Transcript What can you do at home to help?

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
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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!
Kindergarten
Small Groups Structure
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Oral Word Games (Phonemic Awareness)
Letter of the Week (Jolly Phonics)
Phonemic Awareness Activity
Sight Word Activity
Leveled Reading
Writing
Phonemic Awareness
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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
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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 Writing
Kindergarten writers use developmental spelling.
Children need to know:
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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
End of the year writing
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What can you do at home to
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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
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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
Citizenship
Me
How to get along / Solve problems
Rules/Routines
Friendship
My Neighborhood
Needs 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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to curriculum night and
supporting your child’s
education and school!