Welcome to the wonderful world of Kindergarten at Pineview Elementary where teachers have the responsibility - and privilege - of introducing young children to school life and literacy. We strive each day to make children's introduction to school a pleasant one. Then the child will develop an attitude toward school learning which can carry him/her through the occasional difficult situations that everyone is bound to meet as they climb up the educational ladder.

Our mission at Pineview is to acknowledge individual differences and the fact that children do not all learn the same way. At Pineview we provide a developmentally appropriate Kindergarten that is based on what children need to learn and what is known about how young children learn.

CKLA Literacy:

Using our curriculum, CKLA, students receive rich experiences that are based in the science of reading. It incorporates a hands-on approach to learning in the areas of reading, writing, and word study. Students learn letter names, letter sounds and word patterns through teacher instruction and games.

CKLA Knowledge Units:

Nursery Rhymes and Fables

The Five Senses

Stories

Plants

Farms

Native Americans

Kings and Queens

Seasons and Weather

Columbus and the Pilgrims

Colonial Towns and Townspeople

Taking Care of the Earth

Presidents and American Symbols

Illustrative Math:

Unit 1 - Math in Our World (Recognize Quantities, Counting collections)

Unit 2 - Numbers 1-10 (Count and Compare Groups, Compare Numbers)

Unit 3 - Flat Shapes All Around Us (Exploring Shapes, Making Shapes)

Unit 4 - Understanding Addition & Subtraction (Count to Add and Subtract, Represent and Solve Story Problems, Addition and Subtraction Expressions)

Unit 5 - Composing and Decomposing Numbers to 10 (Make and Break Apart Numbers)

Unit 6 - Numbers 0-20 - (Count Groups of Objects)

Unit 7 - Solid Shapes All Around Us (Compose and Count with Flat Shapes, Describe/Compare/Create Solid Shapes)

Unit 8 - Putting it All Together (Counting & Comparing, Fluency within 5)

In mathematics, our curriculum, Illustrative Math, the focus is on the development of concepts and skills through the use of manipulatives and games applied to a variety of real-world activities. Kindergarteners learn to identify numbers, count above 100, identify shapes, make patterns, and identify coins and their values.