Pre-Kindergarten Program
Our Nationally Accredited Pre-Kindergarten program uses a comprehensive curriculum that provides an opportunity for every child to succeed with a quality Catholic education that encompasses social skills, motor development, and academics in a Christ-centered environment.
We strive to model a Kindergarten Readiness program. “Readiness” is a term used to describe the mental and emotional disposition of a student in preparing for the next level of learning. Our teachers promote learning through exploration, transforming wonder into knowledge, and applying both problem solving and creative thinking skills.
Cognitive Development
Learning without Tears (Handwriting and Early Literacy)
- Multi-sensory Materials
- Developmentally Appropriate
- Hands-on Scaffolded Learning
- Consistently shown mastery of cognitive, fine-motor, and verbal skills
Heggerty Phonics
- Supplement to our existing literacy curriculum (LWT)
- Helps students develop phonemic and phonological awareness and build vocabulary
- Daily Skills Include: Rhyme Repetition, Onset Fluency, Blending/Segment/Add/Delete and Substitute Words, Isolate Final Sounds and Language Awareness
Singapore Math
- All-inclusive curriculum focusing on intentional sequencing of concepts that are concrete, pictorial, and abstract that meets all types of learners
- Math skills include, but not limited to number recognition, patterning, sequencing, graphing, ordinal numbers, and basic addition and subtraction
Social and Emotional Development
Our students are engaged in a variety of thematic units which foster communication, problem-solving, and language skills with peers. Social studies and science concepts are integrated within the themes.
Motor Development
Students enhance their fine and gross motor skills through various activities such as mixed art mediums, textile manipulatives, puzzles, and recreational play.
Pre-Kindergarten Daily Overview
| 7:30 - 8:05 | 35 | Arrival/Morning Work/Table Toys |
| 8:05 - 8:10 | 5 | Clean-Up |
| 8:10 - 8:20 | 10 | Morning Prayers **Mass on Fridays 8:15-9:15** |
| 8:20 - 8:45 | 15 | Get Up and Move/Calendar |
| 8:45 - 9:10 | 25 | Language and Literacy |
| 9:10 - 9:35 | 25 | Math |
| 9:35 - 10:35 | 60 | Small Groups/Centers |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | 30 | Lunch in Cafeteria |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | 20 | Handwriting |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | 45 | Recess |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | 20 | Religion |
| 12:35 - 12:45 | 10 | Story Time |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | 75 | Rest Time |
| 2:00 - 2:10 | 10 | Snack/Check Out/Pack-Up |
| 2:10 - 2:30 | 20 | Daily Wrap Up |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | 15 | Clean Up and Enrichment |
| 2:45 | Dismissal |
**Full-Time Students alternate Spanish, Computer, Library, and Music on Tuesday and Thursdays.