Transitional Kindergarten

• 👕 How to dress themselves and zip up their coats
• 🍱 How to open the snacks/foods in their lunch boxes
• ✋ How to ask for help from a grownup
• 🚽 How to use the bathroom independently
• 💛 How to separate from their grownup confidently

• Early literacy skills, including: letter names, sounds, phonemic awareness and early reading
• Early math skills, including: counting, 1:1 correspondence subitizing, adding and subtracting
• Social-emotional confidence and friendships
• Gross and fine motor development
• Personalized learning at their level
• Daily & small-group English Language Development

• Benchmark Language Arts
• Zoophonics
• Heggerty Phonemic Awareness
• Eureka Math2
• Foss Science
• Art, music, and social-emotional learning activities

Yes! TK students attend music class, library class, school-wide assemblies provided by the PTO, art activities provided by the Mono Arts Council, and push-in lessons on kindness, emotional regulation, and social skills.

MUSD resident children turning 4 by September 1 are eligible for TK. 

No, California Education Code and related regulations require that all students in TK meet age requirements for enrollment.

Five-year olds are age-eligible to enroll in Kindergarten and therefore will not be offered enrollment in TK.  If parents feel that their child would benefit from it, they may request a Kindergarten Continuance, which means that their child will have 2 years of Kindergarten.