Our transitional kindergarten class offers an academic curriculum that is tied together with changing thematic units, focused on literacy and math. Children in this program write daily, learn to read simple sight words and books, learn to count by fives and tens, learn the placement of numbers up to 100, explore geometry and simple patterning, and learn measurement in terms of objects. Activities are set up to encourage independent work as well as group collaboration. Technology is incorporated through games at circle time.
A majority of Lakeside pre-K and TK students continue onto parochial schools in the neighborhood, and we intentionally prepare them academically to be ready for kindergarten.