Kindergarten Overview
Make Every Day Count in Lower School
KINDERGARTEN SAMPLE SCHEDULE
AM: Homeroom, Language/Literacy, Snack, Recess, Media, Science, Math
PM: Lunch, Recess, Book & Belly, Music, Centers, Closing Circle
AM: Homeroom, Language/Literacy, Snack, Recess, Music, Spanish, Math
PM: Lunch, Recess, Book & Belly, Social Studies, Centers, Closing Circle
AM: Homeroom, Language/Literacy, Snack, Recess, Spanish, P.E., Math
PM: Lunch, Recess, Book & Belly, Centers, Art,
Closing Circle
AM: Homeroom, Language/Literacy, Snack, Recess, Art, P.E., Math
PM: Lunch, Recess, Book & Belly, Social Studies, Centers, Closing Circle
AM: Homeroom, Language/Literacy, Snack, Recess, Science, P.E., Math
PM: Lunch, Recess, Book & Belly, Story, Homeroom, Assembly
INTENTIONAL LESSONS
ENRICHED LEARNING
FOSTERING INDEPENDENCE
MULTIPLE FIELD EXPERIENCES
As children growand develop, Kindergarten serves as the first step into Lower School, providing a challenging yet developmentallyappropriate environment with longer class times across all subject areas. Planned lessons promote focus, balance seated work with movement, and foster independence. While counting, representing numbers, describing shapes, and ordering objects with measurable attributes, students learn to problem solve, reason, communicate, and make connections about mathematics. The Kindergarten reading program is also designed to be engaging and dynamic. Students work in small groups to ensure individualized support as theydevelop essential literacyskills, including fluency, phonics and spelling, vowel patterns, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary, and writing.
TheLowerSchoolyears,KindergartenthroughGradeFive,at HarfordDayprovideanengaging,enrichededucational experiencethatnurturesthewholechildacademically,socially, emotionally,andcreatively.Throughstrongrelationships,small classsizes,anddifferentiatedinstruction,ourfacultyrecognize eachchild'sstrengths,encourageperseverance,andinspire confidencewhilesupportingeverystudent’suniquegrowth.
Learningextendsbeyondthetraditionalclassroomthroughour enrichedcurriculum,fieldstudyprogram,andspecialized learningenvironments,includingourdedicatedScienceand InnovationLabs.Throughhands-onexperiments,inquiry-based projects,andauthenticproblem-solving,studentscollaborate, thinkcritically,andbuildtheknowledge,character,and confidencetoengagewiththeworld.