Kindergarten

Excitement illuminates the creative minds of kindergarteners as they embark on an elevated academic journey, complete with “big kid” notebooks and age-appropriate lessons and activities.

Learning opportunities are designed to advance intellectual skills and nurture curiosity while promoting positive self-esteem. Lessons are based on hands-on activities throughout the day that stimulate children to think and learn about themselves and the world around them. Small class sizes enable our exceptional faculty to assess and support each student’s academic needs while providing ample opportunities to excel and be challenged.

A Day in the Life of Pre-K & Kindergarten

KATIE MCDOUGALL
Lower School Director

Mustang Afterschool Program (MAP)

We provide after-school activities Monday through Friday.

School Day Schedule

Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri:		Wed (late start):
Arrival	8:05 a.m.	8:50 a.m.
Dismissal	2:50 p.m.	2:50 p.m.

Core Curriculum
Specialty Curriculum

Core Curriculum

reading readiness

Episcopal Day utilizes an interdisciplinary, research based readiness curriculum. Students learn phonemic awareness, phonics, and sight word, and narrative writing.

Small class sizes empower each child to be assessed and supported one-on-one through ongoing reading conferences with their teachers. Students engage in independent reading, one-on-one conferencing, and guided reading.

As students reach optimal levels of reading by the end of Kindergarten, the class enjoys a special celebration to share their skills with their peers in first through fourth grade.

writing readiness

Episcopal Day utilizes an interiscplinary program that focuses on Units of Study in Narrative, Informational and Opinion writing. (Handwriting is taught using FUNdations and the Handwriting Without Tears program.) The program takes advantage of students natural excitment to tell stories about themselves, their world, and things they can only imagine.

Each student has one-on-one conferences with their teachers to ensure that they are being met at their level and receive individual coaching to advance their skills. We strike a wonderful balance between meeting children at individual levels and providing ample opportunities to shine and be challenged.

Throughout the year, skills grow from sounding out words and illustrating scenes to forming full sentences and writing stories that are shared with their classmates.

Science

Kindergarten scientists are use exploration to motivate questions that they investigate. Literature, field trips, and writing help deepen investigations. Students learn how scientists observe, predict, experiment, and draw conclusions.

Math

Episcopal Day uses a hands-on and exploratory math program designed to help children begin to make a gradual transition from concrete to abstract concepts through the use of manipulatives and mental mathematics. Small class sizes enable our faculty to ensure children have a foundation and a comprehensive understanding of mathematics including geometry, numeracy, number sense, operations, money sense, and more. Open-ended exploration inspires students to not just memorize how to arrive at an answer but to also understand why, explain their thinking and reasoning, and discover the numerous ways of arriving at an answer. Students are challenged from a solid place of understanding.

Social Studies

Students learn about their classroom community, school community, and greater communities, both locally and globally, in which we belong. Cooperative group work and field study units support the learning objectives of the social studies program. Through literature and hands-on activities students are learning to explore multiple perspectives to help develop into compassionate, informed, and engaged citizens of the world.

Specialty Curriculum

Physical Education

In PE class, students develop large and small muscle coordination through strength building activities, endurance, balance, and hand-eye coordination. Cooperation and teamwork are practiced both in PE class and during free play.

World Languages

The Spanish kindergarten curriculum is designed to give students a fun, dynamic, and meaningful introduction to the Spanish language. Students are introduced to basic vocabulary and phrases through games, songs, and art projects. Communication is emphasized as students learn to answer basic questions, which they will develop into short dialogues. Repetitions and enacting the words are the keys to learning at this age.

Library

A visit to the library is a special part of each week. Arriving at the library, the librarian leads students in read alouds and helps find their next favorite read! Research has shown time and again that reading aloud to children increases the likelihood of academic success, and leads to a broader vocabulary that enhances social skills.

Religion

Religion lessons embrace diversity of beliefs while teaching core values of respect, compassion, and service. We cultivate wonder, inquiry, togetherness and adventure through sharing the stories of love and compassion from the Bible and in spiritual narratives found in popular culture. Stories of faith, hope, and love reassure our students that they walk with good company in the journey of life. Along with singing, prayers, and developmentally appropriate storytelling, the students are introduced to basic theological concepts of religion, prayer, spirituality, and morality, all while reinforcing reflective and listening skills.

Visual Arts

The Art Program in kindergarten is focused on building a foundation for children to explore and create their own art and discover inspiration from artists around the world. There is an emphasis on diverse and contemporary artists that students can be inspired by and relate to while being provided the freedom to explore different kinds of materials when creating art.

Music

Kindergarteners will learn everything and anything about the percussion instrument family including shakers, tambourines, hand drums, bells, rhythm sticks, maracas, triangles, and more. Various clapping games are also included to familiarize students with basic rhythmic values and notations — quarter notes are introduced as “walking” notes and eighth notes as “running” notes. Kindergarteners use manipulatives, such as popsicle sticks and writing utensils for designing their own rhythmic patterns. Students also learn the proper music notations for writing down their rhythmic creations, as real composers would do! Toward the end of the rhythm chapter, students perform their rhythm compositions for their classmates.

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