In kindergarten, students are working on figuring out what numbers mean – how numbers connect to fingers, objects, movement, and each other. Of particular importance is how numbers (and the objects they represent) and shapes can be put together and taken apart to create something new, but related. These are powerful early steps in encouraging students to look for and name mathematical connections.

Kindergarten Language Arts Instruction creates the foundation for future language literacy learning and focuses on alphabetic principles, concepts of print, story telling, early writing, conversation and book knowledge. Reading, writing, listening, speaking and language instruction will be integrated within other subject areas throughout the day in order to help students acquire a wide range of literacy skills across contexts. In addition, 21st Century skills of creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking will be infused in the Kindergarten curriculum to give students the foundational skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed in future work and life.

Kindergarten Language Arts Instruction creates the foundation for future language literacy learning and focuses on alphabetic principles, concepts of print, story telling, early writing, conversation and book knowledge. Reading, writing, listening, speaking and language instruction will be integrated within other subject areas throughout the day in order to help students acquire a wide range of literacy skills across contexts. In addition, 21st Century skills of creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking will be infused in the Kindergarten curriculum to give students the foundational skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed in future work and life.

Kindergarten Language Arts Instruction creates the foundation for future language literacy learning and focuses on alphabetic principles, concepts of print, story telling, early writing, conversation and book knowledge. Reading, writing, listening, speaking and language instruction will be integrated within other subject areas throughout the day in order to help students acquire a wide range of literacy skills across contexts. In addition, 21st Century skills of creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking will be infused in the Kindergarten curriculum to give students the foundational skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed in future work and life.

Students in kindergarten will focus on developing the skills for systematic discovery to understand the science of the physical world around them in greater depth by using scientific inquiry. Students will learn about daily and seasonal changes, properties of everyday objects and materials and physical and behavioral traits of living things.

The kindergarten year is the time for children to begin to form concepts about the world beyond their own classroom and communities. Culture, heritage and democratic principles are explored, building upon the foundation of the classroom experience. Children deepen their learning about themselves and begin to form an understanding of roles, responsibility for actions and decision making in the context of the group setting.