Triple R Child Care Kindergarten Curriculum
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Triple R Child Care provides full-day kindergarten, from 8:15 am to 2:00 pm every day. After kindergarten hours, students can participate in our after school program, if needed.
All material in the Triple R Kindergarten program meets and exceeds the Illinois Learning Standards for Kindergartens. Below is a short summary of our Kindergarten curriculum, including the resources we use to teach the material.
Reading :
Reading is taught through Whole Language and Phonics. Resources used in teaching reading include the Scott Foresman Reading Street program. The core program includes a variety of reading components, including Student and Teacher’s Editions, big books, practice books, leveled readers, decodable readers, Strategic intervention readers, picture cards, graphic organizers, and phonics songs and rhymes. The Reading Street curriculum is also divided into four different areas: Oral Language, Shared Reading, Word Work, and Language Arts.
The Hands-On Alphabet Activities for Young Children provides a unique approach to reading. The program incorporates poems, art activities, and specially designed letter books. This program brings together whole language and phonetic approaches by providing children with “real” reading experiences as they master the letters and sounds of the alphabet, while focusing on the four main cueing systems needed to become a successful reader. Building Blocks is the Kindergarten level in The Four-Blocks Literacy Model. This program integrates Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading, and Writing.
Reading is reinforced by using the following activities:
- Journals and Young Authors – Children each get a chance to do creative writing and add original words to stories.
- Reading Aloud – Each child reads a book out loud to the class. This helps children overcome shyness and become more comfortable speaking in front of their peers.
Over 80 high frequency words are introduced throughout the school year. Words are taken from the Dolch Word List, a list of the most frequently found words in school books, library books, newspapers and magazines. Children who learn these words have a solid foundation for beginning reading.
Mathematics :
Starting with our 2007-08 school year, we will be introducing a new program called Everyday Mathematics. Everyday Mathematics is an enriched, comprehensive, and balanced mathematics curriculum for grades Pre-K-6. Developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project and based on extensive research, teacher input and field-testing. Students learn computational skills as well as a broad range of mathematics concepts including data and probability, geometry and spatial sense, measures and measurement, algebra and uses of variables.
The authors of Everyday Mathematics believe that it is crucial to begin laying the groundwork for mathematical literacy at an earlier age than offered in traditional programs. Based on research educators firmly believe that children are capable of learning a great deal more than previously expected. For this reason the scope of the K-6 Everyday Mathematics curriculum includes the following mathematical strands:
- Algebra and Uses of Variables
- Data and Chance
- Geometry and Spatial Sense
- Measures and Measurement
- Numeration and Order
- Patterns, Functions, and Sequences
- Operations
- Reference Frames
Very few people learn a new concept or skill the first time they experience it, because of this the curriculum is structured to provide multiple exposures to topics, and frequent opportunities to review and practice skills. A concept or skill will be revisited, developed and extended numerous times, and in a variety of contexts, throughout the year. 
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