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Kindergarten

Engage Your Child with Active Learning

K Kindergarten Virtual School StudentWith 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!

 

Everything You Need to Teach Your Kindergartener

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.

 

Discover What Your Child Will Learn In Kindergarten

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.

 

Learn More About Our Program

  • Contact us for enrollment information.
  • Call us at 573-472-2581

 

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Stemming from its beginnings more than 100 years ago at the prestigious Calvert School in Maryland, the Calvert curriculum has been used by hundreds of thousands of students schooling at home in all 50 states and in more than 90 countries around the world. Today, Calvert’s curriculum is used worldwide in homes, virtual schools, and blended learning environments. 

Take a look at Calvert and you’ll find an impressive list of families and alumnae. Among so many others, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck, and political commentator William F. Buckley were at one time or another all Calvert students.

With Calvert, you will receive proven and time-tested curriculum, recognized for excellence by educators and parents alike as the finest curriculum available today for families who make the choice to school at home.

 

Providing an extraordinary foundation of knowledge at your fingertips

Calvert’s fully accredited curriculum provides a fundamental platform for your child to thrive educationally. It combines classroom-tested materials, teacher-approved lesson plans, and proven educational methods. Fun and engaging projects build creative thinking and problem-solving skills. With a focus on fundamental skill development, your student will be encouraged to explore, discover, and excel, while developing a strong foundation of learning concepts that will lead to academic success for years to come.

This engaging and comprehensive curriculum is crafted by specialists, all of whom are former educators. It utilizes the best text offerings available along with online learning tools and resources that make it easy to provide your child with a dynamic, fun, and enriching learning experience.

The Calvert curriculum includes comprehensive lesson plans, which Calvert parents will tell you are the “gold” of the Calvert experience. With complete daily plans for all subjects, these indispensable resources provide detailed, step-by-step instructions, a list of daily online resources and books, as well as countless tips and helpful hints gleaned from decades of experience. Calvert lessons are available in both printed and online versions.

 

Calvert is accredited by the Commission on Elementary Schools (a division of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools) and approved by the Maryland Department of Education, so you can be assured that your child is presented with relevant and exceptional instructional content.