Kindergarten

KINDERGARTEN at St. Theresa School

(Students must be 5 years old on or before September 1st)

Your child is away from you several hours per day. Therefore, you will want to choose a school with a Kindergarten program that embraces the values you instill at home. A program that enriches your child academically, spiritually, and emotionally. St. Theresa School offers a faith-based approach, a love for learning, and the beginning of high academic achievement. Our bright renovated classrooms provide a warm and inviting setting for learning. Our student-teacher ratio allow our students an opportunity for individualized learning with a curriculum that will challenge them. We offer a half-day or full-day program.

Reading instruction uses blending of sounds, identifying sight words, summarizing, prediction, and sequencing. During small group instruction, children will become emerging readers.
Modeled writing is a means to teach reading. Students observe teachers writing their ideas, as they begin their own independent journal writing. Letter study uses poems, songs and sign language.
Math instruction will include numbers to 100, problem-solving with addition and subtraction, comparing numbers, counting money, and building a math vocabulary.
Calendar Math Each morning, students will build on skills already taught including: patterns, counting by 2, 5, and 10, ordinal numbers, tallying numbers, and sequencing.
STEM/Science Basics of physical science, weather, earth/space & life; students will develop skills such as problem-solving, communication & research.
Foreign Language Students will departmentalize weekly for academic Spanish led by our K-5 Spanish teacher.
Art Students are introduced to the visual arts weekly led by our art teacher in the art room.
Music, Movement, and Drama Students will visit the music room twice weekly for songs, movement and an introduction to melody and pitch.
Physical Education Twice weekly gym classes
Library Weekly story-time and book check-out with the librarian in our modern library.
Special Projects and Celebrations Includes a field trip to the apple orchard, pumpkin math, Halloween celebration & parade, spaghetti & meatball grammar lesson, the marriage of Q & U: a creative way to remember the spelling rule is to have a wedding! Thanksgiving performance, Christmas prayer service, seasonal concert and much more!