Pre-Kindergarten

In Pre-KI and Pre-KII, we nurture our youngest TKS learners to foster independence and lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning. Our days are filled with journaling, circle time, centers, play, and small group and individual teaching. Students in Pre-KI and Pre-KII have daily Spanish instruction, art in their classroom, outdoor play time, and music and library once a week. Additionally, our Pre-KII students have PE daily. Both Pre-KI and Pre-KII follow the same thematic units for social studies and science studies.

Pre-KI

In our Pre-KI classroom, for three-year-olds turning four during the school year, when students are developmentally ready, teachers use the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum for language arts and Get Set for School curriculum for math. Handwriting Without Tears is a hands-on curriculum that builds on what students already know and then layers on learning through multi-sensory teaching. In math, the program uses manipulatives, music, and rhymes to teach counting, comparisons, spatial awareness, patterning, sequencing, matching, sorting, problem-solving, and even Pre-K geometry skills.

Pre-KII

In our Pre-KII classroom, for four-year-olds turning five during the school year, teachers follow the Starfall curriculum for language arts. The program sets the stage for reading with lessons in phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. An introduction to Reader's Workshop starts with the four-year-olds. In writing, teachers follow the work of renowned authors Matt Glover and Katie Wood Ray, nurturing the Pre-K children's growing understandings about texts, process, and what it means to be a writer. In math, our Pre-KII students are introduced to the 4th Edition of Everyday Mathematics curriculum, which TKS follows through the sixth grade.