Private Kindergarten
BRiDGES Kindergarten is an awesome private school experience for your child!
BRiDGES offers a state-standard, hands-on Kindergarten where kids learn by doing, not just sitting, so they build real knowledge that sticks.
Knowing that Kindergarten is one of the most formative years in a child’s educational career, more and more parents are seeking a private school alternative for their children. Scientists are telling us what we parents have known intuitively for years: Children learn best when they are “doing”. Meaningful experiences record knowledge in long term memory. A wide variety of knowledge connects dendrites in the brain and new information can only attach itself to something familiar that has already been experienced.
BRiDGES follows all of the state standards for Kindergarten and then some. We do it in a way that is conducive to the way children learn best. Here, they will use their minds, voice and senses to learn. A structured, hands on approach to reading, mathematics, science, writing, art, health, music, foreign language, socialization and responsibility are respectfully taught in a developmentally appropriate classroom by Early Childhood educators. With so many public school changes in kindergarten in AZ, quality private school kindergarten is an increasingly popular choice for your child. State cut-backs do NOT affect your child’s opportunity to receive a quality, well-rounded kindergarten experience at BRiDGES.
Curriculum
BRiDGES gives your child a hands-on, well-rounded Kindergarten experience that meets state standards and goes beyond them.
Science
Science exploration is a regular part of our Kindergarten curriculum. A full classroom science center is utilized as well as regularly scheduled science experiments, cooking projects and gardening activities.
Reading
Reading is individualized based on each child’s level of development. Quality children’s literature is a rich part of our Kindergarten Curriculum. The children have both reading time and story time every day.
Art
They get to try their hand at creating masterpieces of their own. A variety of mediums are explored: pastels, paint, clay, etc. Art exploration at the kindergarten level is only available in our private school.
Music & Drama
A qualified music teacher visits the classroom each week to enrich the children with the art of music. Dramatic play is encouraged through a variety of rotating dramatic play centers including a doctor’s office, fire department, grocery store, bakery/café, etc.
Phys Ed
Physical education is part of the weekly curriculum, taking place within the classroom or on our Adventure Nature Based Playgrounds.
Writing & Math
Writing journals, offer a treasury of the children’s drawings and writing development. The work in their journals is date stamped to show their progress over time.
Mathematics is taught through hands on, concrete activities, a wide variety of math manipulatives and practical math lessons.
BRiDGES Kindergarteners do a special project each year to leave their legacy for the children to come.
Constructing a “hand printed” cobblestone island in the center of the playground creek.
Completely planning and constructing a “Desert Botanical Kinder-garden” while studying the Sonoran Desert from A-Z.
Designing and creating mosaic cobblestone art to line the ground around the fountain in the school share garden.
Planting a small “reading orchard,” complete with grass and grape vines.
Hand painting and constructing terra-cotta planters, plus a homemade bird bath and feeder for the school bird and butterfly habitat.
