Our teacher uses a developmentally appropriate curriculum which helps the children attain the skills necessary for kindergarten. Our certified teacher will engage children in specific activities designed to enable them to practice and expand their skills. Children may attend in place of public school transitional-K for maximum understanding and preparation for the school years.

Overview:

The Transitional-K Program is a structured, creative environment stressing cognitive development, social interaction, beginning reading, writing and math skills. The class size is small and lends itself to individualized creative development.

Transitional-K Program:

The following are our general goals for the Transitional-K program:

Language Arts:

Left to right progression, visual discrimination, beginning reading and writing skills, listening skills, phenomic awareness, poems, charts stories and print rich environment.

Social Development:

An opportunity to interact with other children. To learn to share and foster independence.

Emotional Development:

Appropriate behavior and development of a good self-concept, and cooperative learning groups.

Math Readiness:

Understanding numbers, counting from 1-100, classification, concept of time, money, fractions, measurement and problem solving.

Academic:

Science, health, music, art, movement and cooking.

Preliminary goals are set for each child at the beginning of the program and are reviewed periodically throughout the year.