CURRICULUM

  Art

• Learn & demonstrate the elements of art (line, shape, color, value, texture, form, space) 
• Develop drawing and observational skills

Drama

• Develop memorization and performance skills at age appropriate levels with plays, poetry, and music

 Language Arts

• Read stories with class discussion & questions to test understanding 
• Read fiction and non-fiction literature
• Grammar and language usage: punctuation, parts of speech identification, sentence structure & early writing skills
• Guided journal writing
• Handwriting skills (Bowmar-Noble Method)
• New vocabulary weekly
• Auditory & visual recognition of consonants, short & long vowels, blends and digraphs

 Religion

• God gives us the world
• God gives us Jesus
• Jesus gives us the church
• Our Catholic church and us

 Spanish

• Exposure to Spanish through songs and activities
• Basic Vocabulary - colors, number, food, family, familiar items

 Mathematics

• Counting (rote, rational, ordinal, backward, by 1, 2, 5 & 10)
• Number families 1 through 12
• Vertical & horizontal addition of one, two and three digits with carrying
• Subtraction with 1 or 2 digits
• Symbols (numerals & counters)
• More, Less, Equal discrimination
• Place value
• Problem solving & word problems
• Applications (money, measurement, estimation, temperature, time, weight, length, graphs, calendars, maps)
• Simple fractions

 Music

• Fundamentals of music and choir

 Physical Education

• Develop motor skills in jumping, skipping & running
• Training in cooperative behavior & teamwork
• Rhythmic activites

 Science

• Living things and habitats
• Astronomy (Sun, planets and other celestial bodies)
• Physical Science (States of matter, magnets, sound and light)
• Weather

 Social Studies

• Geography, maps & globes, 7 continents
• Early civilization (Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China)
• Modern Culture of Mexico
• America (early exploration & settlement, American Revolution)