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KINDERGARTEN - GRADE 5
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Our Classrooms and Facilities

In Kindergarten, our bright, airy, and colorful classroom accommodates 24 students and two teachers with full credentials in early childhood education (teacher:student ratio = 1:12). We have our own kitchen for cooking lessons and a fenced playground with safe, colorful, well-designed play structures.

In Grades 1-5, every class has both a fully credentialed teacher and a credentialed assistant; class sizes range from 22-24 students. Students in these grades leave their homerooms for specialized instruction in religion, art, music, computer technology, physical education, and—beginning in Grade 4—a foreign language.

Field Trips
We extend our students’ learning and enjoyment beyond the classroom several times during the school year by taking them on field trips. For Kindergarten students, these may include visits to:
  • a Halloween “pumpkin patch”
  • a farm to see animals, pick fruit, and enjoy a hayride
    an ice-cream parlor, after learning to make ice cream in the classroom
  • the planetarium at Hartnell College in Salinas after studying the solar system
  • the Monterey Fire Department for lessons on fire safety
  • the Monterey Bay Aquarium after studying sea life.
In addition to the Monterey Fire Department and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, students in Grades 1-5 may take field trips to:
  • an apple farm to watch apples being cultivated and harvested
  • Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Fresh Express, and Farm Day at the Monterey County Fairgrounds to learn how farm products move from field to table
  • the Elkhorn Slough national research preserve to study wetland ecology
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to enhance our study of water
  • Pinnacles National Monument to learn about the endangered California Condor
  • Santa Lucia Preserve to examine native plants
  • San Juan Bautista, CA, to explore its original Spanish mission
  • the Multicultural Festival at UC-Santa Cruz to study Native Americans and beginning exploration
  • California Gold Camp in Columbia, CA, to study Gold Rush history and westward expansion (overnight).