Kindergarten

Rising Kindergarten Orientation 

View the orientation slideshow from the April 2024 Rising Kindergarten Orientation. We can't wait to welcome our Lions for the 2024 - 2025 school year.

Included are photos of our Administrative Team and Kindergarten Team as well as information about schedules and curriculum.

Kindergarten Curriculum and Information

Workshop Model

This is a photo illustrating the Workshop Model which is detailed in the bullets below.

The Workshop Model is provided in most Kindergarten subjects and includes:

  • Sense-making community builders
  • Whole group focus lesson
  • Small group differentiated workstations
  • Independent work
  • Small group lessons with a teacher
  • Rich tasks to activate problem-solving
  • Reflection

Language Arts

Reading

  • Engaging with storybooks
    • Print organization
    • Conventions of print
    • Character development
    • Patterns in stories
  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry

Writing

  • Developing the writing process
  • Drawing for meaning
  • Making lists and labels
  • Informational writing
  • Personal narratives
  • Poetry

Oral Communication

  • Active listening
  • Collaborative discussions
  • Conversation skills

Math

  • Building class community through the data cycle
  • Sorting & classifying objects
  • Numeracy
    • forward counting
    • backwards counting
    • sets of objects
  • Numeral writing & recognition
  • Subitizing (breaking apart numbers) fluency to 5
  • Addition & subtraction strategies through 10
  • Plane figures & patterns
  • Measurement
  • Coin identification
  • Calendar skills
  • Picture graphs & object graphs

Science

  • Scientific Investigation
  • Five Senses
  • Observations
  • Plant & Animal Needs
  • Life Cycles
  • Speed
  • Magnets
  • Shadows
  • Weather Changes
  • Phases of Water
  • Sink or Float
  • Reuse & Recycle 
  • Water & Energy Conservation

Social Studies

  • Rights & Responsibilities
  • Being a Good Citizen
  • Economics
    • Jobs
    • Choices
    • Wants
    • Money
  • Geography: Land & Water Features
  • Map Skills
  • Community & Community Members
  • Past & Present
  • American Symbols & Holidays

Portrait of a Graduate

Attributes

  • Communicator
  • Collaborator
  • Ethical and Global Citizen
  • Creative and Critical Thinker
  • Goal-Directed and Resilient Individual

logos for the FCPS portrait of a graduate skills listed above

FCPS strives for all students to...

  • Develop knowledge and skills that can be applied across subject areas and in real-life settings.
  • Utilize and grow critical thinking skills that require them to go beyond the facts.
  • Engage in learning that fosters curiosity.
  • Confront and make contributions to solving real-world problems.
  • Demonstrate learning and skills in a variety of ways, such as projects and portfolios.
  • Set goals and reflect on their progress.

Sample Kindergarten Schedule

8:05 - 8:20 Arrival/ Networking/ Breakfast

8:20 - 8:40 Morning Meeting

8:40 - 9:45 Language Arts (Reading, Phonics, Spelling, and Oral Language)

9:45 - 10:00 Recess

10:00 - 10:30 Language Arts (Writing)

10:30 - 11:00 Content (Science/Social Studies/Health)

11:00 - 11:30 Lunch

11:30 - 11:45 Second Recess

11:45 - 12:45 Specials (Music, PE, Art, Outdoor Education, etc.)

12:45 - 1:30 Math

1:30 - 1:50 Choice Time and Snack

1:50 - 2:05 Recess

2:05 - 2:40 Small Group and Independent Work

2:40 - 2:50 Closing Circle

2:55 Dismissal

School Breakfast and Lunch

  • Students have lunch for 30-minutes daily
  • Breakfast is offered to all students
  • Students are assigned a 4-digit PIN associated with the MySchoolBucks account
    • Food and Nutrition Programs Website
    • Free and Reduced-Price Meals Website
  • Kitchen Manager: Sharron Lyons

Practice Routines at Home

  • Waking up in time to be at school by 8:05
  • Setting a consistent bedtime
  • Brush teeth, wash face, comb hair, tie shoes
  • Dressing for the weather (layer up & label items)
  • Determining how children will arrive and depart school
    • Finding the bus stop
    • Register or join waitlist for SACC
  • Giving warning before needing the restroom 
  • Unpacking and eating any items packed for lunch

Encourage Autonomy at School

  • Getting dressed
  • Tying shoes
  • Taking off and putting on a jacket
  • Using the restroom alone
  • Washing hands
  • Opening and closing lunch containers
  • Going through the lunch line
  • Make eye contact and listen to directions
  • Making safe choices 

Kindergarten Teachers

Kindergarten Assistants