Primary

Primary
Students in the primary building (Building II) range in age from four to six years. They are generally grouped according to age, taking emotional and developmental maturity into consideration.

The primary building consists of three Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) classes for four-year olds, a Transitional Kindergarten (TK) for those students who turned five in the summer or missed the cut-off date for Kindergarten by one to three months, and a Kindergarten/Pre-1st class.

All teaching materials follow the curriculum of the school. One of the major strengths of our program is the wide variety of resources and materials. These materials are used primarily for language arts, math, handwriting, and developmental learning (DLM). The classes are basically self-contained and have their own classrooms.

The following subjects are taught:

1. Language Arts
a. Workbooks and/or worksheets
b. Assessment tests and/or observation
c. Readiness books
d. Learning games
e. Variety of manipulatives
f. Variety of instructional materials
g. Letter tapes and letter programs
2. Handwriting - Manuscript
a. Readiness books
b. Workbooks and manuals
c. Charts
d. Manipulatives
3. Math
a. Readiness books and workbooks
b. Manipulatives
c. Charts
d. Learning games
4. Social Studies - each teacher plans her own curriculum using a topic list prepared during the summer
5. DLM (Development Learning Materials) - this class is designed to teach and/or reinforce skills taught through the use of manipulative objects and materials. Fine motor skills and visual motor skills are two areas of major emphasis.
6. Creative Activities - each class has one scheduled creative activities class per day. Activities include:
a. Cooking
b. Puppets
c. Crafts and special projects
d. Creative play toys (e.g. blocks, theme toys, dolls, housekeeping furnishings, plastic animals, et. al.)
e. Sharing time
7. Spanish - TK and K/Pre-1st are taught Spanish by the Spanish teacher.
8. Art - there is art instruction five days a week in Pre-K with the classroom teachers. TK and K/Pre-1st meet three times a week with the art instructor and have art activities at other times during the week with the basic skills teachers.
9. Physical Education is taught five days per week with the physical education instructor and an instructional aide.
10. Health - instruction is covered in the Science/Social Studies curriculum
11. Music is taught five days per week. All children participate in the Fall Follies Concert, Sounds of the Holiday Season, a Broadway Musical, and the Spring Fling/Graduation program. Music is taught by the music teacher and an assistant.
12. Elective Programs and Extra-Curricular Activities
13. Other Classroom Aids
a. Bulletin boards
b. Chalkboards and marker boards
c. Current dictionary
d. Tape recorder player, CD/Tape Player
e. Photocopier
f. TV/VCR
g. Piano
h. Creative toys
i. Filmstrip projector
j. Computers

Skill assessments are on-going and standardized tests are administered to TK and K/Pre-1st students in the spring of each school year.

A "Meet the Teacher" day is scheduled during pre-planning week. An Open House is held during the first quarter of each school year. Report cards, issued each quarter, are reviewed by the Principal. Conferences with parents are scheduled as necessary.




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