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First Grade
Like
small plants, first graders grow and mature as they begin their journey through
elementary school at Word of God. Intellectual growth blossoms as children are
exposed to phonetic skills, spelling, and language mechanics. These skills make
them better readers with good vocabularies and excellent comprehension.
Children are encouraged to use these skills to write and illustrate their own
stories.
Computation, making and identifying patterns, telling time, money sense,
measurement, and solid geometry are all part of the math curriculum . These
provide a foundation for higher math procedures and an entrance to making sense
of the adult world.
Spiritual growth is nourished as first graders learn about prayer, the Mass and
the life of Jesus.
Computers, music, gym and art programs allow the children to explore other
facets of their development.
Word of God School is a wonderful place to grow!
Carla O'Keefe, Teacher, First Grade
Second Grade
Second grade at
Word of God is a year of growth, both academically and spiritually. Our
Language Arts curriculum emphasizes phonetic skills, comprehension skills, grammar ,writing and spelling. The students become
independent and fluent readers. They progress from writing simple sentences to
writing stories. In math, students are introduced to telling time, counting
money, graphing, word problems, adding and subtracting two and three digit
numbers, along with practicing our basic facts and calendar skills daily. In
science and social studies we cover a wide variety of subjects, including
weather, mapping skills, the ocean, and the rainforest. Using
our "Scholastic News" helps to keep us up-to-date on a variety of
other topics relating to our world. We also have an introductory Spanish
program in which the children learn basic vocabulary and some phrases. One of
the greatly anticipated classes is handwriting because the children learn how
to write in cursive. Most importantly, this is the year in which the students
celebrate their First Reconciliation and their First Holy Communion. These
sacraments are an important step in the faith formation for our students. Along
with daily prayers, the children are instructed in all of the aspects of our
Catholic faith with time set aside for monthly Masses and special activities
such as making chalices in art and learning new songs for church in music.
Helping them grow in their faith and in their academic studies are their eighth
grade buddies with whom they share many activities. Second grade at Word of God
is an exciting year, and one you don't want to miss!
See our Second Grade News below
Mary Ann Macek, Teacher, Second Grade
Third Grade
The goals of third grade are to become comfortable writing in cursive, to learn the multiplication and division facts, to extend reading skills to the content areas using textbooks and to practice organizational skills to prepare for the move to fourth grade. Once the students have these basis skills mastered, they will be better prepared for the responsibilities of a fourth grader.
Susan Howsare, Teacher, Third Grade
Second Grade News
Second
Grade has certainly had a very busy year, but one of our highlights has been
listening to stories and doing activities with Aidan Demkee’s
grandmother, Mrs. Smithwick. Mrs. Smithwick is a retired second grade teacher. We look
forward to each of her visits because we never know who (or what!) she is going
to be that day! As you can see, her presentations are terrific, and she
always brings a treat for each of the students. Along with listening to
wonderful stories, the students usually do Math by estimating how many items
are in a container. The winner gets to keep the container with those
items (like candy!). We are very grateful to have Mrs. Smithwick join our second grade on those days.
We
have also recently celebrated the sacrament of Reconciliation and are preparing
for the sacrament of the Eucharist. Please keep us in your prayers as we
make this journey of faith.
Finally,
we held a very successful raffle in order to raise money for the Window
Fund. By raffling off donated prizes, we were able to raise $568 for the
fund. Many thanks to everyone who donated prizes, bought tickets, and
helped in any other way.
