Our Pre-Kindergarten 4 program is designed to allow our children to experience the wonderful love of God while participating in research-based practices that develops the entire child.

 The PreK4 program is a five-day program from 8:25 - 3:20 pm using the standards provided by the Archdiocese of Washington.

Parents can opt to participate their child in the Extended Care Program (ECP) that begins at 6:45 am and ends at 6:00 pm.
For more information, please click here.

​The program's teacher to student ratio is 1:10. A Master Teacher is present as well as a staff assistant.

For families interested in Pre-Kindergarten, prospective students must be 4 by September 1 to be eligible to enroll.
2020 - 2021 Tuition for the year: Only $ 6,800! 

Space is limited to 20 students. To avoid the wait list this year, please apply early by clicking here

Students will be able to:
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• Develop religious and moral formation in a world badly in need of Gospel values.
  
• Show an understanding that God created each person and that being kind and respectful are ways of showing God's love to others.
• Develop a sense of self by offering to help another in need, demonstrating conflict resolution, asserting oneself verbally, taking actions to avoid conflict, showing trust in adults and demonstrating a knowledge of trustworthy and untrustworthy adults.
• Develop gross motor skills through running, jumping,  balancing, throwing/catching balls, develop self-expression through body language and working cooperatively on a physical task.
• Develop fine motor skills by grasping and manipulating small items, holding scissors and cutting in a straight line, creating recognizable shapes, manipulating materials intentionally, and refining hand-eye coordination.
• Develop cognitive skills by demonstrating problem solving skills, observing and examining items, engaging in elaborate role play, recognizing/creating/decoding patterns, introducing the concept of time, identifying written numbers and their significance in mathematics, seeking new information, demonstrating use of comparative words, using drawings or building to represent something specific, and counting to twenty.
• Develop language skills by developing a joy of reading, initiating or elaborating on conversation, recognizing letters by name and sound, understanding the structure of conversation, answering open-ended questions, communicating with complete sentences, recognizing that print has meaning, expressing complex ideas and questions, and using sound to create new words.
• Develop a sense of self-care/responsibility by introducing the concept of options, keeping track of personal belongings, participating in clean-up and group activities, moving through routines with few reminders, and demonstrating an understanding of classroom rules without guidance.
• Develop social behaviors by working cooperatively in groups with peers, maintaining a friendship, recognizing feelings and needs in others, engaging in negotiation to reach a solution, suggesting a solution to a problem, defending a peer’s rights, seeking adult assistance when necessary, and accepting compromise" (Towson, 2018)