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Pre-Kindergarten
St. Joseph School provides a child-centered environment that encourages learning through exploration and discovery. Through various theme-based units, many teacher-directed learning activities take place in religion, math, science, language skills, art, music, dramatic play, and story time. The program used to teach handwriting is, Handwriting Without Tears. The curriculum also includes art, library, science, music, physical education, and Spanish.
Kindergarten through second grade curriculum is based on diocesan, state and national standards. Students are consistently exposed to material within and beyond this curriculum.
Beginning in Kindergarten, a balanced approach to teaching reading is through the use of the Scott Foresman basal series and is enhanced with the C.A.R.E. (Children Achieving Reading Excellence) program. These incorporate a highly structured phonics-based approach with multi-sensory activities. Skills such as decoding, comprehension and vocabulary building are emphasized across all content areas.
Kindergarten
The Kindergarten curriculum is taught using an integrated approach. Religion, reading, math, social studies, and science are taught within meaningful themes using appropriate activities. The skills learned in Pre-K using Handwriting Without Tears are continued. The curriculum also includes art, library, science, music, physical education, and Spanish.
First and Second Grade
Emphasis is on a strong, traditional core curriculum of religion, reading, phonics, writing, mathematics, spelling, science, and social studies. Writing and technology are incorporated across the curriculum. The curriculum also includes art, library, science, music, physical education, and Spanish.
Pre-K through second grade students are assigned middle school “reading buddies” and read with them monthly.
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