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Kindergarten Curriculum
Kindergarten is a very important step in your child’s education.
Apart from preparing your child academically, the emotional and
social development may be the most important aspect of the
kindergarten program.
Language Arts
The Kindergarten
Language Arts Curriculum incorporates:
Reading
- Phonemic
awareness to recognize and produce sounds and words
- Identify
sound initial sounds and short vowels
- Understand
and apply the alphabetic principle
- Recognize a
small number (about 18) of frequently encountered words in print
- Recognize a
few of the basic sight words automatically
Concept of Print
- Understand
that print conveys meaning
- Understand
how print is organized and read
- Gain
alphabet recognition
Vocabulary
- Know the
meaning of words encountered frequently in the classroom
Writing
- Introduced
to D’Nealian uppercase and lowercase letters
- Practice
forming lowercase letters
- Identify
from left-to-right and top-to-bottom
- Begin to
form words phonetically
Mathematics
The Kindergarten Mathematics Curriculum successfully develops and
extends mathematical thinking. Stories, games, and center
activities teach the students basic math understandings.
- Graphing
and Data
- Numbers
through 31
- Measurement
- Time and
Money
- Geometry
and Fractions
- Readiness
and understanding addition and subtraction
Science
The Kindergarten
science curriculum concentrates on the concepts in the physical and
earth sciences based on the Michigan goals and objectives.
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Life Science
– plants and animals
- Physical
science – balance and
motion, the five senses
- Earth
science – air, weather and weather safety, seasons, and the sky during the
day and night
Social Studies
The Kindergarten Social Studies
curriculum orients students to being members of a society by
focusing on them selves and others as a member of a school community
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Study the calendar
(days of the week, today, yesterday and tomorrow, the months of the
year)
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Study special events
and monthly festivities
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