Kindergarten Overview
The kindergarten’s central theme of “God Loves Us” engages the students’ innate enthusiasm for learning about the world and God’s love. The children are actively involved in problem solving, observation, exploration, discovery, and creative self-expression. Classroom instruction takes place in large and small groups and is extended through individualized work with the teachers. Areas of study include reading, math, science, social studies, technology, music, art, Spanish, physical education, library, and community service.
Kindergarteners are excitable and approach each day as a new adventure. Their navy blue shoes and the girls’ pinafores, both unique for kindergarten, helps to identify our “babies”! The kindergarten elves excitedly lead a school-wide toy drive in December to assist those of need as they learn to serve God by helping others. Spring brings the Mother’s Day Tea and the end of their first formal year of school with a Kindergarten Celebration!
1st Grade Overview
First grade children discover who they are as individuals, as part of a family, a classroom, a small school, and the larger community. They lose their teeth and perform a musical.
They spend part of every day learning to read and write with both individual and small group instruction. Students are challenged each day by mathematics that requires the manipulation of concrete materials to answer abstract questions. They are respected, challenged, comforted and celebrated. They are beginning to know themselves inside and out as they experience “God is Good” and “He is Our Salvation.”
2nd Grade Overview
Second grade students engage in a year of new experiences as they learn how "God Cares for Us" as they prepare for and receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion. Students are exposed to and practice many new skills that develop thoughtful and engaged readers, mathematicians, explorers, and scientists. The second grader creates his/her personal Flat Stanley cut-out who travels the world and returns to share experiences of others near and far. Second grade marks the first formal investigation of multiplication and division as well as learning how to add and subtract two and three digit numbers with regrouping.
Second grade is a wonderful investigation of self, others, and the incredible world that surrounds them!
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