Kindergarten Curriculum

The Our Lady of Fatima Kindergarten program promotes active learning in an age appropriate environment. Catholic values and teachers are incorporated throughout the curriculum. The teacher’s role is to support and guide students, keeping in mind their skill levels. The program is center-based which allows children the freedom to choose activities that interest them while being accountable for completing certain center activities each day.

The kindergarten curriculum includes but is not limited to the following skills/subjects:

Religious Instruction

  • Reverence during prayer
  • Reverence during mass
  • Sign of the Cross
  • Basic Prayers
  • Bible Stories
  • Liturgical Calendar

Reading/Phonics

  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Left to Right Recognition
  • Alphabet Recognition
  • Alphabet Sounds
  • Emergent Reading
  • Emergent Writing

Personal Responsibility

  • Handling Personal Belongings
  • Following Classroom Direction
  • Classroom Chores
  • Clean up

Mathematics

  • Patterning
  • Attribute Awareness
  • Formulating Sets
  • Estimating
  • Number Recognition
  • Counting
  • 1 to 1 Correspondence
  • Skip Counting
  • Writing Numbers

Language Development

  • Learning Personal Information
  • Following Directions
  • Learning New Vocabulary through Literature
  • Storytelling
  • Story re-telling

Social/Emotional Development

  • Playing Cooperatively
  • Making New Friends
  • Solving Problems with Words
  • Speaking to Adults

Cognitive Reasoning/Readiness

  • Patterning
  • Matching
  • Classifying
  • Colors and Shapes

Aesthetic Expression

  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Singing
  • Finger plays
  • Poetry

Fine Motor Control

  • Pencil Practice
  • Cutting Practice
  • Hand Strength Activities (Play dough/tweezers etc.)

Large Motor Development

  • Ball Skills
  • Balance Skills
  • Motion Skills