Kindergarten

Early Math

Our math curriculum uses games and manipulatives to engage our learners as they develop number concepts and problem-solving strategies. Through hands-on learning, students learn how to classify and identify shapes, recognize patterns, learn about length and measurement, understand place value, and build foundational addition and subtraction skills.

Social/Emotional Development

As part of the Responsive Classroom curriculum, each morning our kindergartners participate in a morning meeting, which builds their classroom community and supports their social-emotional growth.

Our Social Emotional curriculum helps children build foundational social competencies and essential life skills through stories, lessons, and play activities. Children are able to better understand themselves and others and develop self-awareness, perspective-taking, and social problem-solving. Additionally, through constructive play, children have the opportunity to develop social and interpersonal skills. Our children develop confidence in their learning capabilities and learn how to:

• Adjust to new situations
• Demonstrate self-confidence
• Show independence in problem-solving
• Play cooperatively
• Share and take turns
• Display self-control
• Listen respectfully

Physical Development

Fine and gross motor skills are developed through:

• Gym class twice a week
• Cutting, writing, lacing, building
• Daily physical activity on our outdoor playground

Artistic Development

Our children appreciate free and creative expression. We cultivate young minds through various learning modalities:

• Art
• Music
• Movement
• Dramatic play
• Storytelling

Intellectual Development

We engage children’s minds as they acquire knowledge and skills:

• Following multistep directions
• Actively participating in conversations
• Understanding concepts of print
• Identifying letters and sounds
• Reading simple texts
• Writing with inventive spelling
• Identifying numbers
• Counting by ones, fives and tens

Jewish Consciousness & Hebrew Language

In addition to our focus on teaching the whole child physically, emotionally, and cognitively, our integrated approach provides a strong foundation for our children as they begin to understand the Hebrew language and foster a love Torah, mitzvot, and Medinat Yisrael.

Our Ivrit curriculum provides a strong foundation for the Alef Bet as our children prepare for learning Ivrit b’Ivrit in the older grades. Our curriculum also focuses on:

• Tefilot and Brachot
• Parshat HaShavua
• Celebrating Shabbat and chagim
• Chesed and mitzvot
• Fostering a love for Am Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael