Kindergarten Program: Comprehensive Curriculum

Our kindergarten program includes self-directed activity and hands-on learning to help children make creative and independent choices. Our curriculum allows children to take their knowledge to new heights at their own pace.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonics Instruction – Daily instruction using the Primary Phonics Program.

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Identifying initial consonants and vowels
Segmenting and blending phonemes
Recognizing and producing rhyme
Syllables
Identifying and blending onset of rime

ALPHABET AWARENESS

Recognizing and naming letters
Alphabetical order
Capital and lowercase letter discrimination
Consonant and vowel discrimination

CONCEPTS OF PRINT

Concept of work and sentence
Track print left to right and top to bottom
Fluency
Automaticity practice
Repeated readings
Read aloud
Choral reading

VOCABULARY and WORD ANALYSIS

Automaticity practice high frequency words

WRITING

Writing letters of alphabet
Words

PHONICS

Sound to symbol correspondence
Blending onset/rime and phonemes
Initial consonants, vowels and digraphs
Comprehension
Context clues
Think aloud and visualization
Sequencing and predicting
Following directions
Literal recall and retelling
Story structure: Beginning-middle-end
Critical thinking

STAR WORDS

Star Words (Sight Words) are worked on daily in the Montessori kindergarten program. Students learn 3 new Star Words each week. Students complete a variety of activities with the words.

HANDWRITING

Daily instruction using the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting program.
Students use letter models with arrows to show stroke sequence
Green dots show where initial strokes begin
Practice writing letters and words

JOURNAL WRITING

Students complete journal pages at least three times per week.

MATHEMATICS

Daily mathematics instructions using spiral curriculum that provides for the following mathematics skills:

read numbers to 100
write numbers to 100
count objects
add and subtract numbers to 10
add and subtract doubles to 20
sizes and numbers
identify and continue patterns
give the value of a set of pennies and dimes
recognize pennies, nickels, dime and quarters
solve simple work problems
identifying basic shapes
telling time on an analog clock

SPECIALS

Daily Specials include Geography, Spanish, Life Skills, My Body, Science, Music and Movement