Pre-Kindergarten at St. Peter the Apostle

Introducing our youngest students to the world of school is a task we take very seriously. In Pre-Kindergarten, they are first of all made to feel safe and secure through age appropriate routines, which give them a sense of predictability. They participate in whole group, small group, and individual activities that engage them in and excite them about the world. Away from home, perhaps for the first time, they are encouraged to make choices and to be responsible.

Multi-sensory learning is incorporated into each day as they look at seeds in a magnifying table, listen to stories and rhymes, trace letters in sand, and balance their bodies on an obstacle course. Every effort is made to use exact vocabulary, for words are the placeholders for ideas. Classifying objects and organizing ideas are on-going activities in Pre-Kindergarten; this work provides the scaffolding for all future learning in school.

Talking, experimenting, playing, listening, and "doing" in general is how young children learn best, so in St. Peter's Pre-Kindergarten, you won't see workbooks, but you will see enthusiastic learners matching geometric shapes, making sense of print, and building roads and cities.