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Kindergarten Curriculum |
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Children in Kindergarten continue to learn from the same types of activities
they enjoyed in preschool. They build upon their prior experiences to develop
expanded knowledge and understanding. Daily they are offered experiences
in art, music, literacy and language development, science, physical development,
math and social skills. They have time for block building, dramatic play,
talking and listening, and opportunities to make discoveries and learn from
each other in both small group and whole class activities. It is within
this framework that these skills and concepts are introduced and reinforced:
Literacy and writing skills
- Left-to-right and top-to-bottom orientation
- Recognition of upper and lower case letters
- Writing upper and lower case letters
- Recognition of the phonetic sounds of letters
- Recognition of basic sight words
- Recognition and writing of first and last name
- Listening
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- Speaking
- Viewing
- Directional words
- Rhyming
- Opposites
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The use of quality literature (books, poems, chants, fingerplays) and
the development of a basic sight word vocabulary are incorporated daily.
These skills are the basis for independent reading, yet it is important
to note that most children do not begin to read until they are between 6
and 8 years old.
Mathematics Skills
- Calendar skills: days of the week, months of the year
- Shapes: circle, triangle, oval, rectangle, square, crescent, arch,
semicircle and octagon
- One to one correspondence
- Identify money: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar
- Identify fractions: whole, half, fourth
- Recognition of and writing numerals 0 - 10
- Understanding number quantity 0 - 10
- Count sets to 10
- Rote count to 100
- Number families
- Concept of addition and subtraction
- Concept of more or less
- Patterns
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- Sequential order
- Spatial relationships
- Ordinals
- Comparing by size and quantity
- Measuring
- Estimation
- Colors
- Graphing
- Seriation
- Time to the hour
- Story problems
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These math and literacy skills are introduced and reinforced within the
context of themes explored by the class throughout the year. We do not expect
each child completing Kindergarten to have mastered everything presented.
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