Lower Kindergarten program:
At this age children prepare themselves for a formal school experience. The teacher thoughtfully plans the environment, offering many visible choices, based on the children’s skills and needs. The program involves reflective practices, encouraging free expression of ideas and possibilities with multiple outcomes. Our projects allow the LKG children to study a topic in more depth. Language is reinforced through letter sound relationship, introducing high frequency words, rhyming and three letter words. The LKG curriculum is constantly evolving in response to children’s strengths and needs. The teachers focus on an inquiry based approach to build curiosity and a genuine love for learning. The teachings are based on learning goals and an all-round development of milestones to meet the academic expectations of the elementary school standards, so that the children make a successful transition.
Admissions to Lower Kindergarten are based on seat availabilities.
Days of the week: Monday to Friday: 5 days
Academic Time: 8:30am to 12:00pm
A typical day schedule for Kindergarten
8.30 am – Morning Drop off
8:30 am – 9:00 am – Free Play
9:00 am – 9:15 am – Singing time
9:15 am – 9:30 am – Circle time
9:30 am – 10:10 am – Instruction based activities – Pre-Math language & EVS
10:10 am – 10:20 am – brief recap activity & washing hands
10:20 am – 10:40 am – Snack time
10:40 am – 11.20 am – Instruction based activities – Pre-Math language & EVS/
Gymnastics/Football/Art Program
11:20 am – 11.30 am – Story time
11:30 am – 11:50 am – Manipulative equipment/puzzles
11:50 am – 12:00 pm – Goodbye song & dispersal/Transition to Afternoon School program
Afternoon School Program for Lower Kindergarten
Sensing the need of the community around us, the Afternoon School program is designed to serve both the needs of the parent and the child, in the loving and safe environment of our school. Our teachers are effective planners who choose activities that meet the full range of child’s needs that go beyond the academics and expand their horizons of knowledge. We focus on innovative activities that appeal to them. Children explore various art & craft, singing, dancing, games encouraging team work, safe cooking activities, science experiments developing curiosity and logic and learning a new language French!
Lower Kindergarten: 12:00pm to 1.30pm or 12:00pm to 4:00pm
A typical day schedule
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm – Fruit time
12:15 pm – 12:40 pm – Speech & Drama/discussion – topic of the month/French (till 12:50pm)
12:40 pm – 1:05 pm – Lego, tangrams & dominoes/ Theatre arts/ Dramatization/ Science experiments
1:05 pm – 1:30 pm – Cooking activity/Music & movement/ Art & craft
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm – Lunch time & book reading/dispersal for children exiting at 1.30pm
2:10 pm – 2.50 pm – Quiet time/nap time
2.50 pm – 3.00 pm – Games
3:00 pm – 3:55 pm – Quality Circle Time/Basics to Paper Quilling/Dance/Messy Art/Performing Arts
3.55 pm – 4.00 pm – Goodbye song & dispersal
Celebrating Festivals – Kindergarten
- Educators observe the children as they learn, take photographs, and document what children say as they learn. Our rooms are filled with evidence of children’s learning through play and discovery.
- Learning within our programs is made visible through observation and documentation.
- All the programs are carefully designed towards enhancing the core areas of progression for a child – Fine & large motor, intellectual, Language, Creative & Aesthetic development.
