NCCE Kindergarten offers faith-based Catholic education where parents and teachers are partners. Our program offers enriching activities to extend your child's academic and social development. The activities are structured in a way to meet each child's needs while supporting the academic curriculum they are learning. Our goal each and every day is to offer a nurturing environment to promote cognitive, emotional and spiritual growth within the academic subject areas.

Kindergarten Curriculum

Religion
Students learn about God's love through classroom experiences, weekly attendance at Mass, weekly participation in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, daily prayer, and use our daily religion program and student materials called Blest Are We. The Child Lures program is also presented to promote personal safety.

Language Arts
We use the SRA Imagine It Reading Program, which is a comprehensive program that is research based. The program includes daily activities in phonics, phonemic awareness, reading fluency, vocabulary building and comprehension. Both large group instruction and centers with individual activities are used to develop literacy skills.

Math
We use Pearson’s enVisions Math Program.  This program uses a wide variety of hands on materials and resources such as manipulatives, scales, and center games.  It also uses online visuals and interactive stories to help students understand the different math concepts being taught.  Areas of instruction include counting, operational thinking, measurement and geometry.

Science
A variety of themes are studied including living versus non-living, weather and climate, and push versus pull.  Students conduct simple experiments in class and take relevant field trips to give them real life examples.

Social Studies
Students learn about community helpers, other cultures, presidents, history, civics and they participate in service projects within our community. A representative from our local fire station presents monthly lessons.

Handwriting
The Handwriting Without Tears curriculum is used for the instruction of printing letters.

Learning Centers
Children have the opportunity to work together in small groups to explore themes and topics in depth that are covered in reading, math, writing, science, social studies or religion.
 

Resources

Hands-on educational programs to identify problems and develop possible solutions. Allows young engineers have the opportunity to design, build, test, and refine their own creations in a safe and fun environment

ImagineIt addresses the five key areas of Reading. Your students will begin instruction in these key areas as early as Pre-Kindergarten so they understand not just how to read and write, but the meaning and purpose of what they are learning.  Ignite your students' interest and will instill the true value of reading.
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enVisionmath2.0 Common Core is a comprehensive mathematics curriculum for Grades K-5. It offers the flexibility of print, digital, or blended instruction, providing the focus, coherence, and rigor of the Common Core State Standards. Project-based learning, visual learning strategies, and extensive customization options empower every teacher and student.

 

How to Get Ready for Kindergarten

Some of the skills that promote success in Kindergarten include:

• listening to stories daily
• clearly sharing thoughts and following simple directions
• writing first name
• sorting objects and shapes
• counting to 10
• self-help skills (dressing, toileting, eating)
• taking turns and making choices
• large motor activities such as jumping, galloping, running
• coloring and assembling puzzles