Schedule
Our Kindergarten Day begins at 8:45
and ends at 12:15. Part time Kindergartners come for class time
and stay through lunch. Before and after school care is available
from 7-8:45 and 12:15-6:00. Attendance is important in Kindergarten,
as most of our activities are hands on, interactive learning activities.
It is difficult for absent children to make up these learning
experiences. Our Kindergarten class has 2 teachers and usually
has 22 students.
8:45-9:15 Journal Time
Children write in journals and do reading and free
writing activities when finished. Journal writing begins in September
as dictation and progresses through the months to independent
writing. Most children are writing short sentences by June using
a combination of sight words, phonetic spelling, and dictionaries.
9:15 9:35 Circle Time
Circle time activities are lead by both Miss Shaynee
and a weekly calendar helper. Activities include calendar, pocket
charts and poems, language arts songs, and instruction for the
days activities.
9:35-10:35 Rotations
Children divide into groups and are rotated between
three tables - math, language
arts, and self directed (children visit the self directed
table each day, but they alternate between the math or language
arts table every other day). The rotations last about 30 minutes
each. Math and Language Arts are taught at a ratio of 1:5. Please
see the appropriate pages for an explanation of these three tables.
10:35 -10:45 Wrap Up and Journal Sharing
We wrap up the morning activities, and each child
is given a turn throughout the week to share a page in his/her
journal.
10:45-11:15 Recess
11:15-12:00 Social Studies and Science
Monday-Thursday - Social
Studies....we usually have a story/song/discussion about the
theme of the month. We then do hands on activities to reinforce
the subject learned. For example, when learning about dinosaurs
we made paper mache eggs with dinos inside to reinforce the reptile/egg
discussion, we put our shoes in a life sized dino footprint and
measured the length of the biggest dino with string to reinforce
size, we dug for "fossils" carefully in a cookie and
made dino fossils with plaster of paris when talking about fossils
and excavation, etc.
Friday - Science Friday......We
pretend we are scientists (with a lab coat and science notebook)
and we conduct hands on experiments including sink and float,
magnetism, jet propulsion, inclined plane, forms of matter, etc.
(This is one of our favorite days!!)
12:00-12:15 Daily News and Songs
Each day we write our Daily News. Three children are
chosen to report news in their lives. We write it on chart paper
using words, pictures, and stickers. At the end of the Daily News
we count the number of our "letter of the week" that
appear and count the number of sight words. We also use the news
to reinforce one concept every day - number of words in the sentences,
longest word, word with the most syllables, punctuation, spacing,etc.
These lessons are meaningful and fun because they are done with
their news. When we have written enough Daily News papers, each
child gets to take one home.
12:15-1:15 Lunch and Recess
1:15-2:30 Rest Time
2:30-6:00 Afternoon Enrichment Program
To request a complete information
packet, or to set up an appointment to meet with Miss Shaynee,
please email the Academy
or call us at 650-591-4882. You are also invited to attend our
Back to School and Kindergarten Information Evening held each
September.
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