Kindergarten

Reading Kindergartners spend much of their time building a solid background in the basic skills of reading. This year students will be introduced to systematic, explicit phonics; build a sight word vocabulary; and develop comprehension strategies and skills that will enable them to become strong readers. Kindergartners with support will learn about character, setting, and major events in a story. Kindergartners learn concepts about print. Teacher-guided book activities will expose children to parts of a book, story sequencing and rhyming patterns. They will learn that print is read from top to bottom and left to right. They will also learn one to one correspondence and how words are put together to make sentences. Kindergartners will learn how to retell stories using a beginning, middle, and end. Kindergartners will develop sound discrimination skills. Kindergartners will learn how to distinguish the individual sounds of our language (phonemic awareness). They will also learn how sounds are manipulated to make words. Kindergartners will be able to isolate and pronounce the initial, middle, and final sounds in three letter words. Kindergartners will develop sight word vocabulary. Kindergartners will build a vocabulary of sight words. Some of these words are irregular and cannot be decoded phonetically (sounded out). Students will practice these words daily. This practice will reinforce skills introduced in school. Kindergartners will develop comprehension strategies and skills. Kindergartners will learn strategies that will help them monitor their understanding while reading. Teachers will model using these strategies with varied selections of literature. Kindergartners will learn how to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.		Writing Writing goes hand in hand with reading. Learning to write manuscript letters from left to right reinforces the skills students are learning in their reading curriculum. Kindergartners practice writing letters. Kindergartners will learn to write each letter of the alphabet, upper and lower case. The neatness of the writing will depend on the development of their fine motor skills (how well he/she controls the pencil). Kindergartners write the sounds they hear. Kindergartners will write their own stories using “temporary” spelling based on the sounds they can hear in the words they are writing. In the beginning, they will probably not hear vowel sounds or blends. They will add to their story with drawings. Kindergartners learn to hear and write consonant sounds and vowel sounds. Children will first hear and write consonant sounds at the beginning and end of words. Later, students will begin to add vowel sounds when writing words. Kindergartners learn how to write sentences. KIndergartners learn Upper and Lower Case letters and their sounds. Kindergartners learn to put a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, to leave a space between each word and to show that sentences are finished by putting a period after the last word.

Mathematics Major Concepts • Number sense with numbers through 30 • Counting objects • Days of the week • Months of the year • Basic Shapes • Creating and extending patterns • Sorting and classifying

Student Links

● Scholastic Learning At Home

http://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
This free resource provides your children with 20 days of exciting articles and stories, videos,
and fun learning challenges. Children can complete them anytime, in any order. They can work
on their own or together with you and your family!

● ABC Ya

https://www.abcya.com/
Pre-K-6 resource for fun games to practice math and literacy skills!

● Star Fall

https://www.starfall.com/h/
Pre-K-3 resources for fun games to practice math and literacy skills!

● KidLit TV
https://kidlit.tv/
KidLit TV team has created a virtual library of FREE read aloud, drawing & writing tutorials,
podcasts, art activities and reading resources for kids.

● Storyline Online
https://www.storylineonline.net/
Books read online by famous people- listen and retell the stories from beginning to end

● Cincinnati Zoo
Must watch this resource via Facebook, you can watch each day at 3pm
Cincinnati Zoo to start 'Home Safari Facebook Live' to keep kids learning during their time
off. Each day they will highlight one of our amazing animals and include an activity you can do
at home.

● 30 Virtual Field Trips
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDsoGlkgE3iExmi3qh2KRRku_w/pr
eview?fbclid=IwAR06VGJBNsflQ-bW_yTSpmhYb_Ja9FlpTehvB-ojhTknwcVaHQV-Mh6-lRY
A google doc of virtual field trips for kids to explore.

● ABC Mouse
https://www.abcmouse.com/abt/homepage?8a08850bc2=T2551891482.1584362471.5784
This website is for ages 2-8 and will give parents 30 days free

Ms. Jamie Williams - Teacher

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Mrs. Andrea Patrick - Teacher ssistant

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Mrs. Katy Willis - Teacher

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Mrs. Heather Smith - Teacher Assistant

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Mrs. Heather Johnson - K-1 Combo Teacher

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Mrs. Sheila Stone -TeacherAssistant

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