kindergarten
Environment
Carmel Mountain Preschool emphasizes early childhood development focusing on building strong academic, social, and emotional skills that will help your child develop the tools they need to be successful in future academics.
Ratio
We guarantee a teacher to student ratio of 1:12. This small class size builds a safe and secure relationship within the school family. It gives the teacher the opportunity for a personalized approach to education allowing them to focus on a child’s individual needs.
We are excited to announce the return of our Kindergarten program. We proudly maintain a strict 1:12 teacher-to-student ratio, fostering secure and personalized learning environments.
Our kindergarten students benefit from unique enrichment activities at the Glenn, including art, STEAM, cooking, gardening, and animal care. Additionally, children will participate in a Spanish class twice a week, and join our specialty classes including Dance, Science, and PERK.
To support busy families, we offer flexible drop-off as early as 7:00 am and pick-up until 5:30 pm, with kindergarten available in a 5 full-day schedule.
Curriculum & Daily Activities
It is our mission to provide each child with a loving, supportive, educational environment by creating a strong partnership between school and home so each child will have the opportunity to excel academically, socially, and emotionally.
Our kindergarten students have access to the Glenn which provides enrichment opportunities such as art, steam activities, cooking, gardening, and learning and taking care of our animals. Families are also able to enroll their children in dance classes, yoga classes, and the PERK program.
We teach a well-rounded curriculum including reading, writing, literacy, math, and science.
Reading
- Rigby PM Plus – Leveled Readers
- Comprehensive program that encompasses reading, writing, auditory, andoral skills for beginning readers
- Identification of all consonant letter sounds
- Introduction to short vowel sounds
- Introduction to phonic skills to decode and comprehend written words
- Introduction to reading simple sentences and stories
- Knowledge of letters and sounds through writing and reading
- Daily reading aloud and story time
Writing
- Refine and enhance writing all letters of the alphabet
- Work on writing first and last name legibly
- Introduction to writing as a form of communication
- Introduction to writing words and sentences using phonetic spelling
- Introduction to sentence structure through creative writing and self-expression and response to questions
- Daily journal writing and drawing
Literacy Information Gathering
- Introduction to identifying the main topic and retell details of text
- Exposure to a variety of literature: fiction, non-fiction, songs, and poems
- Identify differences between fiction and non-fiction
- Introduction to gaining information from pictures, stories, and charts
- Develop ability to retell a short story, with beginning, middle, and end
- Promote independent and critical thinking skills
Math
- Introduction of classifying and sorting groups of objects
- Recognize and create patterns
- Introduction of printing numbers
- Identify and describe simple geometric figures
- Introduction to graphing skills, money, measurement, and object comparison
- Introduction between numbers and quantities
- Introduction to addition/subtraction
- Make sense of problems and strategies to solve simple math problems
Science
- Introduction to Earth and Space Science, identify, and explore different seasons
- Daily weather and the effect it has on plants, animals, and people
- Begin to recognize mountains, rivers, oceans, deserts, plants, animals, and insects
- Begin to understand and describe properties of common objects
Unique Benefits
Carmel Mountain Preschool offers a well-rounded curriculum that combines both academic learning and social-emotional development. Children engage in activities that prepare them for the structured learning environment of elementary school, with an emphasis on literacy, math, and critical thinking.
Highlights
● Rigby PM Plus – Leveled Readers
● Small class ratio
● Enrichment programs
● Free early drop off starting at 7:00am
● Free late pick up ending at 5:30pm