Religion

• God as Creator and Father
• Jesus as Son and brother
• Holy Spirit as helper was given to us at Pentecost

Prayer and Worship

• Prayer is talking or listening to God and can be spontaneous or memorized
• Prayers learned in first grade: Sign of the Cross, The Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Mealtime prayers, Act of Contrition, Glory Be
• Liturgical seasons of the year by time, duration and color of each season
• Parts of the Mass, prayers and responses associated with each

Sacraments

• There are 7 sacraments

Moral Life

• Original Sin of Adam and Eve

• Sin is freely turning away from God and hurting others
• Forgiveness and respect for all living things
• Living the Beatitudes

Scripture

• Bible tells the stories of God’s love in both the Old and New Testament
• Religious Holy Days and Stations of the Cross
• Miracles Jesus’ performed such as Wedding Feast, Healing blind and deaf, Calming seas, Multiplying the bread and fish

Special People

• Mary and Joseph, Saint Paul- patron of our school, Saint Katharine Drexel- patron of our Parish, Saint Nicholas, Saint Valentine, Saint Patrick, Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Joseph and his brothers, John the Baptist, 12 Apostles
• Jesus’ birth, His childhood and prayer life, Jesus’ baptism
• Current day deacons, priests, Bishops, and the Pope

Integrated Language Arts

Literacy

• Develop and apply decoding and vocabulary strategies
• Develop comprehension strategies by using graphic organizers, KWL charts, and webs
• Cause and effect
• Read a variety of genre such as fantasy, non-fiction, poetry, song, and biographies
• Describe character’s behaviors / feelings
• Study author’s purpose and style
• Identify parts if a book
• Read orally with fluency using punctuation to guide

Listening

• Set purpose for listening by activating prior knowledge, and making connections
• Share insights and reflect on specific questions, while predicting what will come nex

Writing

• Prewrite, organize sentences using webs, draft, proof-read and publish personal work
• Extend sentences by asking simple questions
• Vary sentence openings
• Vary writing formats: letter, fiction, how-to, non-fiction, autobiography
• Apply fundamental grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• diting by conferencing, peer edit, and self-review
• Create illustrations to go with your personal story
• Share a story personally written or typed
• Handwriting skills of formation, size and spacing of letters / words
• Properly use capitals and ending punctuation when writing
• Differentiate between singular, plural nouns, and pronouns
• Vary verb tenses between past, present, and future, and comparison using –er and -est
• Subject / verb agreement
• Compound words, contractions, multi-meaning words, pronouns

Speaking:

• Authentic and purposeful oral language while presenting interviews, and sharing personal work
• Adjust voice and tone based on your audience

Math

Numbers and Numerical Operations

• Write and order numbers to 100, while giving the value of the digits
• Count forwards and backwards to and from 20 using cardinal and ordinal numbers
• Distinguish odd and even numbers
• Addition and subtraction when written horizontally and vertically
• Recognize fractional relationships between a whole, half, and quarter
• Properly use the symbols of greater than, less than, and equal to
• Recognize fact families

Geometry

• Show symmetry and congruence
• Identify by name 2 and 3 dimensional figures
• Count faces and corners of 3D solids

Measurement and Data

• Estimate and measure length, width, and height using non-standard units
• Measure area, volume, temperature, weight, and time
• Write the date (month, day, year)
• Identify, count and make change using penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar

Patterns and Algebra

• Distinguish between equivalent and non-equivalent groups
• Identify and continue missing numbers in a pattern
• Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• Identify missing addends

Data Analysis, Probability

• Construct, display, and interpret data using tally marks, bar graphs, and pictographs
• Make a prediction based on simple probability

Science

Physical Science

• Structure and Properties of Matter such as size, shape, color, texture, and weight
• Chemical and Physical changes happen when heat or cold are added
• The Water Cycle
• Measuring using standard and non-standard units, metric and customary units
• Motion, gravity, magnetism, and friction
• Heat, light, and sound energy

Earth Science

• Composition of the Earth and the dynamics that shape it such as weathering and erosion
• Time as it applies to day / night, months and seasons
• Space exploration, travel and movements of plants and the moon around the sun

Life Science

• Plants and animals resemble their parents and have basic needs
• Plants and animals have adaptations that help them survive in their environment
• Life cycles of a frog, butterfly and bean seed
• Parts and functions of a plant
• Five senses and sign language / Braille as ways to communicate when senses are compromised
• Recognize living and non-living things

Social Studies

Culture

• Families Today and Yesterday
• Travel back two generations
• Responsibilities of children from the past
• Families have "roots", and customs from many parts of the world

School families of Today and Yesterday

• Need for an education
• Rules and responsibilities that are part of school life
• Peaceful solutions for Christian living

Neighborhoods

• Recognize buildings and places in a neighborhood, and how they can change over time

Geography

• Location: Maps and Globes
• Identify your address
• Understand the connection between your house, town, state, country, continent, and Earth
• Identify continents, states, poles, and oceans, by using cardinal directions and map keys

Weather and Climate

• Give examples of weather and how this changes the clothes we wear and how we entertain
• Storms associated with different places and seasons

Landforms and Water forms

• Discover where different landforms exist (hills, valleys, plains, and mountains)
• Find different water forms on a map (oceans, rivers, and lakes)

Natural resources

• Identify natural resources in our town
• Demonstrate how to wisely care for the Earth and use the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle)

Civics

• Rules and Laws
• Rules are in place to keep us safe and have consequences when they are not followed
• Identify school and neighborhood rules
• Responsibilities
• We are expected to do certain things even though they are not rules

Government

• Why we need a government
• Responsibilities of a president, mayor, and governor
• President and his family live in the White House, in Washington DC
• Washington and Lincoln are key Presidents in our history

Rights of Citizens

• Rights and responsibilities we have as human beings

Symbols of our Country

• Identify the Statue of Liberty, flag, Pledge of Allegiance, bald eagle, presidential seal

Holidays that celebrate our nation

• Famous African Americans and their contributions
• Retell the First Thanksgiving with Native Americans and Pilgrims

Music

• Songs: America, The Star Spangled Banner, and Yankee Doodle Dandy

Economics

Wants and Needs

• Contrast wants and needs, and tell how these are fulfilled in your life

Spending and Saving

• Contrast saving and spending
• Ways to earn money

Goods and Services

• Difference between supplying and exchanging goods and services
• Markets vs. Factories and the delivery of their goods

Jobs

• Community helpers and responsibilities
• Jobs provide us with money which is used to fund our wants and needs
• Volunteering is different than a job

Scientists / Inventions

• Famous inventors that have changed the course of history (Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison)