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Redeemer Home > Children & Youth > Parish Day School > Course Offerings: Kindergarten
 New applicants must turn 5 by September 1, 2011
The kindergarten program meets Mondays and Fridays from 9:00 am to 11:45 am, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 9:00 am to 2:45 pm. 2 classes of no more than 12 students/class led by one teacher/class.
Curriculum
Morning meeting
- Calendar, weather, today's news, current events, graphing, patterning, estimating.
- Class discussions
Language Arts
Reading
- enjoys listening to literature
- chooses to look at books
- tracks left to right
- chants and memorizes
- identifies the concepts of sentences, words, letters in print
- read pictures
- recognizes and names letters and letter sounds
- uses contextual clues to increase vocabulary and comprehension
- retells story in sequence and identifies main ideas and details
- recognizes and predicts patterns
- rhyming
- identifies beginning and ending sounds
- blend sounds to form words
- identify some sight words
Writing
- prints first name
- prints upper case and lower case letters
- contributes to group writing
- dictates own ideas and illustrates
- gains awareness of writing conventions (i.e. spacing, left to right)
- practices writing at own stage of development
Listening/Speaking
- focuses on speaker
- communicates ideas clearly
- follows two or three step oral directions in sequence
- listens to gain factual information
Mathematics
- free exploration of materials
- patterning
- recognizes and names four basic shapes
- sorts and classifying
- graphing and comparing (more, less, equal)
- counting (1-100)
- numeral recognition (1-100)
- numeral writing (1-100)
- Counting objects (one to one correspondence)
- Application of math to every day life
Science
- Weather
- Outer Space
- Senses
- Insects / spiders
- Dinosaurs
- Rain forest
- Plants
- Birds
- Sea life
- Once a week science lesson with special science teacher
Social Studies
- American cultural heritage
- Maryland
- Seasonal / Holiday
- Diversity
- Family diversity
Health
- Personal health
- Personal safety
- Nutrition
Work Habits
- Works carefully
- Completes tasks
- Uses time wisely
- Works independently when requested
- Proper use of materials
Social Skills
- Co-operation with adults and peers
- Sharing
- Communication skills (please, thank you)
- Peer interaction
- Conflict resolution
- Responsibility for self and possessions
- Classroom responsibilities (clean up, jobs)
- Table manners
Personal Development
- Follows rules
- Demonstrates self-confidence
- Demonstrates self-control
- Cooperates and gets along with others
- Solves conflicts appropriately
- Shows positive attitude toward learning
- Decision Making
Technology
The class computer is available during free time. It is a learning tool to explore and to feel comfortable using. Kindergarten classrooms are equipped with Smart Boards.
Special Classes
- Art class, twice per week
- Science, one time per week
- Music class, twice per week
- Movement or PE class, twice per week
- Library, one time per week
- Chapel, one time per week
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