Please note that as of Monday, June 26, 2023, the 4-year-old PreK Program is closed/full. We will have a waitlist for those interested should there be openings.

Registration is once again open for the Nursery/Pre-K Program for 3-year-olds for the 2023-2024 school year.

 The following is an overview of our Nursery/Pre-K Program for three-year-olds.

This program offers a choice of 3-day or 5-day full-day classes.

Our learning focused on the following:

• Daily prayers and lessons about our faith
• Stories and literacy activities
• Learning rhyme, repetition, and concepts through songs
• Color, shape, and number recognition
• Daily calendar and counting numbers
• Working with hands-on manipulatives
• Learning through games and movement
• Completing art projects to build up fine motor skills
• Beginning pre-writing skills (tracing and holding a pencil)
• Social studies - family, safety, feelings, community
• Science - "healthy me", weather, seasons, animals, and more

Specials include Gym, Music, and Art

Being with our classmates and participating in daily activities will help us...

• Increase our small and large motor skills
• Listen and follow directions
• Increase our social skills and self-confidence
• Develop our self-help skills
• Take responsibility for our actions and personal items
• Build up our attention span
• Encourage the development of our verbal skills

We offered the following Nursery classes:

3 day - Monday/Wednesday/Friday

5 day - Monday through Friday

Children must be 3 by December 1st of the current year to enroll in the following year.

All classes are in session from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm and follow the school calendar.

All children must be potty trained.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT TEACHER REQUESTS.

To learn more about our Nursery Program and registration, please call the school office at 315-487-8515.

The Holy Family School Pre-K Program for 4-year-olds offers a choice of 3-day or 5-day full-day classes.

  The following is an overview of our Pre-K Program for four-year-olds.

Language Arts:

Phonemic Awareness

• Begin to hear rhyming words
• Begin to identify words that begin with the same sound

Pre-Writing Skills

• Tracing of shapes, lines, squiggles, etc.
• Making own shapes
• Printing name
• Printing alphabet letters

Pre-Reading Skills

• Recognize letters of the alphabet - upper and lower case
• Recognize the beginning sound of some alphabet letters
• Identify own name in print
• be able to print name
• Left to right progression
• Able to follow 2-3 step instructions
• Able to predict outcomes
• Complete projects
• Encourage the use of imagination

Religion

The religion program is called I AM SPECIAL and DISCOVER GOD'S WORLD. Our religion lessons will teach us about God's love for us and how He has created many good things for us to enjoy. Our Pre-K attends First Friday Mass.

Math Skills:

Through math activities, children will interact with a variety of manipulatives such as blocks, plastic bears, candy, cereal, and shapes to explore the concepts of -

• Numbers - recognize numbers 1-20
• Shapes
• Quantity - more or less
• Sequencing
• Patterns
• Measurement
• Understand words inside/outside, over/under, top/middle/bottom
• Calendar, counting numbers

Science:

Through science activities, children use their sense to explore and understand -

• Seasons
• Weather
• Planes and Animals - learn how they grow
• Senses
• Nutrition
• Safety
• Dental Health

Social Sciences:

• Feelings
• Address/phone number
• Family
• Community - learning about jobs people do
• Traditions/cultures

Specials include Gym, Music, Art, and Library.

We offer the following Pre-K classes:

3 day - Monday/Wednesday/Friday

5 day - Monday through Friday

Your child must be 4 by December 1st of the current year to enroll in the following year.

All classes are in session from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm and follow the school calendar.

All children must be potty trained.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT TEACHER REQUESTS.

To learn more about our Pre-K Program and registration, please call the school office at 315-487-8515.