Our Communication Arts curriculum is a comprehensive, content rich program that incorporates reading, writing, listening, and speaking while building students' knowledge and vocabulary in literature, history, geography, and science. Students focus on decoding, encoding, grammar, handwriting, and the writing process. Instruction includes read-alouds; whole-group, small-group, and partner reading; close reading; literal, inferential, and evaluative comprehension; vocabulary; grammar; writing; and morphology.
Our math curriculum focuses on number sense, addition and subtraction, understanding place value, multiplication, and division. Students learn about telling time, measurement, fractions, and geometry. Teachers engage classes with interactive hands-on activities that allow students to master both essential skills and higher level problem solving.
Our science program is a hands-on spiraling curriculum that provides students with core knowledge in biology, chemistry, Earth science, and physics. Students think like scientists as they learn to make and record observations, develop hypotheses, and design models and experiments in our state-of-the-art science lab.
Our Social Studies program focuses on community, civic mindedness, the role of government, geography, and an exploration of early American History. Students learn to read and interpret maps and to conduct meaningful research.
Our Catholic faith is at the heart of all that we do at St. Joseph School. We live our faith by praying our morning prayers together, being kind to our friends, engaging in service projects, and listening quietly to God’s message through Scripture and the words of the priest. It is a way of living that believes that we, no matter our faith background, are all God’s children and worthy of our respect and interest. Our curriculum in the primary grades is designed to help students understand the church as a family, the meaning of the sacraments, and the Ten Commandments. Preparation for the sacraments of communion and reconciliation is provided for those who wish to receive them.