Saint Michael Lutheran School operates a Christ-centered pre-school to meet the needs of children beginning at age three. The pre-school operates on a half, and full day basis. It promotes successful learning within a climate of discovery and hands-on experiences. Academic subjects are introduced with theme-based and child centered activities.

The kindergarten is a reading-writing kindergarten with an emphasis on phonics, reading readiness, developmental thinking, mathematical relationships and religion. The development of a meaningful academic program for future, formalized schooling is provided, including science and social study skills. The child also develops skill in handling school peer relationships.

All students need a firm foundation of basic knowledge in order to achieve success in their future education. At Saint Michael, we provide the tools in both elementary and middle grades that allow each child to confidently meet these challenges.

Each grade 1 through 3 classroom is essentially self contained with the classroom instructor responsible for instruction in all core academic subjects. Partial departmentalization is used in grades 4 and 5, while grades 6 through 8 are completely departmentalized in order to take advantage of each instructor's area of expertise. Specialty instructors teach Music, Art, Technology, Physical Education, Guidance, Spanish and Resource Room remediation and enrichment. All coursework throughout the day contains a Christian point of view.

* Viewing Grades Online:

As I mentioned before in my letter, we plan to continue the use of the Friday folder system of communication.  We plan to save some trees by not printing mid-term reports but simply reminding parents to go online and review each subject.  Mr. Rhinehart and I will have the instructors post grades from assignments, tests, quizzes, and projects within 14 calendar days. [This allows the staff to do grading and analysis over 2 weekends.]  I am confident most instructors will post sooner than later. On occasion a major project may take longer to grade and post. "  Robert J. Ziegler, Principal