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Curriculum

Educated through the pillars of faith and reason, our elementary students gain a solid foundation of knowledge to support them throughout their educational careers.  Every grade level advances the student's proficiency in mathematics, science, social studies, and reading/language arts—all of which are supplemented by our co-curriculars.

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1st Grade

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Kindergarten

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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2nd Grade

    • Punctuating sentences and sentence structure

    • Phonics

    • Spelling

    • Handwriting

    • Read and comprehension

    • 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

    • Problem solving

    • Telling time

    • Counting money

    • Measuring with inches and centimeters

    • Computation 0-12 (addition and subtraction)

    • Graphing

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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3rd Grade

    • Sentence structure, paragraph writing, grammar and punctuation

    • Parts of speech

    • Types of writing: narratives, poetry, reports, opinions

    • Cursive

    • Main ideas and supporting details

    • Cause and effect, predictions, compare and contrast, fact and opinion, point of view

    • Types of reading: myths, folktales, fairy tales, nonfiction, fiction, lives of the saints

    • Comprehension

    • Sentence diagramming

    • The Creed

    • Continuation of the Sacraments

    • Sacramental reception preparation

    • Parts of the Mass

    • Jesus’ life

    • Lives of the saints

    • Daily rosary

    • Weekly celebration of the Mass and adoration

    • Addition to three or more digits, with and without regrouping

    • Subtraction to four or more digits, with and without regrouping

    • Multiplication (single digits to facts of 12)

    • Division

    • Pictographs, line graphs, circle graphs

    • Continuation of time

    • Money

    • Units of measurement

    • Geometric polygons, area, perimeter

    • Fractions

    • Geography

    • Economics

    • Colonial American history

    • Native Americans

    • What is culture?

    • National and cultural holidays

    • Human body systems

    • Planets

    • Rocks and minerals

    • Introduction to genetics

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4th Grade

    • 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

    • 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

    • Place value and comparing whole numbers

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

    • Fractions

    • Continued introduction to geometry

    • Measurement

    • Probability

    • 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

    • 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

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5th Grade

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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6th Grade

    • Old Testament

    • The Commandments of God

    • Morality

    • Revelation

    • Prayer memorization and devotions

    • Service, social justice, and servant leadership

    • Weekly mass and adoration

    • Daily rosary

    • Exponentials and real numbers

    • Integer addition and subtraction

    • Geometry

    • Interpretation of graphs

    • Introduction to algebra

    • Probability

    • Formulas to solve problems

    • Physical science

    • The nature and history of science and the scientific method

    • Ethics and science

    • Stewardship and environmental science

    • Scientific reading and writing literacy

    • Geography

    • Ancient civilizations

    • Introduction to economics in early trade

    • Development of ancient law and civics

    • The rise and fall of ancient civilization

    • Social, cultural, religious, and world perspectives

    • Physical science

    • The nature and history of science and the scientific method

    • Ethics and science

    • Stewardship and environmental science

    • Scientific reading and writing literacy

    • Understand word relationships, including distinguishing words with similar denotations but different connotations

    • Use arguments in which students introduce a claim about a topic or issue and organize the reasons and evidence to support the claim

    • Write informative/explanatory texts in which students introduce a topic and organize information appropriate to the purpose, using strategies like definition, classification, comparison, contract, and cause and effect

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8th Grade

    • The person of Christ; introduction to Christology

    • New Testament

    • An in-depth look at liturgy

    • Confirmation and the life in the Spirit

    • Dignity of human life

    • Christian and secular norms for success

    • Marian devotions

    • Christian family life and human sexuality

    • Vocational life

    • Weekly Mass and adoration

    • Daily rosary

    • Square roots

    • All functions applied to negative numbers

    • Calculating area using geometric tools

    • Pythagorean Theorem

    • Probability, statistics, and the analysis of data

    • Applying algebraic expressions

    • Rational and irrational numbers

    • Cite several sources of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences drawn from the text

    • Analyze how two or more themes or central ideas in a text relate, drawing on key details

    • Interpret text using background knowledge, literary elements, and inferences

    • Describe how an author introduces, illustrates, and elaborates a key idea in a text

    • World history

    • Cartography and map reading

    • Geographic effects of colonization and imperialism

    • Economic effects of exploration and industrialization

    • Introduction to medieval and modern times

    • The origin and growth of the world’s religions

    • The spread of Christianity culture and religion

    • Introduction to American history

    • Respect and understanding of cultures different from one’s own

    • Integrated health and the human systems

    • Organisms

    • Viruses

    • Classification

    • Bactria, Protista, Fungi

    • Plants and animals

    • Cell structure and function

    • Heredity and genetics

    • Human anatomy

    • The nature of science and morality

    • Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences

    • Predicate nominative and predicate adjective

    • Identify and use direct and indirect objects

    • Make effective language choices by using words and phrases that express ideas concisely, eliminating redundancy

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7th Grade

    • Catholic identity and tradition

    • The Church and the book of Acts

    • Development of doctrine in the Church’s history

    • Catholic social teaching

    • Sin, grace, and happiness

    • Living a life of mercy

    • Weekly Mass and adoration

    • Daily rosary

    • Algebra 1

    • Algebraic logic

    • Simple aspects of logical argumentation

    • Linear equations and functions

    • Proportional reasoning

    • Systems of equations

    • Polynomials

    • Factoring

    • Quadratic functions

    • Rational expressions and equations

    • Analyze how recurring images or events contribute to the development of a theme or central idea in a text

    • Analyze how elements of a story or drama interact

    • Compare and contrast the works of various authors

    • Provide an objective summary of a text, accurately conveying an author’s view and specific points

    • Political systems

    • American history to the end of the Cold War

    • American government

    • Geography and economic development in the US

    • The growth of the American stock market and its crash

    • Trade yesterday and today

    • Immigration history in the US

    • Foreign policy, the UN, and foreign policy

    • Care for God’s creation

    • Heathy lifestyle and human risks

    • Matter and its properties

    • Periodic table of elements

    • Acids and bases

    • Earth science

    • Surface changing processes

    • Geologic changing processes

    • Resources and renewable energy

    • Introduction to astronomy

    • Scientific experimentation

    • Perform short, focused research projects in response to a question and generate additional related questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration

    • Produce writing in which the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

    • Use a variety of techniques to convey sequence, shift from one time frame or setting to another, and/or show the relationships among the events or experiences

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