Kindergarten

With countless opportunities “to delight in discovery,” Kindergartners are passionate about each day as a Trinity student. Building on the early literacy and math foundations established in their first years of formal schooling, Kindergarten students work to develop the skills and strategies necessary to apply knowledge independently.

With a focus on deepening their conceptual understanding of math and constructing strong reading and writing habits, students become empowered learners. Their interest in the world around them guides classroom instruction and inquiry-based learning experiences. Highlights of the Kindergarten year include caring for newly hatched eggs and becoming “Chick Masters” and going on a Trip Around the World, during which students deepen their understanding of other communities as they learn the history, geography, and culture of various countries that they “visit.”

Kindergarten Learning Essentials

Language Arts

• Retells events, answers questions, and identifies the main idea of fiction and non-fiction text with prompts and support.

• Identifies the parts of a book, including the author, illustrator, cover, and title.

• Understands concepts of print, syllables, sounds, and rhymes.

• Read common, high frequency words.

• Produces narrative, opinion, and informative text by drawing, dictating, and writing.

• Participates in collaborative conversations with partners to develop speaking and listening skills.

• Communicates when writing or speaking with ageappropriate conventions such as capitalization, frequently occurring nouns, verbs, prepositions, complete sentences, end punctuation, phonetic spelling, and soundletter relationships.

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Subject Areas

Early Elementary Division

Upper Elementary Division

Math

• Knows number names and sequences, counts and compares numbers and objects.

• Understands that adding is putting together and subtraction is taking apart.

• Adds and subtracts within 10 and fluently adds and subtracts within 5.

• Works with numbers 11–19 to gain foundations for place value.

• Identifies, describes, analyzes, compares, creates, and composes shapes.

• Describes and compares data.

Science

• Identifies, describes, and compares the seasons; explains how the weather changes with the seasons and the tools that are used to measure the weather.

• Identifies and describes the basic needs of living things.

• Explores and investigates life cycles of plants and animals.

• Learns about healthy habits and nutrition.

Social Studies

• Explores the community that we live in and how community helpers support them through various roles.

• Compares and contrasts different cultures around the world by reading about customs and celebrations.

• Identifies various features on a map and explains the difference between a map and a globe.