Kindergarten Is Filled
With Possibility
Stepping Up To School With
The Same Excellence & Care
Kindergarten Is Filled
With Possibility
Stepping Up To School With
The Same Excellence & Care
Kindergarten Is Filled
With Possibility
Stepping Up To School With
The Same Excellence & Care

Kindergarten | 5 - 6 years | Serving Ogden, UT

They Master Reading & Writing
With Land Of The Letter Activities

Using fun and unique characters, the Land of the Letter activities combine language arts, social studies, and science to make learning come alive. They master reading, writing, communication, and other essential skills while exploring topics and themes including:

They Master Reading & Writing With Land Of The Letter Activities

Color-Based Math Activities Make Learning Fun & Interactive

Teachers use the McRuffy Kindergarten Color Math curriculum to make learning concepts like counting, numbers, and others interactive. With lessons upholding state and national standards, your child masters the essential knowledge they need to succeed in their future schooling and careers.

Social-Emotional Skills Are Crucial School Skills

Social-emotional learning continues as Conscious Discipline® brings your child full-circle. More nuanced exploration of feelings, managing self-esteem, and discussions about keeping themselves safe are just the start of their lifelong social-emotional journey.

Their Curriculum Follows The Utah Core State Standards
Helping Them Step Into Kindergarten Ready To Succeed!

Spelling, Sight Words, & Phonics Help With Early Reading Skills

Building on the early literacy work of their pre-k year, your child learns phonics with The Letter People. Sight words, weekly spelling words, and reading aloud to adults support emerging literacy and keep kiddos excited about reading.

Classroom Learning Centers Support Active Discovery

Even kindergarten learners benefit from open-ended free exploration. More sophisticated academic-themed learning centers support curriculum goals while encouraging creative, imaginative, and cooperative learning and play. Your child begins taking ownership of their own learning.

Classroom Learning Centers Support Active Discovery

Daily Outdoor Play For
School & Social Skills

Kindergarteners are the kings and queens of the playground! Play structures continue encouraging motor development and the gardens still beckon, but they make room for increased group play and organized games, too.

Open-Ended Art & Music Activities Boost Creativity & Brainpower

Teachers encourage open-ended art and music activities where your little one enjoys the freedom to explore independently. Watch them tap into their creative side, boost brainpower, and build well-rounded skills for their future classrooms.

Open-Ended Art & Music Activities Boost Creativity & Brainpower
Weekly Science, Tech, Math, & Engineering Experiments

Weekly Science, Tech, Math,
& Engineering Experiments

Every week your child receives a “STEM Basket” full of exciting materials to carry out science, tech, engineering, and math (STEM) experiments. They have a blast measuring, building, and creating, all while building essential—and practical—school and life knowledge.

Daily Enrichments Accompany Kindergarten Learning & Play

Your child never misses a beat with awesome enrichment activities that energize their day. They explore circle time, music and movement, art, and lots of reading, so they stay happy and engaged in their learning.

Field Trips Introduce Your
Child To The Community

Nothing beats hands-on experiential learning, so kindergarteners go on 3 educational field trip adventures a year. Past favorites include Ogden attractions like the Treehouse Museum, Dinosaur Park, and Carver’s Cove Petting Farm.

Tasty Meals & Snacks For Learning Success

Delicious healthy breakfasts, lunches, and snacks fuel your child through busy days of learning and play. A trained cook prepares all food onsite to meet CACFP state food program requirements, and some meals even include child-tended herbs and veggies from the garden!

Tasty Meals & Snacks For Learning Success

Modern Safety Measures Keep Everyone Secure

Rest easy knowing your child is always safe at school. Keypad access on all doors requires a code for entrance and exit. Internal-use-only security cameras monitor classrooms while fenced playgrounds and CPR-trained staff provide extra security and watchful eyes.

The DKZ Children’s Classic App Puts Communication In Your Hands

The branded DKZ Children’s Classic app makes communication a breeze! Message your child’s teachers directly in the app with questions or concerns, schedule meetings, view news, notes, and progress, and – best of all – get photos and updates throughout the day!
The Children’s Classic App Puts Communication In Your Hands

Meet The Team

Nila

Kindergarten Teacher

Nila has been teaching Kindergarten here for 23 years. She truly loves it. She says the children are amazing and she enjoys watching them learn things. She loves seeing children get the “I can do this look”. She says it is magical to watch them realize they can do something they couldn’t before. She loves the flexible curriculum so she can add extra things to it. She loves helping children get a love for learning that will go with them into their early elementary years. Nila has received The Caring Heart award from our community and was also awarded The teacher appreciation award from KSL. She has her CCP (Child Care Professional).

Melanie

Kindergarten Teacher

Melanie has been teaching Kindergarten for over 16 years and loving it. She loves being able to see that moment when a child learns something new and they light up with excitement. She loves helping them and watching them learn to read. Melanie has received The Caring Heart award from our community. She also has received and been nominated during her teaching years the Standard Examiner Apples for the Teacher award.

FAQs

Our hours at Ogden Center are Monday to Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Our hours at South Ogden Center are Monday to Friday, 6:45 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

A professional cleaning staff comes daily to ensure that all surfaces are clean and sanitized. Air purifiers ensure even the smallest spaces get sanitized. We received 100% on our Health Inspection

Hear What Parents & Children Have To Say

At DKZ Children’s Classic, Quality Care Is All In The Family . . . Your Family & Ours, For Nearly 60 Years