reading, english, & grammar

• Letters and their sounds

• Write letters

• Understand cause and effect

• Retell stories

• Write first and last name

• Draw, dictate, and write

• Conventions of print (spacing, capitalization, and punctuation)

• Singular vs. plural nouns

• Recognize common types of text

• Read to and with others

• Recite and produce rhyming

• Isolate beginning, middle, and ending sounds

• Count syllables

• Understand the parts of a book

• Read emergent text with fluency and understanding

• Read 25 high frequency words

religion

• Bible stories

• Identify Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

• Lives of the saints

• Participate in Mass

• The Sacrament of Baptism

• Learn prayers: The Sign of the Cross, Hail Mary, Our Father, Glory Be, Guardian Angel, and mealtime prayers

• Pray the rosary

• Making moral choices

• Growing in virtue

• We are made in the image of God and should care for each other

mathematics

• Count to 100 by 1s, 5s, and 10s

• Read and write numbers to 30

• One-to-one correspondence

• Days of the week and months of the year

• Identify coins

• Sort objects and classify according to attributes

• Construct and interpret graphs

• Sums and differences using concrete objects

social studies

• Using maps and globes

• Wants vs. needs

• Goods and services

• Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

• Rules and responsibilities at home and in school

• Holidays and traditions

• Past, present, and future

• US celebrations

• Identify as a member of the Catholic Church family

science

• Learn about the body and how to take care of it

• Four seasons and weather

• Reduce, reuse, recycle

• Comparing living vs. nonliving

• Physical properties of matter

• Making observations and predictions

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Communities of family, school, city, state, and world

• Continents and oceans

• Globes and maps

• Money

• Caring for God’s creation

• Natural resources

• US symbols

• National holidays

• Ethnic traditions

• Past, present, future

• Pilgrims, Native Americans, pioneers

• Famous US heroes

religion

• Biblical stories and versus

• Weekly Mass readings

• The parts of the Mass

• Mary our Mother

• Saints and patron saints

• Holy Family

• Holy Trinity

• Pope and Church leadership

• Sin and God’s mercy and forgiveness

• The sacraments

• The commandments

Mathematics

• Problem solving

• Telling time

• Counting money

• Measuring with inches and centimeters

• Computation 0-12 (addition and subtraction)

• Graphing

reading, english, & grammar

• Punctuating sentences and sentence structure

• Phonics

• Spelling

• Handwriting

• Read and comprehension

science

• Living and non-living, habitats, plants and animals life, life cycles, and food chains

• Land, water, air, and weather

• Observing matter

• Movement and sound

• Energy

• Space and technology, day and night sky, science in our world

• How we use our five senses

• How we grow and change, staying safe and healthy

reading, english, & grammar

• Read with fluency and accuracy for comprehension; self-correct

• Identify key events, main ideas, and core elements to stories (both fiction and non-fiction)

• Genres and identifying structure of texts

• Personal knowledge to connect with textual information

• Author’s purpose, similarities/differences of texts and characters

• Reading graphs and written directions

• Use reference materials: dictionary, thesaurus, glossary, table of contents, and online reference sources

• Apply and reinforce decoding/phonics skills

• Writing, sentence and paragraph structure and formation

• Correct grammar and spelling usage

• Apply alphabetical sequencing

• Increasing vocabulary

• Create various types of writing, edit and revise written work, use descriptive language and develop voice within writing

religion

• Sacraments, with emphasis on Sacraments of Initiation

• Vocational Church community: pope, bishops, priests, deacons, nuns, laity, and their roles

• Liturgical seasons and why we celebrate them

• Saints and history of the Church

• Bible stories

• Learning new prayers, particularly the Morning Offering and Act of Contrition

• Weekly Mass

• Imitate Christ in our love for others

• Friendship, forgiveness, learning to live a virtuous life

• Service projects and interactions with Broomfield community

• Sacramental reception preparation

math

• Addition and subtraction to 20

• Regrouping to the 100's place, numbers to 1000

• Number sense: problem solving, using clues and deductive reasoning, communitive/associative properties

• Fractions

• Telling time within five minutes

• Solid and plane figures, shapes and their elements

• Estimating and measuring using both customary and metric systems for weight, liquid, and length

social studies

• Rural, urban, and suburban areas and how they impact where/how people live

• Maps, continents, oceans, hemispheres, map scales

• Introduction to economics, producers, goods and services, jobs and how they provide for families

• Traditions of various cultures, citizenship, American freedoms and symbols, leadership and government, laws

• Personal ancestry and process of immigration, comparison of life 100 years ago to today

• Native Americans

• Cultural groups within communities, traditions and uniqueness of each person, parishes with ethnic character sharing Catholic values

science

• Plants and animals life cycles, habitats, and food chains

• Solar system, moon phases, continents, oceans and seasons, pollution and recycling

• Experiments, recording data, experiment, create graphs to show information

science

• Kingdoms of life

• Vertebrates and invertebrates

• More complex ecosystems

• Human and animal adaptations

• Weather, weathering and erosion

• Air, weather, and water cycles

• Matter

• Forces

• Energy

religion

• Gospel history and stories

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church

• The Creed

• The sacraments

• The moral life

• Prayer

• Lives of the saints and the virtues for which to strive

• Daily rosary

• Weekly Mass and adoration

reading, english, & grammar

• Comprehension

• Types of sentences and how they are used

• Parts of speech

• Increasingly challenging chapter books

• Spelling and grammar

• Lives of the saints and other value-based literature

mathematics

• Place value and comparing whole numbers

• Operations of addition, subtraction, multi-digit multiplication, and long division

• Fractions

• Continued introduction to geometry

• Measurement

• Probability

social studies

• History of the Americas and of the US

• Geography and history of regions in the US

• American government

• American economy

• Colorado history and geography

• Historic figures from Colorado

READING, ENGLISH, & GRAMMAR

• Parts of speech

• Paragraph writing, increasingly challenging grammar and punctuation

• Reading comprehension

• Book reports

• Personal narratives, how-to articles, business letters, persuasive writing, research

• Creative writing and poetry

• Types of reading: fiction, non-fiction, historical fiction, biography, fantasy

• Point-of-view, figurative language, sequencing, sensory description, compare & contrast

• Identifying aim, purpose, audience, supporting details in writing

• Note-taking

MATHEMATICS

• Properties and rules in addition and subtraction

• Estimation

• Subtraction with borrowing

• Multiplication and division properties, two and three digits

• Divisibility rules and number sense

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions

• Mixed number ordering

• Prime and composite numbers

• Probability and statistics

• Adding and subtracting decimals

• Geometric measurements

• Introduction to algebra

science

• Cellular life

• Kingdoms, parents and offspring

• Ecosystems and biomes

• The universe, earth and its resources

• Weather and weather patterns

• Types of matter, physical and chemical changes

• Force and energy

social studies

• Themes of geography

• Interrupt thematic, political, physical maps

• Map projections and physical geography

• Exploration and colonization of the New World

• The role of the Church in expansion

• Growth and formation of the US

• Spread of Christianity in the New World

• The structure of US government

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• American civilization form the Age of Exploration to the Civil War

religion

• Living the Gospel life

• Understanding scripture passages

• Lives of saints and their role in the Church

• Sacraments

• Sanctifying, actual and sacramental grace

• Deepening one’s prayer life

• The Beatitudes

• Fruits and Gifts of the Holy Spirit

• Stewardship and Dignity of Human Life

• Weekly liturgy and adoration

• Daily rosary