St. Rita Catholic School curriculum and academic programs Elementary The Early Childhood program at St. Rita School is an all day program that strives to implement the following principles into their daily curriculum. The 1 st Grade curriculum is composed of many challenging academic subjects. For example, Religion classes focus on creation, signs of God, and how the students can become more like God. Language Arts is composed of Reading activities in the Scott Foresman reader including learning consonants, vowels, and blends in Phonics, and sentence structure in Grammar. The 1 st graders like to demonstrate their learning through creative expression such as creating sock puppets, designing their own books, going on scavenger hunts, and writing to pen pals.
Second grade is an adventuresome year, studying about dinosaurs and animal habitats in science.
Mathematics bring the class into addition and subtraction with regrouping. Writing is a priority in English class. This is a very special year in Religion. The 2 nd graders prepare for and receive their first Holy Communion. So, through out the year we grow in knowledge and spirituality.