• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt someone.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush the toilet.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life.
• Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder and wonderful things.
• Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are still all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die...So do we.
• And then remember the story book about Dick and Jane and the first important word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK!

Everything you need to know is there, from Kindergarten, somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation...Ecology and politics and sane living...Think of what a better world it would be if we all--the whole world--had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then laid down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation, and all other nations, to always put things back where we found them and to clean up our own messes.

And it is still the truth, no matter who you are or how old you are, when you go out there into this world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

by Robert Fulghum

At this academy, we strongly feel that these are words to live by, the optimism, respect for others, and social conduct that are fundamental to creating good honest people for society. Naturally in addition to these qualities, we have academic dreams as well, which are outlined below.

Math Curriculum:

Color & shape - Learning color names and recognizing bright and pale variation of color, identifying circles, triangles and rectangles, identifying the solid shapes of a sphere and cube, working with fractions and selecting a region that is 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 shaded, telling what fraction of a region (1/2, 1/3, 1/4) is shaded

Pattern & Function - Classifying objects by color, shape and size, selecting objects that come next in a given pattern of objects, creating linear patterns, using and describing pattern shapes

Space & Position - Tell which objects are in the front, middle or back/at the top/bottom, tell which objects are beside or between other objects, identifying right and left, identifying which objects are in front of, behind an object

Numbers & Counting Skills - Counting up to 10 objects- and writing 0 to 20, ordering numbers 0 -20, adding for sums through 10 / learning addition facts through to 10, solving problems by relating basic addition facts to real situations, subtracting from 10 or less / learning subtraction facts through to 10, counting up to 20 objects, understanding tens and ones (numbers through to 20), adding 2-digit numbers when no regrouping is required, subtracting 2-digit numbers when no regrouping is required

Time, Measurement and Money - Telling time to the hour and half hour, measuring liquid, using coins and money in play situations

Data Handling - Recording and interpreting information on block graphs, using a tally system in surveys for counting,.

Language Curriculum

Type of Reading - Traditional tales, author/illustrator study

Literature Focus - Can this really happen? Who would you like to be in the story? Why? (Can children identify with a character?) Who and what do you need to make a book?

Speaking and Listening

1. Participating as speakers and listeners in a variety of activities (class discussions, imaginative play and drama, small group activities)
2. Learning and applying common courtesy in their manner of speaking (listening and waiting while someone speaks, knowing when a quiet voice is used, using polite words)
3. Responding appropriately to complex instructions given by a teacher and asking for clarification when needed
4. Using correct forms and structure of spoken language
5. Listening attentively to stories, poems and songs and being able to retell and elaborate on stories and poems
6. Steadily increasing and varying their spoken language

Reading

1. Appreciating and caring for books that are used daily in their own class and school libraries and being attentive / participating in story telling, poetry reading, singing
2. Beginning to read at their own individual pace as they are introduced to a variety of materials and literature
3. Associating sounds to letters and letter combinations
4. Using picture and context clues to begin to build both sight word vocabulary and phonic skills that will assist in achieving new reading skills
5. Recognizing / reading labels and signs in the classroom
6. Describing what has happened in a story and predicting what may happen next, expressing opinions and recalling events
7. In library skills, being responsible for books taken home and understanding the title and main idea of of the story

Writing

1. Using pictures and writing to communicate ideas and record information
2. Showing knowledge of the name and order of the letters of the alphabet
3. Producing meaningful and recognizable (though not necessarily always correct) spellings of a range of high frequency words
4. Writing with appropriate directionality
5. Copying words and sentences
6. Writing own name
7. Differentiating between upper and lower case letters and learning to write using lower case letters
8. Using capitalization
9. Holding pencil correctly
10. Writing legibly and showing proper spacing between words

Science Curriculum:

Living Things - Animals

Earth and Space - Space- Our Solar System

Materials, Forces and Energy - Light/Shadow

Health/Body - Nutrition, Taste & Smell, Safety

Social Studies Curriculum:

1. Develop an awareness of his/her feelings and other people's feelings and learn the meaning of respect.
2. Be encouraged to appreciate their individual identities and strengths.
3. Be aware of cultural differences and similarities in their peer group through sharing festivals and holiday activities.
4. Be introduced to growth and life cycles by looking at family members (babies, parents, grand-parents)
5. Learn about change by comparing his/her childhood to that of parents/grand-parents.
6. Investigate the children’s place of birth and where they have lived

Music Curriculum:

1. Distinguish between fast-slow, high-low, loud-soft, long-short
2. Identify classroom instruments and know how to play
3. Echo clap simple rhythms
4. Move appropriately to rhythms
5. Participate in circle games
6. Listen attentively to age-level performances or recordings