Early Childhood

The Early Childhood Center – comprising Nursery, PreKindergarten and Kindergarten classes - is a component of Rosemont School's new Academic Center that opened on December 1, 2008. This addition provides Rosemont School with a state-of-the-art Nursery-PreKindergarten-Kindergarten Early Childhood Center whose programs will enable children to develop, grow and progess at a challenging pace. Our active child-centered classrooms and hands-on, age-appropriate curricula motivate each child to achieve intellectually, emotionally, and physically.

The Nursery program, which has been offered at RSHC for 12 years, can accommodate students in two primary rooms and one "breakout" or multi-purpose room.

The Early Childhood program is based upon an 8-to-1 student/teacher ratio in math and language arts. Teaching in small groups allows the teacher to get to know each student and meet their individual needs. This environment takes an interdisciplinary and multi-sensory approach to teaching children with age-appropriate manipulatives and thematic units, the children begin to explore the following areas:

• Pre-reading/Reading
• Math
• Social Studies
• Art (Kindergarten attends classes in the Lower School art studio)
• Science (Kindergarten attends classes in the Lower School science lab)
• Music
• Religion
• Language Arts
• Physical Education
• Computers
• Spanish (PreK, K)

Program/Approach
Through hands-on experience, learning through play, and small-group instruction, children develop the ability to stay on task, to express themselves verbally and artistically, and to be responsible members of a class. They also become aware of their role in God's family through religious teachings and traditions.

Reading, a cornerstone of the program, incorporates phonics instruction and whole language techniques. Nursery and PreKindergarten encourage reading readiness, and children are ready to learn to read by Kindergarten.

Special activities and field trips broaden the children's experience and provide them with performance opportunities. Each year they host and entertain parents and adult friends at activities such as Thanksgiving and Christmas programs, teas, medieval feasts or fun events such as "Breakfast with Dad."