Programs

Chapel

The 3, 4 and 5 year old students will attend chapel once a week with Father Gary Herbst. In this non-denominational church setting, age appropriate bible verses, songs and prayers will be presented. Father Gary will also visit the younger students in their classroom for a time of worship.

Montessori

Montessori Children are able to choose their work from among the self-correcting materials displayed on open shelves. Over a period of time the child moves from being undisciplined to self-disciplined, from disordered to ordered, from distracted to focused through work in the environment. This process occurs through repeated work with manipulatives that captivate the child's attention. These manipulatives are viewed as "materials for development". The Montessori preschool classroom focuses on five distinct areas:

• Practical Life enhances the development of task and organization and cognitive order through care of self, care of the environment, exercises of grace and courtesy and coordination of physical movement.
• Sensorial enables the child to order, classify, and describe sensory impressions in relation to length, width, temperature, mass, color, pitch, etc.
• Mathematics makes use of manipulative materials to enable the child to internalize concepts of numbers, symbols, sequencing, operations, and memorization of basic facts.
• Language Arts includes oral language development, written expression, reading, the study of grammar, creative dramatics, and children's literature. Basic skills in writing and reading are developed through the use of sandpaper letters, alphabet cut-outs, and various presentations allowing children to link sounds and letter symbols effortlessly and to express their thoughts through writing.
• Cultural activities expose the child to basics in geography, history and life sciences. Music, art and movement are part of the integrated curriculum.