Kindergarten Study Topics
• Religion: The Voyages curriculum emphasizes Jesus’ love for each student. This focus incorporates God’s love for us as shown in His plan for our salvation. The Bible stories are enhanced through chapel worship, songs, puppets, books, and finger plays.
• Reading/Language Development: This Houghton Mifflin program is a print-rich, activity-based curriculum that nurtures emergent literacy, phonics skills, and emergent writing. It utilizes a variety of literature and genre.
• Phonics: Fostering strong phonemic awareness, this curriculum provides take-home books, high-frequency sight words, and handwriting activities.
• Mathematics: Houghton Mifflin helps students develop the math skills foundation they need to succeed in school for a lifetime. Students explore the concepts of numeration (counting), measurement, shapes, operations and functions, estimating, graphing, time, money, and data organization with the use of hands-on materials.
• Science: This Harcourt curriculum promotes the child’s awareness of the physical earth and life sciences. Units of study include: Animals, plant, earth’s land, weather and seasons; physical properties of objects and how they react with others. Water as solid, liquid or gas.
• Social Studies: Kindergartners are curious about the world. Scott Foresman social studies expands kindergartners’ knowledge of their own world and the world around them. The curriculum blends concepts, skills, and interactive learning. Units of study include – Who we Are, Communities, Work, Our Earth, The USA, and Family Stories.
• Computer: students reinforce basic math and reading skills using a variety of educational software. Students begin practicing mouse control.
• Art/Music/P.E./Choir: These areas of learning promote the child’s awareness of cultural and aesthetic value in the fine arts as well as development of fine and gross motor skills.
• Reading/Language Development: This Houghton Mifflin program is a print-rich, activity-based curriculum that nurtures emergent literacy, phonics skills, and emergent writing. It utilizes a variety of literature and genre.
• Phonics: Fostering strong phonemic awareness, this curriculum provides take-home books, high-frequency sight words, and handwriting activities.
• Mathematics: Houghton Mifflin helps students develop the math skills foundation they need to succeed in school for a lifetime. Students explore the concepts of numeration (counting), measurement, shapes, operations and functions, estimating, graphing, time, money, and data organization with the use of hands-on materials.
• Science: This Harcourt curriculum promotes the child’s awareness of the physical earth and life sciences. Units of study include: Animals, plant, earth’s land, weather and seasons; physical properties of objects and how they react with others. Water as solid, liquid or gas.
• Social Studies: Kindergartners are curious about the world. Scott Foresman social studies expands kindergartners’ knowledge of their own world and the world around them. The curriculum blends concepts, skills, and interactive learning. Units of study include – Who we Are, Communities, Work, Our Earth, The USA, and Family Stories.
• Computer: students reinforce basic math and reading skills using a variety of educational software. Students begin practicing mouse control.
• Art/Music/P.E./Choir: These areas of learning promote the child’s awareness of cultural and aesthetic value in the fine arts as well as development of fine and gross motor skills.
