We use leveled picture books and proven classroom routines to teach reading. In guided reading, your child will work in a small group with a teacher using books at just the right level to build confidence while practicing decoding, sight words, and comprehension strategies. The teacher provides targeted prompts and supports to help students apply strategies independently. In shared reading, the whole class reads one text together while the teacher models fluent reading, points out print features, and builds vocabulary and background knowledge. These two approaches together ensure children develop strong early reading habits, fluency, and a love of books.

The Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Spelling, and Word Studies program is a research-based instructional approach designed to develop foundational literacy skills in kindergarten students. This program focuses on nine key areas of word study: letter knowledge, phonemic awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, spelling patterns, word meaning, word structure, phonological awareness, and fluency. Through systematic, sequential instruction, students engage in purposeful learning activities that build their understanding of how letters, sounds, and words work together. Our classroom instruction incorporates interactive lessons, guided practice, and independent activities that allow students to explore word patterns, recognize letter-sound relationships, and apply these skills to reading and writing. 

This program delivers explicit, sequential lessons in letter–sound relationships, blending, segmenting, and spelling. Kindergarten students learn sounds for letters and common letter patterns through multisensory activities—songs, manipulatives, writing practice, and games—that make learning engaging and memorable. Lessons include practice in applying phonics to real reading and simple writing tasks so children can transfer skills from isolated drills to meaningful reading and early composition. Regular review and cumulative practice ensure skills stick.

Our handwriting instruction focuses on correct letter formation, consistent stroke order, and proper pencil grip. Kindergarten lessons begin with gross- and fine-motor warm-ups, teacher modeling of letter strokes, and guided practice on developmentally appropriate pages. Students progress from tracing to independent letter writing and simple words, with attention to spacing and sizing. Building these foundational motor and visual skills supports legibility and helps children write more comfortably and confidently.

Progress in Mathematics emphasizes concrete experiences that develop number sense and problem-solving. In kindergarten, children work with counters, ten-frames, and other manipulatives to learn counting, comparing quantities, composing and decomposing numbers, and early addition and subtraction ideas. Units also cover shapes, patterns, measurement, money, and sorting. Lessons move from hands-on discovery to pictorial representations and finally to simple symbolic notation, helping students form a deep conceptual understanding rather than only memorizing procedures. 

The Nancy Larson science curriculum uses guided inquiry and hands-on investigations to spark curiosity about the natural world. Kindergarten units focus on observation, sorting, and asking questions as students explore plants, animals, weather, materials, healthy habits, the five senses, and motion through simple experiments and exploration stations. Lessons build vocabulary and scientific thinking by having children describe what they see, predict outcomes, and talk about results.

Scholastic’s social studies resources for kindergarten center on community, family, rules, and the basics of geography and citizenship. Through read-alouds, picture books, maps, songs, and role-play, children learn about different jobs, community helpers, rules that keep us safe, American symbols, and age-appropriate current events.

We use Fry's First 100 Sight Words as a year‑long tool to build word recognition, fluency, and confidence. Words are taught and reinforced across reading, writing, and classroom routines: our "word garden"/"word wall", shared reading, morning messages, interactive games, and hands‑on activities. Daily practice and frequent exposure in meaningful contexts help students move from recognition to automaticity, supporting decoding, comprehension, and early writing. Frequent formative checks and small‑group instruction guide pacing and provide targeted support so all learners progress. Summative assessments are administered every few weeks on new sets of words to track mastery and inform instruction.