ELA

Kindergarten students will develop learning skills in practicing their proficiency in the phonetic connection between speech sounds and the written symbols that represent these sounds referred to as phonograms. The Spalding program will increase their ability for automatic reading, writing and spelling.

Kindergarten students will be introduced to formulating complete sentence structure by utilizing nouns, verbs, adjectives, capitalization and punctuation. They will learn how to develop interrogative, declarative, informative and exclamatory sentences to begin making a paragraph.

Manuscript writing is taught using modeling, phonetic sounds and specific Spalding writing skills practices daily.

MATH

The Kindergarten students utilize the Saxon math curriculum.  They begin with learning math skills that are advanced by one grade level.  Students learn how to add and subtract up to two digits without regrouping, tell time to the hour and half hour, how to solve daily word problems using addition and subtraction skills,  fraction skills, patterns, number fact practice, decomposing numbers, number bonds, and utilizing odd and even numbers daily.  The Saxon math practices these skills daily throughout the year and continues to build on with new skills that will help review and grow with continued practice.

SOCIAL STUDIES

The Kindergarteners learn skills that will make them productive and supportive citizens within their community.  Students will learn topics such as: Our Community, American Symbols, Citizenship, Times Past and Present, and Economics within our Community. 

SCIENCE

Kindergarten students learn to explore, examine and investigate various science topics.  They will learn to gather information to learn about something that is new or less familiar to them. The topics are fueled by curiosity and a drive to learn and ask questions, manipulate objects and try things out to see what happens.  Some of the topics students explore are:  Seasons and seasonal changes, Types of Weather, Animals and their Habitats, Simple Machines and Tools, The Body and Body Systems, Landforms, Space and the Planets, and Health and the Food Groups.