Our curriculum consists of four subjects. Below you will find some of the items covered in each subject.
Language Arts
In Pre-K students develop a basic understanding of sounds associated with letters, and gradually are able to blend phonemes into words and later words into sentences to express how they feel. Their vocabulary expands and their listening and speaking skills are used to communicate. Libraries provide valuable experience with books and print.
Students will be able to:
Math
By the end of Kindergarten, students understand small numbers, quantities, and simple shapes, in their everyday environment. They count, compare, describe and sort objects and develop a sense of patterns.
Students will be able to:
A large part of our kindergarten science program involves using the five senses to explore our surroundings. We also spend much of the year learning about animals, their needs, what they eat and their habitats, and have many field trips to give real life experiences with them. Students also explore the plant world, by learning how plants grow and change and understanding their needs and learning the parts of a plant. Finally, students explore living and non-living things, magnets, and forces and motion (pushing and pulling), parts of the body, weather conditions and the four seasons.
The student will be able to:
Discover relationships of growth and change (matter, plants, animals), and cause and effect, based on concrete experiences
Observe and make discoveries (using all senses)
Classify by similarities and differences
Communicate observations and classifications (describe, draw, graph data)
Predict events based on observations
Understand simple body parts and their functions
Understand the lifecycle of a hen.
Social Studies
Young children gain an awareness of themselves, their family members and their classroom environment. They develop respect for people at school, including teachers and classmates, and learn that rules such as listening respectfully to others and waiting one’s turn help to work in a group. Students are encouraged to develop their own characters and to become good citizens.
Students will be able to:
Language Arts
In Pre-K students develop a basic understanding of sounds associated with letters, and gradually are able to blend phonemes into words and later words into sentences to express how they feel. Their vocabulary expands and their listening and speaking skills are used to communicate. Libraries provide valuable experience with books and print.
Students will be able to:
- Recognize letters A-Z
- Recognize and write upper case and lower case letters.
- Recognize their name and be able to write it.
- Say the sound of each letter and recognize words beginning with that letter.
- Understand concepts about print:
- Print is speech written down, recognizing left to right and top to bottom
- Identify phonetic patterns. For example: [cat - fat - mat] [wig - pig- dig] [hen- pen- ten].
- Develop decoding skills based on phonetic patterns.
- Develop sight-word vocabulary of signs and print in our environment.
- Develop phonological awareness i.e.: the ability to hear, identify and manipulate thousands of spoken words. (Activities include recognizing and producing rhyming words, counting words within sentences and syllables within words and identifying individual sounds within words.)
- Recall songs, nursery rhymes, finger plays and bedtime stories.
- Retell the story in his/her own simple words after hearing a story several times.
- Distinguish between real and make believe/pretend.
- Be accurate in sequencing when retelling a story.
- Listen respectfully and take turns when speaking and listening
Math
By the end of Kindergarten, students understand small numbers, quantities, and simple shapes, in their everyday environment. They count, compare, describe and sort objects and develop a sense of patterns.
Students will be able to:
- Use, count, recognize numbers up to 10.
- Use ordinal numbers (l st, 2nd, 3rd)
- Use basic concepts of order and position.
- Sort and classify objects by color, shape and size.
- Recognize, create and extend simple patterns.
- Identify four plane figures ( square, circle, rectangle, triangle)
- Understand and use positional words correctly (on. in, out, top, bottom)
- Use comparative words that relate to number, size, shape and color
- Use time words (yesterday, today, tomorrow)
- Organize and classify and record information about two groups of objects in graphs.
A large part of our kindergarten science program involves using the five senses to explore our surroundings. We also spend much of the year learning about animals, their needs, what they eat and their habitats, and have many field trips to give real life experiences with them. Students also explore the plant world, by learning how plants grow and change and understanding their needs and learning the parts of a plant. Finally, students explore living and non-living things, magnets, and forces and motion (pushing and pulling), parts of the body, weather conditions and the four seasons.
The student will be able to:
Discover relationships of growth and change (matter, plants, animals), and cause and effect, based on concrete experiences
Observe and make discoveries (using all senses)
Classify by similarities and differences
Communicate observations and classifications (describe, draw, graph data)
Predict events based on observations
Understand simple body parts and their functions
Understand the lifecycle of a hen.
Social Studies
Young children gain an awareness of themselves, their family members and their classroom environment. They develop respect for people at school, including teachers and classmates, and learn that rules such as listening respectfully to others and waiting one’s turn help to work in a group. Students are encouraged to develop their own characters and to become good citizens.
Students will be able to:
- Develop friendships and relationships with others.
- Learn about and celebrate traditional holidays and special days in other cultures.
- Learn about jobs that people do in the community.
- Show different feelings e.g. (happy, sad, angry and scared).
- Name family members and extended family. (Project: Family Tree).
- Understand the importance of personal hygiene and being clean, tidy and organized.
- Use games, songs and rhymes which involve awareness of personal hygiene and appearance.
- Understand the importance of safety at home, at school and in the environment.
- Help at school and learn co-operation.