My name is Cheryl Steinhorst and I teach the PK/K Multiage class.  I have been at St. Kateri’s for 14 years!  I have been teaching in the Albany Diocese for over 20 years.  I received my Bachelor Degree and my 2 Master Degrees from the College of St. Rose.  I hold NYS Permanent Certification in both Elementary Education and Literacy.  I love teaching young children.  It is a blessing to watch the children grow and learn.


By the end of PreKindergarten, your child should be able to:
ELA
Recognize his/ her name
Print his/her first name
Retell stories
Identify the parts of a book (cover, back cover)
Identify what an author and an illustrator do
Recognize some upper and lower-case letters
Recognize and produce some letter sounds
Recognize and produce rhyming words
Draw pictures to answer questions about stories
Math
Recognize and write numbers 0- 10
Count to 20
1 to 1 Correspondence (4 dots is the number 4)
Duplicate and extend patterns
Compare objects by weight, length
Sort objects by same attributes (color, size, etc)
Identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles