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."

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