Kindergarten Curriculum

Social Studies: We begin the year by working on building community and character. Students learn and practice honesty, courage, responsibility, friendship, and respect. We will also be learning about location (home, classroom, school, state). Careers are explored and their impact discussed, as well as discussing the reasons people work.

Science: This year in science, students will be taking an active, inquiring role as they explore the world around them. Through different activities and experiments, students will be learning about plants, the weather, their senses, basic properties of objects, as well as tools.

Language: Vocabularies will certainly grow this year. Students will participate during group discussions and practice the appropriate listening and talking behaviors. Students will practice using spatial language through different activities.

Reading: The literature we will be working with this year will be rhymes, fairytales, fables, fiction, and non-fiction. Students will understand the different aspects of books and how to use books. Main events will be discussed, retold, and dramatized. Poems will be set to music and/or dance. Students will learn how to connect books that are read to themselves and to the world around them.

Writing: This year, students will begin to learn how to write their letters. We will look for common words that are found in print. We will explore periods and question marks. Also, students will create their own letter stories, skits, and poems.

Math: We will follow the Houghton Mifflin Math program for Kindergarteners. Students will work on sorting, patterns, numbers, shapes, money, length, time, and beginning algebra. Through this program, we will use song, games, and stories to learn about these concepts.

Principal and teacher of the kindergarten class (in the Sapphire Room)

Mrs. Filiault grew up in North Adams, Massachusetts and attended Kindergarten through eighth grade at the Notre Dame School there. Mrs. Filiault is a certified school principal.  She graduated from Buxton School, a private high school in Williamstown. She earned a BS degree in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing and a minor in mathematics; and a BS in Elementary Education from North Adams State College, received her masters degree in education from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts where she graduated Suma Cum Laude. Mrs. Filiault is a Highly Qualified Teacher in Elementary Education and Reading and Language Arts Specialist K-8. She holds a K-6 Elementary Education license in Massachusetts and Vermont, with a Vermont K-8 endorsement in Reading and Language Arts. Her husband (Dennis) passed away in 2003. They have three sons (Chad, Justin, and Tyler) who are grown and have left the nest. She continues to live in North Adams with her German Shepherd (Madison), dachshund (Dewey), and two cats (Willybean and Doodlebug). Mrs. Filiault enjoys teaching, swimming, four-wheeling, and as of August 20, 2011 spending time with her new grandson, Ryan Dennis Filiault.  He lives with his parents Chad and Erica Filiault.

Contact: 738-5676 or e-mail jfiliault@hancockschool.org

Here are a few links to websites appropriate for kindergartners. Click on the picture and/or the name of the site to be directed.

Phonics Games

Comic Strip

Between the Lions

National Geographic Kids

Crank it Up

Star Fall

Raz-Kids

Math Activities

Animal Design