Educating the Whole Child:
Mind, Body and Spirit.
Continue to refine skills in reading comprehension and analysis, critical thinking, creative expression, and grammar skills through:
Continue to enhance basic math, critical thinking and problem solving skills. Topics include:
Challenges students to develop a deeper understanding of their faith. We pass on the Catholic faith and create a deepening commitment to God by:
Life, earth, and physical sciences. Provides students with an understanding of science as an inquiry based way of thinking that begins with questioning, then moves to experimentation and concludes with understanding.
Provides students with knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography. It strives to make connections between the past and present. Topics include: Early Years to Revolutionary War, World Cultures, Age of Reform to Present, and Geography (Cultural and Physical)
St. Michael Catholic School administers the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) in the fall and spring for students in grades 2- 8.
With average standardized test scores that consistently exceed the 80th percentile, we’re proud of the reputation St. Michael Catholic School has earned.
‘Hands on’ artistic expression in several mediums where students learn to appreciate cultural differences and their own creativity. A broad variety of art topics include: Fundamental elements, Principles of art production, Art criticism, Art history and Aesthetic nature of art
Resources in the St. Michael Laurentine Media Center include print material and multi-media materials. All grades visit the media center individually, or as classroom groups. Students learn to use different media, literature appreciation, and reference skills. Students are responsible for any materials checked out from this facility.
Access to a wide variety of information through media including books, videos, software, Internet and periodicals.
Students are educated students about how to best access and use information through media skills. Our curriculum stresses lifelong learning, media ethics, and literature appreciation.
Goals include: skill development, appreciation of physical fitness, physical activity and participation, cooperation, effort, proper behavior, and positive leadership. (K-8)
Students learn the Spanish language through speaking, reading, listening, and writing, as well as through culture and traditions.
Students use technology skills to become life-long learners in our digital world. Students in grades 6-8 are issued Chromebooks to use at home and at school.
The artistic discipline of music offers social and creative experiences necessary for a well-rounded education. Students in grades K-8 experience music via: