The teacher guides the children, allowing them to progress at their own rate. At age 5, and at the invitation of the teacher, children may attend the kindergarten program. This program is for 5-year olds who have been in Rollingwood Academy for at least one year and are deemed ready by their teachers to move into this program. It is a continuum of the preschool program designed to lead to elementary school. The literacy program is Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy.
Students learn through a systematic sequence of lessons.
Phonemic awareness, concepts about print and oral language activities prepare students for explicit, systematic phonics instruction. Students are tested at the beginning, middle and end of the year. Their Way curriculum. This curriculum follows a hands on approach through the concepts in math. Students who wish to enter our kindergarten program and have not been in attendance at Rollingwood Academy must come in for an interview and diagnostic test before acceptance into the program.