Kindergarten
Language Arts
- Phonemic awareness
- Print awareness
- Letter formation
- Sound and letter recognition, sequencing, and blending
- Dictation
- Listening skills
- Punctuation
- Recitation
- Literature
- Weekly visits to the school library
Math
- Calendar skills
- Numeral printing
- Geometric shapes
- Measurement
- Rote counting
- Graphing
- Place value, addition & subtraction
- Time & Money
- Numerical sequence
- Classifying and sorting by numbers
- Quilting
- Patterns
Social Studies
- Seasons
- Community
- Patriotism
- Native Americans
- Holiday traditions and cultures
- Nutrition
- Plants and flowers
Science
- The five senses
- Sifting through science
- Garden
- Sink & float
- Penguins
- Magnets
- Solar System
- Astronomy
- Insects
- Living verses non-living
Physical Education
- Fine Motor: Develop and refine through repeated usage of scissors, pencil, markers, glue, small building sets, buttons and zippers
- Gross Motor: Develop large muscle strength and coordination in arms and legs through repeated usage of outdoor and indoor activities and play equipment
Musical Movement
- Body and space awareness
- Gross motor and fine motor skills
- Manipulative skills (throwing, catching, dribbling, kicking, jumping rope)
- Elements of movement
- Self-initiated movement and expression through music, poems and stories
Art
- Colors
- Thematic projects
- Study of artists
- Creative exploration
- Lines and textures
Music
- Developmental music; dramatic play
- Development of the following through the Musical Movement program: singing; percussion band; aural skills (high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft, steady beat); exposure to folk, classical, patriotic and children's favorites
Spanish
- Simple conversation
- Greetings
- Singing
- Simple commands and directions using puppetry and song
- Vocabulary development through recognition of familiar objects
- Introduction of culture & customs
Cooking Program which includes development of concepts using all of the 5 senses through concrete experiences