South Carolina Calvert Academy Kindergarten

Course Materials

Calvert’s full-day Kindergarten course offers hands-on, interactive learning to prepare your child for First Grade.

Help your child refine his or her reading skills with our phonics-based approach and our colorful, read-aloud books. Our curriculum’s emphasis is on short vowel and consonant sounds, sequencing, auditory and visual discrimination, classifying, and rhyming. We integrate our reading materials with science and social studies, allowing for seamless interdisciplinary education.

Math studies introduce students to numbers 1 to 99, as well as shapes, problem solving, and ordering numbers.

Your child also will start technology lessons to learn basic computer skills such as word processing and graphics applications, and the curriculum will begin to include age-appropriate topics in science, poetry, and art. Discussions about community, transportation, and significant people and events build on Pre-Kindergarten topics while looking forward to First Grade. Students also will begin to learn formal printing skills.

Course Materials
• Lesson Manual
• Computer Skills & Applications Manual
• Teacher Aids
• Letters & Words
• 19 Early Phonics Storybooks
• The Music Break CDs (2)
• Calvert Math Lesson Manual
• Calvert Math
• Calvert Math Practice and Enrichment Workbook
• Science Activity Pages
• Poems & Prose
• 30 Read-Aloud Books
• Word and Picture Book
• Phonics Library
• Practice Book, Volumes 1–2
• Supplies, including modeling clay, drawing paper, pencils, yarn, watercolors, scissors, pipe cleaners, crayons, magnetic tape, and connecting cubes

Optional Enrichment Courses
• Discoveries in Early Reading
• Discoveries in Music
• Discoveries in Science
• Grade Level Science Kit
• Calvert Reference Library I
• Primary Math Manipulatives
• Beatrix Potter Guides