Kindergarten Curriculum

We offer a traditional Montessori Kindergarten Classroom setting in which children ages 3 thru 6 years of age work together in the Montessori Environment. By the end of Kindergarten, students will be able to:


Language – Reading and Writing

 ·         Identify favorite books and retell the stories in their own words and make predictions.  (anticipating what will happen next)
·         Make connections between the student’s own experiences and those of storybooks characters
·         Write using a variety of tools and media (pencil, crayons, paper, computer, chalk, colored pencil etc.)
·         Write simple sentences in paragraph form, using familiar words, phonetic spelling etc.
·         Blending sounds
·         Rhyming words
·         Can put a story in sequence
·         Identify words and names familiar to them (parents name, street name etc.)
·         Have an introduction to cursive writing

Language – Speaking and Listening

 ·         Recognize words that consist of beginning, middle and final sounds and identify letters representing sounds
-         Speaks in complete sentences, using proper grammer
·         Recites simple poems, stories and rhymes
·         Can describe emotions and feeling
·         Begin to distinguish between imaginary and the real 

 
Mathematics

·         Counts to 1000
·         Can identify any number on the chain from 1 to 1000
·         Counts by 5’s
·         Skip counts
·         Using the bead material, understands and solves problems of both static and dynamic addition and subtraction
·         Has begun to complete addition and subtraction problems on paper in the abstract form
·         Use simple measurement terms correctly, tall/short, big/small, empty/full, tomorrow/today, morning/afternoon/evening etc.
·         Identifies quantities of money
·         Can use a tape measure
·         Can identify up to 10 geometric shapes, three demensional (cube, cone, cylinder, square based pyramid etc.)
·         Can identify 2 deminsional shapes (square, rhombus, trapezoid)
·         Knows the names of geometric shapes (pentagon, hexagon, octagon etc.)
·         Recognizes math symbols    = + - x  /
·         Can tell time

 
Science

·         Understanding of the 5 Senses
·         Understanding of emotions, self, others etc.
·         Recognize good hygiene and health
·         Understands the difference between seasons
·         Understands the concept of time
·         Develop a range of scientific skills and abilities through a range of hands-on activities

          o   Geology
          o   Anatomy
          o   Science Activities (magnets, pullies, land, air and water etc.)
          o   Astronomy
          o   Zoology – animal classification, mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird, etc. habitats, carrying young etc.
          o   Botany – hands on gardening year round in a greenhouse.  Seed to plant, care of living things, science experiments etc.

Cultural Classroom

-         World Study through Continent Studies
          o   Different lands
          o   Cultural celebrations
          o   Food, clothing, homes
          o   Animals

 
Fine Arts

o   Study of Famous Composers
o   Discuss life and times of composers
o   Listen to and identify different pieces of music
o   Study of Famous Artists
o   Discuss life and times of artist
o   Identify and appreciate famous pieces of art
o   Recreate famous pieces of art
o   Draw self

 Music Appreciation

o   Move freely to the tempo and mood of music
o   Sing simple tunes and melodies following accompaniment intime
o   Demonstrate an understanding of rhythmic patterns  (clap to the beat) play simple percussion, wind or string instrument) perform in a group for an audience.

 Art

o   Portray self in drawings
o   Express ideas and feelings through a variety of media and experiences including pictures, sculptures, collages, painting, modeling, gluing and scissor work

 Physical Development

o   Participate willingly in creative movement, dance and other physical activities
o   Use different types of physical equipment with increased confidence and dexterity (climbers, balls etc.)
o   Hop, skip, jump, walk a balance beam with ease
o   Use a hula hoop and jump rope independently
o   Demonstrate balance, ease, and flexibility in movement and spatial awareness when climbing stairs and using the playground
o   Can color, cut, glue
o   Thread a needle and perform sewing with yarn and sometimes thread
 

 Emotional and Social Education

o   Recognize personal strengths and accomplishments, identify and talk about their own interests and preferences, demonstrate self reliance (dress themselves, know personal information,) and self control
o   Know about nutritious foods, practice appropriate hygiene, and identify safe and unsafe situations, materials and equipment
o   Talk about and identify family members and their roles and other people who help them, know personal information about themselves, learn appropriate behaviors and manners