“At Holy Trinity Episcopal Day School, we recognize that God uniquely created each child. We understand that each child develops at a different pace and understands content through varying learning styles. Early childhood is a time of incredible and varied growth. Our talented teachers strive to meet each child where they are and help them learn, and grow so that they are ready for the next level in their education. ”
 

Pre-K Classroom

The Letter People, DIG by Abrams
A research-based, developmentally appropriate, comprehensive Pre-K curriculum, The Letter People has withstood the test of time. This kid-friendly curriculum helps early learners develop the strong foundation
they’ll need for reading and writing success in today’s much more rigorous kindergarten classrooms.

  • Thematically organized

  • Integrated learning across language and literacy, math, science, and social-emotional development

  • Oral language and listening skills

  • Print awareness

  • Phonological and phonemic awareness

  • Alphabet knowledge: letter identification and sound-symbol association

  • Vocabulary development

Handwriting Without Tears
The Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum draws from years of innovation and research to provide developmentally appropriate, multisensory tools and strategies for the classroom. The program follows research that demonstrates children learn more effectively by actively doing, with materials that address all styles of learning. This curriculum is designed to make handwriting easy to learn in just 15 minutes a day. The result truly is handwriting without tears! 

Heggerty

The Pre-Kindergarten curriculum uses nursery rhymes to introduce preschool students to language play. The lessons include eight phonological and phonemic awareness skills, taught in a systematic progression. The advanced skill of initial phoneme substitution is taught beginning in Week 19, after students have learned to isolate, blend, and segment with phonemes.

Through two early literacy skills, students also develop alphabet knowledge through daily practice with an alphabet song and letter name and sound practice. Nursery rhymes are taught each week so that by the end of preschool your students will begin to build a repertoire of classic nursery rhymes as they learn to enjoy language play!

This curriculum aligns to the Early Learning and Development standards for children who are 4 or 5 years old, participating in their last year of preschool or attending transitional kindergarten (TK). The skills taught provide practice and exposure to prepare students for Kindergarten.

 
 

Kindergarten Classroom

Superkids by Zaner-Bloser 
The Superkids® Reading program is a core literacy curriculum for kindergarten that teaches all aspects of reading seamlessly integrated with the language arts. Built on scientific research and proven pedagogy, it combines rigorous instruction with highly motivating materials.  By the time they finish the program, students have acquired the linguistic understanding required to develop into a fully literate individual. 

My Math by McGraw-Hill
This curriculum provides opportunities for students to build their understandingof mathematical concepts and ample practice to master important skills through a problem-solving environment, insuring that students become life-long problems solvers. 

Shared Journals
Teachers who provide daily practice in responding to journal prompts produce confident writers. This does not happen overnight. Students gradually build their writing stamina under quality instruction. At Holy Trinity, each Kindergartner is given the chance to share a personal experiences with the class. Classmates then recall story events or write their interpretation of the experience in their own journals. Students are encouraged to use inventive spelling and the word wall of learned sight words to develop a journal entry. All journal entries are compiled into a binder for parents to see writing growth throughout the year.  

Heggerty

The kindergarten curriculum covers all consonants, short vowels, digraphs, blends, and rime patterns, with long vowel words being introduced in the later weeks of this curriculum.

The 10 components included in each Heggerty Kindergarten lesson:

  • 8 phonemic awareness skills

  • 1 letter name and letter sound recognition activity

  • 1 language awareness activity developing an understanding of words, sentences, and learning nursery rhymes

Daily lessons teach early, basic, and advanced skills such as:

  • Rhyming and onset fluency

  • Isolating final or medial sounds

  • Blending and segmenting words, syllables, and phonemes

  • Adding and deleting phonemes

  • Substituting phonemes