— ACADEMICS —
Within the safe haven of an atmosphere clothed in unwavering acceptance by teachers and peers, students transform into lifelong scholars who possess the character and integrity essential for future success. Considering today’s competitive academic climate, Pacific Shores Day School believes it is critical to equip children for not only for Kindergarten but for an entire lifetime by building skills in every single facet of child and human development.
Our Curriculum
Our Curriculum
Literacy: Bringing Reading, Writing and Creativity to Life
through Play, the Arts and Child-Centered Activities
Literacy: Bringing Reading, Writing and Creativity to Life
through Play, the Arts and Child-Centered Activities
Pacific Shores Day School has been as a 'Starfall® school' since the curriculum's debut in 2009. Starfall® Kindergarten is research-based reading and language arts program which integrates literacy skills with social studies and science while meaningfully utilizing technology in the classroom. Benchmarks and topics of study exceed state standards for Kindergarten and promote a love of reading, writing and learning. We pride ourselves in providing each student with differentiated instruction as well as routinely assessing each child's reading level in order to best meet each student's ever-changing and personalized academic needs and goals.
Mathematics: Hands-on Instruction Gives Children the Tools for Content Mastery
Mathematics: Hands-on Instruction Gives Children the Tools for Content Mastery
Starfall® Kindergarten Mathematics allows students to further explore the universe of mathematical thinking, using numbers, shapes, and measurement tools while connecting mathematics to everyday scenarios and practical problem solving. Upon completing the programs, students will have learned concepts of time, money, patterning, ordinal numeracy, measurement, graphing, writing, addition, subtraction, fractions, geometry and more. Our mathematics curriculum teaches students to understand math in stages, beginning with concrete (using manipulatives such as counters, number disks, dice, and so on), then moving to pictorial (solving problems where pictures are involved), and finally, working in the abstract (where numbers represent symbolic values).