Pre-Kindergarten

St. Martha Catholic School offers an enriched, challenging curriculum for all students, including 3 and 4 year olds just starting their academic journey. The focus of our Pre-Kindergarten program is Character Education.

The core program consists of Religion, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. Secular subjects incorporate the State of Texas Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines and the National Standards for Science and Math.

The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a Pre-K3 through 3rd grade program of spiritual support for the innate spiritual capacities of children. It conforms carefully to their stages of natural development, to lead them gently to encounter Our Lord Jesus Christ through Scripture, the Liturgy and the Sacraments. The learning experience of the preschool years provides a foundation that guides the child’s MIND – academically, HEART-emotionally and SPIRIT-socially. We provide a school environment that encourages the natural desire of a child to learn yet challenges children to engage in thinking, reasoning, and communicating with others.

At St. Martha Catholic School, our classrooms provide a place where children learn to make new friends, to share and to enjoy Christian living in a nurturing environment. Emphasis is placed on the young child’s conceptual learning, attainment of basic skills, and participation in meaningful, relevant learning experiences. This is achieved through learning centers, artwork, music, story time, outdoor play and numerous language experiences. Our teachers build upon the faith formation already begun at home. At SMCS, Religion is presented in an age-appropriate manner in the Atrium. The Atrium is meant to foster children’s developing relationship with Jesus, and to fall in love with Him.

In addition, our four-year-old Pre-Kindergarten students will continue to identify upper and lower case letters of the alphabet and their sounds while achieving mastery of identifying the difference between a letter and a printed word.

Pre-K4 students explore beginning reading skills through rhyming, identifying beginning letter sounds, and sounding out 2-3 letter words. Each child will develop reading comprehension foundations through retelling events of a story, sequencing, making plot predictions, and exploring the meaning of pictorial signs and illustrations.

Pre-Kindergarteners will enrich their fine motor skills through tracing and writing letters using a variety of tools and activities, develop the ability to form upper and lower case letters using basic print conventions and begin tracing and writing their first and last name.