Religion
Kindergarten uses the Call to Faith religion text.  This series focuses on the Catholic faith, including traditional prayers, scriptural readings and the lives of the saints.  The students participate in Second Step, which is an anti-bullying program that also promotes positive social skills.  Through their religion classes, prayer and their experiences in this strong faith community, students have the opportunity to develop their relationships with God.

Literacy
Students are immersed in a language and print-rich environment.  We emphasize phonics and phonemic awareness, letter recognition, sounds, sight words and emergent readers’ text.  The children make books to read, and they collect poetry.  The students read appropriate leveled reading books and add to their repertoire as their reading skills progress.  They are encouraged to use invented spelling to communicate ideas in journals and responses to literature.  We use the Slingerland method, a multi-sensory approach, for printing instruction.

Math
Kindergarten math is a hands-on program that emphasizes math vocabulary and problem solving.  Students learn sorting and classifying, patterns, shapes, exploration of numbers to twenty, measurement, and introductory addition and subtraction.  The program is enhanced with a problem of the day, calendar skills, graphs, chant charts and math-related literature.

Science
The science program is an inquiry-based approach that introduces the children to the steps of the scientific method: observation, hypothesis-formation, prediction, data gathering, and experimentation.  FOSS science kits are used to teach these science skills.   Many of the classroom themes integrate science topics as well.

Social Studies
The social studies curriculum is organized around the continents.  Children learn to name and identify the continents by shape.  Units of study focus on culture, geography, literature and music of specific countries on each continent.  Possible activities include games, art, cooking, music and holidays.

Drama
The goal of the kindergarten drama program is to give students a positive artistic experience. We begin most drama classes with a story.  Most of the stories are multi-cultural tales, but occasionally we create our own stories.  The stories are connected to activities and creative play that enhance their learning. Students love to bring the stories to life by recreating characters and favorite moments through drama. We also focus on specific performance skills with various games, projects and activities.

Music
In kindergarten the focus is on exploring each element of music with an emphasis on rhythm and melody.  Using their singing voices, movement and rhythm instruments for this exploration are key.  Simple rhythm notation is used to begin to develop music reading skills.  Discovering the joy of music is always of primary importance.

Physical Education
In kindergarten physical education instruction is focused on the fundamental concepts of loco-motor movements, body and spatial awareness, and safe play.  These concepts are taught through a series of warm-up activities that incorporate these concepts, and group activities that reinforce these fundamentals.  Primary students will have P.E. twice a week.