MissionBasilicaSchool Pre-K Curriculum

Philosophy

Mission Basilica School Pre-K is guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church and best practices in early childhood education. We are dedicated to the following values:

  • Parents as the primary educators
  • Children are spiritual
  • Development of the whole child
  • Community
  • Collaboration
  • Social justice
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Active learning
  • Respecting the dignity of the child

Mission Basilica Pre-K offers

  • Licensed facility and staff #304270251
  • WASC/WCEA accredited curriculum
  • Credentialed teacher
  • One to 12 teacher- to- student ratio, with a maximum class size of 24 students
  • Licensed extended day care
  • Curriculum driven by the California Preschool Learning Foundations
  • CAST’s Universal Design for Learning for differentiated instruction
  • Photos and webpage updates
  • Technology integrated throughout the curriculum

Religion/Christian Service

  • Attend weekly school mass, any other special mass days and Holy Days of Obligation
  • Allelu! by Our Sunday Visitor (Pre-K Edition)
  • Liturgical and communal prayer
  • Monthly deliveries peanut butter and jelly to Serra’s Pantry
  • Catholic Relief Service’s The Rice Bowl
  • Annual care packages to Operation Gratitude

Physical Education

  • Formal PE class 2x a week
  • Fundamental movement skills
  • Manipulative skills
  • Perceptual-motor skills and movement concepts
  • Active physical play

Health

  • Basic hygiene
  • Knowledge of wellness
  • Sun Safety
  • Injury prevention
  • Nutrition
  • Scholastic Weekly Reader Magazine
  • Home access to all Weekly Reader magazines, videos, and interactive games
  • Fire safety demonstration
  • Dental health demonstration

Mathematics

  • Number sense
  • Algebra and functions (classification and patterning)
  • Measurement
  • Geometry
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Hands-on activities
  • Tiered groupings
  • Creative Mathematics curriculum

Language Arts

  • Language use and conventions
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Concepts about print
  • Phonological awareness
  • Alphabetics and word/print recognition
  • Comprehension and analysis of age-appropriate text
  • Literacy interest and response
  • Writing strategies
  • Tiered groupings
  • Interactive reading
  • Handwriting Without Tears’ Get Set for School
  • Personalized journaling
  • Give Me 20 Reading Challenge

Social Studies

  • Culture and diversity
  • Relationships
  • Social roles and occupations
  • Skills for democratic participation
  • Responsible conduct
  • Fairness and respect for others
  • Conflict resolution
  • Sense of time (history)
  • Anticipating and planning future events
  • Personal history
  • Historical changes in people and the world
  • Sense of place (geography and ecology)
  • Caring for the natural world
  • Understanding the physical world through drawings and maps
  • Marketplace (economics)
  • Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline
  • Scholastic’s Weekly Reader Magazine
  • Home access to all Weekly Reader magazines, videos, and interactive games
  • Participation in traditional United Nations Day
  • Introduced to another county’s traditions and geographical location

Science

  • Observation and investigation
  • Documentation and communication
  • Properties and characteristics of nonliving objects and materials
  • Changes in nonliving objects and materials
  • Properties and characteristics of living things
  • Changes in living things
  • Properties and characteristics of earth materials and objects
  • Changes in the earth
  • Scholastic’s The Science Spin Magazine
  • Home access to all Science Spin magazines, videos and interactive games
  • Weekly visits to the fish pond on the Mission grounds
  • Hatching eggs and care of chicks

Visual and Performing Arts

●Art, Music, and Drama are integrated with language arts, social studies, science, and religion

Spanish

  • Spanish class once a week.
  • Introduction to vocabulary, colors, objects, numbers, songs

Music

  • Weekly music class
  • Students have ability to learn new songs, movement through song and introduction to different instruments
  • Familiarity with weekly songs sung at Friday school mass

Art

  • Weekly class lessons on varied artists throughout different periods of history
  • Instruction on the art theory and artistic styles
  • Opportunity to recreate varying artists work