Supporting Students with the Gift of Time What is a Transitional Kindergarten? Transitional Kindergarten provides the support for children to develop socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually. The Transitional Kindergarten Program is the developmental bridge between the preschool environment and the more structured setting of Kindergarten. These students often have a fall birthday, turning 5 from …[more]
Donors Choose helped provide Mrs Goldstein’s class with a new easel which she uses for her group time. For her project, she wrote: During large group time, I like to have he children sit around me, while I tell stories or review our high frequency words. I like to show them lots of pictures and …[more]
Mrs Kimmel’s Donor’s Choose Project is Music Enhances Language. Mrs Kimmel: I have gathered many many years of music CDs in the classroom and have gone through multiple CD players. Fiddling with the CDs is cumbersome and sometimes my old CDs do not work properly, as they skip or do not play. It would be really great to switch …[more]
The kindergarten class is learning about community workers and during a recent assembly, they had a visit from Firefighter Hale. He’s an uncle of one of the students, and works for the Beverly Hills Fire Department. He reviewed fire safety, including Stop, Drop and Roll, when and how to call 911. He showed the children the …[more]
Last week, K1 and K2 had an extensive two hour unit on Native Americans. The kids were divided into groups and visited several stations with different activities set up. At the food tasting station, the children tasted common foods that Native Americans eat, then made a graph of their favorite. At another station they learned …[more]
Supporting Students with the Gift of Time What is a Transitional Kindergarten? Transitional Kindergarten provides the support for children to develop socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually. The Transitional Kindergarten Program is the developmental bridge between the preschool environment and the more structured setting of Kindergarten. These students often have a fall birthday, turning 5 from …[more]
