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When it comes to preparing your child for school success, you expect the best and Hadi School
understands it. That's why we're pleased to bring you our new Kindergarten Program filled
with fun and educational activities carefully designed to help bring out your child's natural
curiosity and encourage a lifelong joy of learning. In addition to sharing with the preschoolers,
the exciting and fun resource centers mentioned in the preschool program, Kindergarten students
get a step-up curriculum, which is uniquely designed to prepare the children for school.
This unique program includes:
Mathematics
The materials in this area are designed to lay the foundation for mathematical concepts
and relationships. Children work with concrete materials that enable them to explore
patterns, the properties of numbers and concepts of place value. The children carry out
mathematical operations in a "hands-on", developmentally appropriate way.
Language
This area includes materials extending from pre-reading and pre-writing to reading,
writing and grammar activities. The classroom is a language-rich environment and we
will nurture the children's innate interest and sensitivity to mastering language. We will
help them develop the listening, decoding and writing strategies they will need for future
academic pursuits. In this classroom, the children learn the phonetic sounds of letters
before they learn the alphabetical names in a sequence because these are the first sounds
that children hear in words that they need to know in order to read.
Science
Children learn about the environment as they study various kinds of plants, animals,
inanimate objects and events in nature. The children have the opportunity to carry out
simple experiments and will be introduced to some of the basic classifications that they
will encounter and develop in more depth as they grow academically.
Geography
We nurture a curiosity about and build respect for the physical and cultural diversity of
our planet as we learn through a variety of materials and activities about the solar system,
planets, continents, cultures and people.
These subjects are reflected in the organization of the classroom. In each area, materials are
carefully prepared and sequenced. Children receive individual lessons based on their interest and
readiness, thus progressing at their own rate from simple to complex tasks.
Three important components of the curriculum that are not directly reflected in the room and
materials are independence, choice and etiquette. We enable the children to develop their need
for independence and making choices by encouraging children to do things for themselves,
instead of having adults do things for them. This requires practice. By doing things for
themselves, the child gains a sense of control and competence that will help him/her become
active, self-confident members of society.
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