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Kindergarten
 The Teddy Bear Club bilingual preschool program extends through the kindergarten year. Our high expectations for children's academic achievement, the attainment of appropriate social skills and the development of self-assured, confident children make our program highly desirable. Children are enthusiastic about learning and participate in a balanced, multi-sensory curriculum that includes the development of literacy skills, mathematics, science, social studies, art, movement, music and drama. In addition, children continue their French language study by developing strong listening skills, building their vocabularies and formulating short sentences. Computers are used in the classroom to support activities in a variety of areas.
Our kindergarten program may be used either as a transitional kindergarten year for children too young to attend kindergarten, or as a regular kindergarten program for children planning to attend first grade the following year.
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- To develop a positive sense of self in the child
- To help the child achieve intellectual growth
- To expand the child’s knowledge of people, experiences, ideas, and things: introduction to social studies and geography
- To increase competence and skills in language arts: reading, writing, listening, thinking, and speaking
- To increase competence in mathematics and science
- To increase physical coordination skills
- To increase competence in dealing with emotional feelings and social situations
- To increase competence in self-direction, initiative and independence
- To develop cooperative trusting relationships and team work
- To develop the child’s natural curiosity and his/her creative potential
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Program Curriculum
Most of the following activities are introduced to the children in both English and French |
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Language Arts |
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Reading |
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- Following directions
- Identifying upper and lower case letters
- Associating letters and sounds: consonants and vowels
- Analyzing phonetic
- Distinguishing between real and pretend, fiction and non-fiction
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Writing |
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 Developing listening and speaking skills
- Identifying front/back cover, title page of book
- Story writing and illustrations
- Journal writing
- Making a book: cover, title, author, story (beginning, middle and end) , illustrations
- Developmental spelling skills
- Matching printed word to spoken word
- Writing upper and lower case letters
- Recognizing rhyming words and generating rhymes
- Counting the number of words in a sentence
- Clapping the number of syllables in a word
- Noting directionality: left/right, top/bottom
- Introducing punctuation
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| Library |
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 Listening, understanding and remembering
- Story telling and re-enacting
- Language enrichment
- Introducing famous authors
- Thematic literature
- Group projects
- French literature
- Multicultural literature
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| French |
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- Developing strong listening skills - Language lab
- Building extensive vocabulary
- Formulating complete sentences
- Asking and answering questions
- Songs, comptines (rhymes) and poems
- Re-enacting stories
- Mastery of greetings, courtesy, basic classroom activities: weather, calendar, job chart, etc.
- Culture and traditions
- Familiarity with France as a country: map, flag, specialties
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| Math |
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 Counting and recognizing numbers 0 to 100
- One to one correspondence
- Comparing and ordering numbers using the vocabulary: greater than, less than, more and less
- Forming numbers from 0 to 100
- Identifying patterns
- Creating and extending patterns
- Simple addition and subtraction
- Simple fractions
- Graphing and estimating
- Measurement
- Exploring spatial relationships
- Identifying and drawing simple and more complex geometric shapes
- Calendar awareness
- Telling time
- Problem solving
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| Science |
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 Life-cycles
- Metamorphosis and growth
- Plants and animals
- Human body
- Weather
- Nature: land, sea and sky
- Environmental awareness: recycling, endangered species, pollution…
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| Geography and History |
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- Knowing self, family and community
- Homes and neighborhoods
- Community and maps
- The United States: map, introduction to different states
- Cultural awareness: differences, traditions and celebrations
- International studies: travel around the world, maps, flags, traditions
- Historical people and places
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| Computer Science |
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- French and English programs: pre-reading, language, art and math activities
- Introduction to the Internet
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| Art |
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- Self-expression
- Creative work with various materials and techniques: watercolor, acrylics, collages, plaster
- Origami
- Creative clay sculptures
- Famous artists: Introduction to French painters
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| Music & Drama |
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- Using various instruments
- Kodàly approach: musical notation and pitch
- Music appreciation: classical, jazz, country, etc.
- Multicultural and international songs
- Re-enacting famous stories in both English and French
- Creating, developing and improvising stories
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| Physical Activities |
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- Locomotive skills: hopping, running, dodging, crawling
- Manipulative skills: catching, kicking, striking
- Gymnastic skills: balancing, rolling
- Rhythmic and creative movement
- Yoga
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