Religion

• Experiences liturgical season and their themes, feast days, and celebrations
• Participates in worship individually and as part of a community through the Eucharistic celebration
• Learns basic formal prayers; experiences various forms of prayer on a daily basis; attends weekly Mass
• Learns that the Sacrament of Baptism celebrates our membership in the Christian family; recognizes our identity as Catholic Christians
• Studies the lives of the saints and their impact in our church
• Begins to understand the seven sacraments and the significance of each
• Recognizes that God is the creator and nurturer of all things; learns that the Bible is Jesus’ way of teaching us about God and His love for us
• Recognizes that prayer is communication with God; sees that Mary is the Mother of God and our Mother, too

Language Arts

Reading

• Reads and comprehends grade-appropriate material
• Focuses on specific phonics patterns (ie: short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, r-controlled words, vowel teams, etc.)
• Recognizes words, phrases, short sentences with emphasis on literal meaning, including pre-primer words, primer words, word families, sequencing, cause and effect, and inflectional endings

Writing

• Identifies and correctly uses contractions, present and past tenses
• Uses standard spelling for high frequency words
• Prints legibly, with correct size, shape, and spacing
• Begins to write two to three sentences on a topic
• Begins to edit for capitalization, punctuation, and subject-verb agreement

Listening and Speaking

• Listens respectfully and attentively, asks questions
• Uses complete sentences, appropriate vocabulary, and volume

Mathematics

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Addition Concepts

• Memorizes addition facts through 20
• Uses pictures to show adding to
• Models adding to a group and putting together
• Solves adding problems by making a model
• Explains what happens when you add 0 to a number
• Explains why we can add addends in any order
• Shows all the ways to make a number within 10
• Builds fluency for addition within 10

Subtraction Concepts

• Memorizes subtraction facts through 20
• Uses pictures to show taking away from
• Models taking from a group and taking apart
• Solves subtraction problems by making a model
• Uses pictures and models to compare and subtract
• Explains what happens when you subtract 0 from a number
• Shows all the ways to take apart a number
• Builds fluency for subtraction within 10

Addition Strategies

• Explains what happens when we change the order of the addends we add
• Uses “count on” 1,2, or 3
• Identifies doubles facts
• Uses doubles to help add and find other sums (doubles +1 and doubles -1)
• Uses a ten frame to add 10 and some more
• Makes a ten strategy to add
• Adds and groups numbers to add three addends
• Solves addition word problems by drawing a picture

Subtraction Strategies

• Counts back 1,2, or 3
• Uses an addition fact to find the answer to a subtraction fact
• Makes a ten to help subtract
• Breaks apart a number to subtract
• Acts out a problem to help us solve

Addition and Subtraction Relationships

• Makes a model to help solve the problem
• Uses related facts to help find missing numbers
• Identifies related addition and subtraction facts
• Uses addition to check subtraction
• Chooses an operation and strategy to solve an addition or subtraction word problem
• Adds and subtracts in different ways to make the same number
• Decides if a math number sentence is true or false
• Uses addition and subtraction strategies to help us find sums and differences

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Count and Model Numbers

• Counts by tens from any number to extend a counting sequence up to 120
• Uses different ways to write and show a number as ten and ones
• Uses objects, pictures, and numbers to represent tens
• Groups cubes to show a number as tens and ones
• Models, read and write numbers up to 120

Compare Numbers

• Models and compares two-digit numbers to determine which is greater or less
• Uses symbols for is less than “<”, is greater than “>” and is equal to “=” to compare numbers
• Identifies numbers that are 10 less or 10 more than a given number
• Uses place value to compare numbers

Two-Digit Addition and Subtraction

• Solves two-digit addition and subtraction problems without regrouping
• Adds and subtracts within 20
• Draws a model to add and subtract tens
• Uses a hundred chart to find sums
• Uses concrete models and make a ten to add ones or tens to a two-digit number
• Solves and explains two-digit addition word problems using the strategy draw a picture
• Adds and subtracts within 100, including continued practice with facts within 20

Measurement and Data

Measurement

• Orders objects by length
• Compares lengths of three objects to put them in order
• Measures length using nonstandard units
• Uses a nonstandard measuring tool to measure length
• Solves measurement problems by acting out
• Tells and writes time to the hour and half hour on a clock

Represent Data

• Explains what the pictures in a picture graph show
• Makes a picture graph to answer a question
• Reads a bar graph to find the number that a bar shows
• Explains how a bar graph helps us compare information
• Counts the tallies on a tally chart
• Makes a tally chart and interpret the information

Geometry

Three-dimensional Geometry

• Identifies and describes three-dimensional shapes
• Combines three-dimensional shapes to make new shapes
• Uses combined shape to build new shapes
• Identifies two-dimensional shapes on three-dimensional shapes

Two-dimensional Geometry

• Uses attributes to sort and describe two-dimensional shapes
• Combines two-dimensional shapes together to make new shapes
• Finds shapes in other shapes
• Takes apart two-dimensional shapes
• Identifies equal and unequal parts in two-dimensional shapes
• Separates a shape into two equal shares
• Separates a shape into four equal parts

Social Studies

• Learns about the symbols and traditions of the United States
• Demonstrates understanding of basic map skills
• Celebrates national and cultural holidays
• Understands the growth, development, and differences between town and country, city, suburb, and neighborhood
• Develops an understanding of social skills in school and in the family, with emphasis on Catholic values and responsibilities
• Learns the location, environment, and some aspects of the people of Mexico, Canada, and California
• Understands the concept of the specialized work done in factories to manufacture, transport, and market goods and services
• Develops understanding of time periods, specifically as they relate to past, present, and future

Science

Physical Science

• Learns basic properties of light, heat, and sound
• Identifies different states of matter (solid, liquid, gas), classifying materials based on properties and purposes
• Defines engineering and its uses in today’s world
• Understands the purpose and function of simple machines

Earth Science

• Knows that weather can be observed, measured and described
• Begins to understand our solar system, the planets, and the relationship of earth and moon
• Identifies and describes the changing shape of land and landform attributes
• Demonstrates understanding of natural vs unnatural resources
• Understands the importance of our Earth Impact

Life Science

• Identifies differences between living and nonliving things
• Learns basic parts of plants and the ways people use plants
• Demonstrates understanding of the five senses
• Identifies animal traits and habitats