Academics

Kindergarten French Immersion Program at a Glance

The aim of the Kindergarten program is to provide opportunities for children to learn about their environment through organized activities and purposeful play. Centre time is an integral part of each day in a Kindergarten classroom. Through play that is integrated across all curricular areas, children develop cooperation, independence, problem solving, communication and cognitive skills.

Literacy:

In French Language Arts we will cover the following:

  • Developing an appreciation for learning French

  • Use songs, stories, poems, actions, gestures to develop French vocabulary

  • Recognize and print own name

  • Listen to and respond to stories read aloud

  • Listen to experiences and feelings shared by others

  • Share personal experiences

  • Letter/Sound Recognition of letters

  • Print recognizable upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet

  • Identify words that start with the different letters of the alphabet

  • Reproduce/copy words accurately using a written model

  • Participate in group brainstorming & discussions about a specific sound/topic

  • Identify favourite books and stories

  • Retell stories-identifying main character, setting, problem, sequence events

  • Predict what comes next in a story

  • Ask questions and makes comments during listening and reading activities

  • Copy scribed words accurately

  • Journaling-create recognizable pictures with details with labels

Numeracy:

  • Say the number sequence 1 to 10 by 1s, starting anywhere from 1 to 10 and from 10 to 1.

  • Subitize (recognize at a glance) and name familiar arrangements of 1 to 5 objects or dots.

  • Relate a numeral, 1 to 10, to its respective quantity.

  • Represent and describe numbers 2 to 10, concretely and pictorially.

  • Compare quantities 1 to 10 using one-to-one correspondence.


Patterns and Relations:

  1. Demonstrate an understating of repeating patterns (two or three elements) by:
    • Identifying
    • Reproducing

• Extending
• Creating patterns using manipulatives (blocks, colours)

  1. Sort a set of objects based on a single attribute and explain the sorting rule


Shape and Space (Measurement):

  • Use direct comparison to compare two objects based on a single attribute, such as length (height), mass (weight) and volume (capacity)

  • Sort 3D objects, using a single attribute

  • Build and describe 3D objects

Reporting

The Kindergarten program is broken down into three terms and report cards will be sent home three times per year. The frist two reporting periods include a parent-teacher conference to discuss your child's progress. The third and final report goes home on the last day of school in June. While formal conferences take during a designated period, we are happy to disscuss your child's progress at any point in the year at your request.