Welcome to Kindergarten!
Kindergarten is an integral year in Willowwind’s program. Its role in the early childhood experience establishes an important bridge between the preschool and elementary programs. Our goal is to create a seamless and purposeful transition, while encouraging students to carry a playful curiosity with them throughout their years as a young learner.
Curriculum in the Kindergarten classroom helps students develop a better awareness of themselves and how to successfully interact with others. Students learn to take responsibility for themselves, develop good work habits, and regulate classroom tasks, helping them to grow personally and academically. Kindergarteners become readers, writers, authors, illustrators, presenters, artists, mathematicians, problem-solvers, leaders, teachers, and friends.
Students in our Kindergarten Program…
- Build foundational literacy and math skills
- Engage in social emotional learning
- Work collectively to explore science and social studies topics, dipping their toes into the world of project-based learning
- Act as role models, leaders, and friends for preschool students
- Learn from elementary mentor buddies
- Grow a love of learning to sustain them for a lifetime