All-Day Academic Kindergarten
All-Day Academic Kindergarten
All-Day Academic Kindergarten![]()
All-Day Academic Kindergarten
Early childhood is the time for developing your child´s academic, social, and spiritual growth. The St. Alphonsus/St. Patrick All-Day Academic Kindergarten Program provides your child with a hands-on approach to learning through various teaching strategies. The children participate in individual, small-group, and whole-group learning. In addition, they regularly enjoy music, library, technology, art, and physical education classes.
We pride ourselves in providing students with a challenging academic education while building their love of God and commitment to improving the world. We educate the whole student – mind, body, and spirit – and encourage each child to become the person God calls him or her to be. Ultimately, we aim to prepare children for academic and personal success in a faith-filled, nurturing environment.
Kindergarten Highlights and Expectations
Kindergarten Highlights and Expectations![]()
Kindergarten Highlights and Expectations
- Students will learn through stories, activities, prayer, discussion and reflection about their Catholic faith and learn to love and care for God's creation.
- Emphasis on pre-reading skills including listening, speaking within the group, letter and sound recognition, sight word recognition, left-to-right progression.
- Identify, know, and blend letter sounds.
- Write first and last name; write sentences with a minimum of three words.
- Identify rhyming words, read color words and high frequency words, read simple phonetic readers.
- Identify story elements, use context clues, make predictions, and distinguish between fact and fantasy.
- Develop an understanding of how numbers, shapes, patterns, time, and money fit into the world.
- Have broad exposure to the environment (life, physical and earth sciences).
- Have a growing awareness of themselves as part of a diverse community.