Monarch K-8
Kindergarten

Teachers

The Kindergarten Experience

AM Session 8:40-11:35
Pm Session 12:35-3:25

On a typical day in our Monarch K-8 classroom, you will see the children busily engaged in a variety of learning experiences. Our classroom is an exciting place! We have a focus on literacy and learning in combination with a weekly theme. Our weekly them is reflected in our weekly poem, books, writing, listening, math, and art projects. Our Kindergarten curriculum meets states standards while providing an inviting, challenging, and fun learning experience for children of all levels. Small group instruction allows for students to work at their own levels and get the individuals instruction that is best suited for their learning styles. Our learning centers allow students to practice, apply, and extend Kindergarten skills that will enable each and every student to be successful!

Our Kindergarten day starts with our "Opening Time" which consists of The Pledge of Allegiance, sharing, calendar, shared writing, reading, phonemic awareness, and many other kindergarten skills! We keep track of the number of days we’ve been in school and even begin to learn how to count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 20’s! We have a huge celebration when we finally make it to the 100th day of school!

The daily literacy instruction involving our weekly poem is a great way to encourage the home school connection that is so important for success in early reading. A new poem is sent home each Monday. These poems focus on High Frequency, Rhyming words, word families, phonemic Awareness, and other important literacy skills. Seeing the excitement in the eyes of each student as they practice reading the poem to the whole class, is a priceless gift that is a delight to see each and every day!
We have wonderful parent helpers in the classroom each and every day! We are very fortunate to have this wonderful support system, which allows for smaller group instruction in reading and math, special projects, and invaluable support and help for smooth flow of running a Kindergarten classroom. Parent participation is encouraged and always welcomed at Monarch K-8. We are very lucky to have such active and involved families. The Monarch community is the best!
You will also find Mrs. Lander, our Literacy support Specialist, working with small groups of children in the morning and afternoon to support our Kindergarten literacy instruction. Being part of the Monarch community means that we are also able to have older children help in several areas through out our Kindergarten day. The success of each and every child is our goal, and we have a great support system in place to see that this goal is achieved.
In the adjoining room, Mrs. Adams Kindergarten Enrichment program provides and exciting and creative extension to our half-day Kindergarten. The KE supports and enhances the Kindergarten child’s learning experiences with hands-on explorations, music and movement, dramatic play, science, and literacy extensions. We are fortunate to have a quality, "enriching" program offered at Monarch with a certified and experienced teacher directing this program.

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