Kindergarten Program

Kindergarten is one of the most exciting and exhilarating year of your child's school life.  Our kindergarten curriculum is focused on creating a successful, happy, intelligent child in preparation for the rest of your child's life.  At the end of the year you will be surprised!

The curriculum is developed to address the needs of the individual child.  The kindergartner will be excited to successfully perform in the following content areas in order to be ready to go to first grade:

Math

-  Number Sense

-  One to one correspondence

-  Classify and sort objects

-  Count from 1 through 100

-  Match sets

-  Write numbers 1-20

-  Addition facts to 10

-  Subtraction facts to 5

-  Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter

-  Identify triangle, square, rectangle, circle

-  Tell time to the hour

-  Identify clock, thermometer, ruler and yardstick

-  Recognize patterns

Language Arts

-  Phonemic Awareness

-  Phonics

-  Fluency

-  Comprehension

-  Vocabulary

Science

The Science curriculum is centered on themes that develop an awareness for we world in which we live:

-  Animals and plants

-  Seasons of the year

-  The five senses

-  Weather

-  Exploration and investigation

-  Health and body awareness

Social Studies themes are:

-  All about me

-  School awareness

-  Community awareness

-  Making relationships

-  Sense of surroundings

Music

-  Listening Skills

-  Rhythm

-  Enjoy songs

-  Compose songs

-  Tap out and repeat rhythms

-  Create movements in response to music

Art

-  Drawing

-  Painting

-  Printmaking

-  Creating space with blocks

Physical Development

-  Exercise

-  Move freely with confidence

-  Change directions to avoid objects

-  Move in various ways (crawling, skipping, etc.)

-  Balance with various parts of the body

Writing

-  Attempts writing stories and poems

-  Writes familiar words

-  Organize writing on paper

Handwriting

-  Formation of upper & lower case letters

-  Manipulates pencil with increasing control

Technology

Computers are fast becoming the basic requirement for every aspect of life.  We use the computer as an aid to the child's mental skills and imagination.