The Kindergarten Capstone Year

List of 7 items.

• Kindergarten Leadership Club (KLC)

  West Side Montessori’s Kindergarten Leadership Club (KLC) was created and implemented to reinforce the social skills children develop during their Capstone Year. Each month, kindergartners have a lesson that encourages a leadership habit as well as a grace and courtesy challenge. Each session concludes with Calm Down Yoga.

• Outdoor Education

  West Side’s Fisher Outdoor Education Program is designed to help students of all ages build their awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the natural environment that they are a part of. 
   

  Outdoor education is a term that covers a wide range of experiential learning opportunities related to the environment. There are generally no physical walls for an outdoor education classroom, so the students spend almost all of their time outside.
  
  

  It is a movement with the intention of reestablishing the human connection to nature by building traits like creativity, resilience, and land stewardship. Moreover, children need room to practice skills like coordination and spatial awareness as they grow and build their sense of place.
  
  The great outdoors is a wonderful medium that can provide resources for them to do it all!

• World Language

  Specialized teachers engage children in communicative lessons on language and culture themes. Lessons occur once a week in Children's House for morning classes and once or twice a week for afternoon kindergarten students. Large group circle time lasts about 30 minutes and each small group meets for 15 minutes.

• Kindergarten Kaboom STEM

  Kindergarten Kaboom is a science enrichment class. Twice a month the children don their lab coats and dive into science lessons and experiments. The children look forward to sharing discoveries at the science fair at the end of the year!

• Field Trips

  Field trips are great ways for our kindergartners to apply what they learn in their classroom to the real world. During the school year, students typically visit places like an apple orchard, a farm, 577 Foundation, Valentine Theatre, Imagination Station, Toledo Zoo, and the Toledo Museum of Art.

• Music

  In addition to the music groups in their classrooms each week, kindergartners participate in weekly music enrichment classes. Each class begins with a warm-up consisting of a vocal warm-up, ear training, and tongue twisters to encourage articulation. Students play games to boost performance skills, learn new music, and practice the songs to sing at the spring concert.

• Physical Education

  Toledo Campus kindergarten children have a physical education class for 30 minutes once a week. (Perrysburg Campus kindergartners do not have a structured physical education program taught by a specialist due to space constraints.)

  Through age-appropriate games and activities such as parachute games, exploring with scooters, hula hoop adventures, and animal walks, students learn movement skills, how to follow directions and respect for themselves and others. 
  
  Locomotor skills such as skipping, hopping, galloping, walking backward and leaping are practiced. Hand-eye coordination is developed using scarves, balloons, bean bags and balls.