Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a very special year as children transition out of early education and towards a more academic grade school experience. During this year we encourage children to be curious, to wonder, think, play, question, and connect with the world around them through a fun and engaging curriculum that will continue to instill a love of learning to carry them into their next years.
Kindergarten
M-F 8:45 AM - 1:45 PM
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM before & after care available
TRADITIONS
The Reading Buddies Program
100 Day
The Chicken Program
TEAM TEACHING
In Kindergarten, Monica Ros School uses a team-teaching approach providing small group settings which allow for personal attention to individual needs. Teachers lead the school’s kindergarten class through focused, engaging lessons and bring a LOVE of teaching that creates the “Monica Ros Magic” in our Kindergarten.
THEMATIC UNITS
Our kindergarten program builds a strong foundation in language arts and mathematics through meaningful and exciting activities based on rotating thematic units. Kindergarten begins under the sea, studying oceans and all of the creatures that live therein. Kindergarten students also study penguins, the rain forest, and embryology through raising their own baby chicks and creating a scientific journal documenting the development of the egg into a chick ready to hatch. They also explore the meaning of 100, the mysteries of the butterfly, and perform in a Kindergarten performance . All of these special themes are used for the integration of the core areas of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and the fine arts.
LANGUAGE ARTS & MATH
Kindergarten is when our students begin their formal language arts and mathematics programs: Superkids Reading Program and Everyday Mathematics. Our team teachers break the class into two groups for these subjects, and the smaller focus groups are able to attend to their lessons with high levels of personal attention and instruction.
SPECIAL SUBJECTS
Kindergartners also enjoy special Music & Performing Arts, Spanish, Library, and Physical Education (P.E.) classes each week, and have numerous class performances in addition to the culminating opera performance at the end of the year. They also love getting to know the older students through our Buddy Reading friendships and participating in cross-grade Arts Month and Theme Week activities.
“We strive to create a space where children feel valued, protected, celebrated, empowered, and unconditionally loved every day they are at school. There is nothing that fills me with wonder like watching children learn and grow in a welcoming and self-paced environment.”
- Heather Moreno, Teacher 2023
