• participate in daily prayer.
• attend and participate in school-wide Masses and prayer services.
• experience holistic approaches to prayer.
• integrate Christian values into everyday life.
• minister the Stations of the Cross.
• develop social skills by acting as Jesus would.
• understand and demonstrate Catholic Values.
• experience religion through art.

Kindergarten

• recognize all 26 letters of the alphabet and identify
• one sound for each.
• write all uppercase and lowercase letters.
• blend letter-sounds to decode (read) words.
• segment letter-sound to encode (spell) words.
• recognize rhyming words and word family patterns.
• read 66 high-frequency words.
• understand synonyms, antonyms and how to categorize words.
• read and comprehend literary and informational texts.
• be introduced to writing mechanics, writing process and types of writing (narrative, opinion, informa-tive/explanatory).
• work in center based themes.
• write his or her own name with capital and lower case letters.
• form capital and lower case letters correctly.
• participate in pre-writing activities.
• draw a picture and describe it.
• write 3 sentences on a topic.
• follow oral instructions (up to 2).
• listen attentively when the teacher reads or speaks.
• listen for content and comprehension.
• volunteer and share information.
• express ideas clearly.
• participate in class discussions.
• engage in a conversation.

1st Grade

• ask, answer, and retell key details of a text.
• describe characters, setting and major events of a story.
• explain differences between books that tell stories and give information.
• know and use text features to locate key facts and information in a text.
• distinguish long/short vowel sounds.
• decode words, vowel teams and word endings/digraphs.
• read grade level prose, poetry and information text.
• understand correct sentence structure.
• write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs.
• formulate and write an opinion about a topic or book.
• write about a topic in informative/explanatory text.
• write narratives with sequenced events.
• write left to right, top to bottom with proper spacing.
• demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar/usage.
• create a class book for the Young Authors’ Faire.

Kindergarten

• recognize numbers (0 to 20).
• write numbers correctly (0 to 20).
• recognize and count ordinal numbers to 20.
• use manipulatives to solve problems.
• compare sets to identify which is equal to, more than, or less than.
• understand and describe simple addition and subtraction problems.
• identify, sort, and classify objects according to shape, size, and color.
• be exposed to a variety of hands-on activities to develop life-long math skills.

1st Grade

• learn addition and subtraction strategies for facts to the sum of 20.
• comprehend math fact families.
• develop knowledge of gathering data and creating graphs.
• comprehend place value to 120.
• be exposed to basic geometric concepts.
• tell time to the nearest hour and half-hour.
• understand measurement according to length, height and time.
• be exposed to two-digit addition and subtraction.
• comprehend: 1/2 & 1/4.
• acquire problem-solving skills.
• distinguish attributes of given shapes.
• be able to add & subtract 10 from a given number.
• be exposed to a variety of hands-on activities to develop life-long math skills.

• identify characteristics of living things.
• describe relationships between plant/animal parts and their functions.
• investigate and describe how light and sound travel.
• make predictions based on apparent movement of the sun, moon and stars.
• be exposed to many cross-curricular activities that require hands-on experiences with technology.
• begin keyboarding skills
• learn basic computer skills.

• understand the importance of community: school, city, state and world.
• develop good citizenship.
• acquire primary map skills.
• be exposed to geography at the state, country and world levels.
• focus on understanding importance of national holidays and inspiring Americans.