Educating the Whole Child:
Mind, Body and Spirit.
Academics
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Grade K - 8
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Student self-direction in learning is encouraged as well as our ability to guide students to accept an increased responsibility for their education.
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Elementary and Middle school years are equally fun and challenging for students. Emphasis is placed on:
- Helping students grow spiritually and develop academic and social skills
- Creating an enthusiasm for learning
- Developing the confidence and discipline to think independently and behave responsibly
- Developing listening skills and effective communication
- Building self-esteem in students so they become confident, capable young people who accept responsibility for their own actions
- Heightening student awareness of good citizenship by providing meaningful contributions to their school and community
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Continue to refine skills in reading comprehension and analysis, critical thinking, creative expression, and grammar skills through:
- Literature genres (drama, poems, short stories, novels, non-fiction)
- Vocabulary development
- Proper grammar mechanics
- Writing, publishing, listening, and speaking skills
- Media and technology components
- Higher-order thinking skills
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Continue to enhance basic math, critical thinking and problem solving skills. Topics include:
- Problem Solving
- Fractions/Proportions/Ratios/Percents/Decimals
- Data Analysis
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Probability
- Functions (Linear and Quadratic)
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Challenges students to develop a deeper understanding of their faith. We pass on the Catholic faith and create a deepening commitment to God by:
- Focusing on Christian values through missions and service projects
- Attending Mass each week
- Participating in the Liturgy
- Reflecting on Social Justice Issues
- Understanding through scripture readings that our faith is ongoing
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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.
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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)
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Assessments
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.
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Student Life
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‘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
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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.
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Goals include: skill development, appreciation of physical fitness, physical activity and participation, cooperation, effort, proper behavior, and positive leadership. (K-8)
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Students learn the Spanish language through speaking, reading, listening, and writing, as well as through culture and traditions.
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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.
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The artistic discipline of music offers social and creative experiences necessary for a well-rounded education. Students in grades K-8 experience music via:
- Singing a diverse repertoire of music (K-8)
- Playing musical instruments
- Pitched and un-pitched percussion (K-8)
- Recorders (4)
- Guitars (5-8)
- Improvising and composing original music (K-8)
- Listening to music of varied styles and influences (K-8)
- Moving in response to musical impulses (K-8)
- Reading music of varied notation styles (K-8)
- Collectively singing liturgical music during weekly school masses (1-8)
- Performing music to a public audience (K-8)
- Using technology to notate, compose, and share music (6-8)
- Discussing the mathematical and scientific aspects of music (K-8)
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