Kindergarten Program
"A developmentally appropriate kindergarten is like a good home, where children can learn through playing, cooking, watching, listening, acting, reading or pretend reading, and writing or pretend writing. It is a place where they can explore their environment, ask questions, and answer questions.
It is a place where the teacher is like a parent: reading to the children and talking about the stories they read; writing for the children and allowing them to write for different purposes; having time to explore the community on field trips, and talking about those experiences together. It is a place where children clean up after themselves, learn more about familiar and unfamiliar topics (usually called themes), and learn more about what interests them most themselves.
Most importantly, it is a place where children learn that reading provides both enjoyment and information, and they develop the desire to learn to read and write."
— Month-By-Month Reading and Writing in Kindergarten, Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 1997
This quote exemplifies what our school is about.
The kindergarten at Kids’ Co-Op is a state licensed kindergarten, taught by a fully licensed teacher, following all requirements set forth by the State of Nevada Department of Education. We follow the guidelines of the Clark County School District while adhering to our philosophy of using developmentally appropriate practices for teaching young children.
Our small class size, along with parent participation, allows the teacher to make sure that each student receives the personalized, individual attention that he or she needs and deserves.
The Daily Routine Makes Time for:
- Group singing, signing, discussion, planning and reflection
- Enjoying a variety of quality children’s literature individually, in small groups and in a large group
- Center choices that include creating, dramatizing, block building, bookmaking, planting, experimenting and discovering.
- Developing literacy skills through phonics (sound/symbol relationship) and phonemic awareness (the ability to hear, identify and manipulate sounds in oral language)
- Recording ideas on paper through drawing and writing
- Discovering math through active, hands-on activities with concrete materials to master grade level skills in counting, comparing, ordering, estimating, sorting, patterning and measuring
- Strengthening large muscles through outdoor physical play
- Developing fine motor skills
- Snack and social interaction
- Exploring art using a variety of mediums
Benefits of our Expanded-day Kindergarten
- Greater exposure to educational materials to help develop mastery of targeted learning skills
- The teacher has more time for interaction with children which enables more individual attention and the ability to meet individual needs
- Extended interaction with classmates provides more opportunities to develop strong social-emotional skills and positive self-esteem
- Gift of time for further exploration, reinforcement, enrichment and learning through play
- Daily opportunities for development of gross and fine motor skills through physical play outdoors
