IHMCS Curriculum Overview

Link to Spanish by Grades Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Eight

Spanish

Kindergarten (Spanish)

• Prayer: The Sign of the Cross
• Multicultural awareness
• Simple greetings
• Numbers: 1-20
• Colors
• Seasons
• Fruits
• Animals
• Family
• Spanish songs
• Seasonal activities

Grade 1 (Spanish)

• Prayer: El Gloria
• Multicultural awareness
• Greetings, expressions of courtesy
• Classroom objects
• Numbers: 1-30
• Colors, other adjectives
• Days of the week
• Fruits, vegetables
• The face
• Clothing
• Family members
• People in the community
• Saying “I like...” and “I don’t like...”
• Animals
• Spanish songs, chants
• Location of Mexico, Spain
• Seasonal activities

Grade 2 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Avemaria
• Multicultural awareness: missions
• Numbers: 0-40, simple addition
• Colors, other adjectives
• Alphabet
• Months of the year
• Weather
• The house
• Family
• Community members
• The body
• Clothing
• Foods
• Animals
• Classroom objects, commands
• Simple conversations
• Tu, usted
• Gender in nouns
• Seasonal activities

Grade 3 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Padrenuestro
• Multicultural awareness
• Numbers: 0-59, simple addition and subtraction
• Alphabet
• Basic conversations, expressions of courtesy
• Days of the week, months
• Requesting permission
• Parts of the body
• Clothing
• Food
• The house
• Family
• Emotions
• People in the community
• Classroom objects, commands
• Singular and plural
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Adjectives
• Reading and writing
• Memorizing and performing a fairy tale skit
• Seasonal activities

Grade 4 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Mass-introductory rites
• Multicultural awareness
• Numbers: 0-100, graphs and tables
• Measurement
• Greetings, dialogue
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Classroom objects
• Directions
• The weather
• Telling time
• Gender of nouns
• Capital letters
• Possessive adjectives
• Diminutives
• Personal pronouns
• Telling short stories
• Action verbs
• The verbs “ser” and “estar”
• Use of a bilingual dictionary to translate
• Geography of Mexico and Central America
• Jokes and riddles
• Writing and presenting a short, nonfiction report
• Seasonal activities

Grade 5 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Mass-the readings
• Multicultural awareness
• Numbers: 0-1000, simple multiplication
• Interrogative pronouns
• Adjective agreement
• Subject pronouns
• Action verbs
• Physical descriptions
• Professions, possessive pronouns
• Clothing
• Sports
• Household items
• Restaurant and market
• Antonyms
• Telling time and dates
• Feelings
• Formal conjugation of present and preterite tenses
• Regular verbs
• Irregular verbs: ser, estar, tener
• Reading authentic media: newspapers, magazines, etc.
• Correspondence with a pen pal
• Extended conversation practice
• Latin American dance rhythms and steps
• Seasonal activities

Grade 6 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Mass-offertory
• Multicultural awareness: needs in Hispanic communities
• Numbers: 0-1,000,000, basic division
• Rules governing accent marks
• Inferring meaning from video and radio
• Major geographical features of countries where Spanish is spoken
• Extended vocabulary for social studies
• Idiomatic expressions
• Prepositional phrases
• Planning events and activities
• Music and art of Hispanic cultures
• Religious, historical, and cultural figures and their contributions
• Extension of verb conjugation and use in spoken and written Spanish
• Vocabulary building
• Seasonal activities

Grade 7 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Mass-consecration
• Multicultural awareness
• Numbers: money
• Shopping
• Travel and transportation
• Leisure and recreation
• Giving and following directions
• Expressing opinions
• Pen pals
• Reading literature
• Review and extension of vocabulary
• Diagrams and graphs
• Geography of countries where Spanish is used
• Music and art of Hispanic cultures
• Religious, historical, and cultural figures and their importance
• Seasonal activities

Grade 8 (Spanish)

• Prayer: Mass-communion
• Multicultural awareness
• Review of numbers, money, time
• Extended practice with everyday conversations
• Review and extension of vocabulary and grammar
• Expressing opinions about current events
• Using oral and written language to discuss simple literary works
• Spanish poetry and comedy
• Using a telephone
• Major historical events
• Major geographical features and resources
• Pen pals
• Seasonal activities