Our curriculum at St. Anthony

Curriculum by grade

• St. Anthony Preschool

• 2nd grade reading buddies
• 7th grade Mass friends
• State accredited program for three and four year olds
• All-school and classroom service projects
• Catholic identity

• St. Anthony Kindergarten

• Daily Language work (phonics and pre-reading)
• Daily Math work
• Religion
• Science
• Kindergarten and grade eight buddy program
• Social Studies (maps, flags, and coins)
• Career guest speakers (parents)
• All-school and classroom service projects
• Catholic identity

• 1st Grade

• Reading - groups to practice reading books at individual reading level and support for readers to learn reading strategies
• Word Study - students are provided with the opportunity to manipulate words in engaging activities and games
• Literacy Centers - students get the opportunity to work independently, make choices, and be challenged.
• Math games - a new skill is demonstrated and practiced, students apply the new skill while playing math games and using hands-on materials.
• Science - reaching the many learning styles we include experiments, investigations, reading, and discussion into the science curriculum (units include apples, rainforest and ocean)
• All-school and classroom service projects
• Catholic identity

• 2nd Grade

  • Cross-curricular penguins and dinosaur units
  • Preschool reading buddies
  • First Communion
  • Study of poetry
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Catholic identity

• 3rd Grade

  • Basic multiplication facts mastered through the use of music
  • Literature Circles - continue building reading fluency and comprehension skills
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - read the story and tour a local chocolate factory
  • City of Portland - study its history, bridges and important landmarks
  • Construct a visual display of a Portland bridge or landmark
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Catholic identity

• 4th grade

  • Act out and sing in the Thanksgiving Play
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Field Trip to Salem
  • Stauffer-Will Farm Field Trip
  • Study the history of Oregon and write a report
  • First Grade reading buddies
  • Catholic identity

• 5th grade

  • State and Country Fair - state and country fair is the heightened event of the research and writing process of the state report. The students arrive dressed in attire representing their state; each student provides a sampling of food that comes from their state.
  • Science - students participate in extensive hands-on labs and science experiments; they utilize microscopes in labs and take part in dissections.
  • Beach Trip - a fun-filled day trip to Newport, Oregon. They visit the Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center where they participate in a variety of hands-on activities. They also spend a few hours with a ranger-led tide pool exploration
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Catholic identity

• 6th grade

  • Outdoor Ministries School
  • States and Country Fair - participation in and preparation for a report on a country
  • Science Fair Project-presentation and experimentation of a testable science thesis
  • School-Wide Recycler
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Catholic identity

• 7th grade

  • The Chrysalis trip - Vancouver, British Columbia as a culmination to our study of our sister country, Canada
  • The dissection of an organism - to gain a better understanding of the human digestive system
  • Science Fair Project - presentation and experimentation of a testable science thesis
  • Country Fair Project - study and exhibit of the geographical, political, and environmental areas of a South American country
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Catholic identity

• 8th grade

  • Oregon Food Bank - A service project field trip to the Oregon Food Bank to help pack food donations
  • Science Fair Project - An original science research project written in the master's thesis format
  • Chrysalis Trip - A class trip to Washington, D. C. in the spring to learn more about the governmental process
  • All-school and classroom service projects
  • Catholic identity