Curriculum
K-2 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
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
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."