5KPROGRAM
In 5K, we have FUN, build friendships, learn about ourselves, the world, and God. Our curriculum is filled with hands-on projects, experiments, and proven methods to ensure your child has the strongest start to their academic career.
We dive deep into the following subjects to ensure your 5 year old is proficient and ready for 1st grade:
RELIGION
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Embracing the presence of God and Jesus in our daily lives through daily prayer experiences
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Practicing prayers and gaining an understanding of them
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Catholic Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Love are taught, demonstrated and modeled
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Learning about the past, important people, and celebrating holidays
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Celebrating weekly Mass
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Strengthening fine and gross motor skills
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Integrated, authentic, experiential, hands-on and meaningful play based learning centers
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Communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas through spoken words/prayer and writing
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Learning how to collaborate in small and large groups
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Learning how to be an active listener
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Learning how to follow mutually agreed upon rules
LITERACY
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Letter and sound recognition
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Daily writing experiences
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Focus on word building, word families, blending and syllables
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Sight words
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Guided reading small groups
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Reading strategies: Comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary
MATH
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Real life problem solving and story problems
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Add and subtract fluently to 20
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Counting forward/backward from a given number
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Graphing and analyzing data
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Recognizing and comparing numbers by using greater than, less than, and equal to
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Exploring nonstandard and standard measurement
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Place value and base 10
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2-D and 3-D shape exploration/manipulation
SCIENCE
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Integration of Project Lead the Way, a nationally recognized project-based STEM program
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Using science tools to investigate the world
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Recording and interpreting data
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Unit studies in Matter, Seasons/Weather, Living /Non-living, Animals, Plants, Habitats, Environments and Life Cycles
SOCIAL STUDIES
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Learning about relationships in our family, school, church, and community
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Recognizing and accepting differences
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Identifying needs VS wants
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Exploring simple maps and the globe
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Comparing/contrasting the past VS present
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Learning about our role in supporting/protecting God’s world and ever changing environment
TECHNOLOGY
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Introducing technological tools into the learning process
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Applying learned skills weekly in the technology lab