Our kindergarten classes are stimulating and varied. Our program objectives include complete adjustment to school routine, the creation of a healthy interest in school, social adjustment (including proper behavior and manners); and the development of good work habits such as concentration and ability to follow directions.

CURRICULUM

Our curriculum includes:
 

• Visual recognition of the alphabet and an introduction to printing A to Z upper and lower case letters.


•  Beginning phonics.


•  Reading Readiness which trains:
  Verbal meaning; spatial relationships; speech fluency; visual discrimination; reasoning; memory; children who exhibit readiness to read begin word recognition and develop a reading vocabulary. We use the "Learning to Think Series" by Science Research Associates Inc. And correlating materials which supplement our text.


•  Mathematics Readiness which trains:
  Recognition of numerals 0 to 31 with concentration on the concepts for 0 to 10; deeper understanding of number, size, and shape; pattern recognition; sets; cardinal numbers; ordinal numbers; introduction to measurement and seriation; introduction to geometry; inequalities-informal number comparisons; equalities; recognition of subsets of sets; joining sets-building readiness for addition.


• Perpetual motor development in all areas of the curriculum.


• Art media employing various materials and projects such as:
  Paste, scissors; crayons; paints (tempera and finger); collage; seasonal decorations; paper sculpture.


• Social Studies:
  Discussions of special events and holidays during the year; interaction between groups of people; community occupations; manners; civic mindedness.


• My Weekly Reader newspaper.


• Science.


• Interpretive Dramatics.


• Music and rhythms.


• Conversational French.

Kindergarten prepares your child with the educational and social skills needed for first grade.

CULMINATING ACTIVITIES
  
In June the kindergarten classes present a program for their parents, after which they have a graduation ceremony. In caps and gowns they receive their diplomas signifying an important step forward, an educational milestone in their growth and development.