The preschool class at Immaculate Conception School offers a three day program, Monday, Wednesday and Friday as well as a five day program. The hours for both are 8:15 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. The program introduces the children to a school setting and schedule as well as providing them with basic skills needed for kindergarten. Christian values are taught through example and bible stroies. The basic reading curriculum includes finger plays, songs, poems, stories, letter recognition and phonetic awareness. The basic math curriculum involves a series of presentations such as number recognition, graphing, measuring, sorting, counting and grouping to 20, less than, equal and greater than. The students also develop their fine motor skills (printing, coloring, cutting and gluing) and gross motor skills (running, jumping rope, skipping, bouncing, throwing and catching). Some of the concepts introduced, taught, and/or mastered are listening skills, colors, shapes, rhyming, synonyms and antonyms, comparatives and superlatives. The subjects offered are reading, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, computer science, art and gym.
Some special activities and celebrations are Dress Down Days, Activity Tables, Fourth Grade Buddy Days, Halloween, Advent, Jesus' Birthday, Grandparent's Day, Gym With Parents, Green Day - St. Patrick's Day, St. Joseph's Day, Easter Egg Hunt, Revere Fire Station Field Trip, Field Day and Step Up Day.