Kindergarten

What to Love About Kindergarten at DPSCD

Kindergarten is a wonderful time in a child’s life. It is meant to be a time filled with fun, exploration, and limitless possibilities. In the DPSCD kindergarten classroom, we use this opportunity to build upon a child’s natural curiosity to guide their learning experiences.

We use purposeful materials, language and lessons to address each child as an individual and scaffold their academic, social and emotional learning. Kindergarten educators are focused on the whole child to prepare them not just for kindergarten success but also to be lifelong learners.

Helping Your Child Prepare for the First Day

As the first and most important teacher your child will ever have, parents and guardians play an important role in a child’s educational experience.

Preparing for the Transition

Preparing for the Transition

Here are some recommendations to help prepare for the transition into Kindergarten:

Start Now! Each day is a new day of learning for your child. They are like little sponges soaking in new information each day!
Talk about school with your child in a positive way. If school is important to you, it will be important to them.
Build your child’s self-care skills, to ensure they can:
- Use the bathroom independently
- Wash hands with soap and water on their own
- Sleep 10-12 hours per night consistently
- Recognize their own name in print
- Can state their full name, age, and family contact information
Enjoy new activities with your child each day. Play games like “I Spy” as a way to introduce letters/letter sounds, colors, numbers and shapes into your child’s vocabulary.
Read one book to your child per day.
Support your child's independence. Give lots of praise for things they learned to do on their own.
Encourage exploration and curiosity and remember to have fun!

Our Kindergartners Benefit From

DPSCD offers a diverse range of benefits for our Kindergarten students.

Strong Academics

Here are some recommendations to help prepare for the transition into Kindergarten:

Start Now! Each day is a new day of learning for your child. They are like little sponges soaking in new information each day!
Talk about school with your child in a positive way. If school is important to you, it will be important to them.
Enjoy new activities with your child each day. Play games like “I Spy” as a way to introduce colors, numbers and shapes into your child’s vocabulary.
With your child, pretend they are in school and learning to sit in a seat for 15-20 mins while listening to a story.
Support your child's independence. Give lots of praise for things they learned to do on their own.
Encourage exploration and curiosity and remember to have fun

Selecting the Right School

The District offers schools and programs across the city of Detroit to meet the diverse needs of kindergartners and their families:

Neighborhood Schools Application Schools Montessori

Let's Talk

Have a question or want to contact us about enrolling in Kindergarten?