By the end of the year students should be able to identify all the upper and lower case letters, recognize the sounds of most of the consonants and long vowels and have a small fund of basic sight words. Small books at the students' levels are read by all the students ready to do so. Morning message is used to teach phonic skills, punctuation, capitalization and basic sight words. The writing process takes place at a simplified level as the children progress from writing with pictures to some invented spelling by the end of the year. Calendar activities are used to teach many math skills including counting, number recognition, patterns, days of the week, months of the year, the seasons and weather.
Students count and sort objects and develop the ability to match numbers with objects.
In Social Studies, the new curriculum is being implemented and the theme for kindergarten is the family. Learning social skills such as cooperation, waiting one's turn, sharing, listening to others and following directions are taught and practiced on a daily basis. By the end of kindergarten, these youngest students have learned a great deal that will help them to be successful students throughout their school careers. Students learn to work with numbers, find patterns, tell time, recognize fractions, count change, and add and subtract bigger and bigger numbers. In third grade, students are taught basic multiplication and the beginning of simple division.