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Curriculum (K-8th)

Through a wide variety of learning techniques, our students have the opportunity to discover, explore and refine their learning styles. Our work in the classroom aligns with State Standards and the Diocese of Rockford curriculum and challenges our students to push beyond their expectations. Our goal is to provide an engaging, hands-on learning environment where students can grow both academically and spiritually.

 

Below is a snapshot of the academic goals our students will be focusing on during the current school year.

Elementary

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Reading

  • Read a variety of fictional and informational genres that integrate cultural and historical awareness. Wonders Reading Curriculum by McGraw Hill is used in our classrooms 

  • Independently read leveled texts during small group work using a  guiding reading assessment guide

  • Interact with aligned text to make inferences, find textual evidence, identify the author’s point of view, and investigate central themes.

  • Engage in centers and interactive lessons to practice phonic and phonemic awareness skills

  • Explore authentic writing models, learn the writing process, and produce published pieces

Math

  • Progress in Mathematics Program is our core Math curriculum

  • Practice operational fluency, engage in algebraic thinking, and develop problem-solving strategies standards

  • Engage in lessons related to numbers and operations, geometry, and measurement and data

  • Solve real world mathematical problems by reasoning abstractly 

  • Math Centers 

  • Project Based Learning

Science

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  • Mystery Science and Generation Genius Science curriculum

  • Explore Life, Physical and Earth Sciences.

  • Participate in hands-on science activities aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards

  • Engage in group discussions that develop observational skills, scientific inquiry, and the ability to use information to form a hypothesis.

  • Understand how technology and math are applied in the study of science.

  • Measurement data and Data Analysis

Middle School

Social Studies

  • Impact Curriculum 

  • Investigate specific communities and the effect government has on them

  • Deepen students’ knowledge of map skills through the use of interactive technology

  • Use various texts to engage in discussions and debates around current events

  • Holidays, history and geography are woven into the curriculum throughout the year.

  • Recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily.

  • Study Civics, Economics, Geography and History and ancient world civilizations.

  • Develop questions and conduct inquiries.  Evaluate sources and use evidence

  • Bring History alive with primary and secondary sources and simulations.

  • Deepen students knowledge and recall of map skills and how environment and geography impacts culture. 

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Religion

  • Participate in daily prayer and attend daily Mass

  • Build identity around core Catholic beliefs, practices, and principles.

  • Interact with the text aligned to the Roman Missal to deepen students’ faith.

  • Participate in events that support community outreach.

  • Bible Stories: Old and New Testament

  • Saints, Sacraments and Prayers

  • Sophia Press’ Spirit of Truth Curriculum

English / Language Arts

  • Focus on the parts of speech

  • Express themselves in complete sentences

  • Master the mechanics of writing

  • Explore different writing models

  • Learn the steps of the writing process

  • Produce their own published works.

  • Spelling, Vocabulary and Handwriting 

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Physical Education

P.E. Uniform Ordering

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  • Students in Kindergarten through eighth grade participate in gym twice per week throughout the school year. Every month different units focus on sports and activities that ensure an increased heart rate. Students learn the basics of sports but also participate in individual drills, team drills, relay races, games that enforce sports skills, group activities and timed scrimmages. Students learn a variety of sports such as basketball, soccer, hockey, volleyball, and variations of football and baseball. These activities are designed to give students a large range of activities all with unique and different health benefits. It is the goal and expectation at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School, that frequent physical education will promote a continuous interest in physical fitness throughout our students’ lifetime.

Technology Program

  • Our 1:1 technology program continues to grow to accommodate all students. Devices available to our students and teachers include interactive boards throughout the school, and Chrome books in 1st-8th grade classrooms.

  • Digital literacy is an essential and necessary component of our curriculum development to prepare our students to communicate and interact in a technology driven society. It is our goal for every student to become resourceful, ethical, and informed digital citizens.

  • What is the purpose of technology in the classrooms? To answer this question, it is important to refer to the 4C’s – Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity and add one more –Computational Thinking. These skills are paramount in the education of our students for the 21st century to prepare them to be productive citizens and successful scholars.

Art Program

  • The Art Curriculum at St. Charles Borromeo School provides all students with tools and information to develop problem solving skills and new ways to understand and communicate.  While developing hand-eye coordination, art connects with literacy and other subject areas.

  • Students in early childhood classrooms learn to use imagination, acquire skills to create, and use and manipulate tools. They start to identify how images help to communicate and contribute to the world around them.

  • Elementary and middle school students develop knowledge and skills to construct, design, and problem solve with more advanced tools, technology, media, and design. Students explore some of the greatest artists of the world as well as their work which serves to provide a fundamental background of art history.  Cross-curricular connections as well as cultural and time arts enhance student ability to understand connections with other disciplines.

  • Art is a form of expression where the imagination and uniqueness of each student can be expressed.  This class will be offered to our K through 8th grades.

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