Groton Community School, Inc.
110 Boston Road, Route 119, Groton, MA 01450
Phone: (978)448-6179 Fax: (978)448-2399

Kindergarten Program: 
We follow the Groton-Dunstable Public School guidelines for Kindergarten entrance age: five years old by August 31 of year entered. Kindergarten students at Groton Community School benefit from the individualized attention made possible with a ratio of sixteen children to two teachers. It is a five-day morning program. Many Kindergarten families also take advantage of our Extended Day Program before and after class as well. Five-year-olds are more independent in accepting responsibility, making choices, and cooperating. Kindergarten children develop both a sense of empathy for others and a concern for fairness. Their fine and gross motor skills are typically well-developed, as are their abilities to count, sort, identify initial sounds and letters, and understand and recognize a growing collection of sight words. 

Kindergarten at GCS embraces the philosophy of all our programs for young children – we pride ourselves in providing a warm, creative, and language-rich environment where each child can develop to their full potential.  While still offering choices and opportunities for creative expression, the Kindergarten program has greater individualized expectations for the children to complete specific, structured curriculum activities.  The Kindergarten schedule also affords more whole-group activity time, in accordance with the increasing capabilities of five and six-year-old children to be attentive for longer periods of time.

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