Courses
Religion
- PRIMARY TEXT: Blessed are We, RCL Benziger
- Basic Bible skills
- Marks of the church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
- Seven sacraments
- Stations of the Cross all-school presentation
- Prayer - emphasize the importance of daily prayer
Reading
- PRIMARY TEXT Reading Street, Pearson
- Fluency with complex texts and word decoding
- Vocabulary: word relationships, figurative language, word nuances
- Comprehension: theme development, point of view, direct quoting of textual evidence, multiple main ideas/supporting details in complex texts, summarizing a text
Language Arts
- PRIMARY TEXT: Voyages in English, Loyola Press
- Writing purpose: focus on opinion writing and narrative writing
- Expanding and development of ideas in a paragraph and between paragraphs
- Grammar with an emphasis on sentence classifying, verb tense, and punctuation
- Research: conduct short projects using print and digital sources
Science
- PRIMARY TEXT: Interactive Science, Pearson
- Classifying organisms
- Growth and survival of living things, adaptations and lifecycles
- Ecosystems
- The water cycle and weather
- Earth’s surface
- Earth and space
- Properties of matter
Social Studies
- PRIMARY TEXT: My World: Building Our Country, Pearson
- The first Americans
- Exploration
- Colonies
- American Revolution
- Expansion
- Civil War and the Reconstruction