Special Activities
At Kalamazoo Country Day School, faculty and staff offer a variety of special activities designed specifically for our youngest students.
Preschoolers have Spanish instruction four days a week. The classes are short and fun and lay the foundation for Spanish instruction from Kindergarten to the Eighth Grade. (More info about our new Spanish teacher coming soon...)
Library - Kathy Willhite
Preschoolers have a weekly visit to the library. Children experience a short "story hour" and then locate a book to check out and take back to their classroom. During the year they learn about the care of books, and experience locating and hearing fiction and nonfiction related to classroom curriculum and other topics.
Music - Lynn Arwady
Music instruction in Kalamazoo Country Day School's preschool classrooms is based on the sheer joy of making music. Children sing, dance, and play rhythm instruments during twice-a-week sessions taught by a music teacher. These group activities are carefully planned to coordinate with the phonetic emphasis in the preschool classrooms each week. Our preschoolers are blissfully unaware of all the verbal, aural, kinesthetic, social, and brain development that occurs during their music instruction. All they know is . . . they love it!
Physical Education - Erin Kucera
Preschool students practice locomotor skills such as running, galloping, skipping, hopping, and jumping through activities that improve spatial awareness, body awareness, coordination and balance. The students are introduced to a variety of manipulatives, such as bean bags, balls, hula hoops, jump ropes, scarves and ribbons. Basic sports skills are also introduced, including dribbling, striking, kicking, tossing, throwing, catching and volleying. We also introduce health and nutrition concepts. Preschoolers enjoy rhythmic activities and connections to class themes.
Preschool children attend physical education class two times a week for 30 minutes.
