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 benefit from whole-group instruction and collaborative small group work to expand their reading and writing skills while creating positive and productive reading behaviors.

• Word Study

  Kindergartners use Fundations, a multisensory and systematic phonics, spelling, and handwriting program that benefits all students. Through Fundations, students comprehensively learn phonemic awareness and word study that contributes significantly to vocabulary development, fluency, and the application of strategies for understanding text setting our students up for reading and writing success. 

• Math

  A manipulatives-based, hands-on math program brings problem-solving to life for our kindergartners. Students interact daily and work together to develop number sense (counting, cardinality, patterns, etc.) and flexible math thinking in math centers. Flexible thinking allows students to understand that there is more than one way to solve a problem. 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.