transitional kindergarten

Environment

Our Transitional-Kindergarten Program facilitates and deepens a child’s existing social skills, empathy, sharing, cooperation and collaboration with, peers while creating a life-long love of learning. This program ensures kindergarten preparedness.

Ratio

Our 1:12 teacher-to-child ratio promotes an environment that supports experimentation, independent discovery, confidence, and creativity through developmentally appropriate practices. Your child has their own personality, needs, strengths and weaknesses and our teacher will get to know them as the individual they are.

Curriculum & Daily Activities

The transitional kindergarten program has a lot to offer from hands-on activities to outside education areas where the children explore and learn from their environment. This program builds and expands The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Pre-Kindergarten curriculum to ensure that we meet and exceed state standards. Children are exposed to a print-rich environment promoting vocabulary, multicultural awareness, introduction to writing and phonological awareness, story elements, sequences of events, and the ability to communicate ideas through pictures and writing. Usually teachers like to start out the day with “Circle Time.” Circle Time incorporates music & movement, Conscious Discipline practices, Calendar time with math exercises, reading, and letters of the week. The children enjoy a fruit and vegetable snack in the morning and afternoon. They will also have the chance to go to the playground and build their gross motor skills.

The teachers set-up “Center Learning Time” where the children work on different activities. Some of these activities include learning fine motor skills, upper & lower case letters, art, science projects (mixing solutions, sink or float exercises, planting, etc.), learning numbers, tally marks (adding and taking away), counting, patterns and sorting. Lunch time is around 11:30AM and nap time is 12:30PM – 2:30PM where the children can relax their mind and bodies. The children love to visit the Art Studio, Nature Lab or Tinkering where they can explore outside and enhance their gross and fine motor skills. Overall, the transitional preschool program is a fun way for children to learn all the skills they need to excel in Kindergarten.

Unique Benefits

Carmel Mountain Preschool has many different benefits that offer support for the children so they can grow to be healthy and happy Kindergarteners. Conscious Discipline methods are used by our well trained and educated teachers and staff members. We encourage you to check out more information on these methods as they can be very helpful in using the right words at the right time for your child to learn from their actions. We also have an Occupational Therapist and Speech Language Pathologist available to support the children in many areas. Please see the Unique Benefits page for more information.