Our Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Program Focus Points:

· Program serving children who could benefit from the gift of another year

· Designed to bridge the path from preschool to Kindergarten, setting children up for a lifelong love of and success in learning

· Children eligible for TK must have already completed a four-year-old program and are turning five between May 1st and November 1st

· Alphabet reinforcement and focus on the sounds the letters make using alphabet charts, games, poems, songs, rhyme and movement

· Utilization of Handwriting Without Tears, a program developed by Jan Olsen, allowing children to develop fine motor skills to learn to write upper and lowercase letters

· Strengthen math skills using hands-on activities, increased competence in oral counting and writing numbers, measurement using classroom materials, constructing solid shapes, and number operations

· Understanding the duration of units of measure through clocks and calendars

· Gathering and sharing information through surveys and graphs

· Social skills such as communicating, sharing and cooperating with others through play and special projects

· Recognizing the need for rules and laws in school, the community and the world

· Specials include Art, Music, PE, Media, Information Literacy, STEM, Spanish, and Chinese