Kindergarten
Our kindergarten program offers an advanced curriculum which prepares students for first grade. The child here, becomes familiar with the reading and writing process, critical thinking and problem solving. Reading, spelling, grammar, addition, subtraction, time, money, geometry, estimation are highlights of this curriculum.
Kindergarten Program:
Mathematics
- Develop Cardinal Numbers 1 to 20
- Counting_ Sets
- Problem Solving
- Measurement
- Ordering of numbers (greater or lesser)
- Mathematical reasoning
- Sequence of geometric designs and patterns
- Addition of numbers 1 to 0
- Subtraction of numbers 1 to 10
- Union of sets
- Knowledge of fractions.
Reading
- Knowledge that reading is enjoyable
- Various forms of genre
- Discrimination between SSR and reading aloud
- Words, hooks, pictures convey different types of inibrmation
- Comprehension strategies
- Develop visual discrimination
- Similarities/differences of words, phrases. sentences
- Daily reading from selected prose and literature
- Develop Dolch “sight vocabulary”
- Develop auditory differences and similarities of vowels. consonants (beginning and ending)
Writing
- Knowledge that writing can he used to tell about personal experience
- Used to share stories with each other
- Used as communication
- Used to organize important information
- Used to share feelings problem solving
- Daily journal writing
Listening
- Listening skills developed and refines through practice
- Rhyming Words
- Multi-step oral directions
- Language patterns
- Listening for purpose
Science
- Weekly experiments
- Ecosystems
- Introduction to archaeology/anthropology
- Weather
- Cooking
- Basic physics
Social Studies
- Egyptology
- Ancient Greeks
- Ancient China
- Colonial America
- Africa
Drama
- Thanksgiving program
- Winter program
- Spring program
- Impromptu dramatization
- Role play
Music
- Ear training
- Pitch
- Melody
- Tempo
Art
- Guided instruction
- Puppet making.
- Knowledge of color wheel
- Positive/negative artwork
- Development of symmetry
- Introduction to methods of Impressionists artists
- Self expression and creation
Self Concepts/Body
- Self-control of body
- Self expression through movement and dance
- Affective education (self-esteem)
- Physical education program
- Hygiene
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