Students are encouraged to use inventive spelling. Students are introduced to a wide range of thematic vocabulary. Students identify and use different types of punctuation and are exposed to commas, question marks, and abbreviations. Students write daily in journals, participate in shared writing, and often make class books. Students learn to sort, graphs, patterning, shapes, calendar skills, simple measurement, beginning number concepts, addition and subtraction to 10, telling time to the hour, coin identification, simple fractions, and greater than and less than.
Students study the harvest, five senses, living things, wood, insects, zoo animals, and the ocean.
Students study ourselves and the people around us, as well as holidays and celebrations around the world. Physical Education, Art, Music, Guidance, and Library are also included in kindergarten. Included in Vocabulary are words related to the reading series, basic sight words, and words related to Science and Social Studies units. Grammar concepts taught include capitalization and punctuation, sentences, nouns, verbs, plurals, compound words, contractions, adjectives, and opposites. Students write in journals daily.