Pre-Kindergarten
Full Day 4 Year Old
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Our pre-kindergarten program is designed
to prepare your child for kindergarten by providing them with an academic yet appropriate curriculum. The curriculum meets Illinois State Learning and Archdiocesan Standards and reaches the five developmental domains of early childhood education students: social, physical, intellectual, creative, and emotional. The subjects taught are: religion, language arts, math, science, social studies, art, computers, music, and physical education. Students learn through both individual, small group, and whole group learning (circle time).
They learn computer skills in our computer lab, listen to stories read in our library, and keep fit in our beautiful gymnasium. Your child will make friends, have fun, and learn about God, themselves and the world around them.
Our pre-kindergarten program will provide a safe and nurturing environment for your child and will meet the needs of working parents who want a quality education for their child.
CURRICULUM
- Religion
- Math
- Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Science
- Music
- Computers
- Art
- Physical Education
DAILY SCHEDULE
- Oral language development
- ABC recognition and writing; name recognition
- “God’s time” (religion); learning simple prayers
- Literacy such as journaling
- “Letter of the week” letter recognition
- Phonemic awareness and letter writing
- Math concepts such as counting, patterning, graphing,
number recognition and writing - Story time
- Creative movement
- Finger plays, poems, songs and rhymes
Teacher Biography
Ms. Pam Ptasinski has over fifteen years experience as a preschool teacher, a kindergarten teacher, a director and coordinator in both day care and parochial school settings. She feels fortunate to have worked and studied under a leading child psychologist, who also served as the Dean of Early Childhood Education at her university. She feels similarly blessed to have attended a summer masters program for British Primary Education at Oxford University in England.
Pam is a proud product of Catholic education having gone 14 years to various Catholic institutions. Ms. Ptasinski graduated with a B.A. degree in English from Northern Illinois University, later returning to school to study Early Childhood Education. Her teaching certificate is for grades K-9. She has served as a student teacher for First and Third Grade, and is also an experienced tutor for students ages six through eighteen.
Each year, Pam’s goal is to guide each child in his or her discovery of the world—realizing that each child is blessed with unique abilities, learning styles, and needs—by providing a positive, nurturing environment enriched with a wide variety of learning opportunities and activities. Her approach concentrates on assisting students to develop cognitively, spiritually, socially and emotionally so that they can be confident and secure individuals. Ms. Ptasinski believes that parents are the primary educators, and that parents and teachers share the responsibility of educating children.
Ms. Ptasinski believes her greatest strengths as a teacher are a loving heart, a creative personality, dedication, an abundance of God-given energy, experience in both the classroom and the “real world” (i.e. the business world), and the possession of a joyous attitude toward both life in general and teaching, in particular.