Kindergarten

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.

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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 7th grade receive a $1000 scholarship for each additional student.
2020-2021 K-7 Tuition Rates