Our Extended School Services (ESS) program is available to families needing care for their children beyond regular school hours, both before & after school. Learn more →
The early education period, specifically from Kindergarten through 4th grade, is critical for children to develop the fundamental skills and knowledge that shape their future academic and personal success. Our program, which focuses on academic excellence, small class sizes, and diversity, offers a strong educational foundation, challenges students, and promotes cultural understanding and inclusivity. This sets children on a path of lifelong learning and success.
Curious what we're doing in the classroom? Get to know our teachers and take a peek at each classroom's curriculum and offerings below!
Reading – Curriculum: SuperKids & Heggerty
Phonics/decoding skills and decoding longer words, developing fluency skills. Comprehension strategies such as: predicting/inferring, questioning, summarizing, and evaluating, comparing and contrasting, story structure, distinguishing between realism/fantasy and solving problems
Phonics, phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, writing, grammar
Writing – Curriculum: Handwriting Without Tears & SuperKids
Formation of letters, spacing, stroke, size and proportion, daily practice in manuscript
Math – Curriculum: McGraw Hill – MyMath
Counting, number writing, addition and subtraction, patterning, graphing, strategies, classifying, logical thinking, problem solving, shapes, measurement
Science – Curriculum: Mystery Science
“Force Olympics” (Pushes & Pulls), “Sunny Skies” (Sunlight & Warmth), “Circle of Seasons” (Weather Patterns), “Wild Weather” (Severe Weather), “Plant and Animal Secrets” (Plant & Animal Needs)
Focus: Environment, physical science, earth science, animals, and plants
Social Studies – Curriculum: StoryPath & Scholastic News
Communities, neighborhoods, families
Religion/Theology – Curriculum: Christ Our Life
God loves us, growing in God’s love, sharing God’s love, celebrating God’s love, Bible stories, “The Sign of the Cross”, Grace before meals, “Lord’s Prayer”, “Hail Mary”
Social-Emotional – Curriculum: Second Step
taking turns, sharing, following directions
Reading – Curriculum: SuperKids
Developing phonics, fluency and comprehension skills.
Writing – Curriculum: SuperKids
Writing opinion, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts.
Math – Curriculum: MyMath
Developing addition and subtraction skills, place, values, measurement, and atributes, geometric shapes.
Science – Curriculum: Mystery Science
Planning investigation, asking and answering questions, evaluating data.
Social Studies – Curriculum: StoryPath, Scholastic News
Developing an understanding about economy, geography, and history. Focusing on families and communities.
Religion/Theology – Curriculum: Christ Our Life
Creation, Jesus and the Church
Social-Emotional – Curriculum: Second Step
Growing in empathy, kindness, and respect for others.
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Reading – Novels: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Love That Dog, What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Women's History novel
Focus: Reading to learn with reading strategies for all genres, Book reports and book groups.
Writing – Curriculum: Zaner Bloser-Grammar, Writer’s Express & Cursive Writing
Focus: The steps of the writing process, sentence and paragraph formation, grammar, descriptive, narrative, persuasive, expository writing.
Handwriting: Proper manuscript and cursive writing
Math – Curriculum: My Math & IXL (online)
Focus: Expand skills and understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, graphing and measurement.
Science – Curriculum: Mystery Science
Focus: Earth's features, sound waves, Human body, vision and brain structure, Energy and Electricity.
Social Studies – Curriculum: Scholastic News & IXL
Focus: Native Americans, Washington, Washington State history, geography, economics
Religion/Theology – Curriculum: Christ Our Life
Focus: The sacraments, reading the Bible, parts of the Mass, Jesus' life and teachings.
Social-Emotional – Curriculum: Second Step
Focus: The skills of friendship development, empathy, bystander help, reporting, assertiveness, resilience.
Chess Club
All School Mass every Wednesday
Field Trips to -
The Mountlake Terrace Library
Swan Farms - Washington Corn Maze
The Burke Museum - Artifact boxes
The Seattle Art Museum
Mohai - Museum of History and Industry
Class buddies with Pre-School twice a month
ASB class representatives
Food drive for St. Vincent dePaul in November