What Makes WCA Kindergarten Special

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WCA Kindergarten offers a nurturing and faith-centered environment where students learn the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). Daily Bible lessons and songs help reinforce these values, and students participate in two chapel performances each year. Positive behavior, polite manners, and kindness toward one another are highly encouraged and celebrated.

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Kindergarteners enter with a range of skill levels but all make significant progress in reading. Each week, students learn a new letter and sound, and early in the year, they begin blending sounds to read words. By the end of the year, most students are confidently reading and writing full sentences. Daily journal writing supports literacy growth, while grammar instruction includes nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives.

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In Math, the curriculum begins with foundational skills such as writing numbers 1–10, sorting, and patterning. By year’s end, many students can write numbers up to 100. Key topics include one- and two-dimensional shapes, number sequencing, addition and subtraction, counting coins, using balance scales, graphing, and skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Math games and hands-on activities make learning fun and engaging.

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Science lessons feature hands-on exploration, from sorting the five food groups and experimenting with the five senses to learning about George Washington Carver by making peanut butter balls. Students plant seeds in terrariums to observe the water cycle, visit Botanica to study plants, and create paper airplanes as part of a unit on the Wright Brothers.

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Social Studies includes immersive experiences such as spending time in a classroom wigwam while studying Native Americans and wearing Pilgrim hats during Thanksgiving celebrations. Field trips to places like Tractor Supply provide real-world lessons on goods, services, wants, and needs. Students enjoy dressing up as George Washington and marching while singing “Yankee Doodle.” They also learn about the seven continents through a “trip around the world,” complete with international snacks and personalized passports.

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Kindergarten students take several field trips throughout the year, including visits to the pumpkin patch, Tractor Supply, Great Plains Nature Center, Botanica, and Sedgwick County Zoo.

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Additional highlights of the WCA Kindergarten experience include a regularly updated class website with photos and information, daily prayer, hands-on learning centers and games, recess, art, music, PE, library time, computer use, weekly chapel, daily rest periods, and show-and-tell every Friday.