Junior Kindergarten Program

This kindergarten readiness program includes all the components of our pre-kindergarten, but have added an innovative and exciting social competency program with lessons targeted to help students grow emotionally, socially, and intellectually. We focus on the development of the child’s literacy and math skills. Social skills and independence are fostered through daily play in the classroom’s library, housekeeping, art, blocks, writing, science, and computer centers.

Our degreed teachers use research-based curriculum and teaching methods in the classroom. Children are surrounded with stories, books, letters, music, and rhymes through Story Stretchers, our primary literacy curriculum source. Through dictation, students see the power of their own words as the basis of learning to read and write. Math concepts are integrated into the child’s activities throughout the day in the Math Their Way Program, where children learn math skills with a variety of  manipulative learning tools.

Social Competency Curriculum

Minnieland Academy’s innovative Social Competency component is facilitated through active learning experiences in language and literacy, math, and science.  The research-based SECOND STEP curriculum received an “exemplary” rating from the U.S. Department of Education.  The curriculum provides engaging lessons and activities that teach essential social skills, such as problem solving, emotion management, impulse control, and empathy.

Research-based and demonstrated effective, these experiences reinforce ideas from the curriculum. Our program is committed to the Virginia Alignment Program, and exceeds Virginia’s Foundation Blocks for Learning, which helps to establish a range of skills and knowledge that are essential in assisting preschoolers have a smooth transition to kindergarten, and Virginia’s Milestones of Child Development, developed by the Virginia Department of Education.
  

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