What are the curriculum requirements for four-year-old kindergarten?
Legally, the curriculum requirements are the same for four- and five-year-old kindergarten. Explicitly, four-year-old kindergarten is an early education program and provides more than child care. However, four-year-olds as a group are very different developmentally from five-year-olds, and using a watered down five-year-old kindergarten curriculum for four-year-olds is both inappropriate and ineffective. As an early education program, instruction in four-year-old kindergarten must address reading and language arts first and foremost but also must include mathematics, social studies, science, health, physical education, art, and music. Obviously, the use of an integrated curriculum, thematic approaches, and learning centers makes tremendous sense, because young children learn by doing, exploring, and experimenting. The required areas (language, math, music, etc.) should be built into the integrated approaches. Curriculums are locally determined and should be based on best practice. P-5
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