SACRAMENTS

• Study of the Signs of Faith
• The Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Anointing of Sick, Matrimony, and Holy Orders

SCRIPTURE

•  Study of the Old Testament: Creation, Sin and God’s Promise
• The Covenant of Sinai, Freedom Covenant, Covenant of the World
• Mysteries of evil
• The Holy Land and The Promised Land, the coming of Jesus, the Catholic Church
• Study of Holy Days, Saints and the Pope
  

LITURGY/PRAYER

• Observance and celebration of Holy Days of Lent
• Participation in programs of alter serving, church choir
• Students actively participate in liturgical celebrations, weekly masses, readings, petitions and prayers, prayer        gatherings and daily prayers or petitions are shared

SOCIAL JUSTICE

• Students raise money for the Holy Childhood Campaign
• Students write letters to others who are home bound in the parish
• Students participate in the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl Lent Program & Give of Hope Advent Program
  

READING

Word Analysis, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development:

• Distinguishes and interprets written text
  
• Recognizes word origins and meanings using grade appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues
  
• Uses context as clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
  

READING COMPREHENSION

• Identifies the central idea and assesses detailed evidence that supports and conveys the idea
  
• Clarifies meaning and summaries written text
• Makes predictions, draws inferences, conclusions about a text based on supporting details and evidence
• Determines an author’s point of view and purpose and identifies how it is developed in the text
  

STUDY AND REFERENCE SKILLS

•  Reads and references factual information from maps, charts, graphs, time lines, journals and on-line publications to substantiate written content
  
• Uses a variety of informational sources such as dictionaries, atlas, almanacs, encyclopedias, newspapers,
  periodicals, and digital media
  

WRITING

• Composes multi-paragraph compositions which have a clear purpose, introduction, supportive details and effective conclusion
• Utilizes properly formatted bibliography and citation
  
• Analyzes, revises, edits and clarifies written work
• Utilizes pre-writing, planning, drafting, revising and editing steps of the writing process in extended writing projects such as the composition of narrative, informative, explanatory and persuasive essays
• Uses precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to  inform about a topic or idea
• Writes cohesive arguments and support assertions with relevant evidence

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

• Interprets auditory and verbal instruction
• Delivers a variety of concise presentations which uses effective volume, rate and tone with interesting             information to keep the audience’s attention
• Engages in critical and constructive discussion

NUMBER SENSE

• Compares, orders, interprets and solves problems using fractions, ratios, proportions, and percentages
• Calculates and solves problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Determines the least common multiple and greatest common divisor
• Uses estimation strategies for all operations
  

ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS

• Writes, evaluates, analyzes and solves verbal expressions in sentences as algebraic expressions and             equations
• Solves problems using correct order of operations

MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY

• Understands the measurement of plane and solid shapes
• Knows the formula of the circumference and area
• Identifies the properties of two dimensional shapes
• Understands the concept of a constant number like pi
  

STATISTICS, DATA ANALYSIS, AND PROBABILITY

• Computes and analyzes statistical measurement for data sets
• Computes the range, mean, median, and mode of data sets
• Represents probabilities as ratios, proportions and decimals between 0 and 1
  

MATHEMATICAL REASONING

• Makes decisions about how to approach a problem, set up an equation, and solve an equation
• Makes precise calculations and checks the reasonability or validity of answers

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

• Understands the basic explanations for the important features of the lands surface
• Identifies heat and energy flow through convection, conduction and radiation currents

EARTH SCIENCE

•  Understands the effect of the ecology of the earth and their responsibly to protect the earth
• Understands topography and how landscape is shaped
• Recognizes major geologic events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building, result from plate motions
• Understands the transfer of earths energy and results in weather changes

INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIMENTATION

• Hypothesizes, classifies, and interprets data found from investigation and discovery experiments
• Draws conclusions using study information based on scientific information
• Compares, analyzes and synthesizes data results using metacognitive skills and scientific fact

HISTORY

• Traces roots of early humankind, Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic ages
  
• Discovers the early middle eastern civilizations and ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Japan, Greece and Rome
  
• Understands the strength and vastness of the Roman Empire
  

GEOGRAPHY

• Traces and locates the migration and expansion of ancient civilization
• Explains how geography affected ancient civilizations
• Identifies the importance of geography as a contributing factor to the human story
  

ECONOMICS

• Recognizes the significance of power, vastness and region in the economies of early civilizations
• Understands the connection between social organization and waterways in the success of an economy
  

CULTURE

• Sees the USA as a pluralistic society
• Studies life as an explorer
• Understands life at the dawn of the Revolutionary War

• Increases touch type 35 words per minute with 80% accuracy
• Understands computer-related terminology and how computer function
• Understands the basics of keyboard memory
• Can successful compile a written piece using a computer program including paragraphs, biography and Excel
• Discusses copyright laws involving computer and websites and giving credit to authors of electronic works
• Recognize parts of a spreadsheet, moving among cells, and formatting cells, making a graph in a spreadsheet
• Can successfully compile a written piece using a computer program

EXERCISE AND CALISTHENICS AND SPORT SKILLS

• Plays organized agility games exercising Christian sportsmanship
• Acquires knowledge to build responsible decision making, healthy lifestyles, and general wellness.
• Participates in team sports to develop tolerance of others and cooperative skills.
• Understands and utilizes rules for organized sports like: Basketball, football, baseball, soccer, track and volleyball

VISUAL AND TACTILE PERCEPTION

• Uses shading for drawing for depth and proportion, contours of land, line technique and color development
• Use of the color wheel and color theory and visual arts heritage
• Understands design concepts of texture, balance, repetition
  

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

• Demonstrates ability to work with a variety of crafts/media: printing, clay, papier-mache, weaving, collage, mosaics
• Demonstrates ability to draw still life; exhibit individual art work, critique works of art from various cultural and historical contexts.
  

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

• Appreciates art work, uses design elements, art media and processes, understanding artistic mood and style

• Sixth Grade Astro Camp
• Museum of Man
• Rueben H. Fleet Science Center
• Convalescent Home visits
  
• CYT Performances