- Preschool & Kindergarten
- Primary Grades (1-2)
- Intermediate Grades (3-5)
- Middle School (6-8)
- Special Subjects
| Preschool & Kindergarten |
The Pre-K3 program provides a warm and loving environment in which children realize that school is a fun and happy place. This environment fosters positive interaction with other children and adults. Self esteem is enhanced through hands-on activities. Play experiences enable the children to develop and learn in a way that is comfortable for them. Flexibility with all activities allow for individual differences among children and yet predictable and structured to enable each child to feel secure. Above all, each child is treated with honesty and respect.
Our Religion program supplements what parents do at home. Prayer and special intentions are shared each day, in a nurturing Catholic Christian environment. The children are encouraged to apply Gospel values to their daily lives through their words and actions.
Our program includes the following: gross-motor and fine-motor activities, Art, Dramatic play, Music, Science, Sand and water activities, Block play, and Story time.
The child must be three years old by October 1st.
Two Day: Pre-K3A
Tuesday and Thursday, 8:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Optional Lunch Bunch: Tuesday
Three Day: Pre-K 3B
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 8:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m..
Optional Lunch Bunch: Friday
Five Day:
Pre-K 3C five half-days per week: Monday – Friday, 8:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Optional Lunch Bunch: Friday
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The Pre K4 program provides a warm and loving environment for all the children. This year the child becomes an explorer, a discoverer, a problem-solver, and an inventor. Our goal is to help each child become a confident, inquisitive, and independent learner. The classroom is organized to promote active learning and children are encouraged to think and talk about their discoveries and creations. We provide a balance of child-directed and teacher-directed activities. Each child develops the following intellectual/cognitive abilities: numerics, literacy, scientific thinking, the Arts. The program also continues the work accomplished in Pre K3 by reinforcing the social skills of sharing, conversation, listening, independence, conflict resolution, respect for others and working in a group. Physical skills developed included fine motor and gross motor skills.
Our Religion program supplements what parents do at home. We pray every day and foster the nurturing Catholic Christian environment that is the hallmark of St. Vincent Martyr School. Our Religion program supplements what parents teach their children at home.
The child must be four years old by October 1st.
Staffing: One certified teacher and one aide in each class
Class Size: 18*
Choice of three programs:
Five Day: Pre-K4A
Monday – Friday, 8:15 – 1:130 p.m
Five Day: Pre-K4B
Monday – Friday, 8:15 – 11:130 p.m
Optional Lunch Bunch: Monday and Friday
Children in the four-year-old programs also study the computer with a teacher other than his/her homeroom teacher.
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Religion – The focus is on “God’s Gift to Us.” The message in Kindergarten is that our lives are full of signs of God’s love. God cares for us through His helpers: our parents, family, teachers, and all those who help us grow. When we study about our body and how to take care of it, we learn just how wonderfully we are made. Through Baptism we become children of God. The Church teaches us how to love like Jesus, our special friend and brother.
Language Arts – In Kindergarten students learn to understand and apply the knowledge of sounds, letters, and words. They learn to become comfortable as readers by reading a variety of materials with fluency and comprehension. They will learn to be comfortable as writers, speakers, and listeners. The program uses a variety of methods to help the children achieve these goals.
Math – The Kindergarten student develops number sense and an ability to represent numbers in a variety of forms. In addition they will develop spatial sense and an ability to use geometric properties and relationships, measurement, estimation, patterns, relationships, and functions. They will discover how to represent these mathematical properties in real world situations.
Science – Students are introduced to living and non-living things and learn to distinguish similarities and differences within and between species. They learn to describe and classify objects according to physical properties and learn to demonstrate the relationship between force and motion. They learn to identify sources and behaviors of various forms of energy.
Social Studies – The students learn democratic citizenship in the United States, New Jersey, and their local communities. They acquire geographical understanding through the study of maps, the environment, and society.
Kindergarten students also experience the following special subjects: Foreign Language (Spanish), Computer Technology, Gym, Art, Music, Library.
There are three full-day kindergarten programs. Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. – 2:50 p.m.
The child must be five years old by October 1st.
The child must also have had two years of pre-school.
Staffing: One certified teacher and one aide in each class.
Class Size: 18*
Kindergarten children also participate in special subjects with teachers other than their regular homeroom teacher. These subjects are:
- Computers
- Library
- Spanish
- Physical education
- Art
- Music
- Dance
*The Pastor and Principal reserve the right to extend the class size if needed.
