Children’s Center at Bear Valley Junior Kindergarten Bridge Program

At the Children’s Center we believe that every child should have the opportunity to excel and be challenged in the class they are in. That is why instead of holding back children who have birthdays before September 1^st in non-age appropriate classrooms we created a place just for them to grow. Our four day a week program caters to late birthday children as well as preschoolers who need a more challenging, faster paced learning environment.

Reading: We use Reading A to Z to encourage and build reading readiness by introducing the children to book structure, sight words, phonemic awareness, poetry and rhymes, reading fluency as well as building their vocabulary. This is a multi-level program to be used as a reading resource in the classroom as well as at home. This curriculum provides the parents with the ability to print books to use at home and build upon what we are learning in the classroom.

Handwriting: We use Get Set for School which is an introduction to the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum that is used in many public and private schools. “Children learn with joy and ease using the multisensory readiness activities in Get Set for School. This award-winning activity book uses music, movement, building, coloring, and other hands-on exercises to help children of different abilities develop color and shape awareness, fine and gross motor control, letter and number recognition, counting skills, writing skills and social skills where shapes, pre-strokes, letters and numbers are introduced in a developmental learning sequence.”

Math: We also use the Get Set for School program for Math. This curriculum introduces counting, geometry and pattern concepts, measurement and time, math vocabulary, number writing and problem solving.

Science: We use Evan-Moore curriculum for Science which includes creating science books that introduce making observations and creating a hypothesis before finding the end result through a fun science experiment.

Spanish: We use Frog Street Press for our Spanish curriculum. This introduces color and number words as well as other conversational Spanish words.

Junior Kindergarten Learning Objectives

Language Arts: 

·         Recognize and write the alphabet in uppercase and lowercase letters (in random order)

·         Recite the alphabet in order

·         Know the appropriate sound for each letter of the alphabet (short vowel)

·         Listen attentively to a story

·         Participate in a group setting using songs, rhymes, discussions and conversation

·         Develop reading readiness skills such as cutting, pasting, coloring, holding a pencil correctly, and tracing

·         Recognize the 8 basic colors and color words

·         Know Spanish color words

·         Retell a story using details

·         Recognize and produce rhyming words

·         Write first name with upper and lowercase letters

·         Recognize initial, medial and ending sounds of a word

·         Begin to put sounds together to form words

·         Sound out three letter words

·         Recognize difference between letters and words

  Mathematics:

·         Demonstrate one to one correspondence (point to each object as it is counted)

·         Recognize numbers 1-30

·         Write numbers 1-9

·         Know Spanish number words 1-10

·         Identify shapes (circles, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, heart, star)

·         Identify, describe, and extend a pattern of three objects.

·         Demonstrate knowledge of position and comparison terms (above, below, more, less, top, bottom, before, after, middle, left, right, same, different, shorter.)

·         Participate in simple graphing activities to gather information.

·         Sort and classify objects using one or more attributes.

·         Recite the days of the week in order

·         Recite months of the year in order

·         Sequence events

Science:

·         Describe five senses

·         Recognize the four seasons

·         Describes different types of weather

·         Make observations

Meet the Teacher

Meet Mrs. Chelsea, this is her 4^th year at CCBV and her second year of leading our Junior Kindergarten program. She has an Associates in Interdisciplinary Education for Early Elementary and always had a passion for teaching children. Before CCBV she taught at several other preschools including a time of living in Honduras working with children. There she organized curriculum and activities for Chosen Boys Orphanage as well as taught Kindergarten at Ruach International Christian School.

Our Class also participates in Chapel Time, Spanish, Creative Movement and Music!

Check out our Class Handbook:
The ABC's of Junior Kindergarten

An example of our Weekly Newsletter:
Our Junior Kinder-Garden!

We keep our class ratios small to ensure a creative learning environment. Our junior kindergarten room is 12 children to 2 teachers.

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