2. Daily Schedule…
8:00-3:00: Instructional Day (7 hours)
2 hours of Literacy: Shared Reading, Writing, Word
Work, and Independent Reading.
2 hours of math (Investigations and workshop)
45 min. of Science/Social Studies
45 min. of Specials: Art, P.E. Music, Media,
Computer
30 min. of Lunch; 30 min. of Physical Activity
6. Learning to Read…
Then we’ll use the Over the course of the year we
will be learning many new sight
sounds we’ve learned to words. Sight words are words
blend . your child will recognize
immediately, without having to
sound them out.
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7. Leveled Readers…
Leveled readers are books designed
to match a child to the reading level
that suits their ability.
Each classroom has 2 hours of
literacy per day, where students are
receiving instruction in Balanced
Literacy: Reading, Writing, Shared
Reading, and Word Work.
No matter where your child
starts, we will meet them where they
are, and go on from there.
8. Leveled Readers…
Leveled Reader: C is where kindergarten students
are expected to be by the end of the year.
This type of text has 1-2 sentences per page. The
pages will have a lot of sight words, and then some
words they will need to decode.
12. Stages of Writing…
Beginning Uses the beginning sound to
Sounds represent a word. Writes left to
right and often reverses letters.
13. Stages of Writing…
Consonants Include beginning and ending
represent sounds and some vowels. Uses
words sight words correctly.
14. Stages of Writing…
Initial, Middle, Writes more than one sentence
and Final with spaces between words.
Sounds “Readable” writing.
15. Stages of Writing…
Transitional Writing is “readable”. Uses
phonetic spelling for unfamiliar
words. Uses capitals and
periods correctly.
16. Young Mathematicians!
Before starting Kindergarten in August it would be
helpful for your child to know the following:
Identify and write the numbers 1-10
Count from 1-10
Colors
Basic Shapes (square, triangle, circle, rectangle)
17. Math Summed Up…
Our math framework includes five main categories:
Number Sense
Patterns, Relationships, & Functions
Geometry, & Measurement
Data Analysis
Numerical & Algebraic Operations
18. Number Sense…
It’s more then just counting!
Number relationships
Ordering numbers
Count accurately from any starting point
Counting backwards
End of Year Expectation: Count, Write & Recognize 1-30
Count backwards from 10
Ordinal numbers 1-10 (First, Second, Third, etc…)
19. Patterns, Relationships, & Functions…
Patterns are something we see in everyday life, and
they help kindergarteners understand the underlying
structure of things.
Patterns also help us make predictions about what
will come next.
20. Student Patterns…
AB pattern, where the student AABB pattern, the top portion
has identified the UNIT in the was completed as a class, the
pattern (the part of the pattern bottom independently.
that repeats).
21. Geometry & Measurement…
Shape, size , attributes. We are Measuring and describing in
not only learning about shapes, non-standard units. Here we
but how shapes make up other used snap cubes to measure
shapes, and objects in our ourselves!
world.
22. Data Analysis
For data analysis, we complete We also take many
class, and individual graphs. surveys, and create our own to
We also use the calendar collect data on our peers.
throughout the year, and track
the weather.
23. Numerical & Algebraic Operations…
Students will be able to We add and subtract in
use various operations traditional, and non-
to solve problems. traditional ways.