Phonics
The children will learn a letter a week. If there are three days or less in
a week that week will be a review. Starting in October, the children will
have 10-12 flash cards they need to learn for the week. The flash cards
will be handed out on Monday. The children will have until the following
Monday to learn the words. If there is no school on Monday the flash cards
will be handed out on Tuesday and the children will have until the next
Monday to learn the words. We will also work on these words at school, so
please send the flash cards to school each day.
Reading
Starting in October, the children will have a book to read that corresponds
with the flash cards they will be learning for that week. One week the
students will receive a book to keep. These books will be read at home as
well as at school. These books will need to come back to school each day.
The next week the children will receive a book that will be left at school.
Handwriting
The children will practice correct formations of letters throughout the
year. Each week the explanation of the formation of the letters will be
sent home on Monday. Each night, except for Friday, the children will have
handwriting homework. If the child cannot finish their homework at home
they may bring it to school the next day and finish it at recess. If
possible, please have your child do their handwriting at a table.
Centers
Each week there will be three 30-minute times set for center work. During
center time the children will review previous concepts they have learned.
There will be some centers that will have papers that come home for you to
view and other centers will only be hands-on activities. We will not have
centers on the day we go to mass.
Math
The children will study these concepts in math:
• recognize numbers 0-30
• count objects and match it with their corresponding number
• correct formation of the numbers
• number words zero to ten
• shapes
• patterns
• colors and color words
• more and less
• telling time to the hour
• recognizing pennies, nickels, and dimes
• counting pennies, nickels, and dimes
• sorting
• missing numbers
• ordinal positions
• graphing
• length / weight
• right and left
• estimating
• counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• wholes, halves, and fourths
Religion
The World is a Gift from God
• I Am a Child of God
• God Gives Me Five Senses
• God Gives Us the Earth
• God Gives Us Animals and Plants
• The Bible Tells Us About God’s Love
God Loves Us
• God’s Promise to Noah
• My Family is a Sign of God’s Love
• My Church Family is a Sign of God’s Love
• Jesus Lived in a Family
• Zacchaeus Listens to Jesus
• Jesus is My Teacher
• Jesus is Always with Us
We Are Friends of Jesus
• Jesus Blesses the Children
• We Belong to the Catholic Church
• We Thank God at Mass
• The Saints are Special Friends of God
• The Holy Spirit Helps Us
We Live as Friends of Jesus
• We Make Choices
• We Show Our Love for God
• The Good Neighbor
• We Take Care of Ourselves
• We Say I am Sorry
• Jesus Taught us to Pray
We Celebrate Special Days
o Mary’s Birthday
o All Saints’ Day
o Thanksgiving Day
o Advent and Christmas
o The Holy Family
o Valentine’s Day
o Lent
o Saint Joseph
o Easter
o Mary Our Mother
Prayers
o The Sign of the Cross
o The Lord’s Prayer
o Guardian Angel Prayer
o Grace Before Meals
o A Morning Prayer
o An Evening Prayer
o Glory Be
o Hail Mary
o The Nighttime Prayer
Science (in no particular order)
The Body
• external parts (head, hair, ears, hands, etc.)
• internal parts (skeleton, muscles, heart, lungs, stomach, and
intestines, etc.)
Five Senses
• hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch
Good Nutrition
• rest, cleanliness, exercise, and safety
Dental Health
• brushing teeth, visiting a dentist, healthy snacks, etc.
The Earth
• objects in the sky (sun, moon, and stars)
• why we need the sun (energy)
• day and night (spins on axis)
• earth has air, soil, and water
• (mountains, valleys, plains pond, river, island, lake, ocean, etc)
• recycling
• keeping the earth clean - pollution
Safety
• things that are not for eating, wearing safety belt, emergency
numbers, play safe, signs to know, etc.
• fire safety
Animals
• reptiles, mammals, fish, amphibians, and birds
• endangered animals
• animal homes
• different in size, colors, kinds of coverings, eat in different
ways, methods of self-defense
• what animals need
• grow and change
Plants
• trees (from seed to tree, parts of a tree, leaves make food for
trees, shapes of leaves, leaves change color, trees gives us many gifts,
etc.)
• flowers (parts of a flower, insects pollinate flowers different
shapes and sizes, etc.)
• what plants need / what needs plants
Weather
• Many kinds of weather
• Changes from day to day
• Changes from season to season
• Temperature
• Rain, sun, fog, wind, snow, clouds, etc.
Seasons
Water
• states of matter - solid, liquid, and gas
• changing form one to another (states of matter)
• water cycle
Social Studies
Our social studies curriculum is made up of historic holidays and character
education.
Historical Holidays or Characters
Johnny Appleseed
Columbus Day
Remembrance Day
Veteran’s Day
Thanksgiving – The Pilgrims and Indians
Martin Luther King Jr.
President’s Day - Abraham Lincoln and George Washington