Elementary Curriculum

Language Arts

• Spelling
  • Embedded instruction and practice throughout many content areas
  • Lessons in word study, phonics and sight words
  • Individualized spelling lists
• Reading
  • Whole-class lessons using interactive, read-aloud strategies that teach comprehension and vocabulary
  • Small group instruction for leveled, guided groups in phonics, fluency and supported comprehension development
  • Children’s literature integrated into other subject areas
• Writing
  • Weekly journal writing
  • Writing process instruction: plan, write, revise, edit, publish
  • Introduction to different writing genres: opinion, persuasive, narrative, informative
  • Embedded grammar and conventions practice throughout many content areas
• Speaking
  • Sharing time and special occasions or projects

• Operations and algebraic thinking: addition/subtraction to 20
• Numbers and operations in base 10: place value and number sense to 120
• Geometry
  • Two- and three-dimensional shapes
  • Fractional parts 
• Measurement and data
  • Measure and compare lengths
  • Tell and write time and money
  • Represent and interpret data
• Daily calendar math
• Junior Achievement program: economics

• Space systems: patterns and cycles
• Light and sound waves
• Structure, function and information processing
• Engineering design
• Onsite OMSI lab and field trip 
• Health/safety

• Communities: school, neighborhood, city and community helpers/careers
• Seasonal topics, US holidays, Lunar New Year
• Scholastic News Weekly Reader covers additional social studies/science concepts and current events

• Weekly all-school Mass, yearly class Mass
• Daily prayer and religion in classroom
• Rosary, liturgical seasons, feast days, virtue education curriculum
• Participation in various service projects

• Attend Library/Media Literacy class weekly
• Develop an appreciation for reading
• Develop library skills around locating, evaluating, and utilizing shared resources
• Build upon reading skills in order to better comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational and fictional text  
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in using library materials and resources
• Collaborate as members of a social and intellectual community

• Conduct STEM activities in our MakerSpace weekly supporting what is being taught in the classroom. 
• Develop keyboarding skills using the Typing Club program 
• NGSS Engineering Design Skills
  • K-2-ETS1-1 Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation. 
  • K-2-ETS1-2 Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem

• Integrated into various areas of the curriculum including PE, science and religion
• Learn and practice healthy social behaviors in the Second Step Violence Prevention and Bullying Prevention Programs

• Two days of music every week 
• One day of art every week

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities
• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities
• Participates regularly in physical activity
• Is physically fit
• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Students also have two recesses (morning break and lunch) each day.

Language Arts 

• Comprehend a variety of printed materials
• Connect literature to personal experiences
• Make predictions
• Story mapping
• Compare/contrast
• Speak effectively to an audience
• Listen to gather information
• Nouns, adjectives, verbs, contractions, compound words and pronouns
• Writing steps (brainstorm, write, proofread, edit, final copy)
• Writing detailed and complete sentences 
• Structure of a paragraph
• Writing process

• Base 10 and place value
• Fluency with addition and subtraction 
• Linear measurement (time, money, length, etc.)

• Living and non-living things
• Life cycles
• Behaviors and traits
• Habitats
• Magnetic forces
• Patterns of apparent movement of sun and moon
• Temperature/climate
• Construct simple structures
• Rainbow Trout

• Distinguish between needs/wants
• Recognize services and careers in a community
• Understand how goods are produced and distributed
• Examine the Three R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle)

• Learn the goodness of God (His creation, promise, word, gifts, mercy, etc.)
• How to make good choices, love one another and go forth to serve others
• Sacrament of the Eucharist at St. Rose (contact the church office)

• Attend Library/Media Literacy class weekly
• Develop an appreciation for reading
• Develop library skills around locating, evaluating, and utilizing shared resources
• Build upon reading skills in order to better comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational and fictional text  
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in using library materials and resources
• Collaborate as members of a social and intellectual community

• Conduct STEM activities in our MakerSpace weekly supporting what is being taught in the classroom. 
• Develop keyboarding skills using the Typing Club program 
• NGSS Engineering Design Skills
  • K-2-ETS1-1 Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation. 
  • K-2-ETS1-2 Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem

• Integrated into various areas of the curriculum including PE, science and religion
• Learn and practice healthy social behaviors in the Second Step Violence Prevention and Bullying Prevention Programs

• Two days of music every week 
• One day of art every week

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities
• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities
• Participates regularly in physical activity
• Is physically fit
• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Students also have two recesses (morning break and lunch) each day.

Language Arts 

• Building reading and writing skills is of primary importance 
• Integrated into all subject areas

• Whole number operations (especially multiplication and division skills)
• Geometry
• Fractions 

• States of matter
• Life cycles
• Weather
• Simple machines
• Bridge-building

• Learn about Portland and communities around the world through field trips, speakers and projects
• Serve community by coordinating:
  • Food drive for St. Vincent de Paul (Fall) 
  • Clothing drive for Northwest Children’s Outreach (Spring)

• Begin and end the day with prayer 
• Learn who they are as members of the Church 
• Joyfully celebrate the liturgical seasons  
• Virtue education curriculum: students practice living out a new virtue every week
• Reconciliation services during Advent and Lent

• Attend Library/Media Literacy class weekly
• Develop an appreciation for reading
• Develop library skills around locating, evaluating, and utilizing shared resources
• Build upon reading skills in order to better comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational and fictional text  
• Complete research projects using a variety of resources to enhance classroom studies (3rd-5th)
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in using library materials and resources
• Collaborate as members of a social and intellectual community

• Conduct STEM activities in our MakerSpace weekly supporting what is being taught in the classroom. 
• Develop keyboarding skills using the Typing Club program 
• NGSS Engineering Design Skills
  • 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

• Integrated into various areas of the curriculum including PE, science and religion
• Learn and practice healthy social behaviors in the Second Step Violence Prevention and Bullying Prevention Programs

• Two days of music every week 
• One day of art every week

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities
• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities
• Participates regularly in physical activity
• Is physically fit
• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Students also have two recesses (morning break and lunch) each day.

Language Arts 

• Read short stories individually throughout the year 
• Read at least one whole-class novel
• Read several individually chosen novels for book reports and various other literature activities 

• Geometry
• Fractions 
• Multi-digit multiplication
• Long division

• Participate in many science labs and hands-on activities 
• Study rocks and minerals, changes in Earth’s surface, water and weather and properties of energy
• Learn that natural resources are a gift from God, and need to be used responsibly

• Oregon focus
  • Current facts about Oregon, History, Geography

• Study the message of Jesus, the Ten Commandments, virtues, and the Beatitudes

• Each student studies the Catholic faith, and explores his or her personal spirituality 
• Virtue education curriculum: students practice living out a new virtue every week
• Reconciliation services during Advent and Lent

• Attend Library/Media Literacy class weekly
• Develop an appreciation for reading
• Develop library skills around locating, evaluating, and utilizing shared resources
• Build upon reading skills in order to better comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational and fictional text  
• Complete research projects using a variety of resources to enhance classroom studies (3rd-5th)
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in using library materials and resources
• Collaborate as members of a social and intellectual community

• Conduct STEM activities in our MakerSpace weekly supporting what is being taught in the classroom. 
• Develop keyboarding skills using the Typing Club program 
• NGSS Engineering Design Skills
  • 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

• Integrated into various areas of the curriculum including PE, science and religion
• Learn and practice healthy social behaviors in the Second Step Violence Prevention and Bullying Prevention Programs

• Two days of music every week 
• One day of art every week

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities
• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities
• Participates regularly in physical activity
• Is physically fit
• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Students also have two recesses (morning break and lunch) each day.

Language Arts

• Classroom novels
• Story elements
• Characterizations
• Understanding vocabulary 
• Book Reports 
• Sentence diagramming
• Concentrate on outlining skills 
• Expository writing

• Place value 
• Multiplication and division of whole numbers and decimals
• Fractions
• Geometry
• Story problems

• Astronomy
• The living cell
• Friction
• Gravity
• Magnetism

• Regions of the United States 
• State reports
• Explorers 
• The 13 colonies
• Fight for independence
• American Revolutionary War

• Focus on the seven sacraments and knowing Jesus’ early life  
• Attention given to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy  
• Loaves and Fishes monthly volunteer service
• On-going collections for Meals on Wheels programs
• Virtue education curriculum: students practice living out a new virtue every week
• Reconciliation services during Advent and Lent

• Attend Library/Media Literacy class weekly
• Develop an appreciation for reading
• Develop library skills around locating, evaluating, and utilizing shared resources
• Build upon reading skills in order to better comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational and fictional text  
• Complete research projects using a variety of resources to enhance classroom studies (3rd-5th)
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in using library materials and resources
• Collaborate as members of a social and intellectual community

• Conduct STEM activities in our MakerSpace weekly supporting what is being taught in the classroom. 
• Develop keyboarding skills using the Typing Club program 
• NGSS Engineering Design Skills
  • 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

• Integrated into various areas of the curriculum including PE, science and religion
• Learn and practice healthy social behaviors in the Second Step Violence Prevention and Bullying Prevention Programs

• Two days of music every week 
• One day of art every week

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities
• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities
• Participates regularly in physical activity
• Is physically fit
• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Students also have two recesses (morning break and lunch) each day.