Gateway Virtual Academy

With colorful read-aloud texts, fun projects, and interactive online learning, Calvert's Kindergarten curriculum draws you and your child together into a vibrant learnining experience. Designed to develop the foundational skills your child will need in 1st Grade, this program weaves reading and writing instruction and practice throughout the curriculum. Using our integrated approach, you'll help your child develop critical thinking skills for reading while learning phonics skills such as rhyming and word patterns in context. These skills will be further reinforced as he/she begins to learn formal printing skills. Together, we'll also help your child get off to a confident start with numbers. Using a research-based math method, our Kindergarten math course will help your child develop strong number sense, mental math, and problem-solving skills. Perhaps most importantly, these lessons make learning Math fun!

Our comprehensive Kindergarten program includes everything you need to successfully educate your child at home:

• Step-by-step lesson plans and manuals to guide you.
• Engaging, colorful texts, digital resources, and manipulatives from top education publishers.
• An online learning platform, the Calvert Teaching Navigator, that provides 24/7 access to texts, manuals, interactive activities, assessments and progress tracking tools, and more.
• Free support from state-certified teachers who help with curriculum questions, alternative teaching approaches, and keeping your student on-track.

English Language Arts

Kindergartners learn to print and use their new skill to write about animals, their community, and create a book about weather. Children read engaging texts that introduce phonics skills and develop critical thinking.

Math

The focus is on counting up to 100, addition, subtraction, measuring, and shapes. Students engage in projects like making a number book to teach younger students, and measuring and weighing an item to ship it to a family in need. Students write in the colorful Math in Focus workbook and learn how to access grade-appropriate digital interactives.

Science

Students observe patterns in the natural world to answer scientific questions, construct arguments with evidence to support claims, develop and use models, and communicate solutions to provide detail about scientific ideas. They learn about weather and create a weather forecast.

Social Studies

The Social Studies curriculum introduces America's historical figures, symbols, and holidays. Students learn about globes and maps by making their very own treasure map. Kids are introduced to jobs and money and learn how to write a resumé that highlights their special talents.

Physical Education

Lessons help young learners establish a basic understanding of health and fitness.

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