In TK, we offer a play-centered and developmentally appropriate learning environment for students to develop the necessary skills they will need to be successful in kindergarten. We teach lessons whole class, in small groups, and work individually with students, as needed. Students will learn and practice through music, play, and using many different sensory modalities.

MATH 

-One-to-One Correspondence (touching one item at a time while saying one number at a time)

-Subitizing (recognizing the number of objects in a small group without needing to count)

-Numbers: Recognization, Ordering, Comparing, Counting

-Colors

-Sorting

-2D and 3D Shapes

-Comparing Size, Length, Weight, Capacity

-Patterns

-Story Problems with Addition and Subtraction

-Graphing

-Time to the Hour

-Counting Pennies/Nickels/Dimes

LANGUAGE ARTS 

Heggerty Phonemic Awareness 

-Nursery Rhyme Recitations

-Rhyming

-Adding, Deleting and Substituting Phonemes (change m-ad to s-ad)

-Isolating Sounds (/t/ is the last sound in cat)

-Blending Phonemes

-Syllables

Daily Story Time

-Listening Comprehension

-Retelling Stories

-Concepts of Print (Left to Right Reading, Top to Bottom Reading, Author, Title, Illustrator)

-Letter Sounds

Fine Motor Writing Journals and Handwriting Without Tears

-Cutting

-Gluing

-Finger Strength

-Tracing and Copying

-Correct Pencil Grip

Social and Emotional Learning

Second Step Early Learning

-Skills for Focusing and Learning

-Empathy

-Emotion Management

--Friendship Skills

-Problem Solving

-Transitioning to Kindergarten

SCIENCE 

Little Kindergarten Science Thinkers

-Our Five Senses

-The Weather/Seasons

-Properties

-Plants

-Animals

-Force and Motion

HISTORY 

Little Kindergarten Social Studies Thinkers  

-Citizenship

-Then and Now

-Holidays Around the World

-My Community

-Our World

RECITATIONS 

For our recitations, we learn a new nursery rhyme every week. The nursery rhyme is taught through music and includes hand motions. Each quarter, we will perform several of these nursery rhyme songs for our families.

SPECIALTY CLASSES

-PE lessons will be taught by Mr. Rogers on Mondays.

-Students will visit the school library with Mrs. Wong on Mondays.

-Music lessons will be taught by Mrs. Outhier on Mondays.

-Spanish lessons will be taught by Senora Arias on Mondays.

-Art lessons through the Meet the Masters program will be taught once a month by Mrs. Wong and Mrs. Mata. They will be assisted by parent volunteers.