St. John the Evangelist Preschool

At St. John the Evangelist Preschool, we welcome children as young as 2½ years old into a nurturing, faith-filled environment where curiosity is encouraged, confidence is built, and a love of learning begins. Our program thoughtfully balances purposeful academics with meaningful play, allowing children to learn, grow, and thrive at their own pace.

Our preschool day runs from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., with an optional extended care program available until 6:00 p.m. to provide added flexibility for busy families.

Our curriculum is designed to support the whole child through hands-on learning experiences that foster cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual development. Children engage in age-appropriate literacy, math, science, art, music, and faith-based activities while developing creativity, problem-solving skills, and a lifelong love of discovery through play.

Children may enroll as early as 2½ years old as long as they are fully potty trained. 

St. John the Evangelist has a long-standing tradition of providing students with a strong academic and social foundation from the very beginning of their educational journey. By enrolling in preschool, children develop the confidence, independence, routines, and essential skills that prepare them for success in kindergarten and beyond.

8:00- 8:10: Drop-off

8:10 am - 8:20 am: Greeting & Sign-in

Children learn appropriate conversation skills and the pre-kindergarten (4's) students sign their own name every day. Also, all students find their photo and place it on our attendance board.

8:20 am - 9:00 am: Choice Time

Choice time gives children the opportunity to explore, create, and learn through purposeful play. During this time, students choose from a variety of engaging learning centers designed to build independence, creativity, and essential early childhood skills.

• Play Dough, Coloring & Fine Motor Activities strengthen hand muscles and improve pencil grip, coordination, and dexterity.
• Dramatic Play Areas—including the playhouse, office, and imaginative play centers—encourage creativity, language development, cooperation, and social-emotional growth as children role-play real-life experiences.
• Blocks, Building Materials & Train Sets develop problem-solving, critical thinking, engineering concepts, and spatial awareness while fostering teamwork and collaboration.
• Library Center introduces children to books, storytelling, letter recognition, vocabulary, and early literacy skills, helping to nurture a lifelong love of reading.
• Puzzles, Table Games & Manipulatives strengthen cognitive development by encouraging sorting, classifying, counting, patterning, logical thinking, and early math concepts.
• Sensory Exploration through sensory tables and hands-on materials promotes scientific inquiry, curiosity, fine motor development, and an understanding of different textures and materials.
• Art & Creative Projects inspire self-expression while teaching children to follow directions, solve problems creatively, and develop fine motor and pre-writing skills.

Through intentional play, Choice Time allows children to explore their interests, build confidence, develop social skills, and practice the foundational academic and life skills that prepare them for future learning.

9:05 am - 9:10 am: Clean-Up

Clean-up time teaches responsibility, team work, motor skills, 

and listening skills.

9:10 am - 9:30 am: Circle Time & Calendar

During this time we sing and do finger plays that promote literacy, spatial skills, and coordination. We also focus on math, counting, weather, calendar, and the Bible story of the week. Children learn spatial awareness, listening skills, patience, taking turns, and raising their hand to speak.

9:30 am - 9:40 am: Bathroom Break

Although the children can use the restroom when needed, this designated time is given for using the bathroom.

9:40 am - 10:00 am: Outside Play

Outside play develops gross motor skills, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and social skills. Basic movements and skills such as running, riding a tricycle, riding a scooter, climbing, jumping roping, swinging, and balancing are just a few things they practice during outside play.

10:00 am -10:30 am: Snack Time

Eating together teaches about food groups, manners, social skills, fine motor skills, independence, and making healthy choices. We wash our hands before snack. We also pray every day and recognize our snack friend and our parent helper at this time.

10:30 am - 11:15 am: Group Time

Group time curriculum covers a range of skills needed to enter kindergarten, such as beginning reading, writing, and math. Fine motor skills such as cutting are developed, and team work, socialization, and problem solving are enhanced. In particular, we spend time learning letter sounds, music and movement, and weekly cooking. Fine motor skills, cooperation, math and science skills, and cognitive growth are improved during cooking.

11:15 am - 11:30 am:  Second Outside Play

11:30 am - 11:45 am: Literacy Time

Our weekly literacy schedule includes story and comprehension activities, letter writing, writing in our journals, and share time. Language development, letter recognition, writing, and listening skills are main focuses for this time of the day. We focus on one book per week that fits into our theme and one book based on the letter of the week. We read aloud daily before pick up to encourage a love of reading and to teach about a variety of topics.

11:45 am - 11:55 am: Sharing And Book Baskets

One child shares something from home using the Sharing backpack. Then the children in each sharing group read quietly from the theme books in the basket.

11:55 am - 12:00 pm:  Dismissal And Clean-Up

Extended care is available from 7:00 am - 8:00 am and 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm.