At Littleton Public Schools, we pride ourselves on kindergarten programs that are child-centered and meet the needs of the whole child. Children receive a balanced program to meet their individual needs for cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. Our goal is to start our youngest learners on the road to a lifetime of success through a love of learning.

The state of Colorado funds full-day kindergarten programs in its public schools. Because we believe strongly in the importance of early childhood education, all LPS elementary schools provide free full-day kindergarten.  In addition, all LPS elementary schools offer tuition-based before- and after-school childcare. Please visit specific school websites for more information.

Students are eligible for kindergarten if they turn five years of age on or before October 1 of the year of enrollment. 

FIRST STEPS...
Kindergarten today is more academic and more challenging than programs of the past. While still based on an atmosphere of inquiry and play, it is the kind of active learning that teaches children to think, solve problems, share ideas, and learn language development skills. As your child’s first teachers, you can help prepare your child for kindergarten. 

Creative Expression
Children at the kindergarten level need to have their creative skills challenged. Exposure to many types of learning helps to develop the whole child.

• Encourage your child’s natural curiosity about his or her world by asking questions and pointing out things to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell.
• Encourage painting, use clay, draw with chalk, markers, and crayons.
• Encourage dramatic play such as pretending, playing dress-up, setting up housekeeping, playing school, and playing with small objects, such as cars, blocks, etc.
• Sing songs, dance, listen to all types of music and play rhythm instruments.
• Tell stories or have your child finish a story you start.

Language Arts

• Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are all important to your child’s development and success in school.
• Talk with your child and listen carefully to what he or she says so you can have meaningful conversations with your child.
• Read aloud with your child every day for at least 20 minutes.
• Encourage your child to predict what will happen while reading stories and to retell the story.
• Play rhyming games with words.

Writing

• Help your child practice writing his or her name.
• Practice writing notes, letters, and stories, even if your child uses pretend writing or scribble writing.
• Allow your child to dictate stories and letters or notes while you write them down.

Mathematics

• Kindergarten math builds the groundwork for later mathematical understandings. Working with objects and manipulatives, grouping, sorting, problem-solving, patterning, and estimating are all part of the kindergarten curriculum.
• Play counting games.
• Sort and group stuffed animals, cereal pieces, candy, rocks, and toys.
• Practice address and phone number.
• Practice writing numbers to ten.
• Create patterns with simple objects. 

Virtual Kindergarten registration will be held for each elementary school  starting on December 1 thru January 20, 2021. You can register your kindergartner by completing an online pre-registration form and emailing all documents to the school registrar. Download our Kindergarten Brochure.

STEP ONE:

Students New to LPS — Preregister your kindergartner online any time before January 20th.
Existing LPS Families — Contact your kindergartner’s school to set up an account for your kindergartner in your existing Family Portal account in Infinite Campus any time before January 20th.

STEP TWO:
Attend a virtual Kindergarten Information Session for your elementary school before January 20th.

STEP THREE:
Attend your elementary school’s virtual Kindergarten Registration Event in January.

AFTER JANUARY 31, 2020:
After January 31, Kindergarten Registration will take place at the Education Services Center, 5776 S. Crocker St., Littleton, CO 80120.

WHAT WILL I NEED TO PROVIDE? 
To complete the registration process, please complete and email the online pre-registration form and all documentation to your child's school of attendance. Documentation to be included:

• A printed copy of your online preregistration, which you completed and printed at home
• Birth certificate
• Immunization records
• Proof of residency (house contract, deed, utility bill or lease agreement)
• Emergency contact information
• Parent Identification, i.e. driver’s license

Click here to review Registration Procedures and learn more!