Program

Kindergarten

Kindergarten engages children in the world of curiosity and wonder while building academic and social skills.

Through a variety of structured and open-ended activities, Kindergartners learn how to verbalize and modulate their feelings as well as relate to one another in a classroom community. The class begins the year in social studies by examining “ourselves, our family and our community," moving to thematic units in the second half of the year. In Language Arts, students learn the foundational skills needed to become good readers, writers, and communicators. Kindergartners develop the habits of mind to support growth in math throughout school, connecting with the world of numbers and number sense. They take advantage of both indoor and outdoor ‘classrooms’ for hands-on learning; favorite elements of the curriculum include self-directed play with math manipulatives and nature play, nature class, baking, and relationship-building with Fifth Grade “Reading Buddies.”

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What Do Kindergarteners Learn in...

Baking

Kindergarteners practice counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect in weekly Baking class, just to name a few lessons.
Free Play

It’s vital for Kindergarteners to practice active listening, compromise, regulating emotions, problem-solving, perseverance, and creative thinking; non-structured play times promote this social-emotional development.
Meeting for Worship

Students learn the power of listening beyond silence for the voice within each of us and begin to see the power of using their voices.
Nature Class

In this inquiry based class, students learn that their questions matter, that their classroom is larger than any building, and oh, yes, and about the animals, insects, trees, plants, seeds, and habitats found on our 11-acre campus.
Reading Buddies

Kindergarteners develop strong cross-grade relationships with their Fifth Grade “buddies” when they meet every week.
Social Studies

Within an emergent curriculum, Kindergarten Social Studies themes allow students to see themselves as part of a culturally diverse and interdependent world. They recognize the power of their wonder and their questions in learning about social and organizational systems, those we regard in high esteem and those that need to change.
Weekly Jobs

Classroom jobs help Kindergarteners learn about the rights and responsibilities of being in a class community.