Kindergarten

Course description: The reading curriculum is all-encompassing and includes resources for whole group and small group instruction and independent activities. It also provides instruction for on-level, advanced, and students needing extra support.

Here is a list of the many skills we will be working on:

• Phonemic Awareness and phonics skills: rhyming, syllables, beginning and ending sounds, short and long vowels, consonants, consonant blends
• Comprehension: setting, plot, characters, story sequence, prediction, main ideas, drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting 
• Vocabulary: new words and meanings
• Writing conventions: capital letters, punctuation, word spacing, complete sentences, handwriting lines
• Listening and Speaking skills: oral speaking, listening to others, giving directions, listening to directions
• Writing: writing letters, lists, poetry, invitations 
• Sight Words: We will learn a list of 40 sight words that correspond to our reading curriculum. 

Course description: The religion curriculum and workbook cover the topics under the general heading of “God Made the World.” There are four units included: God Gives Us Many Gifts, God is our Creator, Jesus Shows Us God’s Love and Jesus Wants Us to Share God’s Love. The girls will learn about the Catholic faith, celebrate the Mass and prayer services at school, pray every day, and live out their faith by developing their relationships with others and participating in school-wide projects by reaching out to those less fortunate. Songs, stories and art will be used in our religion curriculum as well.

Course description: The kindergarten math program will cover the following skills: counting numbers, comparing numbers, writing numbers, classification, counting data, addition, subtraction, shapes, greater than and less than, counting by ones/twos/fives/tens, place value for tens and ones. 

The class will work as a whole group when topics are introduced, work independently for skill practice, and will use math manipulatives to support and reinforce their learning.

Course description: Our focus in handwriting will be forming our letters and numerals correctly using the writing lines, proper spacing, proper strokes and punctuation marks.

Course description: Science and social studies are not “formal” parts of the kindergarten curriculum. We do however explore both subject areas in class. The topic areas will be explored as we move through the school year by having activities, lessons and stories revolving around the changing seasons and holidays. 

During the year, project-based learning will be incorporated into the curriculum. These projects will foster collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity.