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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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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

    • Celebrating the Liturgical Church Year

    • Learn prayers: The Sign of the Cross, St. Michael the Archangel, 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

    • Nomads: The Earliest People

    • Egyptians on the Nile River

    • The First Writing

    • The New Kingdom of Egypt

    • The First Sumerian Dictator

    • The Jewish People

    • Hammurabi and the Babylonians

    • The Israelites Leave Egypt

    • Four seasons and weather

    • Reduce, reuse, recycle

    • Comparing living vs. nonliving

    • Physical properties of matter

    • Making observations and predictions

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1st Grade

    • Build reading skills through phonics, fluency, and comprehension

    • Expand vocabulary and develop writing skills 

    • Practice speaking and listening respectfully in discussions and presentations

    • Begin research skills

    • Retell Bible Narratives of Salvation History and the life of Jesus 

    • Learn an example of Holiness from the Lives of the Saints. 

    • Identify the three persons of the Holy Trinity. 

    • Learn Basic prayers and pray the Rosary.

    • Attend weekly Mass and assembly with school family. 

    • Go to Adoration Weekly.

    • Build strong number sense 

    • Develop Addition and Subtraction skills 

    • Explore shapes 

    • Use data and measurement 

    • Recognize and extend patterns

    • Ancient Egypt

    • Explore Earth’s Surface 

    • Learn about fresh & salt water, earth layers, and how fossils form

    • Investigate living things 

    • Describe life cycles and food Chains of plants and animals 

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2nd Grade

    • Read texts and actively listen during read aloud that reflect Catholic culture and worldview.

    • Master first grade phonological awareness skills and demonstrate understanding of multisyllabic words and their parts orally.

    • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words

    •  Learn a scope and sequence of phonics skills from simple to more complex and engage in meaningful practice.

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

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

    • Read various genres and identify structure of texts

    • Use 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

    • Writing: sentence and paragraph structure and formation- nonfiction and fiction writing- opinions, descriptions, narrative stories, research, letters, poems, etc. 

    • Correct grammar and spelling usage

    • Apply alphabetical sequencing

    • Increasing vocabulary through meaningful practice

    • Understand parts of speech

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

    • Demonstrate the ability to use conventions of print: capitalization, punctuation, correct letter formation in print and cursive

    • Learn about the sacraments, with emphasis on Sacraments of Initiation

    • Prepare for and receive Reconciliation as a class

    • 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/parts of the Bible

    • The roles of Mary and Joseph

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

    • Weekly Adoration

    • Weekly Mass

    • Understand the parts of the Mass

    • The Incarnation and its role in changing the worldview of God

    • Show how Jesus founded the Church by establishing its leaders, sacraments, and calling everyone to become disciples.

    • Imitate Christ in our love for others by recognizing our gifts and talents and those of others

    • Friendship, forgiveness, and learning to live a virtuous life

    • Service projects and interactions with Broomfield community

    • Master addition and subtraction to 20

    • Regrouping addition and subtraction to the 100's place, numbers to 1000

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

    • Fractions and Probability

    • Time and money

    • Geometry: solid and plane figures, shapes, their elements, and manipulation of shapes

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

    • Data and graphing

    • Multiplication- begin repeated addition and facts of 2,5,10

    • Place value

    • Introduction to division

    • Review of Greek History from 1st grade

    • Roman History

    • Identify geography of Rome and the ancient world

    • Roman government, social classes, and the change from republic to empire

    • Roman inventions and their effects on later civilizations

    • Jesus’ Incarnation and why he came during this time

    • Jesus’ Death and Resurrection and its effect on the growth of the Catholic Christian faith

    • The timeline of Jesus’ life using the rosary

    • The persecution of Christians through Roman emperors, the apostles’ lives after Jesus’ death

    • Martyrs during the Roman times

    • Brief review of animal life cycles, habitats, and food chains

    • Earth, Moon, and Sun unit: solar system, moon phases, continents, oceans and seasons, pollution and recycling

    • The Human Body: ways to stay healthy and safe, major organs and organ systems

    • Force and Motion Unit: types of forces, friction, apply processes to add and take away friction, the effects of gravity.

    • All units incorporate the scientific process, experiments, recording data, and creating 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: fantasy, realistic fiction, historical fiction, biographies, legends, nonfiction, fiction, lives of the saints

    • Comprehension

    • Sentence diagramming

    • The Creed

    • Parts of the Mass

    • Jesus’ life

    • Lives of the saints

    • Daily rosary

    • people of the Church

    • Church calendar

    • Abraham, Moses, King David

    • 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

    • Medieval History

    • Electricity and Magnetism

    • Planets

    • Rocks and Minerals

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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

    • Continued grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and spelling development

    • parts of speech

    • Writing conventions- mechanics and usage

    • Reading comprehension

    • Book projects

    • Personal narratives, opinion writing, persuasive writing, research

    • Creative writing and poetry

    • Types of reading: realistic fiction, non-fiction/informational text, historical fiction, science fiction 

    • 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

    • Mastery of basic facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)

    • Properties and rules in addition and subtraction

    • Estimation

    • Subtraction with borrowing

    • Multiplication and division properties, two and three digits including decimals

    • 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 properties and formulas

    • Introduction to algebra

    • Mathematical thinking and problem solving

    • From 500 AD through the American Civil War, including:

    • 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

    • Classification and Identification of living species

    • Human Body Systems

    • 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

    • Historical geography

    • Ancient Mediterranean civilizations

    • Early trade and cross-cultural contact

    • Development of ancient law and civics

    • The rise and fall of ancient civilizations

    • The origins of Salvation history

  • Earth Science:

    • Mapping of the Earth Surface

    • Plate Tectonics

    • Rocks & Minerals

    • Weather & Climate

    • Earth's Waters

    • Natural Resources

    • Forces that Shape the Earth

    • Earth's History

    • Earth's Atmosphere

    • Astronomy & Space

    • 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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7th 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

    • Medieval history

    • Medieval literature and culture

    • The development of Christendom

    • History of the Catholic Church

    • The spread of Christianity

    • Interfaith contact and conflict in the Middle Ages

    • The origins of modern European nations

  • Life Science

    • Cells

    • Genetics

    • Microbial World- Bacteria, viruses, fungi

    • Animal Diversity

    • Vertebrates

    • Invertebrates

    • Ecology

    • Plants

    • Human impact

    • Human Body & Reproduction

    • 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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8th 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

    • The Renaissance and the Reformation

    • Modern historical geography

    • European expansion and trade around the world

    • American and Western world history

    • American government and the Constitution

    • The modernization of society through industrialization and social and political changes

    • The rise of modern socio-political ideologies

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

  • Physical Science (Physics & Chemistry)

    • Atoms & Periodic table

    • Matter

    • Chemical Bonds

    • Acids & Bases

    • Electricity & Magnetism

    • Force & Motion

    • Sound, light & mirrors

    • Thermal energy

    • Energy & Simple Machines

    • Waves & Electromagnetic spectrum

    • 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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