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OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR
Catholic School in Alexandria, LouisianaOUR KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM
Subjects Taught
Reading Readiness and Math ActivitiesAUTHOR
MRS. BILLIE FLYNN
Kindergarten Teacher
Our Lady of Prompt Succor is a Catholic school located in Alexandria, Louisiana.
O.L.P.S. has approximately five hundred fifty students. The school has three pre-kindergarten classes, four kindergarten classes, and three classes of each grade first through sixth.
Being a Catholic School, Our Lady of Prompt Succor is dedicated to teaching academic skills while providing a wholesome Catholic atmosphere. Catholic values and morals are incorporated not only in religion classes, but also in the teaching of science, social studies and all other subjects. Instilled with these values and morals the students have the main ingredients to develop self discipline and build a healthy character.
The goal of the kindergarten program at Our Lady of Prompt Succor is to provide an environment where a five- year-old can feel secure while enjoying the challenge of learning new skills.
The following list highlights the subjects taught in Kindergarten.
READING READINESS 90 MINUTES DAILY MATH READINESS 40 MINUTES DAILY SOCIAL STUDIES OR 45 MINUTES DAILY SCIENCE 45 MINUTES DAILY RELIGION 30 MINUTES DAILY PHYSICAL EDUCATION 30 MINUTES TWICE A WEEK ART 30 MINUTES ONCE A WEEK LIBRARY 30 MINUTES ONCE A WEEK
READING READINESS
Reading readiness skills are incorporated into the majority of the kindergarten curriculum. They include basic reading skills such as learning to look at a page from the top to the bottom, viewing a page from left to right and opening a book from the right side.
Reading Readiness skills include learning to say the alphabet, recognizing letters and the phonetic sounds associated with each letter and combination of letters. It is identifying beginning and ending sounds, and recognizing rhyming words.
Listening skills, vocabulary building, imagination development and cognitive skills are an intricate part of developing reading readiness skills. These skills include understanding the meaning of a story, recognizing the sequence in a story, the main theme in a story, the cause and effect of events in a story, and learning to anticipate the possible outcome of a story.
Reading readiness skills help a child understand objects can be organized by category and classification.
With these reading readiness skills the kindergarten students are ready to decode words, recognize sight words, and read simple stories.
(Follow the sight word link for a list of 150 sight words and a letter sent home to parents concerning practicing the list.)
Fine motor skill development is also included in reading readiness. These skill are developed through numerous activities such as cutting, painting, drawing, coloring, lacing, sewing, threading beads, working with buttons, snaps, screws and bolts, puzzles, Lego's, playing with small objects and writing.
Writing skills are practiced daily. In the beginning a student's story may simply consist of the initial letter of a word. As the year progresses and reading readiness skills are developed, the student adds more letters to make a word.
Reading readiness skills not taught as a separate subject, but rather are integrated with the activities of every lesson taught in kindergarten.
Numerous reading readiness activities will be included with each lesson covered in the following pages.
MATH AND MATH
READINESS
Math Readiness skills are a major component of the kindergarten curriculum. In Kindergarten these skills are learned through exploring and discovering. Children learn the value of numbers by "playing" with objects, seeing them, touching them and counting them. They learn the meaning of add and subtract by "playing" putting objects together and taking objects away.
In kindergarten we learn to write numbers, sequence numbers, add and subtract numbers, use numbers to measure height, length and weight and to graph objects.
Math Readiness also introduces telling time and recognizing and counting money.
Computers in the classroom
Each kindergarten class has computers with Internet connection in the classroom.
The computers are used to reinforce reading readiness and math skills.
Physical Education
The kindergarten students are provided ample opportunities for physical exercise. Besides a fifteen minute morning recess, a 25 minute noon recess and a fifteen minute afternoon recess, the students attend P.E. classes twice a week for thirty minutes each.
LIBRARY
Each classroom has well stocked book shelves filled with numerous books on the kindergarten level, plus, once a week the students visit the school library. The librarian reads to the children then allows free time for browsing. The kindergarten children do not borrow books from the library to take home. The teacher borrows books to bring back to the class.
ART
Art activities are included in many subjects through out the day, however, once a week the students attend Art Class. The art teacher introduces the students to a variety of art media and art techniques.
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Mrs. Billie Flynn is the author of Kindergarten Classroom.
She has been a kindergarten teacher at Our Lady of Prompt Succor for twenty four years.
kindergartenclas@aol.com
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Last up dated April 21, 2004
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