Sister Lois Buckley is the junior kindergarten enrichment program instructor. Sister Lois brings many years of experience as a Montessori-trained educator to the program.
The Montessori philosophy focuses on the individuality of the child in respect to their personalized needs and talents, as opposed to the needs of the class as a whole. The goal of St. John the Evangelist’s junior kindergarten enrichment program is to help the child maintain their natural joy of learning and augment the principal junior kindergarten program.
Some of the activities available to students include:
• Daily classroom responsibilities
• Mantras and prayer
• Art study
• T’ai chi chih, joy through movement
• Science experiments
• Geometric shapes study
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