Early Childhood

Our early childhood program provides a developmentally appropriate curriculum where young children can learn and explore. Early childhood children benefit from a curriculum that provides activities and skills from each developmental area that makes up the "whole child." These areas include spiritual, cognitive, language, physical, and Social Emotional Learning. The fifth area, SEL (Social Emotional Learning or EQ), is taught whenever the opportunity arises, and also specifically and deliberately in all other curriculum areas.

At St. Monica Catholic School, we view our Transitional Kindergarten program as a valuable "gift of time" for kids who need an extra year to develop before starting kindergarten. 
Our ​Transitional Kindergarten program ​gives children who are eligible for kindergarten, but not developmentally ready, time to mature and experience all the benefits of an environment that has been purposefully prepared. These ​children are part of our multi-aged early childhood classroom where they have the opportunity to model academic and/or social skills so that they are more confident and, therefore, more ready to enter kindergarten.
The program is designed to strengthen and build confidence in the whole child. Learning in all developmental areas spiritual, cognitive, language, physical, social and emotional are met by differentiating activities based on the levels of abilities and learning styles that are expected and accepted.