St. Alphonsus/St. Patrick School

First Grade Highlights and Expectations:

• 效法耶稣的榜样，学习一年级的祷告，成为更有爱心的基督徒.
• Focus on God's love, the life and teachings of Jesus, belonging to the Church, traditional common prayers, and the rosary.
• 一年级学生通过观察彩绘瓢虫变成蝴蝶来学习完整的蜕变.  当我们利用教室孵化器学习小鸡的胚胎学时，我们见证并体验了一只动物的诞生. 一年级参加库克县农场局提供的活动.  We also adopt a dairy cow through the St. 并通过电子邮件与我们当地的农民沟通，并获得每月的更新和小牛的照片.
• 表现出语音和音位意识，并识别高频单词.  
• 运用词汇分析来理解选择，运用阅读策略来提高理解和流畅性.
• Identify story elements, use context clues, comprehend the main idea, make predictions, and distinguish between fact and fantasy.
• 流利地阅读适合年龄的材料，并能在阅读中自我评价和自我纠正.
• 用写作来交流，运用语法和技巧，包括大写, complete sentences, and basic punctuation.
• Focus on number  and order  sense, 加法和减法的概念和策略与事实12, place value and patterns, 识别周围世界的几何形状, calculate time to the hour and half-hour, and solve simple word problems.
• 介绍了两位数的加法与不重组.
• 通过阅读了解生命科学和地球科学的概念, predicting, organizing, questioning, and explaining.
• 培养对周围人的意识, 识别重要人物和特殊全球最大正规博彩平台, understand maps and mapping terms.

Second Grade Highlights and Expectations:

• In all areas of learning, students will demonstrate comprehension, learn decoding strategies, practice reading fluency, 并在语境中表现出对词汇的理解.
• 通过不同类型的文学作品分享积极的阅读和听力经验.
• Write paragraphs that show organization, use proper grammar, 并表现出对手头话题的理解.
• 展示知识和掌握各种数学技能，如位值, 多位数的加减运算, identifying geometric shapes, learning to tell time on an analog clock, measuring and comparing units of length, 学会识别和理解硬币和美元的价值, as well as charting, comparing and graphing data.
• Demonstrate knowledge of life science, physical science, earth science, and the human body through observing, predicting, questioning, and explaining, while learning through STEAM experiences.
• 通过了解美国的过去和现在，表现出作为更大世界一部分的自我意识, our government and its symbols, famous Americans, geography and maps, and America’s communities: urban, suburban, and rural.
• 学生从事精神上，因为他们准备和解和第一次圣餐的圣礼, learn traditional prayers, take an active role in liturgical seasons, and learn about the lives of the Saints.

Third  Grade Highlights and  Expectations:

• Focus on  God, Jesus  Christ  and  the  Holy  Spirit, the  sacraments, service, liturgical  seasons, lives of the Saints, and the Church as our community. 计划和协助礼拜仪式和其他形式的崇拜.
• 流畅的阅读，良好的口头和书面理解能力.
• Use word identification strategies; understand character and setting;  draw conclusions,  make predictions, sequence events of a story.
• 认识并写出完整的句子，使用名词、动词、代词、形容词和副词.
• 运用写作的六个特征练习非正式和正式写作. Write legibly using cursive.
• Write in multiple  forms (reports, friendly letters, descriptive paragraphs, narrative stories, book reviews).
• Add and subtract multi-digit numbers, identify place values, count and illustrate money amounts, memorize multiplication facts, demonstrate fluency with measuring, and demonstrate time telling skills.
• 探索物理和自然世界的科学. Describe simple life cycles of  plants  and animals;  recognize the relationship  of  living  things  to their environment; describe the features/processes  of the Earth and its resources.
• 阅读各种地图，了解社区类型，了解政府如何运作.  

四年级的亮点和期望:

• Develop an understanding of faith, major Saints, feast days, liturgical seasons, scripture, Ten Commandments, Advent, Lent, the Holy Spirit, and sacraments. 计划和协助礼拜仪式和其他形式的崇拜.
• 培养流利阅读的必要技能, 理解和解释书面材料, communicate well, and listen and speak effectively.
• 专注于说明性，说服性和叙事性写作，重点是说明性
• 在书面交流中对文学和数学有反应.
• 以诗歌的形式体验真正的文学, folktales, nonfiction, fiction, biographies, fantasies and plays. 就一个给定的主题写几个连续的段落.
• 与他人合作，为个人和小组做报告.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit numbers; estimate and compare numbers; name, draw, and measure lines, segments, rays, and angles; narrie geometric figures; find area, perimeter, and volume; display data; name, use, add, subtract, compare, and convert fractions; demonstrate problem-solving strategies; estimate products; communicate in math.
• Understand the weather, the earth and its changes, rocks and minerals, the solar system, ecosystems, health, the human body, life and earth topics, and physical topics such as matter.
• 知道50个州/首府、缩写，并能在地图上找到它们.  Demonstrate knowledge of regions of the U.S. 通过商品和服务来满足需求.

五年级的亮点和期望:

• Learn through stories, activities,  Scripture, prayer, 讨论和反思他们的天主教信仰. Focus on God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, the sacramento, liturgical seasons and morality; plan and assist in liturgy and other forms of worship
• 培养学生流畅阅读的技能, comprenend and interpret written materials, 良好的沟通，有效的听和说. Understand cause and effect; analyze details; use context clues; analyze theme, plot, and setting.
• 培养良好写作的特点:条理性, voice, fluency, word choice, conventions, ideas, and presentation. 就一个给定的主题写几个连续的段落. 向个人、小型和大型团体做演讲. 说话时表达清楚，阅读时表达流畅.
• Master whole numbers, money and decimals, fractions, ratios, proportions and  percentages, and length and measurement; identify place values; solve multiple step word problems; calculate area, perimeter and volume; interpret data.
• Categorize organisms by interactions in their ecosystems; analyze weather and climatic conditions; describe features and effects of various forces on the earth and its resources; identify the effects of science on society.
• Focus on  Native  Americans,  explorers,  American  Colonies, the  American Revolution, the Westward Movement and the Civil War; master geography/map skills

Sixth Grade Highlights and Expectations:   

• 培养对圣经所启示的神的拯救之爱的鉴赏力, particularly  the Old Testament. 计划和协助礼拜仪式和其他形式的崇拜.              .                           
• Comprehend and demonstrate  mastery of grade appropriate literature; demonstrate  skills in  summary and critique over a variety of literature. 发展更高层次的理解和推理思维能力. Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills.
• Have a focused understanding  of writing and mechanics; be able to divert from standard responses and develop their own writing styles in essays;demonstrate use of the writing  process including prewriting, writing, revising, peer editing and final draft. 向个人、小群体和大群体口头呈现材料.
• Explore patterns and variables, number theory and integers, fractions, decimals, and percents, ratios and proportions, 使用数据查找统计度量并创建统计显示, 求解代数方程和不等式, use tools of geometry, area, volume, and surface area,  and discover probability. 展示解决问题的能力，在文字问题和现实生活中的应用. 
• Demonstrate understanding of cells, human biology, animals, plants, bacteria, heredity, health, and environmental  science; identify  and explain effects of changes in  states of  matter; evaluate and apply ecological concepts to environmental problems.  识别问题，制定和测试假设，并评估实验结果.
• Master map skills with knowledge of oceans, continents, and location of world countries; develop an understanding  of  Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Greece, Rome, Arabia, America, Medieval Europe, Africa, and Asia.

七年级的亮点和期望:

• 天主教的价值观不仅在宗教中，而且在所有的学习中都得到了讨论和整合. Focus on Jesus Christ: His life, His teachings, and His presence in the Church; Church history; morality/development  of self-worth; universality of the Church, the major Church documents, 以及天主教社会训导的七个主题.
• Analyze literature and develop skills necessary to comprehend literature at and above grade level; become familiar with literary terms, identifying and using them in their own works; application of word analysis and vocabulary skills; analyzing style and purpose; understand elements of plot; understanding the author's purpose in various literary forms.
• Demonstrate an understanding of sentence and paragraph patterns and their uses and effects; a variety of narrative and expository structures; the criteria for evaluation of  their  written  work. Develop skills in writing content and mechanics that will demonstrate a growth in their understanding of language; respond confidently  in essays to a variety of prompts.
• Complete a research paper. 每季度演讲一次，参加辩论和小组讨论.
• Master ratios and proportional reasoning , and work with percents, 理解几何概念与三维形状和测量, analysis of data, probability, and measurement; explore number theory; use formulas, expressions, 求解多步方程和不等式.  使用不同的策略来解决文字问题和现实生活中的应用数学概念.
• Use inquiry skills; learn the characteristics of living things; understand heredity and classification; understand the diversity of cells; understand and explain human body systems.  研究，准备，并为科学展览展示一个项目.
• 准备并创造一项有益于社会的发明.
• Focus on U.S. 历史从美洲的第一个文明通过内战和重建.  Understand political, economic, and social systems and events, trends, 个人和运动塑造了伊利诺伊州的历史, the U. S. and other nations.

Eighth Grade Highlights and Expectations:

• Intensely prepare for Confirmation and a lifelong relationship with God; integration of Catholic values in all learning.  Become involved in parish community.  在信仰、家庭和服务上表现出领导力.
• 具备扎实的读写能力.  Evaluate and analyze literature; express high level analysis and synthesis in written form.  培养对语言和写作过程以及写作类型的理解，为高中学习做准备.  了解研究和写作过程.  
• 能够理解不同的句子和段落模式，以及它们的用法和效果.  利用各种叙述和说明文的结构，并评估书面工作. 应用和使用图形组织来评估, interpret, 理解内容和写作过程.
• Master algebraic expressions, 二元方程和不等式,  理解并使用线性方程的斜率-截距形式和斜率-截距形式的图形, 利用勾股定理探索和解决问题,  在坐标系中绘制图形并执行转换,  掌握图形的一致性和相似性,  explore exponents, powers and compute with scientific notation;  application  of  percentages; organize, display and interpret data and use measures of central tendency for data analysis; apply arithmetic operations to rational numbers, 计算圆柱体的体积和表面积, cones, and composite shapes. 

• Understand chemical building blocks, chemical interactions, motion, forces and energy, electricity and magnetism, sound and light; distinguish between elements, compounds and mixes. 准备并创造一项有益于社会的发明; and research, prepare, and present a project for the science fair. 使用科学的方法和模型、工具和测量来探索物理科学.
• Have an in-depth understanding of American history from Reconstruction to the present and current events; understand events, trends, individuals, 以及塑造伊利诺伊州历史的运动, the U.S., and other nations.