Transcript Kindergarten Presentation - New Parent Meet and Gree

Getting Ready
For Kindergarten
Top Five Pieces of Advice
1. Make sure students get plenty of rest.
2. Students need to have a good, healthy breakfast.
3. Ask them about their day. Ask for details. Language
is a big part of kindergarten.
4. Don’t push too much at home. Paper/Pencil
homework isn’t always needed. Homework and
practice shouldn’t last more than 20 minutes.
5. Try to give your child as many experiences as
possible. The more prior knowledge they have the
better.
Language
1. Students need to hear and
understand spoken language.
2. Students need to communicate
easily with other children and
adults.
3. Students need to use
sentences that give detail and
are grammatically correct.
4. Students need to tell a story
that stick to topic.
5. Students need to pay attention
to stories and answer simple
questions about them. (who,
where, when, what, why)
Literacy
Balanced Literacy Program
•Shared Reading – Big Books and Poems
•Read Aloud
•Writing – Shared, Guided, Interactive, and Independent
(Six Traits of Writing)
How to help at home:
1. Read bedtime stories and ask questions
2. Practice alphabet (recognition and letter sounds)
3. Keep journals or diaries for free writing
Common Core Standards
• Number Sense – reading & writing numbers,
counting, comparing numbers
• Calendar – Days of the week, Months,
Weather
• Exemplars – Story problems (problem solving
and explaining your thinking)
How to help at home
• Have students count items or make sets (setting
the table)
• Empty wallet or piggy bank and sort coins
• Sort legos (blocks, cars, buttons, etc) in multiple
ways (color, size, shape)
• Flashcards
• Positional words (before, after, above, below,
etc)
Science
•We use Foss and Delta Science
Modules
• There are 3 units we cover
through the year
•Animals Two By Two
•How Do We Learn
•Finding the Moon
We use Handwriting Without Tears to teach letter and number
formation.
Students are asked to use a tripod grasp, use one dominant hand, hold
scissors correctly, and dress themselves.
How to help at home:
• Have students cut out coupons for you
• Play Doh
• Squirt Bottles
• Use tweezers or chop sticks to pick up items
• Play dress-up to practice buttoning, snapping, and
zipping
Students need to have prior knowledge to
relate to stories and write their own stories.
Places to go:
1. Zoo
2. Museum
3. Park
4. Farm
5. Sporting Events
6. Carnival
7. Library
8. Movie
Activities to do:
1. Chalk drawings
2. Puzzles
3. Board games
4. Baking
5. Play sports
6. Have a picnic
7. Read books
8. Try new foods