Kindergarten
Kindergarten is an engaging academic day full of hands-on learning opportunities and explorations. Students love to bring home the grade level mascot, Wishie, and share their adventures together during class meetings.
Another Kindergarten highlight is student participation in the living nativity during our all school Christmas Service. Kindergarteners are on the move and take several field trips throughout the year, including nature walks and visits on the church campus, Butler’s Orchard, and Imagination Stage.
Starting in Kindergarten, all students attend school for the full day from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm.
Mathematics
- Develop intuitive understanding of number sense
- Count to 100
- Read and recognize numbers to 50
- Skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s
- 2D and 3D shapes
- Solve addition and subtraction problems
- Organize and analyze data on charts and graphs
Reading
- Develop concepts of print
- Direct phonics instruction using Orton Gillingham approach
- Sight word recognition
- Read decodable books and grade level books
- Small reading groups
- Poetry and rhyming
- Reading Workshop
Language Arts
- Use letters to represent sounds in writing
- Handwriting instruction using Handwriting Without Tears
- Journal-writing, class books
- Writing Workshop: story-telling and persuasive writing
Social and Global Studies
- Our school and church campus
- Exploration of our campus
- Friendships and community
- Understanding identity
Science
- Compare and contrast animals and their features
- Explore life cycles of plants and animals
Highlights
- Fourth Grade buddies
- Living nativity in the Christmas Service
- Class mascot Wishie
- Bears! Bears! Everywhere
- Hatching chicks
- Nature walks
- Field trip to Butler’s Orchards and Imagination Stage
- Specials: Art, Drama, Library, Music, PE, Spanish