Curriculum Summary
Language Arts
Reading
- Develop decoding and word study skills
- Locate context clues
- Recognize vocabulary/word meaning
- Utilize semantic mapping
- Apply classification
- Comprehend main idea, details, sequence, word referents
- Compare
- Draw conclusions
- Predict outcomes
- Distinguish cause/effect
- Interpret inference
- Summarize
- Develop thinking strategies
- Recognize characterization and story elements
- Identify figurative language
- Label repetition, rhythm, rhyme
- Name dialogue
- Differentiate formal/informal language
- Distinguish reality/fantasy
- Identify types of literature
- Apply listening skills
- Use a variety of speaking skills
- Practice oral reading for enjoyment and expression
- Read and follow directions
- Read for content
- Define book parts
- Explain time lines
- Interpret maps, diagrams, and symbols. signs, charts, tables, schedules, graphs
- Compute alphabetical order
- Introduce dictionary, glossary
- A literature-based approach is used
Phonics
- Apply ABC order
- Identify letters and sounds (initial/medial/final)
- Distinguish short and long vowel associations
- Recognize compound and two-syllable words
- Read blends, digraphs
- Identify Y as a vowel
- Distinguish R-controlled vowels
- Explain contractions/plurals/endings/suffixes
- Identify regular and irregular double vowels/diphthongs
- Distinguish prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
Spelling
- Spell words with short vowels
- Spell words with long vowels
- Spell words with c/ck
- Spell words with double consonants
- Spell words with blends (beginning and ending)
- Spell words with irregular vowels
- Spell words ending is –s, -es, -ing, -ed
- Spell compound words
- Spell sight words
- Spell contractions
- Spell words that sound alike
- Spelling words are high frequency words based on Research Word List
Handwriting
- Review manuscript handwriting
- Apply neatness and legibility
English
- Recognize proper everyday language skills
- Recognize sentences and naming subjects and predicates
- Identify nouns
- Writing a good paragraph
- Identifying verbs
- Use punctuation marks
- Write a story
- Identify pronouns
- Categorize words
- Write a book report
- Introduce adjectives and adverbs
- Learn the writing process
- Enjoy poetry
- Write a letter
- Use creative writing
Mathematics
- Model addition and subtraction sentences
- Compare patterns and graphs
- Compare measurements
- Interpret place value
- Recognize and write numbers to 1000
- Show number relationships
- Interpret time and money
- Understand 2-digit numbers
- Compute 2-digit addition
- Identify geometric shapes
- Understand and compute 2-digit subtraction
- Identify fractions
- Introduce multiplication/division
Anatomy
- Discover how your body works
- Learn through physical activities how bones and muscles work
- Experiment with exercise
- Learn the food pyramid
- Know harmful effects of drugs as well as helpful effects
Matter and Energy
- Differentiate between magnetic and non-magnetic materials
- Investigate magnetic attractions, magnetic force and magnetic strength
- Observe and predict the poles of a magnet and magnetic fields
- Experiment with temporary magnets
- Use a magnet as a compass
- Explore uses of electricity and apply safety rules at home and school
Light
- Explore shadows and shadow lengths
- Record findings
- Predict and investigate how light affects what we see
- Classify objects according to how well light can pass through them
- Observe light as it strikes objects
- Discover the separation of white light into the spectrum
- Develop and test a hypothesis
Geosphere
- Investigate size and characteristics of dinosaurs
- Compare fossil imprints with fossil remains
- Observe, make and use a dinosaur skeleton
- Infer that some animals alive today are in danger of becoming extinct
- Investigate kinds of teeth (flat/sharp)
Climate, Weather, Water
- Investigate climates worldwide and seasonal weather
- Record observations
- Graph weather conditions
- Relate weather to water cycle
- Identify causes of air and water pollution
Religion
- Focus on Eucharist
- Recognize that Jesus gives Himself as the Bread of Life
- Understand that we offer our gifts through Jesus
- Appreciate and celebrate Mass
- Read Bible stories
- Understand I belong to God’s Christian family
- Understand God is our Father
- Understand Jesus is our Brother
- Understand that the Holy Spirit is with me
- Recognize that Christians share
- Recognize that Christians follow Jesus
- Identify Mary, model for Christians
- Experience Jesus working through His church
- Appreciate God’s Word
- Understand forgiveness
- Understand Jesus is with us
- Live as Jesus’ follower
- Recognize the church year
- Recognize Catholic saints and heroes
- Learn prayers: Sign of the Cross, Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Grace before meals, Mass responses
- Appreciate that God make us special
- Catechesis and celebration of the Sacrament of Eucharist
Social Studies
- Identify communities
- Interpret maps
- Distinguish between needs and wants
- Identify rules and laws
- Recognizing and practicing good citizenship
- Know that we are one country made up of diverse citizens
- Recognize our country’s history
- Identify and describe holidays
- Know about people who have made a difference in our country
- Relating literature to Social Studies concepts
- Introduce special places in our country