Faith formation:
- Introduce the sign of the cross
- Daily morning prayer and at mealtimes
- Reading Bible stories and singing songs about Jesus
Social & Emotional Learning:
- Introduce sharing and taking turns
- Encourage empathy, understanding the feelings of others
- Learning how to express feelings and communicate needs appropriately
- Helping in the classroom with weekly jobs
Language Development:
- Recite alphabet
- Introduce and practice manners
- Understand that using words, not acting out, is the proper way to communicate
- Listen to others
- Expand vocabulary
- Follow simple two-step directions
School-Readiness Skills:
- Potty training
- Self-help skills
- Introduce how to clean up, and put toys away, and personal items in the cubby
Pre-Reading Skills:
- Participate in story-time activities
- Recognizing name
- Introduce letters
Cognitive Skills:
- Introduce numbers, colors, shapes
- Hands-on science and cooking activities
- Ask and answer questions
- Introduce opposites
- Introduce math concepts such as counting, sorting, one-to-one correspondence
Fine Motor Skills:
- Use play dough to strengthen fingers
- Painting with brush or fingers to gain control
- Coloring with crayons
- Using a glue stick
- Use a fork or spoon while eating
Large Motor Skills:
- Jumping, dancing and running on the playground
- Gym time with instructor
- Bounce, kick, throw and catch balls at recess and gym
Faith Formation:
- Learning fundamental Catholic prayers and the sign of the cross
- Daily morning prayer and at mealtimes
- Weekly lessons based on stories from the Bible
Social & Emotional Learning:
- Focus on sharing and taking turns
- Learning to work in a group setting with small- and large-group activities
- Making choices
- Learning how to recognize and respect the thoughts and feelings of others
- Following directions
- Use words to express feelings, resolve conflicts and communicate needs
- Helping in the classroom with weekly jobs
Language Development:
- Following two-step directions
- Using words to express feelings and solve problems
- Introduce and practice manners
School-Readiness Skills:
- Learning daily school routines
- Practice putting on coats and shoes
- Hanging up coats, backpacks and putting folders away
- Eating snack/lunch independently and cleaning up afterward
- Learning to take care of personal needs like washing hands and cleaning nose
Pre-Reading Skills:
- Participate in story-time activities
- Recognizing and writing name
- Introduction to writing letters and letter sounds
Cognitive Skills:
- Identifying basic numbers, colors and shapes
- Hands-on science and cooking activities
- Exploring math concepts: one-to-one correspondence, pattern recognition and counting
- Learning opposites
Fine Motor Skills:
- Use play dough to strengthen fingers
- String beads
- Painting with paintbrushes
- Learn to hold pencils, crayons and markers with a proper grip
- Begin using scissors
Large Motor Skills:
- Jumping, dancing and running on the playground
- Gym time with instructor
- Parachute play
- Bounce, kick, throw and catch balls at gym and recess
Faith Formation:
- Learning fundamental Catholic prayers and the sign of the cross
- Prayers at snack and lunchtimes
- Daily prayer and religious activities
- Relating Bible teachings to real life
- Prepare students to attend weekly Mass with students in grades kindergarten through eight
Social & Emotional Learning:
- Identifying emotions
- Encourage empathy
- Learning to work in a group setting with small- and large-group activities
- Communicating wants and needs in an appropriate way
- Using verbal communication and maintaining eye contact
- Helping in the classroom with weekly jobs
Language Development:
- Encourage questions and answers
- Speaking in front of a group through show and tell, student of the week and special events
- Practice using manners
- Encourage social interaction and conversations
- Singing songs
School-Readiness Skills:
- Following directions
- Understanding and completing classroom routines
- Showing respect to teachers and other students by following directions when outside the classroom
- Using listening skills to complete tasks
- Take care of personal belongings
- Eating snacks and lunch independently
- Cleaning area after eating and playing
Pre-Reading Skills:
- Identifying upper- and lowercase letters
- Identifying letter sounds
- Recognizing letter sounds and how they relate to words
- Understanding text and its uses
- Identifying parts of a story
- Sequencing events in a story
- Identifying and creating rhyming words
Cognitive Skills:
- Identifying numbers 1-100
- Identifying same and opposites
- Drawing conclusions
- Hands-on science and cooking activities
- Exploring math concepts: estimating, comparing shapes and sizes, creating and identifying patterns, and counting to 100
Fine Motor Skills:
- Hold pencils, crayons and markers with a proper grip
- Uses scissors to cut straight, jagged and curved lines
- Use play dough to strengthen fingers
- Using buttons, zippers and snaps
Large Motor Skills:
- Jumping, dancing and running on the playground
- Jumping on both feet and one foot at a time
- Gym time with instructor
- Parachute play
- Bounce, kick, throw and catch balls at gym and recess
- Using hula hoops
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Tuition
Little Crusaders 2/3 Year Old Program - PreK Jr. 3/4 Year Old Program - Pre-K 4/5 Year Old Program
Little Crusaders 2/3 Year Old Program - PreK Jr. 3/4 Year Old Program
Catholic Rate - Little Crusaders, PreK Jr.& Pre-Kindergarten
Pre-Kindergarten Tuition Includes
- Academic programming, Monday-Friday, 8:10 am – 2:45 pm
- Healthy snacks during morning snack time
- Hot lunch with milk (students may also bring lunch if desired)
- After school child care, Monday-Friday, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm with an additional fee assessed.
Enrollment Fees
- Application Fee: $20 per child
- Enrollment Packet Fee: $150.00 per child
- Pre-K Supply Fee: $300.00 per child
- Health & Safety Fee: $100.00 per child
Summer Session
A Summer Session is offered for incoming and outgoing Pre-Kindergarten students each year. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Katherine MacKinnon, Pre-Kindergarten Director, at kmackinnon@sjswv.org.
Details for the Summer Session can be found here!