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K-8 > Kindergarten
Schedule
Class Links
Assemblies & Events
Teachers
Curriculum
Our half day kindergarten classes are limited to 20 students per teacher. Students partake in our integrated arts program including physical education and music. For students needing more individualized instruction on skills and concepts, we conduct a daily after-kinder-day instructional program.
K-8 > Kindergarten > Schedule
8:10 - 12:10
8:00 a.m. to 8:10 a.m.
Kindergarteners will be met by teachers in the kindergarten play area at the front of the school.
8:10 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.
Instructional day
12:10 p.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Kindergarten pick-up will take place in the staff parking lot for rooms 3, 4 and 10. For rooms 1 and 2 pick-up will be at the Kindergarten playground in front of school.
12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m.
After kinder-day students are identified by the kindergarten teachers for enrollment in this program and class size is limited to 5 students per teacher. The program takes place in kindergarten classrooms.
Please see your child's classroom link for a complete outline of their day.
Minimum day schedule is 8:10a.m. to 11:30a.m. This allows Kindergarten parents to move through the pick-up areas before the rest of the school is released.
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K-8 > Kindergarten > Class Links
Class links are available through the Kindergarten website. Our website includes information about each teacher's classroom, tada lists we use when planning activities with volunteer help, and more!
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K-8 > Kindergarten > Assemblies & Events
Assemblies
Dragon Assemblies are approximately one hour in length and are held once a month. Students from various grade levels recite poetry, play instruments, sing and perform short plays. These assemblies give our students an opportunity to showcase their learning in a fun and entertaining way.
Events
Kindergarteners at LVCS do not go on field trips, but do participate in many fun activities throughout the year including Dragon Assemblies where they normally steal the show! Some highlights of special kindergarten events at LVCS include:
Kindergarten Welcome (Boo Hoo Breakfast)
Pumpkin Patch here at LVCS
100th Day of School activities
Traditional Holidays celebrated with activity stations
End of Year Kindergarten Celebration - last day of school
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K-8 > Kindergarten > Teachers
Rm 03 Trish Antilla
Rm 04 Stephanie Baxter
Rm 10 Irma de Leon
Rm 02 Karen Duncan
Rm 01 Audrey Zika
Trisha Antilla
Trish graduated in 1993 from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology and a specialization in Child Development and earned a K-8 teaching credential in 1995. She began her career teaching pre-kindergarten to homeless children at Head Start in Columbus, Ohio. In 1997 she began teaching kindergarten at Primary Plus, a private school in San Jose, where she remained for five years before moving to Pleasanton and accepting a kindergarten teaching position at Carden West where she taught kindergarten for four years before joining the LVCS staff.
tantilla@lvcs.org
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Stephanie Baxter
Bio coming soon
mailto:sbaxter@lvcs.org
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Irma de Leon
Irma was earned her teaching credential in 1988 from CSU, Stanislaus in Turlock and her CLAD certificate from the University of San Diego. Irma has taught first grade and kindergarten in a variety of classrooms including bilingual settings for over ten years. Her experience spans several cities and districts including the Ceres Unified School District and the Hilmar Unified School District. She also has experience as a reading recovery specialist, an Advisory Teacher with Hart-Ransom Charter School and teaching internet skills to adults.
ideleon@lvcs.org
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Karen Duncan
Karen began her teaching career when her own children started school. Karen and her son, Andrew, both attended a Montessori Teacher Training School; she worked as a student teacher while he performed the role of preschooler. When Andrew went to first grade, Karen returned to school and to science. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Natural Science with a minor in Geology at the University of Colorado and San Jose State in 1990. She completed her multiple subject clear credential with science supplementals in 1991 and received a Language Development Specialist Certificate in 1993. She has experience teaching science to students from kindergarten through sixth grade. In 1997 she made the switch to a full time self contained kindergarten program. When asked how she could go from teaching science seven periods a day to teaching Kindergarten, Karen responded that she found both disciplines were quite similar... both were messy, noisy, hands on, non-stop and filled with wonderful surprises! Karen has received numerous accolades for her teaching and guidance over the years. (Teacher of the Year: Zanker Elementary, Carl Melius Science Award, Prudential Teaching Award, BTSA -Beginning Teacher Support Provider, Master Teacher, NOAA Teacher at Sea.) Her most treasured accolades, however, are those smiles given to her by her eager young students.
kduncan@lvcs.org
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Audrey Zika
Audrey earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies from CSU, Chico in 1990. After graduating, Audrey enrolled in the teaching program at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, CA and received her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential in 1991. Since earning her credential Audrey has held positions in education, training, and curriculum writing. She has taught third, fourth, and fifth grades, as well as having a background in computer software training. Audrey was a substitute teacher at LVCS before joining the staff. She is also a parent at LVCS.
azika@lvcs.org
K-8 > Kindergarten > Curriculum
Our kindergarten team plans collaboratively and addresses instruction in a center based environment. Our kindergarten program, like our elementary and middle school programs, is a standards based instructional program focusing on the California Department of Education (CDE) standards. The kindergarten teachers collaborate to develop a curriculum pacing plan beginning with the concepts and skills to be secured by children in kindergarten before moving on to first grade. Our program is very eclectic, drawing on many published and teacher created activities to meet the child where he/she is and proceed from there to where the child needs to go.
Regular trimester assessments are administered in a one to one assessment environment. This allows teachers to gauge how students are progressing and target individual needs. This information is shared with parents through our standards based report cards and the Personal Learning Plan (PLP).
The ILP lets parents know how their child is progressing based on CDE standards and provides information on how parents can partner with teachers for student success.
You can read more about Kindergarten curriculum by downloading our pdf Kindergarten curriculum. and visiting our Kindergarten website.
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