Kindergarten

Religion is more than a class, or workbook. It is infused and in the fabric of all that we do and are in Kindergarten. Students learn about Christ’s love, about Church seasons, Church holy days of obligation, Bible stories, and prayers. Kindergartners attend mass once a month and learn to be respectful participants during mass. 

 

Our Kindergarten language arts program is designed to balance reading and writing. The students will work in whole group and differentiated small group settings, visiting and rotating through various centers during the school week. They will balance reading, writing, phonics, and sight words in small guided reading groups. Reading is much more than decoding, and in our Kindergarten, we work on using things such as context clues and pictures to enhance comprehension. The ultimate goal is to not only teach children to read and write, but to love the process and product. Through shared writing, modeling is provided to demonstrate the use of written language. The students will begin their Kindergarten journey by using inventive spelling to tell their stories and as their year unfolds, they will begin to use conventional spelling and specific tools they have learned. All components of written language, such as punctuation and grammar are also taught. 

 

Critical thinking and problem solving are at the core of our math program. Kindergartners will go from recognizing and naming numbers to comparing values and constructing/building numbers. Pattern work, graphing, skip counting, coin knowledge, time and measurement, 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, number families, adding and subtracting are all components of our math program. 

 

We take great pride in learning both the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem, reciting them every morning after prayer. We learn about our United States icons and symbols as well as national holidays. 

 

Kindergarteners learn about being good citizens and recognizing the responsibilities that come with choices. We work on social rules, resolving conflicts with friends, and respecting others.

 

We learn about our local community and then expand out to the broader global community- learning about other cultures from around the world. In our local community we focus on community workers such as firefighters, police, and community leaders. We talk about goods and services that we received from restaurants, libraries, stores, volunteers and hospitals— to name a few. We bring it all to life as we take our annual field trip to a local restaurant and firehouse and learn all about our restaurant workers, their jobs and their valuable contributions to our daily life.