Kindergarten Overview

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

ENRICHED LEARNING

FOSTERING INDEPENDENCE

INTENTIONAL LESSONS

MULTIPLE FIELD EXPERIENCES

As children grow and develop, Kindergarten serves as the first step into Lower School, providing a challenging yet developmentally appropriate 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 they develop essential literacy skills, including fluency, phonics and spelling, vowel patterns, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary, and writing.

The Lower School years, Kindergarten through Grade Five, at Harford Day provide an engaging, enriched educational experience that nurtures the whole child academically, socially, emotionally, and creatively. Through strong relationships, small class sizes, and differentiated instruction, our faculty recognize each child's strengths, encourage perseverance, and inspire confidence while supporting every student’s unique growth.

Learning extends beyond the traditional classroom through our enriched curriculum, field study program, and specialized learning environments, including our dedicated Science and Innovation Labs. Through hands-on experiments, inquiry-based projects, and authentic problem-solving, students collaborate, think critically, and build the knowledge, character, and confidence to engage with the world.

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