The Kindergarten Program:

• Focuses on daily learning experiences that help children communicate orally, interact with others, participate in problem-solving activities, and think critically.
• Provides opportunities for children to interact with books, identify sounds, rhyming words, and develop letter-sound relationships.
• Promotes writing development.
• Encourages children to demonstrate mathematical understanding by using real objects as they discuss, investigate, question, and verify.
• Enables children to acquire knowledge about themselves as individuals and as members of a family, a community, and the world.
• Offers opportunities for children to observe, explore, experiment, and investigate the world around them.
• Utilizes a variety of learning centers and stations to reinforce skills.
• Encourages children’s creativity and higher-level thinking.
• Provides for the use of iPads and appropriate software.