Pre-Kindergarten

Pre-Kindergarten Highlights

• SFdA Preschool is a state licensed center and a Quality First participant.
• Discipline With Purpose Skills: Listening, Following Directions, Asking Questions, Sharing and Social Skills as well as Leadership.
• Religion Focus: learning their relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; learning various prayers especially the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary; introduction to the Sacraments, Holy Days and the Church as community, as well as a Christian response to others.
• Literacy Skills: introduction to American Sign Language and Spanish, increase knowledge of the alphabet and sounds, phonological (e.g. rhyming) awareness, and writing and pre-reading skills
• Math Skills: increase knowledge and use of numerals and quantities, classify objects, quantify and compare, introduction to: positions, shapes, measurement, and graphs
• Science Skills: introduction to the scientific method, conduct experiments and use appropriate tools to measure and record results.
• Nature Walk, Costume Parade, Christmas Performance, Easter Celebration
• “Specials” (depends on schedule): Music, Art, “Fit Kids”, Computers, Library