Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Kindergarten

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE
    • Bible characters
    • Trinity
    • God as Creator
    • God’s Gifts
    • Jesus: birth, life, death, resurrection, second coming
    • Reverence for God and His Word
    • Worship: meaning, prayer, thanksgiving
    • Character development: Christlikeness, making choices
    • Adventist Heritage and Doctrines
    • Sabbath
    • Parables

  • ART

    • Primary colors

    • Basic shapes

    • Textures

    • Tools: scissors, crayon, brush, tempera, chalk, yarn, finger-paint, paper

    • Free composition

    • Recognition and appreciation for artists and works

    • Art experiences

  • COMPUTERS

    • Ways and places computers used:

    • keyboard, joystick, mouse, booting, turning on

    • Visible parts of computer

    • Ethics: time limit/take turns

    • Dictate story for input

    • Drink and food rules

    • Open-up old computer/disks

    • Logo

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading

      • Reading and Phonics readiness activities

      • Charts: experience stories

      • Pictures – Left to right progression

      • Limited sight vocabulary

    • Speaking

      • Complete sentences

      • Correct pronunciation and usage

      • Bible story and memory verse

      • Personal experiences

      • Role play, Christian drama, choral reading

      • Dictating stories

      • Expanded vocabulary

    • Listening

      • Stories

      • Poetry

      • Directions

      • Instructions

      • Beginning and ending sounds, rhyming

      • Comprehends main idea

      • Critical thinking

    • Writing

      • Pre-writing activities

      • Name, address, phone number

    • Literature and Media,

      • Prose, Poetry, Television

      • Discriminate between real and imaginary

      • Discrimination in television viewing

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Counting and writing of numerals

    • Matching one-to-one

    • Concepts of more, less than, and the same

    • Comparison of position and size

    • Meaning of addition and subtraction

    • Use of calendar and clock

    • Sequencing and sorting

    • Denominations of money

    • Elementary geometry: shapes

    • Patterns: shapes, designs, rhythm, colors

    • Chart and graph concepts

    • Ordinal-cardinal relationship

  • MUSIC

    • Steady beat

    • Reproduce patterns

    • Movement songs

    • Verses and chorus of songs

    • Loud and soft, fast and slow

    • Hymns and scripture songs

    • Long and short patterns

    • Pitch

    • Conversation and singing voices

    • Whole, half, quarter notes

    • Express feelings

    • Band and orchestra differences

    • Rhythm instruments

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • bean bag and ball activities, group and singing games, relays and balance activities

    • Fitness

      • jump rope, running, jogging, and coordination activities

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation

    • Concepts

      • safety, rules, health, fitness games

    • Positive attributes

      • self worth, self-control, consideration

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH

    • God’s creatures

    • Observation of everyday, familiar things

    • Common animals and plants

    • Interrelationships of animals and plants

    • Classification of living things