Religion
- Weekly and monthly masses with the entire student body
- Holy Days of Obligation mass when school is in session
- Prayer Services
- Reconciliation during Advent and Lent
1st trimester
- God sends Us His Own Son
- Jesus Teaches Us About God’s Love
- Christ Will Come Again
- The Church Begins/Early Church/Four Marks
- The Rosary/The Apostles’ Creed
2nd Trimester
- Church Teachings & Prayers
- The Parish in our homes
- God Calling us to Holiness
- Advent
- Christmas
3rd Trimester
- Sacraments
- The Eucharist
- The Mass
- Penance and Reconciliation
- Praying for Healing
- Continuing Jesus’ Work
- The Church being World Wide
- God’s Kingdom Continues to Grow
- Lent
- “Washing of the Feet” play
- Easter
Math
1st trimester
- Place Value to 6-digit numbers
- Add & subtract 4- and 5- digit numbers with regrouping
- Solve word problems
- Multiplication facts
2nd trimester
- Multiplication facts
- Multiply bigger numbers
- Division facts
- Relate multiplication and division
- Graphing – sorting and analyzing data
- Probability Measurement – customary and metric
- Solve word problems
3rd trimester
- Multiply and divide larger numbers
- Time and elapsed time
- Plane and solid geometric figures
- Identify points, lines, segments, angles, rays
- Congruent and symmetrical figures
- Area, perimeter, diameter and radius
- Fraction and decimal concepts
- Solve word problems
Reading
Throughout the Year:
Reading strategies:
Preview the text; set and monitor purpose for reading; activate and use prior knowledge; make, confirm and modify predictions; monitor comprehension and use fix-up strategies; use graphic organizers; answer questions; generate questions; recognize text structure; summarize text; visualize; make connections
Skills:
Author’s purpose; cause and effect; compare and contrast; draw conclusions; fact and opinion; follow directions; generalize; graphic sources; main idea and supporting details; realism/fantasy; sequence of events
Literary Elements:
Character; plot; setting; theme
Genres:
Expository nonfiction, Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, plays, poems, songs, folk tales, biography
Spelling and Phonics
Application of spelling and phonics rules, to reading and writing across the curriculum
English/Writing
1st Trimester
- Sentences / subject & predicate
- Paragraphs
- Nouns
- Writing Process
- Book reports
- Personal Narrative
- How – To paragraph
- Design an advertisement
2nd Trimester
- Verbs
- Pronouns
- Contractions
- Prepositions
- Writing Process
- Compare and Contrast Essay
- Writing a Story
- Non-Fiction Book Report
- Catholic Schools’ Week speeches
3rd Trimester
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Combining sentences
- Commas, quotations
- Writing Process
- Oral report
- Character book report
- Research paper
- Poetry
- Persuasive Letter
Social Studies
1st Trimester
- Ancient Rome & Greece (Integrate in Technology discussing creating Greek/Roman avatars for Wikis)
- Government/Democracy
- Women’s Rights
- American History/ Historical Figures
- Map skills
Reading Series: Economics, Personal responsibilities & choices, colonial settlements
2nd Trimester
- Government Services
- Human Rights
- Economics
- Justice System
- Map skills
Reading Series: Ancient Civilizations & Native Americans, Citizenships, Consequences for Actions, and Geography
3rd Trimester
- Diversity and Culture
- Map skills
- Democracies Around the World
- Justice System
- Laws
Reading Series: Different cultures & their clothing, festivals, economics, family life, food, housing, and entertainment
U.S. history, government history, symbols, communities, freedom of expression, and immigration
Science
Life Science – Looking at plants and animals, Ecosystems, animal adaptations, food chains/webs
Earth Science – rocks, soil, landforms, caring for our planet, water cycle, weather; Space – How earth moves, moon phases, the sun and planets
Physical Science – simple machines, physical properties, force and motion, energy, matter
Children Participate in the Following Specials:
- Art, Music, Computer, Spanish, PE/Health, ” Genius Hour” Electives