Reading in Kindergarten focuses on providing daily opportunities for students at every level of reading readiness to make predictions, sequence, summarize, and retell stories. The children meet regularly with teachers in small groups that emphasize phonics, decoding strategies, and comprehension skills. In addition, phonemic based games, rhyming activities, weekly poems, and read-alouds are coupled with exposure to environmental print to help build individual skills and confidence.

Writing begins when children share about their life experiences through drawings. Kindergarteners learn to label, use approximate spelling, edit, and publish their work. Throughout the year, they write short stories, lists, letters, fiction, and nonfiction. In addition, through phonics lessons and word study, they are introduced to spelling patterns and sight words.

Kindergarteners work in a variety of media, learning basic skills to build a strong foundation for artistic growth. Students meet twice a week for 30-minute classes. Lessons include drawing with a variety of materials, collage, painting with tempera and watercolors, printmaking, fiber arts, and 3D construction.

In our Dimensions curriculum from Singapore Math, Kindergarteners focus on an in-depth study of numbers from zero to 20, including composing and decomposing within that range; they also learn about shapes and measurement. Each topic is introduced, then thoughtfully developed, through the use of a variety of learning experiences, problem solving, student discourse, and application opportunities to promote confidence and proficiency. The combination of hands-on practice, in-depth exploration of topics, and mathematical variability in teaching methodology helps students to move toward mastery of and fluency with mathematical concepts.

Kindergarten music classes focus on rhythm, movement, stories, and listening games as means of strengthening and supporting each child’s acquisition of musical skills. These activities serve as tools for enhancing and reinforcing each child's musical abilities. Additionally, the Kindergarten curriculum includes an introduction to basic rhythmic notation. As the classes progress, children move from creative movement, songs, and games to body percussion, and ultimately focus on incorporating all the acquired music skills to work with percussion instruments and Orff xylophones.

Kindergarten PE introduces students to basic locomotor and non-locomotor skills and concepts. Spatial awareness and basic manipulative skills are also practiced. Students engage in activities designed to build a sequential foundation for more advanced physical activities. To foster social growth, students receive guidance in the development of social skills, emotional expression, and self-control through participation in group games. In addition, they learn to follow directions and interact positively with classmates in a physical setting. They work to gain an understanding of physical fitness concepts as well as the benefits of an active, healthy lifestyle. Kindergarten students are also introduced to basic gymnastics skills, moving through progressions in a continued structured setting using mats, balance beams, and springboards.

Kindergarten classrooms engage in intellectual inquiry regarding the natural and social sciences. The science program includes units of study focused on life cycles, life science, and environmental awareness. The children conduct explorations and experiments, discuss observations, and make connections to day-today discoveries. In this way, they construct their own knowledge and understanding of the world.

Kindergarten social studies continues to respond to the curiosity that students are developing about the world; it expands their focus from their families and homes to their classroom and school. Topics include classroom community, a “Me Study,” interpersonal skills, a “School Study,” a look ahead to 1st grade, and a variety of multicultural studies.

The Kindergarten Spanish curriculum begins with El monstruo de colores by Anna Llenas. We reinforce concepts about weather, days of the week, numbers, colors, and phrases pertaining to emotions and feelings. We introduce new vocabularies, such as shapes, opposites, family members, parts of the body, clothes, as well as numbers up to 20. These units are developed to contribute to each student’s comfort and familiarity with Spanish. The students are taught in a fun and active way with songs, games, and role-playing.

In Kindergarten, students learn the fundamental aspects of technology by answering the question “What is a robot?” Students experience all kinds of different models of robots, such as MouseBots or BeeBots, and explore the parts that are different, and those that are similar. With a focus on sequencing, students develop their understanding of coding. They use familiar arts and crafts materials to build skills in the Makerspace, better allowing them to bring to life the coding logic practiced on iPads. Through interactive learning programs, such as ScratchJr, they learn computational thinking in a fun and engaging way.