The Kindergarten curriculum consists of Religion, Reading Readiness,

Phonics, Math, Printing, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science.

Religion introduces the student to the Catholic faith by focusing on the Creator, morality, Jesus, the Sacraments, the Church and prayer.

The goal of the Reading program is for the students

to develop the strategies, skills and knowledge necessary

to comprehend and respond to a broad range of literature and materials. 

Students learn to identify letters, words and basic sentence structure. 

Reading principles such as: cause and effect, compare and contrast, recall and retell, sequence of events, predicting, summarizing,

categorizing and recognizing story elements such as character, plot, setting and theme are some of the skills learned in our Reading program.

The Phonics course has the student recognize and produce rhyming words,

identify initial and final sounds of spoken words,

understand that spoken words are composed of sounds

which are represented by alphabetic letters

and learn to blend consonants, vowels, consonants to form words.

Math covers numeration, whole number operations and computation,

time, money and patterns. Printing includes writing capital and lowercase letters, high-frequency words and sentences.

Social Studies discusses families, communities and the world while Language Arts emphasizes the seasons and holidays.

Science is a hands on subject during which students learn about the human body and Physical and Earth Science.