Religion
Text: This Is Our Faith, Silver Burdett and Ginn
*Review Baptism
*Prepare for reception of Eucharist and Reconciliation
*Learn Gospel stories that teach us to love as Jesus did
*Experience the Catholic Church as our special home within the Christian community
*Participate in liturgies and prayer services
*Learn prayers
Text: Your Family and You, Benziger Family Life Program
*Family Relationships
- how families begin
- how families grow
*Christian family units
- one parent
- two parents
- extended families
Sacraments
Children who are baptized Catholic will be invited to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist. Parents of these students will attend meetings prior to the children receiving these Sacraments.
Reading
Text: New Beginnings / My Time To Shine, Scott Foresman
*Literature based
*Whole Language approach
- listening
- speaking
- reading
- writing
*Decoding and word study skills
*Vocabulary skills
*Comprehension skills
*Thinking skills
*Book Sharing
Math
Text: McGraw-Hill
*Numeration
*Addition of whole numbers (with and without regrouping)
*Subtraction of whole numbers (with and without regrouping)
*Money - pennies, nickels, dimes quarters, dollar bill
*Time - hour, quarter hour, half hour, minutes
*Measurement - inches, centimeters - liquids
*Story problems
*Simple graphing - x repeated addition
Language
Text: Scott Foresman - Grammar
*Sentence types
*Parts of speech
- nouns
- verbs
- pronouns
- adjectives
*Mechanics
- capitalization
- punctuation
*Story writing
*Friendly letter writing
*Listening skills
*Speaking skills
*Drama
Text: Spelling - Scott Foresman
*Spelling generalizations
*Word building
*Dictionary skills
*Word patterns
*Thematic vocabulary
*Phonetic analysis
Each weekly lesson culminates with a spelling test.
Text: Handwriting: Scott Foresman - D�??Nealian Handwriting
*Manuscript review
- upper / lower case letters
*Cursive writing
- upper / lower case
Both manuscript and cursive instruction emphasizes size, form, slant
and spacing of letters.
Social Studies
Text: Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic News
*People and Places
- groups
*Places Near and Far
- regions
- weather
-mapping
*Ways of Living
- citizenship
*People Work
- wants / needs
- trade
*America's Past
*America's Government
Social Studies also includes weekly analysis of current events and study
and activities related to specific cultural holidays and celebrations.
Science
*focus of program is physical and biological science
*30 minute class period per week
Art: No text used
*Through a wide variety of activities the children experience the elements of art. There is an art teacher 40 minutes per week.
line
form
color
texture
Music: No text used (Taught by music teacher)
*Students attend music class for 30 minutes
*Liturgical songs
*Seasonal songs
*Traditional, contemporary and ethnic songs
*Music theory
Computer: No text used (taught by computer teacher)
*Students have weekly exposure to lab and/or laptop computers..
Physical Education: No text used (taught by P.E. teacher)
*Students attend P.E. class for a 30 minute period twice each week. |
