Kindergarten Curriculum
Click here George (Joe) Norton, Kindergarten
Click here Dana Orwig, PS and KDG Chaplain
The Kindergarten classroom is prepared each day to meet the developmental needs of your children as they continue to grow. As with all developmental programs, we seek to educate the whole child, not just their intellect. The focus is to provide balanced activities that foster social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development, as well as fine motor and gross motor skills. This also includes emphasis on developing independence, self-discipline, and responsibility.
Learning is accomplished through one-to-one, small group, and large group interactions, as well as independent activities. An integrated, thematic approach is used to teach with relevance to lives of young children.
Language Arts involves children using all modes of communication: reading, writing, spelling, listening, illustrating, and doing. All these areas are drawn together to create learning experiences that involve more than one aspect at a time. Children’s literature through the Open Court Reading Program and the Reading Readiness program will be the foundation for this learning. Both programs allow students to work in small groups with the instruction from the teacher to develop and /or strengthen skills of letter recognition, phonological awareness, oral language, sound/symbol combinations and handwriting.
Math Their Way is an activity centered program using manipulative materials. Skills learned include such things as patterning, measuring, and comparing: weight, volume, time, and quantity, making and studying graphs, and experiencing counting, numeration, addition, subtraction, problem solving, and place value.
Science and Social Studies concepts will be explored through various methods as they are integrated into the curriculum.
In addition to these academic areas, spiritual growth is fostered in our classrooms. Bible readings and stories provide a basis for group discussion, as well as our participation in Chapel.