Curriculum

K-2 Curriculum

The students will be introduced to developmental learning and proceed to a comfortable proficiency in:

  • Experiencing Spanish through literature, art, music, and games.
  • Praying selected prayers together.
  • Reciting and identifying time concepts such as days, months, dates, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
  • Correlating and using eight basic color words descriptively.
  • Expressing basic personal information such as names, ages, and family history.
  • Reciting and recognizing numbers 1-20.

3rd-5th

The students will be introduced to developmental learning and proceed to a comfortable proficiency in:

  • Experiencing Spanish through literature, art, music, and games.
  • Praying selected prayers together.
  • Using greetings fluently on a daily basis with adults and peers, noting distinctions between formal and informal expressions.
  • Learning, using and responding fluently to phrases of classroom management.
  • Learning and using fluently social skills of personal introduction including birthday, phone numbers, and statement of like/dislike.
  • Use the given vocabulary and grammar to describe yourself.
  • Learning to use the numbers 1-100 orally in mathematical operations, and writing the matching numeral words.
  • Correctly describing various objects by using adjectives and nouns.
  • Using vocabulary to describe weather as well as time on the clock to narrate a personal schedule to the hour, half-hour, and quarter hour.

6th-8th

Students will review and continue to use skills previously acquired, and be introduced to new areas of world language learning, while moving through a developmental process and proceeding to a comfortable proficiency in:

  • Participating confidently in appropriate oral prayers.
  • Writing from dictation and expressing original ideas and thoughts.
  • Developing phonetic skills to facilitate oral reading, giving careful attention to pronunciation.
  • Using and responding correctly, courteously, and fluently to all greetings, and developing vocabulary needed for conversation about topics of interest and concern.
  • Becoming familiar with classroom management directives and the correct responses as would a native speaker.
  • Progressively learning and applying basic grammar rules so as to communicate correctly in both oral and written modes.
  • Using number 1-1,000 in mathematical operations.
  • Exploring current events as they relate to Spanish-speaking people.
  • Exploring basic geography of Central America, South America, and Spain as it relates to the cultures there.

This curriculum is based off of the the "World Language Curriculum: Grades Preschool to Eight from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia 2010."