Kindergarten Program
Creative Kids Club's full day Kindergarten program has been in place since 1996. The teacher in the program has at least a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education. The assistant teacher in the program has at least an Associate's Degree in Early Childhood Education.
Our class size is limited to 10 children. Many of our kindergarten students miss the entry cut-off date for public full day kindergarten and have successfully tested into first grade at public school for the next year.
By completion of the Kindergarten program the children will learn the following skills…
- Social Development
- Play cooperatively with others
- Display self-confidence
- Respect the rights and property of others
- Practice self-control
- Accept and respect authority
- Follow classroom rules and routines
- Manage personal needs
- Reading Readiness and Language Arts
- Express ideas in complete sentences
- Take part in classroom discussion
- Communicate ideas clearly before a group
- Recognize his/her name in print
- Match objects and symbols that are alike
- Recognize and say his/her address and phone number
- Recite days of the week
- Handle a book properly
- Name and print capital and lowercase letters
- Recognize the sound of each letter
- Discuss and respond to nursery rhymes
- Distinguish between questions and statements
- Recognize word meaning from sentence context
- Listen to appreciate stories and poetry
- Recognize rhyming words and picture details
- Predict outcomes
- Recognize opposites
- Recognize a main idea in a story
- Draw conclusions
- Classify common characteristics
- Identify cause and effect
- Compare things that are alike and different
- Make comparisons
- Recognize sequence of events in a story
- Math
- Identify positions (top, middle, bottom, after, between, etc.)
- Sort and classify objects (same, different; sort and classify by size, color, and shape)
- Match sets to show same number
- Compare groups and identify groups with more or fewer numbers
- Recognize numbers from 0 to 20
- Identify solid and plane figures (ball, box, can, cone, circle, triangle, square, etc.)
- Identify equal parts; halves of a region
- Identify, copy, create and extend patterns
- Compare length
- Measure length and distance using non-standard units
- Find sums by adding objects
- Find differences by subtracting objects
- Solve problems by making and reading simple graphs
- Social Studies
- Social Studies
- Develop an understanding that he/she is unique within a place in the family, school, and community
- Identify members of the school community
- Identify members of the family unit and their responsibilities
- Display an understanding of school rules
- Demonstrate proper manners
- Discuss people and their roles in the community
- Gain an understanding of specific holidays and their customs
- Adapt to a school routine
- Become aware of their home environment
- Become aware of different occupations
- Health and Life Skills
- Develop a positive self-concept
- Share feelings and express likes and dislikes
- Develop an awareness of personal hygiene
- Share and take turns
- Understand and accept the feelings of others
- Develop an awareness of safety
- Social Development
- Play cooperatively with others
- Display self confidence
- Respect the rights of others
- Practice self control
- Accept and respect authority
- Follow classroom rules and routines
- Manage personal needs
- Work Habits
- Follow directions
- Listen attentively
- Work independently
- Work without disturbing others
- Complete a task in a given amount of time
- Work carefully and neatly