Curriculum

We use our C.A.R.E.S in Kindergarten!

Cooperation

Assertion

Responsibility

Empathy

Self-Control

Each week we will give our a special VIP award to a Kindergarten student who shows and uses their C.A.R.E.S. in our classroom. The last Friday of the month we will have a special VIP assembly to recongnize the friends that have received a special C.A.R.E.S award in the classroom.

Join us for K-2 assembly the last Friday of the month.

Reading at Home

In Kindergarten it is important to read daily with your children. After reading a book it is important to have a discussion about the book mo matter how simple or challenging the book. Here are some things to do with your children:

What is the Message? Focus on the message of the book no matter how simple. Ask your child:

What was your favorite part?
Which character do you like? Why?
Did this story remind you of somthing that has happened to you?

Word Trouble When your child struggles with a word in the book, first wait and give your child thinking time to figure the word out on his or her own. If the child still can't solve the word, ask one or two of these questions:

What would make sense there?
What could you try?
What do you know a word that starts like that?

The most important thing is to read with your child and get them to love books!!!!

Math

The goal of kindergarten math curriculum is to prepare children for first grade math. Please see below a list of objectives and goals for kindergarten math:

To count by rote to 120
The concepts of equality, more, and less
To classify and sort objects
To describe, extend, and build simple patterns
To count backwards from 10 to 0
To use one-to-one correspondence to count atleast 31 objects
To recognize numbers to 31 and beyond
To be able to write numbers
To recognize basic shapes
to understand up, down, under, near, on the side, etc. (basic directions)
To have a very basic idea of addition and subtraction
It also helps to expose the student to two-digit numbers.

Children may also get started with money, time, and measuring, though it is not absolutely necessary to master any of that. The teacher should keep it playful, supply measuring cups, scales, clocks, and coins to have around, and answer questions.

Counting

Mathematics starts with COUNTING. Let children count all kinds of things they see or use. Use simple counting games, such as:

· Number Top-it: Have a deck of regular playing cards minus the picture cards. Each person draws a card. The one with a higher number wins all the cards played in that round. This can teach both number recognition and counting, because the child can count those little pictures (hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds) on the card.

· A variation of the one above: deal two cards to each person. The person with a higher TOTAL wins all the cards played in that round. Children will learn basic addition!

· Use any board game. Have the markers advance as many steps as a die or dice show. The child will need to count the dots on the die or dice, and then count steps to move his marker.

· Lay a bunch of dominoes face down on the table. A child picks one, you pick one. The person with a higher "dot-count" gets both dominoes.

· Lay a bunch of dominoes face UP on the table. A child picks one and places it on the table to start the "train". The next person picks one so that its end matches one end of a domino already laid.

· Play with marbles or blocks or similar objects. You take some objects, and ask the child to take for himself as many as you have AND ONE more. Then it's the child's turn to take some, and you need to take the same amount plus one more. Reverse the game later to do ONE LESS.