The program is built on a developmentally appropriate, emergent-style, project based curriculum, designed to challenge your child's cognitive, social, physical, academic and creative development using the CT Early Learning and Development Standards as cross-walked for Kindergarten.  Our goal is for your child to experience intellectual joy while becoming an empowered, self-directed problem solver and life-long learner and gain all the skills necessary for future academic and social success.  Curriculum goals include:

 

Cognition:  Develop executive functioning, decision making, logic and reasoning, self-regulation and an effective approach to learning.

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Personal /Social Development - Encourage positive interactions in conversations and cooperative play, self discipline and respect for others.  Recall and follow daily routines with little needed support, including adapting to changes.

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Literacy / Language 

• Increase vocabulary, understand homonyms, phonology and syllables.

• Represent learning through creative expression, drawing and invented spelling.

• Use rich descriptive language in peer interaction and in group settings.

• Increase understanding of book / print  concepts and conventional grammar

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Mathematics

• Build on math concepts including counting, measuring, sorting, classifying and graphing.

• Understand dimension and shapes, including 2D and 3D shapes.

• Compare measurable attributes and describe the comparison.

• Count to 100by 1's and 10's.

• Begin addition and subtraction.

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Social Studies / Science -

• Use scientific observation, investigation, documentation and data collection.

• Pose and refine problems, hypothesize, predict outcomes and conduct experiments.

• Sort and classify plants, animals and minerals.

• Understand life cycles, the environment, weather and geography

• Understand similarities and differences between cultures.

• Understand concepts of time.

• Learn to take responsibility for self, classroom community and the larger community.

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Creative Development

• Provide opportunities that allow children to engage and express themselves through music, visual arts, dramatic play and dance.

• Build understanding of the various arts including the use of descriptive attributes of the various arts.

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Physical Development

• Develop large motor skills and core muscle strength and stamina through running, jumping, climbing, balancing, swinging, throwing and exploratory walks. 

• Develop small motor skills through writing, manipulating small objects, cutting and drawing with control while using appropriate hand position.

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