Busy Bees Kindergarten Program
Busy Bees Learning Center offers one integrated Kindergarten Program for full-day and before/after Kindergarteners. The aim of our kindergarten program is to provide our children with activities and materials that foster achieving the outcomes of learning that are appropriate for this age. We will provide hands on activities, which offer variety while promoting fundamental skills. The composition of the kindergarten program will reflect the overall philosophy of Busy Bees Child Care and Learning Center.
Language Arts:
Letters of the alphabet and their corresponding sounds
Speaking/Listening individually or in a group
Word study
Introduction to reading using pre-reading strategies ( activate prior knowledge, set purpose for reading, predict outcomes)
Apply active reading strategies (self-monitor to maintain meaning, analyze text, think during reading process to build and enhance comprehension)
Combine appropriate strategies to identify unknown words (picture clues, word configuration, phonetic/structural clues, context clues)
Writing (develop early emergent writing skills, become aware of relationship between the spoken and written words, become aware of letter/sound relationships within the words, recognize the formation of letters, numbers and words)
Writing creatively using the above skills to form sentences and simple stories using teacher prompts and free writing opportunities
Use written/pictorial communication on a developmentally appropriate level
Develop an appreciation of literature
Reading comprehension skills
Responding to literature
Math:
Introduction of numbers and writing them in proper form
Identification of numbers in a random and ordinal order.
Measurement
Different denominations of coins and their values
Time
Patterns, functions and sequences
Geometry and spatial sense
Exploring data and representing that data in graphs
Operations (addition and subtraction)
Social Studies/Science:
Special ME, family and community
Five Senses
Food pyramid and balanced diet
Personal Hygiene
Change in Seasons
All about mail and the mailing process
Life: life cycle (plant growth and development and life cycle of a butterfly)
Multiculturalism:
Experience a broad range of literature representing various cultures
Participate in discussions and activities that celebrate similarities and differences
Acknowledge a diversity of ideas generated by authors of different races, beliefs, gender, and age
Music and Movement, Arts and Crafts, Cooking, Computer and Technologies, Field Trips and much more.
