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Early Learning Program

Academic development and achievement are very important at Everest Academy, so the pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten programs are academic in nature. However, the curriculum and teaching methods are also fully adapted to the ages of the young boys and girls.

Our program for three, four, and five-year olds aims to form the mind, the heart, and the will of each child in a safe, harmonious, and cheerful environment that allows true learning to take place.

Our teachers recognize the unique dignity and worth of each child as a person created in the image and likeness of God. They strive to give personal attention to each student, overseeing their healthy development both in academics and in play times. 

Pre-K3 Skills

Catholic Formation

  • Understand basic attributes of God
  • Develop a simple love for Christ
  • Develop a simple love for Blessed Mother Mary
  • Recognize some Old Testament stories
  • Recognize some New Testament stories
  • Develop a beginning understanding of angels and saints

Language Arts

  • Maintain sustained attention
  • Use appropriate listening skills
  • Dictate and recite simple stories
  • Use appropriate vocabulary
  • Use appropriate oral presentation skills
  • Be able to describe and express personal needs
  • Recount personal experiences
  • Recite alphabet and say sounds
  • Understand basic phonemic awareness concepts
    • Rhyme and rhythm
    • Segment words into sounds
    • Segment sentences into words

Understand Basic Book and Print Concepts

  • Understand basic directions
  • Categorize information heard
  • Give oral response to text
  • Know simple fairy tales, short stories, fables and legends
  • Recite simple poems
  • State characters and events of simple stories
  • Develop fine motor skills
  • Generate and dictate stories orally
  • Ask questions and know purpose of library

Math

  • Understand simple story problems
  • Order numbers 1-5
  • Estimate using the terms small, large, little and lot
  • Use pictures and objects to model problems
  • Count, read and write 1-10
  • Count 1-30 orally
  • Compare quantities up to 5
  • Recognize simple sets
  • Estimate sets up to 5 objects
  • Use terms put together and take away
  • Add and subtract numbers up to 5
  • Use simple computation strategies
  • Use simple measurement strategies
  • Understand cold, warm and hot
  • Recognize and identify value of penny and dollar bill
  • Understand basic terms related to time
  • Understand basic calendar concepts
  • Understand basic terms of orientation
  • Identify and use simple figures and solids
  • Identify patterns by color, size and shape
  • Use simple data analysis and probability concepts

Science

  • Understand basic concepts of the scientific process
  • Understand basic scientific thinking skills
  • Develop simple scientific habits
  • Use simple scientific tools
  • Know basics of earth and space science
  • Know basics of life science

History

  • Understand broad categories of time
  • Reconstruct the past
  • Identify historical figures
  • Know national holidays
  • Acquire information from historical source
  • Describe the past orally

Physical Education

  • Understand basic physical activity concepts
  • Participate in physical activities
  • Understand movement concepts and principles
  • Develop gross motor skills
  • Develop small motor skills
  • Develop team building skills
  • Understand physical activity provides enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction

Pre-K4 Skills

Catholic Formation

  • Understand basic attributes of God
  • Recognize the story of creation
  • Know basic Old Testament figures, such as Adam and Eve, Jonah, Noah, Daniel, and Moses
  • Know simple reasons for Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
  • Know basic New Testament stories
  • Develop a love for Blessed Mother Mary
  • Develop a love for Christ

Language Arts

  • Maintain sustained attention
  • Listen and follow directions
  • Retell and sequence stories
  • Participate in choral recitation
  • Use effective public speaking skills on grade level
  • Orally present with expressions, clarity, and in complete sentences
  • Decode one-syllable words
  • Effectively use phonemic awareness
  • Use book and print awareness
  • Understand the English cueing system
  • Use reading strategies to read simple text · Respond to text read
  • Use comprehension skills
  • Understand various types of literature: fairy tales, short stories, fables, legends
  • Understand elements of a story
  • Develop fine motor skills and use writing utensils properly
  • Use lined paper properly
  • Copy words and sentences
  • Choose a topic for a story and add details

Math

  • Solve various one step story problems
  • Order numbers 1-20
  • Estimate numbers of objects in a set
  • Predict likelihood of events
  • Count, read and write numbers 1-50
  • Recognize sets
  • Use ordinal positions 1st-10th
  • Compare quantities up to 20
  • Use computation vocabulary
  • Know fact families up to 10
  • Add and subtract whole numbers up to 10
  • Write number sentences
  • Understand basic measurement concepts
  • Understand basic temperature concepts such as cold, hot, warm, etc.
  • Understand money values
  • Understand clock concepts and read analog facts to the hour
  • Understand basic geometry concepts, such as position, orientation, figures: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, star, cross and solids: blocks, marbles
  • Identify various simple patterns
  • Collect, sort, classify, organize, compare and contrast, represent and interpret data

History

  • Understand basic historical concepts
  • Understand broad categories of time such as long ago, present, today
  • Compare and contrast yesterday and today
  • Use terms for location
  • Reconstruct the recent past
  • Develop knowledge of historical figures
  • Acquire information from historical source
  • Communicate the past

Geography

  • Understand basic location and direction
  • Use a simple globe and map
  • Use a simple political and world map
  • Identify various places on a map and globe such as land and water
  • Know basic land formations
  • Know basic water formations
  • Identify community characteristics
  • Identify features of earth

Science

  • Develop basic concepts of the scientific process
  • Identify and define variables in an experiment
  • Develop scientific thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, application, questioning, communication and problem solving
  • Develop basic scientific habits such as curiosity, creativity, cooperation, initiative, perseverance
  • Use simple scientific tools

Physical Education

  • Understand basic physical activity concepts
  • Participate in physical activities
  • Understand movement concepts and principles
  • Develop gross motor skills
  • Develop small motor skills
  • Develop team building skills
  • Understand physical activity provides enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction
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