FIVE-YEAR-OLDS
(KINDERGARTEN)
CLASS FACTS
Attend school five days per week 9:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Class size of 15 students with one lead and one assistant teacher
Morning carpool drop off as well as afternoon carpool
Literacy Program — Letterland
Special activities: Halloween parade, Thanksgiving Family Feast, Christmas program, 100 Days of School Celebration, Letterland parade and Graduation
Children participate in in-house enrichment activities.
TYPCIAL DAY
Many children in this class have summer birthdays and would be young kindergartners. Some need extra time to work on social development or fine motor skills. Others want to enjoy one last year of having a shorter day before encountering the rigors of a full-day schedule. While children still have plenty of unstructured time to play and learn in classroom centers, our staff also introduces more teacher-directed activities like those that children would encounter in
a full-day kindergarten classroom.
In addition to continuing the Handwriting Without Tears and Letterland programs, children learn to recognize high frequency sight words and use their knowledge of letters and sounds to become emergent readers and writers. Special cooking activities that are coordinated with the letter of the week are always a popular choice for the children. Math skills are nurtured through counting, sorting, classifying, estimating, sequencing, and patterning activities. In addition, child-directed art activities foster free expression. Playground time, chapel services, music/movement classes, science lab and lunch complete the day. In all activities, children are encouraged to become independent and self-sufficient in order to prepare them for elementary school.
GOAL
Our Kindergarten is for children who are five years old and eligible to attend kindergarten in public or private school. The Kindergarten program reinforces and builds on the skills learned in our Pre-K classes, and the curriculum is based on the kindergarten standards outlined by the NC Dept. of Public Instruction.