Transitional Kindergarten Class
The Year of Transitioning...
Children learn through play. Our goal is to provide a fun classroom environment filled with a variety of hands-on learning opportunities to stimulate cognitive skills for 4-5 year olds. Our units and daily activities create an environment rich in language, math and social skills that build on self-esteem and fostering independence to prepare your child for Kindergarten Readiness.
Language Arts
- Vocabulary continues to develop and descriptive phrases increase
- Introduction to nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Letters of the alphabet mastered with phonetic sounds
- Blends sounds into words
- Identifies rhyming words and opposites
- Dolch sight words introduced
- Introduction to syllables
- Understands that letters equal words
- Writes first name with proper use of upper and lower case letters
- Begins to phonetically write words and sentences/journaling
- Emphasis on completing centers independently
- Working independently and within groups
- Language and literacy rich environment
- Author studies
- Dramatic play—acting out stories
- Emergent reading skills
Math
- Identifies numbers 1-30
- Counts by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s
- Sorts by different attributes
- Writes numbers properly
- Sequences numbers
- Identifies and creates patterns
- Orders and compares size differences
- Compares objects by more, less, equal
- Introduction to basic addition and subtraction
- Calendar concepts
- Interpreting graphs
- Ordinal numbers
- Geometric concepts and spatial relationships
Social Studies
- Introduction of community, state, country and world
- Review of address and telephone number
- Introduction of global concepts
- Explore selected cultures and customs
- Introduction to explorers
- Historical people
Science
- Seasons and weather
- Planting and growing
- Senses
- Sink and float
- Weight and scales
- Light and outer space
- Wildlife-habitation and hibernation
- Extinct animals
- Volcanoes
- Nutrition
- Hygiene
- Insects
- Ocean
- Magnets
Art
- Fine motor eye to hand coordination
- Cutting independently
- Creative discovery and expression
- Color / shapes / size
- Spatial relationships
- Step by step crafts
- Created objects are more identifiable
- Free expression through art
- Explores various art mediums
Music
- Listens and responds to music through moving, singing and playing
- Singing, memorizing words and rhythms
- Identifies basic concepts of loud, soft, fast and slow
- Singing with musical accompaniment
Christian Education
- Bible Verses
- Prayers
- Bible Stories
- Chapel stories acted out by children
- Classroom application of chapel lesson
Special Events
- Music & Movement
- Class holiday parties
- Fall Festival
- Special school days (Hat Day, Pet Day, etc.)
- Field trips
- Chorus rehearsals
- Christmas Pageant
- Guest Presenters
- Fun Week
- Graduation Ceremony
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