Kindergarten

List of 4 items.

• Reading and Language Arts

  A language arts program using Lucy Calkin's Reader's and Writer's Workshop allows students to take charge of their own learning at this pivotal stage. Through guided instruction, students learn skills ranging from decoding to reading fluency to storytelling. Students receive the benefit of both whole-group instruction as well as collaborative small group work in order to expand their reading and writing skills.

• Math

  A manipulatives-based, hands-on Math in Focus program brings problem-solving to life. Students interact and work together in order to develop number sense and work out multi-step problems. The ability to visualize, discuss, and troubleshoot gives students the opportunity to discover mathematical concepts in the world around them while developing the conceptual skills needed to succeed in later elementary grades.

• Social-Emotional Learning

  A student's social-emotional development is just as important as their academic growth; the skills of self-advocacy, community engagement, compassion and empathy inform students' academic experience and vice versa. Through a philosophy rooted in Responsive Classroom and restorative justice, students learn positive, community-based values that explicitly and implicitly teach the value of self while honoring those around them. Helping students develop an understanding of themselves and the various communities of which they are a part allows them to better navigate their academic experience as well as the greater world around them.

• Leadership and Community

  In the afternoon, kindergarteners join their peers in the Primary classrooms, creating a multi-age collaborative classroom. This unique experience allows kindergarteners the opportunity to develop leadership skills by mentoring our youngest students through various projects and activities while also reinforcing their own critical thinking and learning. They come to understand what it means to be the oldest in a community of learners and the personal and communal responsibilities that come with it.