NORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY Kindergarten Program

In our full-day Kindergarten Program, Montessori philosophy meets formal group instruction in a welcoming environment to lay a strong foundation in literacy and numeracy skills.

Games, shared reading, and demonstrations on phonological awareness, the alphabet, and phonetics are a large part of each day, as literacy is a major focus in the program. Through this, students build reading and listening comprehension skills, learn author and illustrator tasks, and analyze book concepts. They also learn to discover patterns, make predictions, and learn new reading strategies.

Another major focus, mathematics, allows children the unique opportunity to see and feel numbers. They initially use concrete materials to work with mathematical concepts and then transition towards abstraction. By connecting the concrete objects to abstract pictures, diagrams, and models, they then learn to model the concepts with symbols on paper.

In addition to mathematics and literacy, students learn science and culture through interdisciplinary projects, activities, and games. They also team up with older elementary students for weekly Book Buddy visits to practice and share reading skills.

Kindergarten students participate in the ice skating program at NYA’s Travis Roy Ice Arena and Fitness & Wellness Center as part of Physical Education and also enjoy weekly enrichment in Music, Visual Arts, and Spanish.