The Kindergarten Curriculum Program

We offer a traditional Montessori Kindergarten Classroom setting in which children ages 3 thru 6 years of age work together in the Montessori Environment.

Language – Reading and Writing

By the end of Kindergarten, students will be able to:

·         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.