What your child can expect in Kindergarten at St. Paul

St. Paul Lutheran School

Putting Faith in Education

· Christ centered instruction

· Learning centers

· Creative and age appropriate experiences

· Caring and loving atmosphere

· Well prepared for first grade and beyond (most students are reading by end of the year)

· Full day sessions.

Kindergarten Topics

 

Religion

· Apply God’s love to their daily life

· Realize that God has called His children to be helpers that tell others about Jesus

· Understand that God’s blessings are all around them

· Realize that God is always near

 

Language Arts

· Match upper-case letters with the lower-case letters

· Begin to use initial and ending consonant sounds

· Read level appropriate books

· Decode certain word families

· Begin to understand story structure: beginning, middle and end

· Begin to recognize high-frequency words

 

Social Studies

· Develop an understanding of city/town, state, country

· Identify the four seasons and their changes

 

Science

· Observe and describe characteristics of weather

· Observe and describe the sequence of simple life cycles

· Discuss basic health needs of human beings

· State properties of objects

 

Math

· Sort objects

· Create Patterns

· Use numbers 1-12

· Calendars and clocks

· Measurement and Money

· Addition concepts

· Subtractions concepts

· Introduction of geometry and fractions

· Introductions of greater numbers

 

Kindergarten Teacher

Mrs. Patti Kruse

 

This is Mrs. Kruse’s 10th year teaching kindergarten at St. Paul.  She previously taught second grade at St. Paul for five years.  Before coming to St. Paul, Mrs. Kruse taught nine years at St. Paul Lutheran School in Austin, Texas and seven years at Messiah Lutheran School in Independence, MO.  Mrs. Kruse is a graduate of Concordia University, River Forest, IL.

To Contact Us:

Phone: 815-562-6323

Fax: 815-561-8074

E-mail: stpaul@rochelle.net