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Kindergarten
at St. Michael’s
Laura Knox
2012-2013
Welcome to
Kindergarten!
• [email protected]
• Thank you to Jennifer Gallaway for all her hard work and
organization!
• Before leaving tonight, PLEASE fill out Sac. County
Library Card Application for our trip on September 27.
• AND leave a “love note” on your child’s desk for a sweet
surprise Monday morning.
• Please sign up for one field trip and one party if you’d like
to participate.
Everybody is a genius.
But, if you judge a fish by its
ability to climb a tree, it’ll
spend its whole life believing
that it is stupid.
~Albert Einstein
Field Trips
• September 26- Carmichael Library
• October 26- The Pumpkin Farm
(with our 5th Grade Buddies!)
Kindergarten Class Rules
• Be Kind
• Be Safe
• Do your best.
Reinforcement
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Warm Fuzzies
Clip-up/Clip Down
Compliment Circle
“Reprimand quietly, praise loudly”
Behavior Chart
Notes, phone calls, emails
Office Visits if needed
Typical Kindergarten Schedule
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Welcome/ Unpack
Chapel
Calendar, Morning Message, BIG News
PE (M-F)
Reading/Language Arts/Workshop
Recess
Math & Workplaces
Specialists
Lunch & Recess
Workshop/Centers
Science/Social Studies
Dismissal
Literacy
Students are exposed to a
wide variety of materials and
early literacy concepts
through shared, interactive,
guided, and independent
reading/writing experiences.
Early Literacy Concepts and
Activities include:
• Using clear language to express and describe
ideas, people, places, and things
• Following multi-step directions
• Demonstrating the connection between written
and oral language
• Participating in rhyming activities, songs, and
finger plays
• Recognizing concepts of print (print carries a
message; left to right; top to bottom, spacing…)
• Listening to a variety of genres
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Printing first and last name
Identifying and printing uppercase and lowercase letters
Identifying/strengthening sounds heard in words- phonemic
awareness
Associating letters with sounds- phonics
Creating words and sentences using approximate spellings – shared
writing, interactive writing, independent writing (journals)
Recognizing sight words
Reading:
– Big Books
– Guided Reading (leveled books)
– Imagine It! Lap books
Handwriting Without Tears
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Handwriting Without Tears is a developmentally-based method of
teaching that makes handwriting easy to teach and learn.
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Jan Olsen, an occupational therapist, developed this program for
children struggling with the formation of letters.
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The purpose of this program is to make handwriting available to all
children as an automatic, natural skill.
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Children who write well and easily do better in school, enjoy their
classes more, and feel proud of themselves.
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This comprehensive, easy-to-use curriculum appeals to
administrators, teachers, parents, and students.
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The Handwriting Without Tears curriculum is suited to all children.
It uses a fun, hands-on approach to develop good skills and teach
correct letter formation.
Mathematics
enVisionMATH is a terrific Common Core State Standardsbased program that is conceptually oriented and activitybased. It emphasizes thinking; conversing, working
together, on reasoning writing of math words and numbers
and the WHY of math.
• Cooperative Problem Solving for everyday situations
• Hands on activities and games using manipulatives
• Collecting and recording data
• Discussion
• Technology/computers
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Topics/Domains Covered in enVisionMATH:
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Counting & Cardinality
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
Measurment and Data
Geometry
Social Studies
• Developing concepts of self and others
(characteristics, family, celebrations)
• Star of the Week
• Learning significance of important people, places,
holidays
• Exploring careers and occupations
• Learning school rules, class rules, and individual
responsibilities
• Knowing the location of your home and what it is
like where you live
• Identifying simple map/globe features
Science
• Developing a growing curiosity about the physical
world
• Developing the ability to make logical predictions
• Observing, describing, and illustrating properties
of trees and plants
• Observing, describing, and illustrating properties
of things that sink or float
• Observing, describing, and illustrating the
metamorphosis process of a tadpole
Homework Ideas
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Learn to tie your shoes
Read (pre)decodables
Practice sight words
Homelinks
Visit sraimagineit.com
Visit talkingfingers.com
Visit starfall.com
Set the table (learn left/right)
Label Post-Its with #’s and put in order
Write a letter to someone, address it, and send it
Read a Step 1 or 2 (or appropriate level) book and then write 2 “little thoughts” from
the book and illustrate. Show me!
Go to a museum. Write 2 “little thoughts” and show me!]
Be in charge of finding the weather section in the newspaper (or on the kindergarten
website) and tell your family what today and tomorrow’s weather will be.
Go on a nature walk with a grown-up. Talk about what your senses are telling you.
Go to the public library and check out a book.
“You
grow old
because
you stop playing.”
THANK YOU!
HERE’S TO A GREAT
YEAR!