Personal and Social Growth

The Child develops in:

  • Cooperating
  • Keeping items in order
  • Talking with another to solve interpersonal problems
  • Showing respect
  • Demonstrating self control

Religion

Your child is enriched through:

  • Participation in Catholic prayer and worship
  • Celebration of life
  • Experiences of Christian behavior

Reading and Language

We will teach the children readiness through the areas of listening, speaking, writing, and reading.

Your child develops skills in:

  • Expressing self to others
  • Following directions
  • Recognizing upper/lower case letters
  • Associating sounds with letters
  • Understanding the concepts of print
  • Experimenting with print
  • Retelling/story sequence

Math

Our math units are actively based plans that provide the children with meaningful learning experiences.These provide more movement and verbal interaction. We use manipulative's to create concrete examples.

The child develops skills in:

  • Number recognition
  • Concepts of measurement
  • Patterning, sorting, graphing
  • Estimation

Science

We teach the children to use the scientific method to question and use their imaginations to think about the world around them.

Your child is introduced to:

  • Plants, animals
  • Weather, seasons
  • Space
  • Land, air, water
  • Observing, classifying, predicting, and drawing conclusions

Social Studies

The goal of the social studies curriculum is to develop the ability to think and make decisions for responsible citizenship. Children at this level begin by exploring their relationships with the immediate environment of family and school.

Your child is introduced to:

  • School, community
  • Time and space relationships
  • Holidays, traditions
  • Cultures
  • Historical people, places