Southwestern School District's Four-Year-Old Kindergarten program is designed to enhance your child’s social skills, self-image, and general school readiness skills. In order to be successful learners, cooperation, turn-taking, and problem-solving skills must be developed. We feel that it is important that our youngest students learn to feel confident in their ability to make choices, ask questions, and utilize their knowledge.

 

Our activities and lessons are designed to insure a developmentally appropriate, child-centered program. Although the curriculum is teacher-prepared, it is responsive to the children’s interests, needs, and levels of development.

 

We recognize that children learn primarily through play and meaningful experiences. Therefore, structured activities are coupled with free exploration at various “centers.” The centers reinforce pre-academic, language, fine-motor, gross-motor, and sensory skills, and focus around a theme or unit.