Religion

• Cherish life as a gift from God
• Learn that all people and creation deserve respect
• Learn that God gives us the freedom to choose
• Learn that we are responsible for our choices and their consequences
• Define virtue as a good habit and know that we are called to live virtuous lives
• Define sin as a selfish or unloving choice
• Understand that our conscience helps us know what is right or wrong
• Learn the word Sacrament and name the seven Sacraments
• Understand the essentials of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
• Recite an Act of Contrition
• Learn more about the meaning of, and how to participate at, Mass
• Learn that the bread and wine at Mass become the body and blood of Jesus
• Understand the gift of the Eucharist
• Learn that the Bible is the word of God speaking to us today
• Name the four Gospels
• Recite the Nicene Creed

Reading

• Develop oral reading skills
• Read independently, chapter books, stories
• Reading strategies : retelling, predicting, inferring, summarizing
• Increase sight word vocabulary
• Use of graphic organizers for character study
• Compare and contrast characters
• Recognize basic elements of a story (setting, plot, characters)
• Read charts and diagrams
• Phonics awareness for decoding unfamiliar words
• Phonics awareness for spelling
• Follow multiple step directions
• Story maps

English

• Continue to learn simple parts of speech : nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• Learn proper use of apostrophes
• Learn proper use of capitalization and punctuation
• Write opinion essays and personal narratives
• Compare and contrast characters
• Read charts and diagrams
• Spelling of red words (words that cannot be spelled phonically)
• Follow multiple step directions
• Introduce the writing process
• Story maps
• wWrite 3-4 sentence stories
• Begin transition to cursive - 2nd semester

Mathematics

• Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems
• Apply math to calendars, money, measurement and time
• Understand place value and numbers to the 1000's
• Solve problems using two-digit and three-digit addition and subtraction
• Recognize, name and draw geometric shapes
• Use money and make change
• Use non-standard and metric units of measure
• Tell time to 5 minutes
• Understand and use different kinds of graphs (bar, picto, grids)

Science

• Use the scientific method by observing, predicting, and experimenting
• Compare solids, liquids, gas
• Investigate weather patterns
• Recognize changes in seasons
• Learn that some kinds of plants and animals are extinct
• Learn about land biomes and the plants and animals that live together
• Learn about germs and about things that make people ill
• Learn about motion and energy

Social Studies

• Learn about the continents and oceans of the world
• Continue to use maps
• Learn about the similarities and differences of people and places
• Learn about geography : landforms and bodies of water
• Learn about goods and services