Kindergarten
- Understand numbers from 1-30
- Learns one-to-one correspondence
- Creating, recognizing, and extending simple patterns
- Identifying Concepts of time: clocks, days, weeks, months, and seasons
- Measurement
- Addition readiness
- Subtraction readiness
- Money and time
- Spatial positions
- Concepts of more than, less than, and equal to
- Counting from 1-100, understanding 2s, 5s, 10s
- Even/odd numbers
- Place value
- Learn 26 upper and lowercase letter/sounds
- Identify first, middle, and last sounds
- Learn about syllables in words
- Recognize and produce rhymes
- Read CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words
- Identify short and long vowel sounds
- Reads first 50 sight words (Fry's list)
- Understands character, setting, and the sequence of events
- Appreciation and enjoyment of reading
- Writes first and last name
- Writes uppercase and lowercase letters
- Ues capital letters at beginning of the sentence and for proper nouns
- Practice letter/sound correspondence
- Practice left-to-right progression in writing
- Use developmental continuum of spelling
- Punctuation
- Writes sight words correctly
- Writes CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words
- Writes with proper pencil grip and spacing
- Respects and abides by classroom and community rules
- Shows awareness of self as a member of the classroom/school community and contributes positively to each
- Takes responsibility for self and takes care of personal belongings
- Takes care of and uses classroom and school materials appropriately
- Cultivates relationships across grade levels through Buddy Projects
- Developing awareness of diversity within families, cultures, and religions
- Building a safe, respectful, and empathetic community
- Learns conflict resolution
- Greetings, common phrases
- Colors, numbers, shapes, sizes
- Alphabet, subject pronouns
- Body parts, clothing
- Feelings, favorite things
- Calendar, four seasons, weather changes
- Animals (domestic, farm, exotic)
- Food, fruits, vegetables
- Family members
- Community helpers
- Objects in the home, school
- Motors skills and movement patterns
- Running, jumping, and landing
- Balance and jump rope
- Engages in physical activity
- Sportsmanship
- Makes prediction and draws conclusions with reasonable explanations
- Collects and records data with drawings, numbers, dictation, and/or writing
- Makes observations in discussions and investigations
- Demonstrates an understanding of key concepts in current units
- Coding as language: cause and effect, conditional commands
- Unplugged coding: directional commands, breaking down steps
- Animation: Comic panels
- 2D and 3D shapes
- Seasons and cycles
- Building and design with manipulatives
- Forces of motion (push/pull, gravity, inertia, magnetism, flight)
- Introduced to various art materials and tools
- Learn how to speak about their own art and the art of others (classmates and famous artists)
- Use their environment to create artworks (nature, everyday surroundings, neighborhood)
- Complete projects that include the elements of art (line, shape, color, form, texture, value, space)
- Experience art from different cultures and time periods
Projects and Topics:
- Primary colors
- Family portraits
- Texture scavenger hunt
- Steady beat
- Echo clapping
- Singing/Hand percussion, mallets, drums
- Circle games and folk dancing
- Fast and slow/loud and soft/high and low
- Create characters, stories and design elements
- Perform in one drama production a year
- Demonstrate use of body and voice to communicate
- Examine performance skills
- Critically respond, offering comments and observations
- Informed by our Episcopal identity
- Once a week gathering with kindergarten through fifth-grade students
- Once a week gathering with all grades
- Time to reflect, pray, learn, and acknowledge events in the lives of students
- Celebrate birthdays and communal events
- Led by school chaplain with the assistance of the student chaplains
- Guest speakers are welcomed to discuss different aspects of faith
- Families and friends are welcome