SIXTH - EIGHTH GRADE
Core Curricular Programs
ELA | Math | Religion | Science | Social Studies |
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Great Minds, Wit and Wisdom | Great Minds, Eureka Math | Loyola Press Finding God | Kesler Science Program | Houghton Mifflin |
Ascension Press Chosen: Your Journey Towards Confirmation | Human Origins, Stanford History Education Group | |||
Civic Online Learning |
Speciality Courses
ART
- Weekly attendance
- Learning benchmarks:
- Exploration of various mediums from painting, drawing and innovative materials
- Learning concepts such as color theory, shading techniques, and drawing perspective
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- Bi-weekly attendance
- Learning Benchmarks:
- the content standards emphasize working cooperatively to achieve a common goal, meeting challenges, making decisions, and working as a team to solve problems
- Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health
- Students learn psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity
MUSIC
- Weekly attendance
- Learning Benchmarks:
- Students learn to read music and solidify their understanding of various music theories
All grades perform in a yearly Christmas Concert
SPANISH
- Bi-weekly attendance
- Learning Benchmarks:
- Foundations of the language; greetings, introductions, gender of nouns, adjectives, articles, etc.
- Wide range of vocabulary enhanced
- Learn subject pronouns, and the concept of conjugation
- Introduced to AR-ER-IR regular and irregular verbs
- Learn the past and present progressive and future tense
All grades study these concepts with different degrees of difficulty
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