Academics

Preschool

St. Charles Preschool provides a loving, nurturing, faith-based environment in which children are encouraged to grow spiritually, intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally. We realize that the needs of young children are very specific and unique. Teachers are therefore encouraged to personalize the curriculum to meet the needs of the children they are serving. The curriculum is theme based and early learning skills for pre-reading, math, language development, science, social studies, art, music and religion are incorporated into the various themes throughout the year. The Preschool curriculum includes the subject areas listed below. Subject areas may include but are not limited to the suggested thematic units.
 

At St. Charles, language arts at the preschool level focus on building listening skills, following directions, memory and comprehension, problem solving, letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary.  Finger plays, singing and rhyming, and predicting events are also part of the preschool language arts curriculum.
 

The preschool mathematics program emphasizes the calendar and days of the week, charting weather.  Students are taught sorting, counting, graphing, classifying, sequencing, patterning, problem solving.  There is also an emphasis on shape and number recognition.
 

Preschool students enter the world of science by learning about the seasons and weather, health and hygiene, the senses, nutrition, dinosaurs, farm animals, life cycles, space, plants and seeds, and magnets.
 

Students begin by building an awareness of themselves in the context of other human beings and their environment.  This is made real by considering their homes, families, and neighborhoods along with the parish community of St. Charles.  Students are introduced to community of the wider world and learn about cultural differences.  A favorite activity is the study of presidents of the United States.