Kindergarten Program Description

The Kindergarten program at St. Thomas Parish Cooperative Day School offers a continuation of your child’s preschool education in a small, family-oriented school setting. We enroll a maximum of 12 students to our program, so that we may offer more individualized instruction.

The Kindergarten program uses a thematic approach that integrates reading, writing, math, science social studies, art and music. The program gives each student the opportunity to participate through hands-on experiences and child-centered activities. All of our curriculum areas promote independence, creativity, social awareness and strong self esteem.

Journals are used to organize your child’s writing and show progressive development throughout the year. The method of inventive spelling is successful in the pre-writing process.

We use many manipulatives in our math program in an effort to guide your child in forming a concrete foundation of the underlying themes of math.