Kindergarten...

introduces young children to a more structured school environment and it also lays the groundwork for learning in later grades. Kindergarten also affects early behavioral and social development.

Kindergarten Offers...
  • All day, every day (M, T, W, Th, F).
  • Steady, brisk-paced curriculum with a strong emphasis placed on reading, writing, and math.
  • Children often work independently in large and small groups. (Teacher provides support when needed).
  • Letters, sounds, simple works and word families, sight words, and proper letter formation are taught. Student uses these skills to write sentences.
  • Students learn reading readiness skills and later progress to reading predictable text.
  • Math skills include: Counting to 100, counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s; number recognition to 30; patterns; graphing; addition, and subtraction to 10.
  • Students learn to write using some correctly spelled, some phonetically spelled words (sounded out), spaces between words, capitals and punctuation.

Expectations...
A Kindergarten student should be able to do most of the following:
  • Follow directions and rules.
  • Listen quietly in large and small groups.
  • Use self-control (follow rules, keep hands to self, can easily settle down).
  • Understand how to interact appropriately with peers.
  • Identify rhyming words.
  • Know some letters, numbers, and shapes.
  • Hold a pencil/crayon properly.
  • Correctly hold scissors and cut on a line.
  • Write his/her first name.
  • Dress self without help.
  • Separate from parent without tears.
  • Is motivated to learn.
 

Tuition...
Non-parishioner tuition commitments having more than one student in kindergarten through 6th grade receive a $1000 scholarship for each additional student.
2021-2022 K-6th Grade Tuition Rates