• RELIGION:
  Text:  We Believe

  • God as a loving Father and Creator
  •  Jesus as Savior and Son of God
  •  Holy Spirit as Paraclete and Counsellor
  •  Sacraments  of Initiation (Baptism, Eucharist, & Reconciliation) and the other four sacraments.
  •   Church as people of faith who form a loving community
  • Morality as taking care of and sharing God’s gift of creation
  •  Bible as a special book about God's love for us
  •  Prayers – formal prayers (Hail Mary, Our Father, Glory be to the Father), Eucharistic Liturgy ( Mass), and spontaneous prayers

  
  Celebration of Feasts: (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, & Epiphany)

  • Honoring Saints as special celebrations, such as St. Francis of Assisi, Guardian Angels, St. Nicholas, St. Lawrence O'Toole, St. Patrick, St. Joseph and special feasts of Mary.

  
  HANDWRITING / MANUSCRIPT:
  Children learn proper formation of letters using journals, reading logs, workbooks, and homework notebooks. Also they are encouraged to use proper penmanship in their creative writing.
   
  READING / LITERATURE / LANGUAGE ARTS:
  Text: Houghton Mifflin Reading and other Literature Books

  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Decoding and Word Recognition
  • Vocabulary and Concept Development
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Literary Response and Analysis
  • Writing
  • Listening and Speaking

  
  SOCIAL STUDIES:

  • Communities
  • Leaders and Rules
  • Weather and Seasons
  • Cities, Towns and Suburbs
  • Our Country
  • Citizenship
  • Map Skills
  • Learning about the Past
  • Heroes and Symbols of our Country

  
  PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

  • Children will be competent in many movement activities.
  • Children will achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
  • Children will demonstrate responsible personal behavior while participating in movement activities

   
  TECHNOLOGY:

  • Children integrate technology in all curriculum areas.
  • Children log into network with assistance.
  • Children type in a word processing program.

  
  SCIENCE: 

  • Physical Science:  Materials come in different forms (states), including solids, liquids, and gases.
  • Earth Science:  Weather can be observed, measured and described.
  • Life Science:  Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways.
  • Investigation and Experimentation: Draw pictures and record observations.

   
  MATHEMATICS:

  • Number Sense
  • Classification, Patterns and Numbers
  • Graphing
  • Understanding Addition and Subtraction
  • Measurement and Geometry
  • Time and Money
  • Mathematical Reasoning

      
  SPANISH:

  • Greetings, Polite Words, and Introductions
  • Numbers
  • Colors
  • Clothing
  • Food
  • Family
  • Animals
  • Community
  • Alphabet

  
  FIELD TRIPS: (integrated into academic units)

  • Pumpkin Patch
  • Service Project- Mercy Center
  • Chabot Science Center
  • Christ the Light Cathedral
  • Junior Center of Art and Science
  • Oakland Zoo