Religion

• Blessed Trinity
• 7 Sacraments of Initiation and Service
• Creation
• Mary – Jesus – Apostles – Early Church
• Mass and its parts
• Liturgical Year
• Rosary
• Lives of Saints
• Bible Stories

Reading

• Literature Book
• Skill Development
• Predictions
• Inferences
• Drawing Conclusions
• Following Directions
• Vocabulary
• Summarizing
• Oral Reading
• Silent Reading
• Book Reports
• DEAR – Sustained Silent Reading
• Vocabulary – Weekly events of 10 new words
• Synonyms- Antonyms

English

• 4 types of simple sentences
• Rules for capitalization and punctuation
• 8 parts of speech
• Journaling Daily – prompts writing creative stories based on given themes
• Oral Presentations – reports – play

Math (Mrs. Provod)

• Addition of numbers with regrouping
• Subtraction of numbers with and without renaming
• Place value to ten thousands
• Expanded notations
• Rounding of numbers to nearest thousand
• Multiplying of one digit in thousands
• Division by one digit with and without remainders
• Ordinal Numbers
• Odd and Even Numbers
• Geometry  – shapes – perimeter
• Measurement – Customary – Metric
• Money – Fractions
• Time
• Probability and graphs

Phonics

• Initial medial final consonant sounds
• Consonant – blends and clusters
• Consonant – digraphs
• Short and long vowel sounds
• Vowel digraphs
• Synonyms and Antonyms – Homonyms
• Rules of syllabication
• Prefixes and Suffixes

• Unit of words per week – with words grouped with a common thread – i.e., blends, consonant digraphs, words with endings (e.g., ing), words with prefixes
• Text – follows along with Phonics Text skills are being reinforced.
• Pre – Test
• Final Test
• Homework – reinforces word meanings through sentence construction and letter configuration in spelling pattern.
• Cursive Handwriting
• Provide a review of correct formation of each lower case and upper case letters of the alphabet – one letter at a time.  Stress correct grasp of pencil and positioning of paper and child’s body.

Social Studies (Mrs. Krako)

• Geography skills – maps and their parts, using a Globe.
• Understanding simple charts, diagrams, bar graphs, pictographs,  flow charts, time lines.
• Current Events – Scholastic News
• Focus of text communities
• Building of communities
• History of communities
• Communities at work – Community Government

Science (Mrs. Provod)

• Plant Life – How they grow
• Animal Life
• Plants and animals together
• Water
• Weather
• Simple experiments
• Skills – cause and effect
• Making inferences
• Comparing and contrasting
• Space and Technology
• Physical Science

Spanish is taught through writing, pronunciation and with projects.  Topics are the same as in lower grades only influenced by higher level thinking worksheets. Homework is given.

• Review of Alphabet
• Greetings
• Days of week
• Months of year
• Seasons
• Numbers
• Colors
• Shapes
• Community and Occupations
• Clothing
• Family
• Body
• Transportation