Kindergarten & Grade 1

Our classroom is an engaging one with ample space for students to explore, make choices, and communicate with peers. We have opportunities to visit with French, music, physical education and art teachers on a weekly basis. Our small class is a nurturing one with much individual attention.

Students enter kindergarten with a wide range of abilities and experiences upon on which to build. We work daily with phonemic awareness activities through chants, poetry, and choral reading. Students progress towards reading by working daily with letter and sound recognition (in isolation and in words), sight words, and a variety of games. We are surrounded by literature, and many students will be reading independently by the end of the year.

Our daily math work begins with the calendar each day as we explore the concepts of time. Students recognize, represent, and count numbers to at least 30. Each child will have a solid understanding of numbers as they learn key math phrases such as “more than”, “less than”, and “after”. Early addition and subtraction concepts are introduced. Money, patterns and geometry are important math skills at this age level, as well.

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