Kindergarten
Our Kindergarten program continues to build on the foundation created in both the Gamma and Montessori programs.
Fostering development in all areas including Math, Language Arts, Science, Creative Arts, and Physical Education. Our educators encourage curiosity, engaging their young students in activities designed to promote logical reasoning, scientific exploration, vocabulary development, and understanding the world around them.
Development Goals
Social/Emotional Developmental Goals
Exchanging ideas, materials, and opinions with others.
Making appropriate decisions and choices, accepting the consequences.
Respectfully joining play or waiting one’s turn.
Offering help to others politely.
Identifying and naming their emotions and the emotions of others.
Cognitive Developmental Goals
Maintaining focus for an extended period of time and ignoring distractions.
Regulating strong emotions by seeking out the help of others.
Asking questions to clarify information or to promote inquiry, verbalizing their observations with increased vocabulary.
Reflecting on information learned previously to reach conclusions in current situations.
Classifying, recognizing, sorting, counting, seriating, comparing, and determining quantities. Using math language to report findings.
Building structures and imitating scenes that are familiar to them.
Language Development Goals
Responding to longer sentences and commands with increasing vocabulary and comprehension.
Engaging in pretend play that includes more complex language.
Asking questions and seeking information with the ability to comprehend the answers.
Learning new words and understanding them based on the context of the sentence.
Recognizing and naming the phonetic letter sounds and names.
Beginning to sound out and decode simple phonetic words. Recognizing common sight words.
Attempting to write letters and words, as well as print their name.
Physical Development Goals
Displaying control over their movements.
Being able to make predictions related to space and moving accordingly.
Running, jumping, hopping etc. with ease and increased endurance.
Learning new skills such as skipping, kicking a ball, and other gross motor actions that require physical coordination.
Being able to dress independently, feed themselves, and perform many fine-motor activities, such as stringing beads, holding and guiding a pencil, and cutting with scissors.