Welcome to Kindergarten!
The
Kindergarten day is very busy. We do calendar activities, story time, language
arts workstations, math, snack, centers, and outside time every day.
Open Court Reading Program
Designed to…
Develop confident and fluent readers through print and phonemic awareness activities and explicit phonics instruction
Engage students in constructing meaning through the teaching of reading comprehension skills and strategiesKindergarten Goals
- Kindergarten students will
- Learn about the alphabet and how it works.
- Develop phonemic awareness.
- Learn to connect sounds with letters.
- Develop print and book awareness.
- Have successful early reading experiences.
- Explore the concepts of science, social studies, literature and the arts.
- Understand story elements.
Units of Study in Language Arts
- School Stick to It
- Shadows
- Red, White and Blue
- Finding Friends
- Teamwork
- Wind By the Sea
Units of Study in Math
- Sorting & Classifying
- Graphing & Patterns
- Measurement
- Time & Money
- Geometry & Fractions
- Understanding Addition
- Understanding Subtraction
- Counting & Number Patterns to 100
Social Studies includes learning about rules, looking at myself, my family, and others, and holidays. We are also using the new "Second Step" kit to help us understand our feelings. In Science we learn to use our senses to observe, we study units on plants, animals, rocks, liquids, air, and forces.
Kindergarten Progress Reports and conferences are held in November and May.
We go on field trips to see a play and to the Baltimore Zoo.
Kindergarten
is quite an adventure. Please keep reading to your child at home to promote an
interest in letters and words.