Kindergarten+Curriculum

Bible Our Bible curriculum, "Journeys with God," incorporates key bible verses, bible stories, songs, games and activities for our kindergarten children to grow and develop in their relationship with Jesus. Children will learn how they can take part as creation keepers. They will be invited to identify with Jesus as explore his life and to walk with him as teacher and friend. However, our lessons through Bible will not be limited to Bible "class," rather will offer a springboard and direction for our students throughout the day and across the curriculum. The following themes will guide our journey together:

Unit 1: We Are God's Gifts ( I Am Special, The Five Senses, We Change and Grow, What Can We Share, and The Fruit of the Spirit) Unit 2: The Five Senses Unit 3: We Change and Grow (Samuel's Birth, Hannah's Joy, Samuel Grows, Josiah) Unit 5: The Fruit of the Spirit (Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Patience, Faithfulness, Self-Control) Unit 6: God's Most Precious Gift (The Christmas Story, Jesus Was a Child Like You and Me, Jesus Grew to be a Man of God) Unit 7: Jesus Was a Child (Fleeing to Egypt, When Jesus was a boy, The Temple Visit) Unit 8: Jesus Grew to be a Man (Jesus is baptized, Jesus faces temptation, Jesus chooses 12 helpers, Jesus Calms the Storm, Jesus Heals Ten Lepers, Jesus Feeds 5,000 people) Unit 9: God teaches us how to live (Love, the Greatest Rule, Trust and Obey, Jesus is a Friend, Jesus' Great Gift of Love Unit 10: Trust and Obey (A widow trusts God, Healthy choices, We worship God and no other, Daniel obeys God)  Unit 11: Jesus is a Friend (We love friends, We help friends, We forgive friends, We need friends)  Unit 12: Jesus' Great Gift of Love (Hosanna, The Last Supper, Dying to Live, Jesus is Alive)  Unit 13: Creation, God's Gift to All People (What a wonderful world)  Unit 14: God's Creation Keepers

Language Arts: Treasures Reading-Macmillan/McGraw Hill Our language arts curriculum focuses on priority skills and concepts in comprehension, oral vocabulary, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, high-frequency words, writing and grammar. We will incorporate the following themes throughout the year during whole and small group instruction, shared reading, big books, leveled readers, guided reading, and interactive and shared writing:

Unit 1: Families Unit 2: Friends Unit 3: Transportation Unit 4: Food Unit 5: Animals Unit 6: Neighborhood Unit 7: Weather Unit 8: Plants Unit 9: Amazing Creatures Unit 10: I Know A Lot!

Writing Workshop: Our Writing Workshop will incorporate the strategies of KidWriting in our journal writing, shared writing, and class books. KidWriting is a systematic approach to phonics, journals, and writing workshop. It places the focus on the sounding and stretching out of words by the children while they write with an adult, "underwriting" by an adult, share chair where students "celebrate" each others writings, and finally a mini-lesson to target specific skills. In addition to sounding and stretching out words, specific strategies are taught so that students can work towards becoming more independent writers including:
 * "reading the room" to identify words in the classroom that students can use during their writing
 * interacting with the classroom word wall to practice high frequency words
 * utilizing known "chunks" of words to help spell others i.e. -ing

Math: Everyday Math is a program based on instruction and practice that is focused on realistic and everyday situations, frequent and on-going distributed practice of basic skills through class math routines and games, and visitation of topics regularly to ensure concept development and student retention of learning. It emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:
 * Number and numeration (counting, estimating, representing and comparing numbers, reading and writing numbers)
 * Operations and Computation (meaning of addition and subtraction, using concrete strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems)
 * Data and Chance (collecting and organizing data, creating and analyzing tally charts, tables, and bar graphs, basic probability)
 * Measurement (estimate and compare weight and length, identify pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills, explore temperature and thermometers, use calendars and other tools to track or measure time)
 * Geometry (explore 2D and 3D shapes and line symmetry)
 * Patterns, functions and algebra (explore and make patterns, use rules to sort, learn about +, - and = symbols)