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Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum
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| CATHOLIC FORMATION |
- Understand basic attributes of God
- Recognize story of creation
- Know basic Old testament figures such as Adam and Eve, Jonah, Noah, Daniel, Moses
- Know simple reasons for Advent , Christmas, Lent, Easter
- Know basic New Testament/Old Testament stories
- Develop a love for Blessed Mother Mary
- Develop a love for Christ
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| LANGUAGE ARTS |
- Reading readiness through phonics and language experience
- Rhyme, rhythm, letters of the alphabet, and their sounds.
- Activities and ideas are provided that foster the social, emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and physical development by offering age-appropriate, hands-on experiences.
- Literature appreciation includes distinguishing between real and make-believe and listening to and discussing stories from the Bible, as well as classical and modern children’s books.
- In language development students are encouraged to speak clearly in front of the class using correct grammar.
- Students are asked to articulate their thoughts to the group using complete sentences that develop the beginning, middle, and end of their story.
- Special exercises such as “Show and Tell” are used to further enhance these skills.
- Reinforce correct pencil grip
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| MATH |
- Learning how to represent the physical world with mathematical language and symbols. Students represent problems using physical objects, and estimate them in a set.
- Rote counting to 50;
- Reading and writing numerals 1-20
- Ordinal position
- Sorting and classifying objects by attributes (shapes and colors).
- Measuring
- Graphing
- Recognizing coins and their values
- Time
- Patterning
- Geometric shapes
- Addition and subtraction with objects to 10 are other areas of focus.
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| HISTORY |
- Broad categories of time
- Identifying historical figures
- Acquiring information from historical sources
- Orally describing the recent past
- Knowing the national holidays
- Comparing and contrasting yesterday and today
- Using terms to describe location
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| GEOGRAPHY |
- Understand basic location and direction
- Use a simple globe and map
- Use a simple political and world map
- Identify various places on a map and globe such as land and water
- Know basic land formations
- Know basic water formations
- Identify community characteristics
- Identify features of earth
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| SCIENCE |
- Immediate environment:
- trees
- plants
- birds
- animals
- rocks
- insects
- weather
- The five senses.
- Experiments and demonstrations of simple scientific principles enhance these skills as students organize, compare, ask questions, and make predictions.
- Students learn the differences between living and non-living things, as well as the role heredity plays in the appearance and behavior of an animal’s offspring.
- Basic Nutrition
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| PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
- Understand basic physical activity concepts
- Participate in physical activities
- Understand movement concepts and principles
- Develop gross motor skills
- Develop small motor skills
- Develop team building skills
- Understand physical activity provides enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction
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