Kindergarten Curriculum

Our Curriculums

Reading

• Alphabet - recognizing and matching upper and lower case letters
• Sign language of all alphabet letters
• Beginning sounds
• Sight words and beginning vocabulary - about 80 words
  Pre-decodable books - one a week
• Making up sentences with capital letter and punctuation
• Classification and grouping
• Rhyming (teach nursery rhymes to your child; it will help in school)
• Opposites
• Sequencing of pictures and stories
• Learning colors and reading color words
• Speaking and answering in complete sentences
• Practice printing of letters, numbers, and first and last name,
  using the D'Nealian method
• Writing using both capital and lower-case letters
• Realism vs. fantasy
• Nouns and verbs
• Position words
• Vowels
• Comprehension
• Beginning and ending sounds

Faith Development

Primary
  Kindergarten
  First Grade
  Second Grade

Intermediate
  Third Grade
  Fourth Grade
  Fifth Grade

Middle School

Specialists' Curriculum
  Spanish
  Music
  Physical Education
  Elementary Science
  Computer Technology

Math

• Recognizing numbers 1-30 and matching them with corresponding pictures
• Sorting and classifying
• Counting to 100
• Shapes - plane and solid
• Patterning
• Place Value
• Ordinal numbers
• Concepts of: as many as, more than, less than
• Concept of adding and subtracting - that they are joining and separating actions
• Beginning to discover the concept of fractions, money, measurement and time

Religion

• Overlaps with Social Studies, Language Arts, and Science
• Beginning with ourselves, family, friends, and school
• God made us, He loves us
• How special and unique we are
• Sharing and respecting - WWJD
• Exploring and discussing God's world (includes a unit on our five senses,
  and culminates with a field trip to the Children's Museum)
• Helping others showing love and making good choices
• Being with God and being like God
• Praising God
• God's storybook - learning about Jesus when he was a child
• Prayer buddy activities
• Masses and prayer services

Specialists

• Music - twice a week - songs for Mass and the Christmas Program
• Physical Education- twice a week- recess games, and fine and large motor skills
• Computer - once a week - matching, patterning, letters, sounds and words -
  many fun games that help them learn
• Science - twice a week - hands on experiments, the world, five senses and planets
• Spanish - twice a week - numbers, colors, animals, greetings, feelings

Kindergarten Also Includes

• Social Studies Thematic units- seasons, holidays, animals, food unit, etc.
• Learning stations - table activities, dots on all shelf items so they are able to
  distinguish between math and reading
• Playtime - social growth and development, time to work on problem solving and
  getting along with their peers

Skills to Work on at Home:

• Please practice printing name correctly
• Learn name, address, and phone number for safety reasons
• Learn nursery rhymes, colors, counting
• Practice the alphabet
• Work on taking care of self needs - bathroom, zipping, etc. - to be self-sufficient
• Work with students to tie or Velcro their shoes

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