Religion

• The world is a gift from God
• God loves us
• We are friends of Jesus
• We celebrate special days
• Bible stories
• Gospel stories
• Prayers

Language Arts/Reading

• Phonemic awareness
  • Rhyming words
  • Beginning and ending sounds
  • Blending phonemes
  • Reading color words
  • Number words
  • Sight words
• Reading strategies
  • Predicting/inferring
  • Decoding
  • Summarizing
  • Cause and effect
    
• Comprehension skills
  • Compare and contrast
  • Noting important details
  • Story structure (beginning, middle, and end)
  • Characters and setting
    Inferences
  • Drawing conclusions
  • Sequence of events
  • Fantasy and realism
• Vocabulary
  • Concept words
  • Naming words
  • Describing words
  • Action words
  • Rhyming words
  • Singular and plural naming words
• Writing
  • Drawing and labeling
  • Writing description
  • Journal writing
  • Writing class stories
  • Making books

Mathematics

• Sorting
• Geometry and Patterns
• Positions
• Numbers 0-10
• Numbers to 31
• Tables, graphs, and fractions
• Addition readiness
• Subtraction readiness
• Money
• Time
• Measurement
• Numbers to 100

Social Studies/Science

• Fall/Johnny Appleseed
• Seasons and weather
• Five senses
• Animals
• Dinosaurs
• Solar System
• Transportation
• Community helpers
• Friends and family
• Under the sea
• Plants
• Fire safety

Religion

• Prayers
• Respectful church behavior
• Seven sacraments
• Liturgical year
• Key biblical figures
• Projects pertaining to unit studies
• Eucharist
• Gospel
• Descriptions of significant biblical locations
• Christian growth/reflection

Language Arts/Reading

• Phonetic/level approach
• Fostering word attack skills
• Story sequencing
• Parts of a story
• Real literature combined with skill assessment activities
• Varied materials to support literacy enjoyment
• Extending into higher level questioning
• Predicting outcomes

Grammar/Phonics

• Initial/ending sounds
• Long/short vowels
• Initial/final consonant blends/diagraphs
• Nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• Pronouns
• Contractions
• Writing activities
• Upper/lower case letters and usage
• Sentence/paragraph/story construction

Mathematics

• Recognizing/writing number sentences and story problems
• Addition- all facts
• Subtraction- all facts
• Beginning geometry
• Learning/using mathematical language
• Time
• Money
• Calendar skills
• Graphing
• Estimation
• Predicting outcomes
• Patterning
• Using manipulatives

Religion

• Holy Trinity- God, Jesus, Holy Spirit
• Baptism and Confirmation
• Great Commandment
• Ten Commandments
• Making choices
• Prayer
• Liturgical Year- Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter

Language Arts

• Capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
• Grammar, correct usage
• Writing complete sentences
• Recognizing nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns
• Writing paragraphs and stories
• Master manuscript
• Begin cursive writing
  

Reading

• Introduction of fiction and non-fiction
• Comprehension
  • Main idea
  • Cause/effect
  • Predictions
• Vocabulary- classifying, webbing, etc.
• Phonics- consonants, clusters, diagraphs, and silent letters

Mathematics

• Adding and subtracting
• Understanding numbers
• Money
• Measurement
• Time
• Problem solving
• Geometry
• Fractions

Social Studies

• What is community?
• Geography and how it helps us
• Why we learn about history
• Why people work
• How our government works

Science

• Living things- how they grow and change
• Homes for living things
• Exploring Earth’s surface- space and weather
• Exploring matter
• Energy in motion

Religion

• Creed
• Sacraments
• Ten Commandments
• Scriptures, bible readings
• Prayers
• Liturgical year
• Psalms
• Professing our faith
• “Good News” for children

Language Arts

• Sentences- definition and kinds of
• Subjects, predicates, and sentence combining
• Common and proper nouns
• Singular, plural, and possessive nouns
• Commas
• Capital letters
• Verbs- action, tenses, linking, helping, and irregular
• Contractions
• Apostrophes
• Pronouns- singular, plural, and possessive
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Writing- expository, descriptive, narrative, explanatory, informative, and creative
  Reading
• Listening, speaking, and viewing skills
• Review alphabetic principles, sounds, and symbols
• Introduce vocabulary and word identification skills
• Comprehension strategies
• Study skills
• Literature appreciation
• Interpret graphs, tables, and graphs

Handwriting

• Continue mastery of manuscript
• Development of cursive

Mathematics

• Adding and subtracting
• Understanding numbers
• Money
• Measurement
• Time
• Problem solving
• Geometry
• Fractions
• Statistics
• Graphing
• Probability
• Decimals
• Division- one and two numbers
• Multiplication- one and two numbers

Social Studies

• Maps and globes
• Graphics, charts, and tables
• People/communities
• Government
• Cultures and diversity
• “Time for Kids”

Science

• Life sciences
• Plants and animals/interactions
• Earth sciences
• Earth’s land
• Cycles on Earth and in space
• Solar System
• Physical sciences
• Investigating matter
• Exploring energy and forces

Religion

• Based on the Four Pillars of Faith
  • Creed
  • Worship
  • Sacraments
  • Morality
  • Christian Prayer
• Liturgical Seasons

Language Arts

• Sentences
• Parts of Speech- nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and introduction to Prepositions
• Mechanics of writing
• Study skills
• Writing process
• Spelling-weekly tests and spelling patterns
• Handwriting- applying cursive

Reading

• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Study skills and graphic aids
• Literary appreciation
• Language usage
• Predictions

Mathematics

• Numbers
• Addition and subtraction
• Measurement
• Multiplication and division
• Geometry
• Fractions and mixed numbers
• Tables
• Problem solving
• Probability
• Decimals

Social Studies

• Basic geography skills
• Michigan history
• Regions of the United States- history, geography, culture, and economy

Science

• Living things
• Ecosystems
• Earth’s surface
• Patterns on earth and in space
• Matter and energy
• Forces and Motion

Spanish

• Pronunciations
• Vowels and the alphabet
• Numbers and colors
  
• Days of the week and months of the year
• Greetings
• Oral conversations
• Vocabulary development
• Beginning grammar structure including verb conjunctions