Meet the Teachers

 

Meet the Artist Educators

 

Why Arts-Based Learning

 

Curriculum-at-a-Glance

 

Typical Daily Schedule

 

Meet the Students

 

Parent Testimonials

 

Art Gallery

 

Pre-K/Kindergarten Academic Calendar

 

Calendar of Events


Kindergarten Handbook


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Curriculum-at-a-Glance

Pre-K

The pre-k prides itself in having a rich curriculum. We work closely with the pre-school and kindergarten teachers so as NOT to duplicate themes in order to give each child new learning experiences with every program. However, we do coordinate our themes whenever possible with music and movement teachers and within the other areas of our curriculum in order to reinforce subject matter with the arts and foster multiple intelligences. Our curriculum changes yearly but some of the "constant" themes we explore are: colors, shapes, letters and their sounds, writing, numbers (1-100 and counting by tens), graphing, patterns, manners, senses/emotions, our bodies/nutrition, sign language and famous artists. In addition, we may also incorporate storytelling/writing, science experiments, cooking, weather, measuring, dinosaurs, telling time, fire safety and community workers.

Kindergarten

September

  • Getting to know you/ Me and my family
  • Alphabet books/journals/handwriting books/writing workshop
  • Weather
  • Planting Bulbs
  • Field trip to Turkey Hill Farm/Holly Hill Farm
  • Harvest/Farm/fruit & vegetables
  • First day of Fall

October

  • Halloween
  • Fall Colors
  • Life cycle of a pumpkin
  • Cranberries
  • Field trip to Bog Hollow Farm
  • Harvest Party/ Pumpkin Math

November

  • Harvest/Thanksgiving
  • Pilgrims/Wampanoag’s/Native American literature, legends and art
  • Harvest Soup
  • Turkeys
  • Fall assessments/Conferences

December

  • Hibernation/Forest animals/Animals tracks
  • Celebration of light/Holidays around the world
  • Gingerbread Unit
  • Winter Solstice
  • Jan Brett
  • Winter Concert

January

  • Polar regions-Arctic and Antarctica or The Amazon Rain Forest
  • Polar Animals/Habitats or The Amazon Rain Forest
  • Inuit culture and dwellings
  • Properties of water
  • What’s the temperature?
  • Let it snow
  • MLK
  • First semester report cards

February

  • Chinese New Year (Depending when it falls)
  • Chinese Literature
  • Black History/ Harriet Tubman/ Underground Railroad
  • African literature
  • Ground Hog Day
  • 100 days of School celebration

March

  • Music and art appreciation month
  • Famous composers and artists and their works
  • St. Patrick’s Day
  • Irish musician comes to class
  • Space/planets

April

  • Ocean
  • Review classification of animals and Life Cycle
  • Museum of Science Field Trip
  • Celebration of Earth Day
  • Spring assessments and Conferences

May

  • Insects
  • Flowers
  • Mother’s Day Concert & Brunch
  • Grouchy Lady Bug Play
  • Numeracy and Literacy review
  • Step-up day for ½ and full day Kindergartners

June

  • Second semester report cards
  • Kindergarten Art Walk
  • End of year cookout & bike-a-thon
  • Classroom clean-up