Kindergarten
Entering Kindergarten is an exciting milestone in your child’s life. Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School provides a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment while fostering the development of the whole child and a commitment to faith and academic excellence. From the moment they walk through the door, our kindergarteners feel at home.
Curriculum
ReadingFocus: We focus on letter sounds, progressing from sounds to CVC, CVCC, to CCVC words. We also learn sight words. SuperKids is a reading, writing, and phonics curriculum, helping students to build their knowledge through: books, songs, games, and workbooks.
Textbook: SuperKids, Heggerty Phonemic Awareness |
WritingFocus: We focus on using lines to help us form both uppercase and lowercase letters. Each SuperKids unit includes writing prompts, booklets, and handwriting paper to help students get their stories on paper.
Textbook: SuperKids |
MathFocus: We use the Eureka Math curriculum to sharpen our skills with shapes, number recognition, comparison of lengths, addition and subtraction to 10, and counting.
Textbook: Eureka Math |
ScienceFocus: We gain a better understanding of: animal needs, plant needs, severe weather, weather patterns, sunlight and warmth, and pushes and pulls. All our units include hands-on activities. We also encourage scientific curiosity using mini-lessons to answer questions like: why do we have leap year? and why do whales sing? In the fall we study the life cycle of pumpkins and take a field trip to the pumpkin patch!
Curriculum: Mystery Science
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Social StudiesFocus: We have five Social Studies Units: Citizenship, Then and Now, Holidays Around the World, My Community, and Our World. In each unit, students use a workbook to show their understanding. Students learn using books, videos, games, and drawings to emerse themselves into each unit.
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ReligionFocus: We begin our religious studies focusing on how to treat others with kindness, as we are all made in the image of God. In November Kindergarteners will do a Saint project and present their Saint to the class. We also focus on Mary and the Liturgical seasons.
Textbook: God Loves Us |
Social/Emotional SkillsFocus: We focus on having a growth mindset, kindness, respect, and problem solving. October is National Bullying Prevention Month. During this month we have a lesson every week focusing on recognizing, refusing, reporting, and bystander power.
Textbook: Second Step |
Service and Leadership
Enrichment
Special Events
"There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you... until the day you begin to share your stories. And all at once, in the room where no one else is quite like you, the world opens itself up a little wider to make some space for you."
I was born and raised in the Seattle area, attending Holy Rosary West Seattle before venturing off to Kennedy Catholic High School. I graduated from Gonzaga University in 2020 with a Bachelors of Arts and Sciences in Psychology and my elementary teaching certificate. I began teaching Kindergarten at OLL in 2021.