Kindergarten
Teachers and school administrators across the United States are preparing the education of today's children for the next millennium. Jeffersonville Country Day School has made the commitment to prepare our students for the upcoming challenge. With a structured full-day program, our small class size provides an excellent teacher/student ratio that enables more one-on-one learning. Our teacher is a dedicated, experienced teacher who provides lots of encouragement in a stable, consistent environment.
Our goal is to promote positive attitudes, high self-esteem and social responsibilities that will enhance your child's ability to develop to his/her fullest potential, while challenging and sharpening your child's analytical thinking, problem solving, memory developmental skills.
Our kindergarten program is licensed by the PA Department of Education. Subjects include: Reading Readiness, Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Math Readiness, Music, Art, Physical Education and Computer Time. JCDS has earned the reputation for having the best private kindergarten the area has to offer.
Kindergarten Objectives
- To promote a positive self image.
- To develop socially within a group structure.
- To work individually within a group and to work individually.
- To develop pre-reading and math skills through the following:
- Recognition and printing full name.
- Recognition of primary and secondary colors.
- Recognition of numbers 1 - 100, printing up to 25.
- Recognition of number values 1 - 25.
- Recognition of alphabet, beginning sounds, and printing.
- To develop auditory discrimination with letter sounds.
- To develop visual discrimination.
- To identify sight words and opposites.
- To be able to communicate thoughts and ideas in complete sentences.
- To develop listening skills in all facets.
- To develop the ability to write in the D’Nealian Handwriting Method.
- To be well-rounded in all areas of development for promoting a continued yearning for knowledge within each student.
- To develop gross and fine motor skills through the following:
- Outside play (a minimum of 30 minutes daily) for gross motor development.
- Coloring, printing, manipulatives, and various art projects for fine motor development.
- To follow directions and obey class/school rules.
- To develop hand/eye coordination.
Kindergarten Class Schedule
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Supervised Free Play |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Morning Opening (Calendar, Weather, Pledge of Allegiance) |
| 9:15 - 10:30 | Activities to include Reading Readiness, Math Readiness, with a break for snack* |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Child’s Choice of Free time (Books, play, manipulatives, coloring, puzzles) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Handwriting Skills |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Lunchtime** |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Outdoor or Indoor Free Play |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Quiet time and story |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Activities to include Social Studies, Science, Music or Art, with a break for snack* |
| 3:00 - 6:00 | organized Indoor/Outdoor Activities |
** Parents supply lunch. Foods can be heated via microwave oven. Lunch is served on paper plates, and plastic spoons and bibs are supplied by the school when needed.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Spring
Reading Readiness
- Initial consonants
- Sight Words
- Rhyming
- Sentence Meaning
- Oral Reading
- Weekly Reader Newspaper
- Picture Reading
- Stories
- Whole Language experiences
- Library Center
- D'Nealian Handwriting
Language Arts
- Stories
- Listening
- Storytelling
- Sharing
- Role Playing
- Dramatizing
- Puppets
- Finger plays
- Poetry
- Creating experience stories
- "Writing" and illustrating a book
- Choral Speaking
Math Readiness
- Counting to 100
- Number recognition to 100
- Recognize number values to 25
- Ordinal Numbers
- Graphs & Tables
- Time
- Money
- Measuring Concepts
- Addition/Subtraction
Social Studies
- Rules That Protect Us
- Our Country
- Martin Luther King
- Presidents Day
- The World Around Us
- People In Other Lands
- Celebrations
Science
- Winter
- Living and Nonliving
- Dinosaurs
- Plants & Animals
- Sinking & Floating
- Sound, Heat, & Light
- Land & Water
- Earth & Sky
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Weather
- Observe
- Explore
- Experiment
- Discover
- Question
- Compare
- Problem Solve
Fall
Reading Readiness
- Letter Recognition - Capital and Small
- Left to Right Progression
- Initial consonants
- Opposites
- Beginning Sight Words
- Weekly Reader Newspaper
- Picture Reading
- Stories
- Whole Language experiences
- Library Center
- D'Nealian Handwriting
Language Arts
- Stories
- Listening
- Storytelling
- Sharing
- Role Playing
- Dramatizing
- Puppets
- Finger plays
- Poetry
- Creating experience stories
- "Writing" and illustrating a book
- Choral Speaking
Math Readiness
- Counting
- Number recognition
- Classifying
-
Placement words:
- over/under
- above/below
- top/middle/bottom
- Patterns
- More than/Less than
Social Studies
- "I Am Special"
- Families
- Working Together
- Fire Prevention/Safety
- Community Helpers
- Columbus Day
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving/Pilgrims
- Native Americans
- Christmas/Hanukah
- Kwanza
Science
- Autumn
- Five Senses
- Growing and Changing
- Migration
- Hibernation
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Life Science
- Observe
- Explore
- Experiment
- Discover
- Question
- Compare
- Problem Solve
