This grade level brochure is designed to provide you with an overview of the challenging curriculum we offer our students. It identifies key curriculum concepts for Kindergarten but it is not meant to be all-inclusive.
Mission Statement
Epiphany Catholic School provides a student-focused, standards-driven, and secure educational environment, based upon the Gospel values, that promotes the spiritual, emotional, moral, intellectual, and physical development of all students.
Religion & Character Formation
- Recognize that the world is a gift from God.
- Understand the 10 Commandments and choices.
- Pray Hail Mary, Glory Be, Our Father, Angel of God, and Grace Before Meals.
- Observe Holy Days/Feast Days.
- Participate in Lent/Advent activities.
- Introduce Bible stories and miracles.
- Discuss the lives of the saints.
- Develop an awareness of home and church family.
- Prepare for and participate in liturgical celebrations (weekly Masses, the Rosary, the Feast of Corpus Christi).
- Participate in school-wide service projects.
- Foster the virtues of kindness, respect, optimism, generosity, honesty, prudence, patience, responsibility, and morality.
- Weekly presentations/work in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd atria.
Language Arts – Reading
- Identify all letters and sounds.
- Apply phonemic awareness strategies (phonics, word patterns, rhyming) and vocabulary skills.
- Make predictions and connect parts of a story to previous experience.
- Recognize the elements of a story (main character, setting, problem, solution).
- Identify and answer questions related to the main idea.
- Express ideas in simple, complete sentences.
- Listen attentively to an oral message for an appropriate length of time.
- Retell a story that has been read orally.
- Read memory and decodable words.
- Write a complete sentence (capitalization, punctuation, and correct spelling of memory words).
- Write first and last name correctly.
- Write correct formation of letters as taught.
Mathematics
- Identify and write whole numbers to 20.
- Count by 1s, 5s, and 10s to 100.
- Count by 2s to 20.
- Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence.
- Identify and solve simple addition and subtraction problems within 10.
- Organize and compare graphic data.
- Understand place value (ones and tens).
- Identify days of the week and months of the year.
- Understand greater than, less than, and equal to.
- Measure with standard and non-standard units.
- Identify basic 2-dimensional shapes and 3-dimensional solids.
Science
- Make predictions, draw conclusions from collected or provided information, and discuss possible solutions.
- Compare and contrast living and non-living things in terms of basic needs.
- Identify stages in the life cycles of selected living things (plants and animals).
- Identify the five senses and describe their functions.
- Name the four seasons and describe simple seasonal and weather changes.
- Describe the differences between solids and liquids.
- Explore simple forces around us (magnets, wind, gravity, and vibrations).
Social Studies
- Identify attributes of responsible citizenship.
- Participate in classroom voting process.
- Identify community helpers and the ways in which they distribute goods and services.
- Explain the difference between past, present, and future time.
- Describe and respect customs and holidays celebrated in other cultures.
- Recognize typical American symbols (American flag, Statue of Liberty, White House) and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Foreign Language – Spanish
- Imitate sounds made in simple Spanish vocabulary.
- Visually identify and communicate colors and numbers 1-10 in Spanish.
- Sing simple songs in Spanish.
- Pray Guardian Angel in Spanish.
- Respond to simple questions in Spanish.
Computer
- Introduce basic computer vocabulary (computer, monitor, mouse, and keyboard).
- Demonstrate proper care of hardware components.
- Use the mouse to open an application, make a choice, or activate a link.
- Distinguish between right and left side of the keyboard.
- Utilize word processor for learning tasks.
- Use teacher selected Internet sites to complete activities.
- Use software which emphasizes problem solving strategies and promotes creative thinking.
- Practice using Chrome devices.
- Understand how to navigate and create using the Seesaw learning platform.
Fine Arts – Art
- Use basic elements of design principles (color, line, shape) to create artwork.
- Learn proper technique, safety procedures and care while using a variety of tools and materials.
- Use creative thinking, imagination, observation, and memory skills, to create a work of art.
Fine Arts – Music
- Play classroom instruments, sing, and dance.
- Maintain steady beat and move body to a steady beat.
- Recognize differences in sounds (high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow, long/short).
- Demonstrate different voices (singing, speaking, shouting, and whispering).
- Identify voice and environmental sounds.
- Explore and create movement within guidelines.
Physical Education & Health
- Demonstrate basic gross motor (hop, skip, jump, gallop, run) and fine motor skills.
- Plan and complete an activity to promote physical fitness and health.
- Identify and perform activities that promote physical fitness.
Social and Emotional Development
- Work, share, and play cooperatively with others.
- Listen attentively and show self-control.
- Follow multi-step directions.
- Complete assigned tasks.
- Take appropriate care of personal and school property.
Resource
Epiphany Catholic School offers assistance with a variety of skills in all academic areas for students with a demonstrated need. The Epiphany Resource Program collaborates with Unit 5 to meet the needs of these students. Contact the Epiphany Resource teacher regarding any educational concerns in the following areas: academic evaluations, speech and language development, motor skills, and behavioral, health, vision, hearing, and social/emotional concerns.