welcome to kindergarten

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN

Morning Meetings

• Greeting – song/handshake/getting to know you activity

• Message – this includes the goal of the day

• Activity – sometimes this is a getting to know you activity or has curriculum tied to it (ie number game)

READING &

LANGUAGE ARTS

Kindergarten readers and writers focus on building a solid foundation of readiness skills.

5 Literacy Practices

• Read to self– Read the Pictures– Read the Words– Retell the Story

• Read to Someone• Listen to Reading• Work on Writing• Spelling/Word Work

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Let’s Build Stamina!

KindergartenSmall Groups Structure

• Oral Word Games (Phonemic Awareness)

• Letter of the Week (Jolly Phonics)

• Phonemic Awareness Activity

• Sight Word Activity

• Leveled Reading

• Writing

Phonemic Awareness• Main focus is on phonemes/sounds• Deals with spoken language• Mostly auditory• Deals with manipulating sounds and sounds in words• Involves hearing and playing with language

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Phonics• Main focus is on graphemes/letters and their

corresponding sounds• Deals with written language/print• Both visual and auditory• Deals with reading and writing letters according to

their sounds and spelling patterns• Seeing the text representing the language and play

with it

5 Basic Skills of Jolly Phonics

1. Learning the letter sounds

2. Letter formation

3. Blending

4. Identifying sounds in words

5. Word wall words

Letter Sounds

Digraphs (two letters making one sound)

Storylines and Actions

Learning the /s/ sound

Action: Weave your hand like a

snake, making an ‘s’

shape, saying ssssss

Letter Formation

• On the board modelling

• In the air large motor practice

• On paper (white boards, paper, handwriting books, homework)

Pencil Hold

• Tripod grip

• ‘Froggy legs’

• Go and Stop Fingers

Examples: Letter Sounds

Group 1

Blending Words

Kindergarten Reading Learning Targets:

• recognize all the letters & sounds• be able to blend sounds together to make words• recognize our 51 ‘popcorn’ sight words• identify rhyming words• understand sequencing,

predicting,

realism/fantasy,

main idea,

details

Independent WritingKindergarten writers use developmental spelling.

Children need to know:• What they want to say and recall it

• The sounds they hear in the word

• The letters that make those sounds

• One way of writing the letters for

the sounds they hear

• How to form the letters they want to write

Beginning of the year writing

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End of the year writing

What can you do at home to help?

• read to & with your child every day• ask questions and listen to your child’s response• encourage eye contact when talking to each other• give 2 or 3 step directions• play word games• play “I Spy”• point out rhyming words• encourage chopping words into individual

sounds when writing• express that learning is fun & work at the • same time!

Kindergarten Math Learning Targets:

•Counts to tell the number of objects

•Identifies numbers

•Counts sequentially

•Prints numbers 0 – 20 legibly

•Compares numbers

•Understands addition and subtraction

•Composes and decomposes numbers 11-19

•Describes and compares measurable attributes

•Classifies objects & counts the number of objects in each category

•Identifies, Compares, Contrasts and Creates shapes

What will we be doing in Math?

SUBITIZING (instantly seeing how many)

Learning to make connections between:

verbal “Three”

symbolic “3”

Quantitative E

What can you do at home to help?

Encourage your child to:

•count everyday objects•count forward and backwards•look for numbers everywhere•make and notice patterns•sort toys, clothes, objects•talk about how she solves problems

Science

Properties

Trees

Animals(mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians)

Health: Five Senses

Social Studies

CitizenshipMe

How to get along / Solve problemsRules/Routines

FriendshipMy NeighborhoodNeeds and Wants

Traditions / Holidays

Assessing

•Illinois standards based report card•2 times a year informal report card•2 times a year formal report card•constantly doing informal

assessment to adjust teaching

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