Kindergarten

CONCEPTS INTRODUCED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

  • Recognize, name and know phonetic sounds of letters A – Z
  • Recognize sounds of vowels, consonants, blends, diagraphs and compound words
  • Number recognition 1 – 100
  • Base ten introduction
  • Develop skill of telling time
  • Develop skill of addition, subtraction, fractions, estimation
  • Develop skills of patterning
  • Hands on math
  • Identify colors
  • Identify shapes – circle, square, triangle, rectangle, heart, diamond, oval, trapezoid, octagon, star, pentagon, cube, cylinder, half circle, sphere, cone, ovoid, ellipsoid, hemisphere, triangular prism, rectangular prism and octagonal prism
  • Exposure to a wide variety of art media
  • Refine scissor skills
  • Readiness skills including seriation, memory, classification, tactual discrimination, spatial relations, greater than/less than, one to one correspondence, equivalence and conservation
  • Refine self help skills
  • Gain confidence to respond alone and perform in front of peers
  • Develop a sense of the world around them through science
  • Develop sense of rhythm and music