Five year old children learn through hands on, stimulating and challenging experiences.  Our curriculum follows the guidelines of the school district for Kindergarten.  It is designed to meet your child’s needs intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally.  The curriculum areas include Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, Art, Music, Physical Education and Spanish.  The teachers use a variety of methods to teach these content areas such as centers, small and large group instruction, and direct one to one instruction.  Listed below are many skills that are covered while your child is in the Five Year Old Room.

• identifying upper and lower case letters
• rhyming words
• recognizing and identifying initial consonant sounds
• sequencing and retelling stories
• making predictions
• begin writing and using phonetics to spell words
• writing first and last name
• learns birthday, address, and phone number
• rote counting to 100 by ones and tens
• identifies numbers 0-20
• print numbers 0-20
• identifies shapes
• introduce time, length, and volume
• identify first, next and last
• identify patterns
• graphing
• sorting and classifying
• introduce concept of money
• learn holidays and what they represent
• learn how plants grow
• identify parts of the body
• learn how living things function and react
• learn about the solar system
• galloping, hopping, rolling underhand, pushing and pulling objects
• listening and following directions
• cutting with scissors
• develop an awareness of personal spaces and respecting others
• Spanish