We offer a full academic day Kindergarten class. Our small class size allows for individual attention and lesson planning to meet the needs of each student. Our students learn through tactical experiences as well as more traditional teacher lead lessons. Our students spend a minimum of thirty minutes a day writing and drawing in their journals. Our kindergarten students are also encouraged to PLAY indepentently, and in small groups.

The use of the Montessori materials in the Kindergarten classroom is guided by the teachers' careful observations of the students' interests and abilities. When ready, each student is directed to the various Concrete Materials in the classroom. "Hands-on" manipulation of physical objects provides an enjoyable means for the child to readily learn concepts that can be difficult to grasp if taught only in abstraction. Puzzle Maps teach Geography. The Unit Beads, Bead Bars and Fraction, Squaring and Cubing Materials teach Mathematics. Word and Picture Cards teach Spelling and Grammar. Displays and experiments teach Science. Child's play becomes serious learning!

The Math Program builds on the children's Montessori experience and concentrates on addition, subtraction, money and change and time-telling. The students use workbooks in class and ditto sheets at home to enhance their skills. The Reading Program employs reading and phonics texts and workbooks to develop language arts and expressiveness. Creativity is encouraged as the class often composes some of its own materials. Science plays a large role in the Kindergarten class curriculum. In their study of Dinosaurs, the children not only read about dinosaurs, but draw and color pictures, construct dioramas and study and make their own dinosaur fossils. Similar inventiveness and creativity are used on the other Science units, such as Energy and Matter, Body Systems, the Solar System, Animals and the Seasons. Hands-on computer experience is also provided in the Kindergarten.