Hogarth Country Day School
Established 1980
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Curriculum Goals
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A high level of literacy is crucial to success in the 21st century. At Hogarth your child will acquire a solid base from which to start his academic career. All subjects are taught using an activity-oriented approach with a variety of commercially produced and teacher-made materials. The goals stated below are the minimum goals we have for our students.
Early Kindergarten Goals (Children already working beyond, or who achieved the stated literacy and math goals, will be guided to the next level.)
Basic Classroom Skills
· Student will raise hand and wait to be called upon in response to teacher’s questions.
· Student will respect other speakers during group discussions.
· Student will work independently within the group structure with a minimal need of one-on-one teacher assistance.
· Student will take turns and share materials, respecting the rights of classmates to have access to desired materials.
· Student will organize and care for his or her possessions.
· Student will use classroom materials appropriately, and pick up after him or herself.
· Student will develop strategies for solving social problems.
Basic Life Skills
· Student will dress and toilet independently.
· Student will follow specific procedures to reduce the spread of germs within the classroom: effective hand-washing, independent nose blowing, and the proper way to cover ones mouth when coughing or sneezing.
· Student will understand fire drill procedures and respond without fear to fire drill bell.
Literacy Skills
· Student will write first and last names using initial caps.
· Student will recognize (most) upper and lower case letters.
· Student will identify (some) initial consonant letter sounds.
· Student will build a sight word vocabulary by recognizing his or her first name, the words YES and NO, (some) primary color words, and (some) number words one through ten.
· Student will memorize rhymes and fingerplays.
· Student will listen to stories without interrupting.
· Student will understand the mechanics of reading: left-to-right, top-to-bottom, front-of-book to back-of- book.
· Student will be introduced to punctuation: period, question mark, exclamation point.
· Student will participate in daily journaling.
Math Skills
· Student will recognize and fully integrate numbers 0 through 20.
· Student will write numbers 0 through 10.
· Student will count by 1s, 5s and 10s to 100.
· Student will recognize and understand the value of a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar.
· Student will tell time to the hour and half hour.
· Student will recognize shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond.
Miscellaneous
· Student will participate in music activities.
· Student will recognize primary colors and participate in art activities. Room weaving, one of our favorite annual art projects, is pictured at the top of this page.
Prekindergarten Goals (Children already working beyond, or who achieved the stated literacy and math goals, will be guided to the next level.)
Basic Classroom Skills
· Student will respect other speakers during group discussions.
· Student will take turns and share materials, respecting the rights of classmates to have access to desired materials.
· Student will organize and care for his or her possessions.
· Student will use classroom materials appropriately, and pick up after him or herself.
· Student will develop strategies for solving social problems.
Basic Life Skills
· Student will dress and toilet independently.
· Student will follow specific procedures to reduce the spread of germs within the classroom: effective hand-washing, independent nose blowing, and the proper way to cover ones mouth when coughing or sneezing.
· Student will understand fire drill procedures and respond without fear to fire drill bell.
Literacy Skills
· 4-year old students will copy first name using initial caps.
· 4-year old students will recognize (some) upper and lower case letters. 3-year old students will recognize the letters in their names.
· Student will recognize his or her first name.
· Student will memorize rhymes and fingerplays.
· Student will listen to stories without interrupting.
· Student will understand the mechanics of reading: left-to-right, top-to-bottom, front of book to back of book.
· Student will participate in daily writing activities.
Math Skills
· 4-year old students will recognize and fully integrate at least numbers 1 through 5.
· 4-year old students will copy numbers 1 through 5.
· 4-year old students will count by 1s to at least 10. 3 year old students will count by 1s to at least 5.
· 4-year old students will recognize at least three basic shapes. 3 year old students will recognize at least one basic shape.
Miscellaneous
· Student will participate in music activities.
· Student will recognize primary colors and participate in art activities. Room weaving, one of our favorite annual art projects, is pictured at the top of this page.
Creative Playgroup Goals
· Student will play on his or her own and with others.
· Student will make choices from among classroom materials and play situations
· Student will be personally satisfied with her or his choices.
· Student’s physical, emotional, intellectual, educational, creative and social capacities will be developed through his or her play choices.
· Student will exhibit a sense of independence in her or his ability to separate from parents and to make choices within the classroom.
· Student will handle materials appropriately and clean up after him or herself.
· Student will be involved in a variety of play situations – physically energetic, quiet and thoughtful, light-hearted, or serious.
· Student will exhibit the same Basic Life Skills found under EK and PK above.
All of our classes will be exposed to a variety of fine arts, dance and musical experiences. In fact, our daily music program is one of Hogarth's strongest points. Your child's musical experiences at Hogarth will range from Gilbert & Sullivan to Rogers & Hammerstein. A child uses 90% of the brain when singing or playing an instrument, a percentage higher than for any other activity. Involvement in music connects and develops the motor systems of the brain in a way that cannot be done by any other activity. You can almost hear those connections being made each day in the Hogarth classroom! (Source: Frank Wilson, neurologist in Mickela's Does Music Have An Impact On The Development of Students?, California Music Educators Association, 1990)
Our Blog informs parents of day-to-day activities within the classroom. Individual parent conferences are scheduled twice a year to review the student’s progress and discuss recommendations.
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