The primary objective of our Pre-Kindergarten program is to provide meaningful experiences for the children that encourage them to develop positive feelings about themselves and their relationship with God and the community around them. By providing the learner with optimal chances for success, our staff encourages the psychological and emotional growth of each child in a supportive environment. Beginning with an appreciation of God as Creator, our students become familiar with the Bible, simple prayers, and a variety of Church celebrations throughout the liturgical year. Our students learn to work together in first grade in solving Mathematics problems dealing with addition and subtraction, place values, time and money. The notion of fractions, graphing, measurements, and basic multiplication are introduced and further reinforced in the second and third grades.
Cursive writing takes precedence during the second semester of the third grade.
In Science, students study plants and animals, the weather, the five human senses, and a study of oceans and the rain forests. Third grade students delve further into energy and matter, ecology, and space science. First graders explore the family as a basic unit of society through a study of the origins of traditions and customs as well as rules and laws governing families. The Social Studies program in the second and third grade turns to an appreciation of the native American and colonial lifestyles, levels of government, multiculturalism and individual family trees, and our citizenship in the world. Geographic skills using maps and the globe continue to be developed as third grader examine the elements and types of local and global communities such as neighborhoods, towns, and cities.