All-Day Academic Kindergarten
All-Day Academic Kindergarten
All-Day Academic Kindergarten
All-Day Academic Kindergarten
Early childhood is the time for developing your child´s academic, social, and spiritual growth. The St. Alphonsus/St. Patrick All-Day Academic Kindergarten Program provides your child with a hands-on approach to learning through a variety of teaching strategies. The children participate in individual, small group, and whole group learning. In addition, they regularly enjoy music, library, technology, art, and physical education class.
We pride ourselves in providing students a challenging academic education while building their love of God and commitment to improving the world. We educate the whole student – mind, body and spirit – and encourage each child to become the person God calls him or her to be. Ultimately, our goal is to prepare children for academic and personal success in a faith-filled, nurturing environment.
Kindergarten Highlights and Expectations
Kindergarten Highlights and Expectations
Kindergarten Highlights and Expectations
- Students will learn through stories, activities, prayer, discussion and reflection about their Catholic faith and learn to love and care for God's creation.
- Emphasis on pre-reading skills including listening, speaking within the group, letter and sound recognition, sight word recognition, left-to-right progression.
- Identify, know, and blend letter sounds.
- Write first and last name; write sentences with a minimum of three words.
- Identify rhyming words, read color words and high frequency words, read simple phonetic readers.
- Identify story elements, use context clues, make predictions, and distinguish between fact and fantasy.
- Develop an understanding of how numbers, shapes, patterns, time, and money fit into the world.
- Have broad exposure to the environment (life, physical and earth sciences).
- Have a growing awareness of themselves as part of a diverse community.