening to and acting out stories, writing stories
    • 1 - Writing, speaking, listening skills
    • 2 - Journal writing, spelling sentence structure, creativity
    • 3 - Cursive writing, spelling, dictionary & reference books
    • 4 - Creative writing, grammar skills, writing stories, reports, spelling
    • 5 - Spelling, writers workshop (sentence structure, drafting, editing)
  • MATH
    • K - Numbers 1-100, addition and subraction readiness
    • 1 - Numbers 100 & larger, addition/subtraction facts, measurement
    • 2 - Addition and subtraction facts, two digit addition and subtraction, measurement, money and multiplication
    • 3 - Multi-strategy approach to learning math, multiplication and division
    • 4 - Thinking and problem solving, algebra readiness, fractions, decimals, graphing
    • 5 - Whole numbers and decimals, algebra readiness, fractions, geometry
  • SCIENCE
    • K - Experiments, wood and paper
    • 1 - Studying material objects; balance and motion and insects
    • 2 - Studying plants, air and weather, solids and liquids
    • 3 - Study human body, magnetism and electricity, dinosaurs and fossils, robins (life)
    • 4 - Study of sounds and physics, water, Hermit crabs (life), astronomy
    • 5 - Nutrition, mixtures and solutions, solar energy models and designs, Journey North, chameleons and rats (life)
  • SOCIAL STUDIES
    • K - Seasons, holidays, community
    • 1 - Awareness of self, family, community, culture
    • 2 - Family Ties, Earth, Our Home, Discovering Our Past
    • 3 - Communities, maps, economics, freedom, current events in community
    • 4 - Regions of U.S., MN unit, People of U.S., current events news
    • 5 - Maps, geographical features, Native American culture, European explorers, colonial America, states and capitals, current events
  • SPANISH
    • K - 1 - Build vocabulary through verbal translation - colors, shapes
    • 2 - 5 - Build vocabulary through verbal and written translation from the English word to the Spanish equivalent.  Introduction of Spanish noun gender and noun adj. agreement.  Emphasis on pronunciation using Spanish vowels.
  • Complete curriculum outlines are available in the school office upon request.