Pre-Kindergaten
Pre-Kindergarten sets the stage for a successful future, equipping students to explore the world around them through creation, inquiry, play, and interaction!
Meet your teacher, Ms. Rebronja.
Ms. Rebronja has been a Preschool teacher for Providence St. Mel for 11 years. With a degree in Early Childhood Education, she guides our youngest students through their earliest learning ventures.
Curriculum
READING, LANGUAGE ARTS, and WRITING
Pre-School students will be introduced to technology from day one. For visual understanding, a classroom iPad is used daily within lessons in all core concepts to enhance lesson offerings via songs, short videos and learning apps. Students will be introduced to a computer keyboard and learn pre-keyboarding skills, such as identifying and typing letters; specifically, those found in their first names. Students will visit computer lab once per quarter to be introduced to and to help them follow basic computer handling guidelines and rules. Also, students are introduced to coding. By end of the year, students will be able to identify and understand a specific product from a picture/model used throughout quarter four. Pre-School and Pre-Kindergarten students will get chance to participate in National Engineering Week.
The Imagine It curriculum incorporates critical literacy skills throughout the following components: phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabetic knowledge and principle building. Themed literature selections lay the foundation for early reading and print awareness. By the end of the academic year, Pre-Kindergarten students will be able to recognize characters in the story, write upper and lowercase letters, write three word sentences, read sight words, use two correct punctuation marks (period and question mark), read and spell basic color words, provide the correct opposite for specific words, and locate/recognize/create rhyming and compound words. is comprised of comprehensive skills instruction which sequentially teaches students phonological and phonemic awareness, oral language, letter recognition and formation introduction, concepts in print, phonics and word study.
MATHEMATICS
The Real Math program by SRA/McGraw-Hill program is used for Math at the Pre-Kindergarten level. Pre-Kindergarteners are exposed to the Real Math program by SRA/McGraw-Hill. This series develops all standards of mathematical proficiency and provides opportunities for practice of all concepts introduced: numbers and their operations, geometry, measurement, patterns, algebra, data analysis and classifications. By end of the year, Pre-Kindergarten students will be able to recognize and count numbers 0-100. They will be able to recognize and work with shapes. They will be introduced to simple addition and subtraction skills as well as how to interpret and analyze data found in different types of graphs.
SCIENCE
Pre-Kindergarten students will have opportunities to experiment and test scientific concepts as they explore life science, principles of energy, health, and nutrition. Our program helps students develop an understanding of how the world within neighborhood and school connects with the world around them. Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten students will be introduced to calendar concepts; similarities/differences between seasons and different kinds of weather. Quarterly research projects will be assigned on different kinds of animals or seasons.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Pre-Kindergarten students in Social Studies program will focus on themes of communities at home, school and neighborhoods; our city, state, country, and major countries from around the world; holidays and celebrations; and key contributors in making our world a better place, time, and people. By end of the academic year, Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten students will be able to state their first and last name and their birth dates. They will be able to tell the names of family members and what they do for living. They will be able to recognize community workers, different kinds of transportation, and holiday traditions celebrated during the year in our country.
TECHNOLOGY / S.T.E.M.
Pre-Kindergarten students will be introduced to technology from day one. For visual understanding, a classroom iPad is used daily within lessons in all core concepts to enhance lesson offerings via songs, short videos and learning apps. Students will be introduced to a computer keyboard and learn pre-keyboarding skills, such as identifying and typing letters; specifically, those found in their first names. Students will visit computer lab once per quarter to be introduced to and to help them follow basic computer handling guidelines and rules. Also, students are introduced to coding. By end of the year, students will be able to identify and understand a specific product from a picture/model used throughout quarter four. Pre-School and Pre-Kindergarten students will get chance to participate in National Engineering Week.