The St. Mary on the Hill curriculum is prescribed by the Office of Catholic Schools, Diocese of Savannah. Our textbooks, material, projects, and field trips supplement these guidelines. Second and third grade curriculum includes Religion, Mathematics, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Specials.

The second grade’s focus is on the preparation for the sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist. There will be parent meetings, family prayer services, and a potluck supper. The second grade, We Believe-Jesus Shares God’s Life, covers sacramental preparation, the sacraments, the Trinity, prayer, the commandments, the church, the mass, the church year, Mary, and the saints.

The third grade’s, We Believe-We are the Church, covers the Trinity, the church, the apostles, the church year, the sacraments, miracles, parables, prayer, Mary, and the saints.

Areas covered in the 3^rd grade curriculum are addition and subtraction facts to the thousands, place value and number patterns, time, money, comparing, ordering, and rounding numbers, collecting, recording, and representing data, probability, geometry, fractions, multiplication, division, decimals, and measurement.

Language Arts integrates reading, phonics, English, writing, spelling, and handwriting. The Scott Foresman Reading Street, Grammar and Writing Book, and Spelling Practice Book, the Bowmar Noble Handwriting book, and the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing coincide with the Diocesan guidelines. They stress reading strategies, reading skills, spoken and written language, the writing process, and mechanics and conventions at the appropriate grade levels.

The areas of study for third grade include life cycle, geology, simple machines, and the solar system. Field trips may include Phinizy Swamp, the Augusta Canal, Sprit Creek, Fort Discovery, and the Ruth Patrick Science Center.

The second grade Social Studies focuses on community. Students learn about living, working, and the rules of community through their personal history, our school history, Augusta history, Georgia history, USA history and through study of the continents.

The third grade Social Studies continues to focus on and expand on community. Third grade studies current events, map skills, communities, government, the election process, American symbols and landmarks, and landforms.

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