Supplemental+Curriculum


 * __Supplemental or Enrichment Curriculum__ **

>> The teachers are using the Six Traits more each year as they assess students writing. The portfolios of the students are growing.
 * The following additional educational programs are used at Central Catholic to enhance our student’s success:**
 * __**K-12 Across the Curriculum Programs **__
 * The **__Six-Trait Writing__** model is used across the curriculum to train the students to be better writers.
 * **__Writing Evaluation__**
 * **__Step Up to Writing__ ** was implemented across the curriculum at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year**. **

The 7th and 8th grade students have participated in the CCDC (Character Development) program. SPA (Supportive Parent Association) has brought in speakers for parents and teachers on Bullying. Over the years, Guardian Angels students and faculty have participated in demonstrations of the //Life Skills// and conducted discussions based on //THE BULLY FREE CLASSROOM//.
 * __**Boys Town Life Skills** __
 * [|Boys Town Life Skills - GA Website] or [[file:Girls and Boys Town Life Skills.docx]]
 * **__Life Skills Evaluation__**

[|Band - Elementary Program]


 * **__Accelerated Reader__**
 * Accelerated Reader** allows Central Catholic to make essential reading practice more effective for every student. Students can personalize their reading to their own individual current level. Teachers can manage all reading activities including if a students should read the book to or with someone, or if a student should read the book independently. Students’ reading and understanding can be assessed through four types of quizzes: **Reading Practice**, **Vocabulary Practice**, **Literacy Skills**, and Textbook Quizzes. Accelerated Reader is designed to build a lifelong love of reading and learning.


 * __**FAME**__
 * FAME** (Intense intervention reading program; FAME is research-based developmental reading program for adolescents who read below their grade level. The program consists of a series of four courses: Foundations of Reading, Adventures in Reading, Mastery of Meaning and Explorations. The curriculum is based on Chall's theory of reading development which believes that learning to read is an evolutionary process. The curriculum progresses from helping students identify words in print and build fluency to acquiring new concepts and analyzing what they read.

FAME is a reading intervention program designed to help students with low reading ability. FAME stands for **F**oundations of Reading; **A**dventures in Reading; **M**astery of Meaning; **E**xplorations. In its original use, students showed an improvement of one-year grade equivalent per semester of instruction in the program. While Central Catholic does not incorporate the entire program, the use of the program has improved the reading ability of our low-ability readers.
 * **Modified FAME Program **


 * **Sustained Silent Reading** or **DEAR** (Drop Everything and Read) (K-12)

> STAR Reader is an assessment to which can be used to assess students' reading levels in less than 10 minutes. It provides accurate, reliable, norm-referenced reading scores including grade equivalents, percentile ranks, and normal curve equivalents, which allow Central Catholic to determine the appropriate level of challenge for each student to personalize practice and individualize instruction.
 * **__STAR Reader __**

> Root Focus is a school-wide program built for developing the vocabulary of the student body. The program focuses on understanding the roots of words, allowing students to make connections with the word parts, helping them to understand new words when they are encountered. One of the most important readings for increasing vocabulary is the connection between vocabulary and reading comprehension. This program is effective and makes sense, because for a student to understand what (s)he reads, (s)he must understand the words (s)he’s reading.
 * __**Root Focus **__

__**High-Ability Student Opportunities **__ AP Courses are designed to cover the information, skills, and assignments found in corresponding college courses, as well as to align with the standards and expectations offered at leading institutions. AP Courses are a way for Central Catholic to provide motivated and academically prepared students the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. Most U.S. colleges and many international ones have an AP Credit Policy which allows students who have taken AP courses or exams to earn college credit, placement, or both.
 * **__AP Course Offerings __**

Like the AP offerings, Dual-Credit course offerings are a way for Central Catholic students to cover the information, skills, and assignments found in corresponding college courses, while in high school. While there is a minimal fee for taking the courses, it is less expensive than taking these classes on-campus, and allows the student to study with teachers and in settings in which they are familiar. These courses are offered for college credit through Northeast Community College, and are transferable to many colleges in Nebraska.
 * **__Dual-Credit Course Offerings __**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Through extra curricular activities, Central Catholic hopes to develop leaders and champions who strive for excellence and exhibit the qualities and behaviors of good teammates. The school offers nine athletic teams and four fine arts activities sanctioned by the NSAA, as well as other school and conference-based activities in which students can find ways to succeed and excel.
 * **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Extra-Curricular Activities __**

> **Course Fact Sheet** -
 * __**(Articlulated Credit - Northeast Community College)**__[[file:Articulated Credit Handout 6-30-11.pdf]] [[file:My_Northeast_Instructions_Central_Catholic.docx]]


 * __**High School Algebra for 8th Graders** (Most students participate in this class)__

Math competition for grades 7 and 8.
 * __**Math Counts**__


 * [|Academic Decathlon - Creighton Prep Scrimmage] (Saturday, November 5)


 * __**Robotics Competiton**__ - Offered second semester to the top students in sixth grade based on their standardized test scores (Instructor - Robert Ernesti)


 * __**John Baylor ACT Prep**__ [[file:John Baylor Test Prep Letter 2012.docx]] [[file:Dates for John Baylor Test Prep 2012.docx]]

__ **Health Curriculum** __
 * [[file:Health Curriculum K-8.docx]]

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">University Extension Enrichment Programs: **__
 * Hand Washing Clinic - Grade K
 * Food, Fun & Reading - Grade 1
 * Embryology - Grade 2
 * Talking With T.J.- Grade 3
 * At Home in Rural America - Grade 4
 * Conflict Management - Grade 5
 * Nutrition - Grade 7


 * __**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Educational Field Trips **__
 * Every class took an educational field trip visiting a historical museum, a business or a nature-related area in Omaha, Sioux City,Norfolk, Wayne or West Point.
 * Kindergarten and Grade 1 - Attend a llive literacy-based performance every year (Most years the performance is hosted at the Johnny Carson Theater in Norfolk.) In the fall of 2011 students attended a performance of Charlotte's Web
 * Kindergarten - Nebraska Art Center in Norfolk
 * Grade 3 - Field trip to Wilderness Park to better understand a forest ecosystem.
 * Grade 5 - GPS training through ESU #2 sponsored at Neligh Park in West Point as well as play performances
 * Grade 6 - After studying astronomy, the students went to the planetarium at Midland University
 * [[file:GACC_Field_Trip_Permission.doc]]
 * [[file:Bus_seating_chart (1).pdf]]
 * [[file:GACC_Transportation_Request_Form.pdf]]

SPA is an organization of parents of students at Guardian Angels Central Catholic who work together to enhance their children’s education and the environment of the school. Meetings are held twice a year as an opportunity for personal growth through speakers and a chance to become acquainted with the staff. The organization has been actively involved in supporting our school for over 25 years. SPA annually organizes the following activities for the students during the school year.
 * __**SPA (Supportive Parents Association)**__
 * Bowling for Grades 4 and 6
 * Activity for Pre-school
 * Activity for grades K-3
 * Junior High dances