Grade Highlights

Preschool

• Interactive, differentiated learning lessons & centers
• Variety of manipulatives for students
• Learn through song & poem
• Jolly Phonics program for learning phonemic awareness
• One on one lessons with the teacher, small group lessons & whole group lessons
• Plant unit – learn about life cycle & living vs. non-living, what living things need to survive
  • Plant sunflowers in clear cups – watch as the seed sprouts & roots grow, etc.

 

Kindergarten

• Gingerbread
• Teddy bear picnic
• 50’s day
• Nativity play
• Winter fun day
• 100 day
• Lemonade stand

 

1st Grade

• Kindness project that goes all year.
  • Students write kind things they do on a heart
    • 1st trimester – things they do at home
    • 2nd trimester – kindness they experience at school
    • 3rd trimester – things they do in the community
  • Engineering project
    • Create a Christmas tree using dry spaghetti & gumdrops

   

2nd Grade

• Friendship Sushi - creates a loving classroom environment
• Thanksgiving pie feast
• Prepare for the sacraments of Reconciliation & First Holy Communion
• Preschool buddies – 2nd graders work with a preschool buddy & meet throughout the year to help them read & write. They help write letters to Santa, make crafts, & write stories together.

 

3rd Grade

• Battle of the books
• Chicago project
• STEM team building activities
• Present Science & Social Studies projects using Flipgrid

 

4th Grade

• 4th grade is a year of hard work & growth
  • Students learn to be more independent & responsible for their assignments
• State project & fair
  • Trifold, diorama, & PowerPoint presentation
• Endangered species project
• Number project
• FOSSweb Science Curriculum & Labs
• Novel studies
  • Novels are read aloud. Discuss novels using literary elements they have learned in reading
• Martin Luther King Jr. research and informative writing

 

5th Grade

• Famous mathematician project
• Budget project
• Totem pole project
• Jamestown brochure
• Influential African American report & collage
• Saint report
• FOSSweb Science curriculum & labs
• Novel studies
  • Novels are read aloud. Discuss novels using literary elements they have learned in reading

 

6th Grade

• Studies both nonrenewable & renewable energy resources.
  • Students construct a model of an energy-efficient home & present the home & its features to the class
• Family crest project
• Deity product project
• Students work in literature circles & work on narrative writing

   

7th Grade

• Science fair
  • Students research the topic of their experiment, conduct the experiment, & present both the research & results to judges.
• Relating topics discussed on the Daily podcast with item items in the Constitution
• Watch Hamilton while learning about the Constitution
• Students read The Outsiders and work on expository writing

   

8th Grade

• Students read To Kill a Mockingbird and work on persuasive writing.
• Wax museum persuasive paper
• Relating topics discussed on the Daily podcast with item items in the Constitution
• Watch Hamilton while learning about the Constitution