Transitional Kindergarten – TK
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) in Los Gatos
Children, aged 4 by September 1, 2025, are eligible for our TK in Los Gatos program. Our TK program offers activities designed to promote self-confidence and refine skills practiced in the 3’s group. TK-aged children will have a transitional kindergarten experience that is rich in pre-literacy, science, and math while staying true to our play-based philosophy.
Special attention is given to integrating STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities into the everyday fabric of the class. Our TK in Los Gatos program is designed to stimulate and enhance the developmental growth of children ages 4 to 5.
With a maximum child/teacher ratio of 9:1, this class meets 5 partial days per week (8:30am–1:30pm), 5 full days (8:30am–4:00pm), or 5 extended days (8:30am–5:30pm).
Included Enrichments and Benefits:
- Weekly Yoga and Music Classes
- STEAM Driven
- Everyday creativity: our students paint, build, and create, bringing learning to life through art.
- Flexible Schedule: Full and Half Days, plus Early Morning drop-off and extended care options
- Joyous Jewish Holiday and Shabbat celebrations
- Cousins Like Us Music Program
8:30am– Arrive at school, join table activity
9:00am– Circle time: songs, stories, music & movement
9:30am– Classrooms stations
10:00am– Wash hands, morning snack
10:30am– Art/ sensory exploration
11:00am– Playground time
12:00pm– Wash hands & lunch time
12:30pm– Wind down
1:00pm– Nap time
3:00pm– Wake up, afternoon snack
3:25pm– Playground time
4:00pm– Pick up time/ extended care
*On Tuesdays We have Yoga in the dance room from 10:00-10:30
* On Wednesdays we have music in class from 10:00-10:30 *
Schedule is subject to change based on children’s needs and school events
8:30am– Arrive at school, join table activity
9:00am– Circle time: songs, stories, music & movement
9:30am– Classrooms stations
10:00am– Wash hands, morning snack
10:30am– Art/ sensory exploration
11:00am– Playground time
12:00pm– Pick Up Time
*On Tuesdays We have Yoga in the dance room from 10:00-10:30
* On Wednesdays we have music in class from 10:00-10:30 *
Schedule is subject to change based on children’s needs and school events
Below is an overview of the kinds of skills most children are working on by the end of each year. These milestones help guide our teaching and give families a sense of what to expect.
Self Help skills
- Feeds self without assistance and using appropriate table manners
- Dresses self with minimal help
- Shows responsibility for own belongings
- Uses the toilet and washes hands with little to no help
Cognitive and Language skills
- Communicates verbally with increasing complexity and for communication, play, and problem solving
- Able to maintain focus in self chosen and teacher led activities
- Makes connections from one situation from another
- Relates stories about familiar people and events
- Shows understanding of cause and effect
- Follows and understands stories and can predict outcomes
- Follows multistep instructions
- Engages in complex representational/pretend play
- Understands that letters are the construction unit of words and is beginning to connect specific sounds to letters
- Identifies upper and lower case letters
- Writes and spells own name
- Understands comparative concepts
Motor Skills
- Uses pedals on a tricycle
- Uses crayons, markers, or paintbrush in a tripod grasp
- Climbs up and down stairs with alternating feet
- Can throw a ball overhand and can catch a ball from a bounce
- Reproduces letters and shapes
- Shows increasing fine and gross motor planning and coordination
- Feels confident with age appropriate physical risk taking
Social and Emotional Skills
- Can recognize and name a range of emotions and shares emotions with others
- Shows pride in accomplishments
- Has developed relationships with teachers
- Has established friendships with peers
- Displays age appropriate impulse control
- Responds to redirection
- Comprehends boundaries of others
- Works collaboratively with peers
- Uses teachers as a resource
- Shows increasing ability to share and take turns
- Expresses own ideas in interactions with peers
- Shows respect for school materials
- Makes transitions easily
- Willingly explores new activities