Kindergarten at Adventure Montessori Learning:

The Kindergarten Program is a comprehensive learning experience that takes place in both the students’ individual Primary classrooms and in the Kindergarten Room (the Enrichment Room). The children continue their individual learning in their classes from 8:30-11 AM. They play outside, eat lunch and come together as a community from 1 – 3:15 PM on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On Tuesday and Thursday, the children meet from 1 – 2:45 PM. (Extracurricular classes begin at 3 PM.) The kindergarten afternoon classes are team taught by two Montessori Lead teachers. Each team teaches the academics on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, for two weeks, while a second team teaches sports – Body, Spirit and Mind. Then the teams rotate every two weeks, so the children know and interact with all the Primary Lead teachers each week. The kindergarten curriculum is described below. Literacy…is Monday: The basic format for Literacy begins with a story from the The Children’s Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett, or from another book that teaches about a virtue. After the story, the children proceed to work on individual projects that involve skills such as writing, tracing, and cutting. The children will eventually be writing and illustrating their own books! It’s also great fun and assists in the comprehension of a story when the children act it out! French….is Monday: An introduction to French will be given the last half hour of Literacy. Ms. Charlotte will begin by teaching greetings and units on colors, numbers and animals. Spanish is…Tuesday and Thursday Hello, Adventure Montessori Parents! It is the beginning of another school year and we are all very excited! The Kindergarten Spanish lessons will continue on Tuesdays and Thursdays, however, they will be from 1 – 2:45 PM. I’ve added two new lessons to the program: Tansportacion;”Transportation” and Opuestos-“Opposites”. The Kindergarten students will learn different songs according to the units, and will learn about the differences between the English and Spanish alphabet. For each sound in the Spanish alphabet, they will learn three different words. The last week of September, we are going to start practicing our presentation for the Winter Celebration. I will be in contact with all of you, so we can talk about costumes for the play and discuss other areas that could use volunteer help. Please feel free to talk to me any time about the Spanish Program. It will be a pleasure to answer your questions. Thank you for your support of our school community. Gladys I. Quinones 303-255-8151 Science is …Wednesday On Wednesdays, the primary lead teachers present a science lesson to the children pertaining to the season or another current area of study in the classrooms. They will begin to explore the scientific method; making observations, asking testable questions, collecting data and discussing the results. The year will begin with the formation of the earth; land, air and water and land forms, such as an island vs. a lake; a cape vs. a peninsula, etc. Math is…Friday On Fridays, the children will extend and reinforce their base knowledge of math learned in their primary classrooms, such as naming and ordering numerals to 100, sorting, patterning, the concept of greater than and less than, odd and even, etc. They will work with sets, graphs, measurement, temperature and telling time/clocks. Sports is…M, W, F Sports will take place from 2:45 – 3:15, after the academic Kindergarten classes three times a week. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the children are introduced to nutrition, care of the body and care of the mind/spirit. They will learn basic skills used in organized sports, such as taking turns, working as a team, eye hand coordination, ball handling and basic principles that pertain to athletic conditioning. 1. Nutrition is one of the first considerations for a healthy life. The children will make fruit and/or vegetable smoothies in a juicer and learn about the food pyramid and healthy eating; how to “feed a lean machine”! 2. Preparation before and after any sport: stretching. Make the children aware that stretching is important to protect your body from strains; several exercises; warm up. 2. Soccer: Fundamental soccer; how to kick the ball, one-on-one goal kicking in alternating rounds. The next step will be learning the rules. 3. Games: Duck, Duck, Goose 4. Gymnastics