​Aptitudes 

• Acquire habits of attending, noticing, sitting still and concentrating
  
• Learn discipline from following simple projects through to completion
  
• Begin to develop eye and appreciation​ for beauty
  
• Begin to question art works for their meaning
  

​Skills

• Learn how to look at, examine and see a painting and other works of art
  
• Learn to tell the story of a painting​​
  
• Begin to render as well as draw imaginatively
  
• Learn basics of drawing, painting and sculpting
  
• Learn to copy according to established rules​​

• Dev​elop memory
• Develop ability to listen and recall
• Develop an interest in history
• See relevance of past to present
• Appreciate Greek philosophical ideals
• Begin to see an integrated conception of the world on which the beliefs of western civilization are based
  

• Memorization of key historical facts
• Beginning map reading and recognition
• Use a globe
• Understand a timeline
• Ability to narrate historical stories
• Begin to see connections between historical events and themes
• Beginning ability to formulate and discuss philosophical questions
• Artistically render historical scenes from imagination​

• ​Develop capacity for listening
• Develop memory
• Appreciate playfulness in language
• Develop habits of concentration, stillness and memory
• Learn to ask questions about the moral or meaning of stories and symbols
• Learn to speak directly and confidently
  

• ​Learn to read proficiently
• Develop reading comprehension
• Employ correct grammar in writing and speech
• Learn good penmanship, using proper technique, and beginning cursive
• Recognize and write complete sentences
• Memorize and recite the definition of the parts of speech
• Understand and identify parts of speech, and the four different types of sentences
• Say and write the days of the week, the seasons, the months of the year, students' home address, titles of respect, abbreviations and dates
• Understand and use beginning punctuation, contractions, capital letters, synonyms and antonyms
• Be able to order simple ideas, form paragraphs and copy the final work
• Narration: re-tell stories in detail, with vocal clarity, poise, and eye contact; eventually, re-tell the narrative thread of a story
• Act out stories with other students as characters
• Develop ability to identify the main idea
• Answer comprehension questions about a reading passage in complete sentences
• Copy work: copy sentences from works of history, the Bible or literature
• Dictation: listen to an oral recitation and write down a sentence(s) from works of history, the Bible or literature
• Recitation: recite poems or psalms from memory with vocal clarity, poise and eye contact
• Conversation: "Socratic" discussions should teach students to begin questioning and discussion stories, pictures, fables or proverbs according to four rules:
• Read the text carefully
• Listen to what others say and don't interrupt
• Speak clearly
• Give others your respect
• Perform a play and memorize lines​

• Recognize the ubiquity of number and shape in the world around us
• Develop a sense of wonder at recognizing how the world can be expressed mathematically
• Develop a love for constructing math, numerically and geometrically

• Count, read, write and compare numbers up to 1,000, both symbolically and through physical construction
• Acquire facility with basics of place value
• Perform basic addition and subtraction functions of one-, two-, and three-digit numbers
• Understand basic fraction concepts
• Count by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s
• Identify and construct circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, ovals, cubes, tetrahedral pyramids, cylinders, cones, spheres and rectangular prisms
• Recognize and describe the appearance of basic patterns in nature
• Recognize equivalency in number, shape, pattern and other physical characteristics
• Construct basic sets and groupings of objects in the environment and nature, and be able to articulate the criteria for inclusion and exclusion
• Recognize and solve simple replacement codes
• Solve simple geometric puzzles
• Recognize the relationship of tone to the size, length, shape and material of the object being sounded (e.g., bells of different size being run, or the length of thickness of a string being plucked)
• Take linear measurement and be able to articulate changes in measurement over time; introduce basic means of recording measurement
• Tell and record time and changes in time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years
• Recognize and calculate basic currency; introduce coin-tossing scenarios as an introduction to probability​

• Begin to develop a love and appreciation of beautiful music and its power
• Begin to understand the relationship between music, prayer and liturgy
• Acquire the habit and develop students' powers of patient, attentive listening​
  

• Begin to read music
• Begin to acquire some musical skill in singing and playing elementary instruments
• Begin to be able to concentrate on, listen to and discuss a piece of music​

• Develop a capacity to attend to and notice nature
  
• Develop won​der and appreciation for the natural world

• Be able to narrate the above knowledge
• Develop a skill of observing, rendering and cataloguing this knowledge in a "nature notebook​

• ​​Practice teamwork and good sportsmanship
  

• Begin to acquire facility in throwing, catching, hitting and kicking
• Begin to learn basic dance steps
• Begin to deliberately coordinate body to physical activity​

• Cultivate longing for God
  
• Develop habits of stillness and adoration
  
• Begin to develop a habit of prayer, a love for the mysteries of the faith and a desire for God's beauty and truth
  
• Develop a habit of noticing the presence of God
  

​Skills

• Memorize and recite Scripture, Bible facts, catechism, prayers and hymns
  
• Learn to pray liturgically, intercessory and contemplatively
  
• Learn to regard and participate in sacred music as a form of prayer​