Reading (Saxon Phonics)

Phonics skills are taught in increments and build on prior learning. Each increment is reviewed continually throughout the school year, thus giving every child the necessary exposure to achieve reading success.

• Phonemic awareness
• Mastery of primary letter sounds and letter names
• Decode phonetic words
• Read sentences
• Spell words and learn spelling rules
• Read for fluency
• Develop proper handwriting skills

Math (Saxon Math)

Students are taught new concepts through hands-on activities and mathematical dialogue that engages each child actively in the learning process. These concepts are developed, reviewed and practiced throughout the year.

• Calendar
• Counting by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's
• Sorting
• Numbers and sets
• Graphing
• Patterns
• Money
• Telling time
• Spatial relationships
• Story problems
• Ordinal numbers
• Lines, shapes and designs
• Attributes
• Greater than/less than

Religion

• Introduction of Catholic customs and traditions
• Learn about the seasons of the liturgical year
• Explore Bible stories through hands-on activities
• Attend weekly student liturgies
• Plan and execute the annual May Crowning Mass
• Learn basic prayers

Science

• All About Me
  • Describe how people change as they grow
  • Identify and describe functions of some external body parts
  • Identify and describe functions of some major internal body parts
  • Keeping healthy
  • The five senses
• Animals of all ages
  • Describe some characteristics of living things
  • Recognize some characteristics of mammals
  • Recognize that birds hatch from eggs
  • Identify stages of butterfly metamorphosis
  • Recognize stages of frog metamorphosis
  • Recognize that people need animals
  • Recognize that people are responsible for pets

Social Studies

• Bus Safety
• Long ago and Today
  • Describe the seasons
  • Associate seasonal holidays and particular months with seasons
  • Identify customs associated with national patriotic holidays
  • Compare families from long ago and present day
  • Compare everyday life from long ago and today
  • The first Thanksgiving
• My Place on Earth
  • Models and maps
  • Land and water on Earth
  • Land and water on maps and globes
  • Caring for the Earth
  • Where people live

• School bag/backpack (roomy enough for large projects, preferably without buckles)
• Tennis shoes to wear on gym days - non-marring (*do not have to leave shoes at school)
• 2 family-sized BIG boxes/bags of snacks to be shared among the children each day at snacktime. (good examples are crackers, goldfish, animal crackers, pretzels) (no individual packages, cookies or chips)
• Beach towel for rest time
• 5 laminated (for strength) 2-pocket folders labeled with your child's name on the front in the top right corner (write the name on a label with a permanent marker)
• 10 pennies, 10 nickels, 10 dimes, 1 quarter in a zip-lock bag labeled with your child's name
• 3 grocery bags for recycling
• 2 boxes of 250 count tissue (Puffs are best for little noses)
• 1 (80) count or higher container of baby wipes
• 1 pack of stickers
• 1 yellow highlighter
• 1 plain white shirt (like one of Dad's T-shirts), labeled on the inside collar with your child's name, that will fit your child in April
• $5.00 supply fee - please place it in an envelope labeled with your child's name

Do not send crayons, pencils, glue or scissors.  These items will be purchased for your child by the school.  Please drop other items off at school during Parent Welcome Night in August..there will be a box outside the Kindergarten classroom.