(5 years old or Assessed Ready)

Our kindergarten program is very well regarded in the North Shore area, especially by the First Grade teachers at nearby private and public schools. Designed to prepare our students for future academic challenges in grade school, our kindergartners develop to become well-rounded students with a good balance in the areas of academics, social competence and performing arts.

With a class size of <10, individualized attention important for critical thinking and achieving success is made possible. We teach our students life skills, respect, manners and virtue.  We celebrate cultural diversity and reinforce that their voice matters.  Our teacher knows each child and can adapt the curriculum to optimize the student’s learning outcome.  It is extra special to see some truly great and lasting friendships developed with such a small class.

We use a time-tested and comprehensive language arts curriculum called “Beginning to Read, Write and Listen” by Macmillan/McGraw Hill.  It is a multi-sensory program of visual, kinesthetic, auditory and oral activities that develops and builds foundation of the literacy skills necessary to enter first grade.  The curriculum is a set of workbooks sequenced in their phonic system, and is supplemented by listening tracks.  Each letter workbook contains and correlates reading, comprehension, handwriting, manual dexterity, auditory and oral language skills to stimulate children’s learning.

Children read, read aloud and are read to everyday.  They are exposed to a variety of literature, fiction and non-fiction, songs and poems.  Group discussions reinforce comprehension of reading materials, foster critical thinking and encourage public sharing of opinions.  Books at kindergarten and first grade reading levels are offered to encourage independent reading.

Literacy games are used to teach children on onsets, rhymes and sentence structures.  Puzzles and construction games are played in small groups to explore engineering concepts.   A collection of manipulatives and games is carefully selected to teach mathematics.  Students learn to progress from practicing basic math skills to strengthening their abilities, and finally deepening their understanding of key math concepts.

Kindergarten students get involved with learning projects in geography, social studies, science, technology, arts and engineering.  Exposure to cultural diversity is intrinsic to classroom life.  Our belief is that exposure is the antidote to ignorance which often leads to misunderstanding and bias.  By the end of the school year, children will have learned greetings in over ten languages, as well as native songs from their classmate's heritage.  We also use performing arts to bridge language diversity.

Lastly, kindergarten class is treated to a 45-minute music program each week.  They sing songs, dance to classical music; are taught basic musical theory and exposed to a variety of musical instruments, composers, and genres.  Students also act out nursery rhymes and drama plays, which in turn helps promote creativity and performance confidence.

Read More

Enroll Now