Transitional Kindergarten Information

Our Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Classroom will cap at between 16-18 students per day. Our full day TK program will prepare your child for kindergarten entry with a balance of indoor instruction and outdoor classroom learning. The daily schedule is available below. We aim to incorporate as much of our outdoor classroom environment and to continue to honor our emergent curriculum, whilst balancing this with more structure and formal teaching that students will need to be familiar with in kindergarten.

The TK curriculum time starts at 9am. Drop off can be any time between 8am and 9am. This will ensure no one misses any important learning, students are not interrupted with late arrivals, and you all get to practice for kindergarten start times :) The TK portion of the day will end at 3:30pm when the class will join other groups on the yard for outdoor classroom activities and emergent curriculum.

Curriculum will closely follow standards outlined by the California Department of Education and will cover literacy and language, social and emotional development, art, science, and math topics and activities. Monthly themes will be introduced within these frameworks, and will take into account student’s individual and collective interests. Possible topics will be winter, community helpers, insects. Language skills will cover letter recognition, vowels, categories, CVC, sight and key words, and rhyming. Children will learn about authors and illustrators, story settings, story sequencing, and reasoning skills through reading a large variety of books. Math skills will include sequence counting 1-20, number recognition and matching, 2D and 3D shapes, patterns, measurement, estimation, more vs less, and counting by 10s. Science themes will include arctic animals, space, life cycles, plants and dinosaurs. Through continuing social skills activities, students will learn in small and large groups, naming emotions, routines at home and at school, friendship, kindness, manners, and talking about kindergarten. Parents will receive a monthly newsletter with information on topics and activities, and age appropriate quarterly reports on student’s progress, in addition to regular photographs sent via the procare connect app.

Applications will be through our preschool waiting list process, and new students offered spaces if available once re-registration of current students has been finalised in the Spring.