Kindergarten in the North Hills School District is a full day program. Students attend one of four district elementary schools. Students must be five years old prior to August 1 to enter kindergarten that school year.

Registration

Kindergarten registration opens each February 1 and the process begins online.

Our Kindergarten Forum for incoming students in the 2024-25 school year was held on January 18. Click below to view the presentation slides.

Held each January, the Kindergarten Forum includes a panel of kindergarten teachers, specialists, and administrators who discuss kindergarten readiness, the readiness assessment, curriculum, and a typical kindergarten day in the North Hills School District. The presentation also includes a question and answer session.

All incoming kindergartners take a BRIGANCE readiness assessment. The assessment looks at each child’s physical, language, cognitive and social-emotional development as well as self-help skills and determines the child’s school readiness. Results will be shared with the child’s parents before the start of the school year.

Explore the resources below as you prepare your student for the assessment and to begin kindergarten.

Activities Calendar

• Monthly activities for children in pre-kindergarten

Physical Development & Motor Skills

• Gross motor skills activities for little kids
• Motor skills for preschoolers
• Improve kids' fine motor skills with 30 materials & activities
• Kindergarten hand exercises

Language Development & Letter Recognition

• 10 letter recognition activities
• Letter recognition: Creative and hands-on ways to teach the alphabet
• Practice name writing in 12 fun ways for preschoolers
• Creative and fun name activities

Academic Skills/Cognitive Development

• 8 ways to teach children their address and phone number
• Safety Skills: How to teach your child to memorize his phone number
• Book and print awareness: Getting ready to read