Welcome to Kindergarten

Our Kindergarten Program is fun and exciting, but also academic. We stress phonemic awareness and many of our students are reading by the end of the year. Also, our students engage in a year long writing process beginning with teacher modeling and ending with independent student writing.

We integrate reading, writing, math, science and social studies into thematic units. These units include All About Me, Colors, Shapes, Transportation, Thanksgiving, Pets, Bears, Dinosaurs, And Farm. We provide a balance of whole group, small group, and individual instruction for each unit. Skills are reinforced through independent and cooperative activities called Stations. We also integrate cooking activities into our units. A few of our many cooking activities include a Thanksgiving Feast prepared by the students during our Pilgrim and Indian Unit, Making train cookies during Transportation, and mixing colors for our cake icing during our Color Unit. We also take two field trips a year. We visit the Downtown Library and picnic at Lake Eola Park. Our experiences at Green Meadows Farm culminate our Farm Unit.

As Early Childhood Teachers, we feel Kindergarten is a building block to future education. If children are engaged and stimulated, they will be excited about learning.