KINDERGARTEN

KINDERGARTEN CLASS

Kindergarten at The Woods is designed to meet children where they are while building a strong foundation for what comes next. Experienced teachers provide individual attention in a warm, engaging environment that encourages curiosity, confidence, and a love of learning.

A strong curriculum in language arts, math, science, and social studies is anchored by individualized, phonics-based reading instruction, allowing each child to progress at an appropriate level. Art, Spanish, Music & Movement, physical education, and hands-on experiences further enrich the school day.

Along the way, students develop independence, responsibility, confidence, and respect for others—growing not only as learners, but as members of their classroom community.

Our Kindergarten/Pre-First grade curriculum includes the following elements:

Comprehensive one on one reading-language arts program
Hands-on mathematics curriculum
Little Thinkers Social Studies
Litter Thinkers Science
Physical Education
Spanish instruction
Music and Movement
Manuscript
Art

KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM

LANGUAGE ARTS

Our Kindergarten language arts program is built around Beginning to Read, Write, and Listen, a comprehensive, multisensory approach designed to give young learners a strong foundation in literacy.

Through engaging visual, auditory, and hands-on activities, students learn letter recognition and formation, sound-symbol relationships, phonemic awareness, and how sounds blend together to create words. Explicit, systematic phonics instruction helps children develop the skills and confidence they need to become successful readers and writers.

A collection of 24 letter books provides meaningful practice through activities that strengthen reading readiness, handwriting, listening, and early language skills. Most importantly, the program makes learning to read engaging, active, and fun while allowing each child to grow at an appropriate pace.

MATHEMATICS

Kindergarten students use Sadlier’s Progress in Mathematics, a hands-on program designed to build a strong foundation in early mathematical thinking. Through engaging lessons and meaningful practice, students develop number sense while learning to recognize patterns, make connections, and solve problems.

Throughout the year, students explore counting, number recognition, sorting, patterns, measurement, graphing, geometry, telling time, addition, and subtraction. These early experiences help children build the confidence and skills needed for future success in mathematics.

SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Kindergarten students discover the world around them through the Little SCIENCE Thinkers and Little SOCIAL STUDIES Thinkers curricula. Hands-on activities, engaging lessons, and age-appropriate investigations encourage children to ask questions, make connections, and become curious learners.

In science, students explore the scientific method, five senses, weather/seasons, properties of matter, force of motion, and plants and animals. Social studies introduces communities, citizenship, past and present, traditions around the world, helping children understand both their own community and the diverse world beyond it.