Our Curriculum

Phonics Skills:

     1.  Letter Identification:  Capital and Lowercase Letters (A-Z and a-z)
     2.  Letter Sounds
     3.  Short Vowel Sounds
     4.  Beginning Sounds of Words
     5.  Ending Sounds of Words
     6.  Using Vowels in the Middle of Words
     7.  Identifying Similar Initial Sounds
     8.  Identifying Sounds of Words
     9.  Blending Phonemes to Read Words
    10. Digraphs:  sh, ch, th

Reading - Houghton Mifflin

Themes:
     1.  Look at Us!
     2.  Colors All Around
     3.  We're a Family
     4.  Friends Together
     5.  Let's Count!
     6.  Sunshine and Raindrops
     7.  Wheels Go Around
     8.  Down on the Farm
     9.  Spring is Here
    10.  A World of Animals

 Our Curriculum - Sight Words
From the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series:

1.     I          2.   a          3.     is        4.    here
5.     the       6.   see       7.    to        8.    for
9.     my      10.  play     11.   and     12.   have
13.   she      14.  like      15.   go      16.   said
17.   at        18.  me       19.   you    20.   we
21.   up       22.  am       23.   it        24.   can
25.   in

Kindergarteners are expected to be able to read, write and spell the above sight words as a prerequisite to entering first grade.