At Building Kidz, we have carefully created enrichment programs to develop the foundational skills that children need to succeed later in life.
For children of kindergarten age, it’s crucial to help them develop the foundational skills that will prepare them for later learning in the areas of math, science, social studies, and language arts. At Building Kidz, our whole child philosophy means using the arts to engage children and keep them focussed on a variety of subjects. Our curriculum for kindergarteners has proven to be successful and popular with kids and parents alike.
We focus on four main subjects with our kindergarten enrichment programs.
Kindergarteners need to understand the alphabet and how reading works. To help kids, our teachers lead group discussions of books and help students identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. This helps kids learn the basic structure of stories and how to communicate information.
We get our children to ask and answer questions about essential elements of stories. Teachers also lead children in activities such as reciting poems and rhymes, and singing songs to help them use coherent sentences when speaking. We teach children to spell using their enhanced phonetic ability and growing vocabulary.
Children develop writing skills with guidance from our teachers. We teach kids to utilize a combination of drawing, storytelling, and writing to convey an event or to share an opinion.
As we introduce phonetics, our children begin to understand and document their ideas into words. We also introduce kids to the computer as a tool to produce and publish writing projects. We teach kids to spell independently using their enhanced phonetic ability and growing vocabulary.
Our curriculum focuses on the relationship between numbers and quantities. Our kindergarteners learn to count to one hundred by ones and tens and to write numbers from zero to twenty. We teach kids that each number refers to a quantity that is one larger as they count objects. Kindergarteners count objects (as many as twenty) to answer “how many?”
We teach addition via a variety of approaches, including the use of objects, fingers, drawings, sounds, verbal explanations, and equations. We teach subtraction by putting together items and taking them apart to solve problems up to ten. We also integrate music into lessons to speed up kids’ development of spatial and temporal reasoning, which is integral to the acquisition of important skills in mathematics.
We introduce kids to life science, physical science, earth science, and space science. Our students explore materials, objects, and events by observing them, altering them, and noticing what happens. We encourage our children to use all their senses to make careful observations of objects, organisms, and events, developing their measurement and classifying skills.
We lead students in simple investigations and encourage them to make predictions as well as gather, record, and interpret data. We also teach our students to recognize simple patterns and to draw conclusions. We integrate dance into these lessons by adding and subtracting movements from a dance sequence within a science lesson to create a correlation to movement of materials and how their properties change.
We introduce foreign language to students by integrating lessons with songs, drawing, coloring, and cultural visual aids. Children learn more easily when taught by song, especially when we add hand and body gestures. This engages children kinaesthetically. Music and song also help to reinforce pronunciation and accent, as well as vocabulary.
If you’d like to learn more about our enrichment programs or other curricula, please contact us today.