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Kindergarten
Riverhill’s kindergarten is a kaleidoscope in that it is made up of individual children who are constantly interacting, changing, and learning. The kindergartners at Riverhill learn to look “outside their boxes”. In addition to the normal kindergarten curriculum, the students learn to be independent, caring, and responsible citizens who look at the world around them with a new and fresh appreciation. Classroom activities focus on helping others through our Community Service Projects such as our annual Bottled Water Collection for the St. Florian Police Department and our annual visits to a local assisted living facility. Not only do the students grow academically and physically in kindergarten, they also develop life skills that lead to lifelong learning experiences.
The highlight of the day for many students is the afternoon class meeting where they have the opportunity to speak “publicly” about what matters to them. Topics may include interests of the day, their families, places they have been – the list is endless. This time allows each child the chance to be the focus for a few minutes. It also helps build confidence and communication skills.
Parents are encouraged to visit the Kindergarten classroom to share their passions and talents. They may share about their profession, do science experiments, teach about their family heritage, or share a craft. These 30-minutes sessions are a wonderful opportunity for all.
Curriculum Summary
Language
- Letters and vowels
- Letter sounds
- Matching capital to lower case letters
- Blending letters
- Decoding words with a, e, i, o, u
- Sight words
- Left to right text
- 1 to 1 correspondence
- Shared reading
- Guided reading
- Environmental print
- Sequencing stories
- Rhymes/poems
- Beginning and ending consonant sounds
- Parts of a book
- Reading independently
- Comprehension
- Word-by-word reading
- Spelling word families
- Illustrating books
- Beginning, middle, and end of story
- Alphabetizing with first letters
- Capitalizing sentence and proper nouns
- Writing sentences with end marks
- Retelling stories
- Color words
- Author/Illustrator/Title Page
- Author studies: Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, Leo Lionni, Mercer Mayer, Laura Numeroff
- Number words
- Opposites
- Composing original stories
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Social Studies
- The 50 United States
- U.S. flag and its symbolism
- U.S. presidents: past and present
- Elections
- Inaugurations
- Kindergarten Procedures
- Maps and globes
- Graphs
- Recycling
- Environment
- Statue of Liberty
- Earth Day
- Grandparents’ Day
- Holidays
- Famous Americans: Ben Franklin, W.C. Handy, M. L. King, Jr., John Glenn, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison
- Community
- Community Service
- Continents
- Oceans
- Rainforest
- Governments: national, state, and local
- Current events
- Manners and emotions
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Fine/Large Motor Skills
- Self-care
- Obstacle course
- Animal walks
- Balance beam
- Throwing/catching
- Jumping, hopping, skipping, running
- Simple games
- Left/right
- Rhythm/clapping
- Sensory experiences
- Puzzles
- Matching objects by color, shape, texture, and size
- Differences/similarities
- Sequence beads
- Drawing person with five defining body parts
- Walking backwards
- Descending stairs using
- alternating feet
- Tying shoes
- Identifying common sounds
- Following directions
- Identifying feelings and moods
- Repeating sounds
- Recognizing full name
- Writing full name
- Knowing family members
- Describing objects
- Voice control
- Using glue
- Cutting
- Tracing
- Copying patterns
- Holding pencils, etc.
- Spacing letters
- Spacing words
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Mathematics
- Patterns
- Color identification
- 1 to 1 correspondence
- Sets
- Equivalent sets
- Numerals 0-100
- Comparisons
- Ordinal numbers
- Positional words
- Addition 0-10
- Subtraction 0-10
- Whole and half
- Clocks
- Calendars
- Days of week
- Months of year
- Year
- Non-standard units of measure
- Standard units of measure: scales, rulers, thermometers
- Money-coins-dollar
- Graphing Shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, star, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, heart
- Differences and similarities
- Geometric shapes: sphere, cube, cylinder
- Counting: 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
- Grouping
- Geoboards
- Unifix cubes
- Pattern blocks
- Number words
- Beginning place value
- Before and after numbers
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Science
- Skeletal system
- Heart, lungs
- Five senses
- Penguins
- Mammals
- Butterflies
- Amphibians: frogs and toads
- Metamorphosis
- Insects
- Bears
- Reindeer
- Dinosaur facts
- Fossils
- Extinction
- Ocean Life/Sea Life
- Living and Non-living Things
- Magnifying glasses
- Scales/balances
- Simple experiments Earth: North pole, South pole, Equator
- Solar system
- Day and night
- Dental health
- Food pyramid Squirrels
- Retiles: snakes, alligators, crocodiles, lizards, turtles
- Forms of water: solid, liquid, gas
- Oxygen/Carbon Dioxide
- Shadows
- Trees
- Photosynthesis
- Precipitation
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