Transitional Kindergarten
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Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a program for children who may need another year of development and maturation before kindergarten. Developmentally appropriate lessons that focus on the whole child address social, emotional, spiritual, and academic needs. Transitional Kindergarten meets for five half-days of instruction each week.
The major skills that TK students are taught are:
Early Literacy Skills: Identifying upper and lower case letter names and sounds, practicing letter formation, blending known letters to read simple phonetic words, phonological awareness, sight word recognition, and writing simple words.
Math: Identifying and writing numbers, rote counting, recognizing and extending patterns, sorting, understanding the concepts of more than, less than, equal, and not equal, creating and reading graphs, and odd and even numbers.
Personal Skills: Identifying and writing first and last names, knowing address, phone number, age, birthday, and positional terms, and understanding calendar concepts.
Religion Skills: Making the Sign of the Cross, introducing prayers (Our Father, Hail Mary, beginning day prayer, mealtime prayer, and end of day prayer), and listening to Bible stories (New and Old Testament).
As active learners and explorers, children are naturally curious about their world. Learning should build on what children already know, and help prepare them for what they will learn next. Learning is optimized when students feel successful. TK gives children time to grow, develop, and mature personally, while they learn many of the skills needed for a successful kindergarten year.
Kindergarten
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St. Charles Kindergarten
St. Charles Borromeo Kindergarten provides a solid stepping stone for your child’s education. St. Charles features a welcoming environment in which students are able to grow not only academically, but spiritually and personally as well. Each child is viewed as an individual with a unique learning style. We look forward to meeting the needs of your child.
St. Charles has a rich foundation built on faith. We recognize Christ in each child. Your child’s time at St. Charles will be spent developing what it means to be an active disciple of Christ. Faith provides a strong structure for students to flourish in all other academic and personal areas. Kindergarten participates in Mass, Faith Families, and service projects.
Developmentally appropriate academics are an integral part of our program. We strive to make learning integrated, purpose-based, and tactile. Your child will be introduced to lowercase and capital letters and sounds, reading strategies, and trick words. Math classes are enhanced by the use of manipulatives to aid in focusing on numbers, patterns, composing, and decomposing numbers. Our science curriculum focuses on how to be a scientist and develops methods to investigate concepts. All academic areas of kindergarten are outlined by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s content standards. Kindergarten students actively participate in weekly music, art, physical education, body management, library, and computer classes.
St. Charles believes in interactive learning. Students are encouraged to explore learning to its fullest potential. We foster faith, honor, balance, and knowledge to grow as individuals.
Mrs. Kristin Wisniewski
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Ms. Jennifer Marzluff
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Mrs. Darcy Rodman
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