Kindergarden
Everything I've learned, I've learned in Kindergarten!
The ABCs of Kindergarten are Attitude, Behavior, and Cooperation
Mohegan Kindergarten Mission Statement
Recognizing the dynamic interaction of all areas of development, the Kindergarten program aims to promote the personal, social, physical, cognitive, and aesthetic development of each student. The curriculum is designed to be comprehensive, challenging, engaging, and culturally and linguistically responsive. This is specific to the individual and collective needs and abilities of our students. The teachers and support staff strive to form a partnership with families to maximize positive outcomes for all kindergarteners.
Kindergarten Program
The Kindergarten Language Arts curriculum focuses on the following:
- Phonemic awareness
- Alphabetic Principle
- Vocabulary
- Reading fluency
- Comprehension of fiction and informational text
- Writing of opinion, narrative and explanatory pieces
The Kindergarten Math curriculum focuses on the following:
- Writing and identifying numbers to 20
- Comparison with length, weight, capacity
- Addition & subtraction to 10
- Counting to 100 by ones and tens
- Analyzing, comparing, & composing two-dimensional & three-dimensional shapes
Science, Social Studies, Health, and Social Emotional Learning are integrated throughout the Kindergarten Day.
Assessments:
- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills) and PAST (Phonemic Awareness Skills Test) are used to assess the students’ progress in language arts three times a year. Progress Monitoring as needed.
- Running Records
Math assessments are standard based
