OUR CURRICULUM
Language Arts
Our Language Arts Program is one which will help children develop skills of oral communications in Spanish This may be accomplished through dramatic play in which the children are free to explore and imitate what interests them. Also included are stories, finger plays, poetry, filmstrips, puppetry, videos, and dramatizations related to the interests of Kindergarten children.
Reading Readiness Activities
The "Maravillas" Program (Wonders) emphasizes reading readiness skills in Spanish through the use of many varied activities and manipulatives. During language arts, children are given many opportunities and experiences which would enable them to master the following objectives in Spanish:
Visual Discrimination
Our Language Arts Program is one which will help children develop skills of oral communications in Spanish This may be accomplished through dramatic play in which the children are free to explore and imitate what interests them. Also included are stories, finger plays, poetry, filmstrips, puppetry, videos, and dramatizations related to the interests of Kindergarten children.
Reading Readiness Activities
The "Maravillas" Program (Wonders) emphasizes reading readiness skills in Spanish through the use of many varied activities and manipulatives. During language arts, children are given many opportunities and experiences which would enable them to master the following objectives in Spanish:
Visual Discrimination
- Recognizes likenesses/differences
- Recognizes colors, color words
- Recognize capital and small letters
- Match capital and small letters
- Learn the sequence of letters
- Discriminate visually, differences in beginning, medial, and final letters in word forms
- Develop visual memory skills
- Recognize and identify familiar sounds
- Recognize rhyming words
- Recognize letter/sound correspondence
- Recognize initial consonant sounds and determine same/different beginning and ending sounds
- Develop auditory memory skills
- Promote listening skills
- Develop receptive and expressive language skills
- Develop sequencing skills
- Develop proper letter formation
- Develop left – to – right eye/hand movements
- Promote hand-dominance and proper pencil grip
Math
Your child will be using a new math program called Go Math! GO Math! K–8 offers an engaging and interactive approach to covering state standards. Its seamless digital path and Write-in Student Edition ensure that students can access content at appropriate levels of depth and rigor. The program emphasizes understanding, computational fluency, and real life applications.
Learn more at bit.ly/2cUuuSW
Your child will be using a new math program called Go Math! GO Math! K–8 offers an engaging and interactive approach to covering state standards. Its seamless digital path and Write-in Student Edition ensure that students can access content at appropriate levels of depth and rigor. The program emphasizes understanding, computational fluency, and real life applications.
Learn more at bit.ly/2cUuuSW
Science
Mystery Science provides a large number of ready-made science lessons, on subjects from biology to astronomy to geology. Teachers select the lesson they would like to use and simply hit “play.”Each lesson is organized around a key question (e.g. “What happens when plates move along a fault?”) The lesson starts with a short introductory video, laying out the lesson’s key question. The video is followed by discussion questions for the class. Finally, the lesson ends with a hands-on activity designed to help students find the answer to the key question. Each activity comes with instructions and a list of materials needed. Learn more atbit.ly/2wJgtBf |