Pre-Kindergarten is a crucial step in preparing a four-year-old for success in Kindergarten. "Children who attend high-quality preschool enter kindergarten with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills than those who do not," says W. Steven Barnett, PhD, Director at the National Institute for Early Education Research, or NIEER (Reference: Parents Magazine, Feb. 2007). Ms. Laura Miller, our pre-kindergarten teacher, has been teaching Preschool 3 and Pre-K 4 at Annunciata for over 20 years. On the first day of Pre-K 4, Ms. Miller conducts an orientation for the child and parent(s) to help transition both to the program.

Here is an overview of what students learn in Pre-Kindergarten:

• Faith-Based Education centering on learning Prayers and Bible Stories
• Practice and Develop Self-Help Skills and Social Skills
• Develop Fine Motor Skills, Number and Letter Recognition, and Reading Skills

READING

• identify upper and lowercase alphabet
• rhyming words
• learning consonant-vowel-consonant words
• building comprehension

Science

• ​plant life
• seasons
• weather

Religion

• learn about the life of jesus
  
• Hail Mary, Guardian angel and our father prayers
• noah's ark

Math

• identify to 20
• count to 100
• basic addition to 5

personal development

• ​FOCUS ON BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE
• DEVELOP FINE MOTOR SKILLS

extracurricular

• choir