Kindergarten Overview


The following skills and activities are focused on in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is offered in both an all-day and half-day format.

  • Training in routines for succeeding in the school world.
  • Enhancing skills for personal care and motor development begun at home.
  • Accepting responsibility for choices and learning appropriate responses and reactions to people and situations.
  • Practicing good stewardship of time and materials with personal and school equipment and supplies.
  • Meeting new challenges of friends, authority figures and activities and seeing them as opportunities not obstacles to be feared or avoided.
  • Seeing Creator God as a personal God through his Son Jesus and His interaction with people on the earth. Understanding and experiencing prayer and the importance of memorizing God's Word.
  • Interacting with the world God created through units on God's Plan for People (5 senses and health), Weather (observing and recording weather changes) and Seasons, Plants (planting and caring for seeds), Animals (classroom bunny, fish and frogs), and the Seashore.
  • Writing letters and learning to voice their sounds for the purpose of beginning spelling and reading.
  • Counting and interacting with the values and uses of numbers 1-100 for dates, grouping objects, paying for items and telling time.
  • Creating room decorations and projects and experimenting with various art media to express creativity and try new mediums.
  • Contributing materials to a personal notebook that overviews things learned for the year.
  • Enjoying outside class experiences via field trips (MAX to Tualatin Hills Nature Park, MAX to Downtown Portland at Christmas, retirement centers and nursing homes, Zoo trip, local grocery and garden stores, pet and vet trip, year-end picnic at teacher's house).