The Catholic School is a unique faith-centered community, which integrates thinking and believing in ways that encourage intellectual growth, nurture faith, and inspire action.
The commitment to academic excellence, which fosters the intellectual development of all students, is an integral part of the mission of our school.
Religion
Your child will:
- Prepare and receive the sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist
- Be introduced to the following topics:
- The Creed
- The Trinity
- Mary, the Mother of God
- The Church as the People of God
Social Studies
Your child will learn:
- To read maps and globes
- Communities—past and present
- Consumerism including
- Buying and selling
- Goods and services
- Transportation
- Communication
- Citizenship including
- Laws and Rules
- Community service
Math
Your child will learn to:
- Count, compare, read, write and order whole numbers to 1000
- Identify the place value of digits ones, tens, hundreds and thousands
- Add and subtract one digit numbers
- Add and subtract with regrouping two digit and three digit numbers
- Tell time to the hour, 1/2 hour, 5 minute and one minute intervals using both standard and digital clocks
- Identify and count: pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters, half-dollars and dollars
- Add and subtract all of the above money amounts
- Read and apply the correct math concepts to problem solving
Science
Your child will learn:
- Smithsonian – Science kits genera! Are of study:
- Soil & sand
- Wind & water
- Earth events
- Land Studies:
- Erosion
- Map studies
- Water
- Land
- Solids & liquids
Reading
Your child will learn to:
- Develop vocabulary
- Read Independently
- Use decoding skills when reading
- Read with clarity and expression
- Use reading and pre-reading strategies
- Use context clues
- Retell a story recalling details and sequences
- Distinguish between fantasy and reality
- Draw conclusions
- Map a story-knowledge of setting, characters
- Understand alphabetical order
Writing
Your child will learn to:
- Write for a wide variety of purposes:
- Letters
- Paragraphs
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Use capitalization
- Use ending punctuation
- Write complete, coherent sentences
- Write legibly
- Cursive writing
Spelling
Your child will learn to:
- Apply spelling generalizations & spelling strategies
- Spell correctly in daily writing
Activities
- Sacrament of Reconciliation
- Sacrament of First Holy Communion
- Various field trips
- Weekly science centers
- EDITH House Fire Safety
Tablets in Classrooms
Used for:
- Basic functions
- Using educational games
P.E.
Students receive 45 minutes of P.E. two times a week in which the focus is on gross and fine motor skills, learning new games, participation, and respect for others.
Music
Students will participate in music 2 times a week for 4 minutes. Students will review learned concepts, as well as, continue simple folk, sacred and secular pieces to explore:
- Rhythm—rhyming words, raps, body percussion
- Melody—staff, treble clef, beginning solfege
- Form—call/response, rondo, introduction, coda, repeat
- Texture/expression—layering, canon, dynamics, tempo
Students will also experiment with pitched and unpitched percussion.
