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Please select from the following information to review Kindergarten Curriculum and Academic Information:
Religion Program
Faith Formation Philosophy
We believe:
- Faith is both a gift from God and free response to
God.
- Faith includes an intellectual understanding of doctrine
and a conversion of the heart.
- Faith grows and develops throughout all of life.
- Faith is something to be lived and is lived best in
community.
- Being a person of faith means looking at our actions
and the world in a different way than others who are
not people of faith do. We see things through the
eyes of faith.
Language Arts Program Skills Overview
| Phonic Awareness |
- Rhyming words
- Beginning sounds
- Syllables in spoken
words
- Blending onset and rime
Ex. /c/+/at/
- Blending phonemes
- Segmenting phonemes
Ex. /m/+/a/+/p/= map
- Phoneme substitution Ex. cap becomes tap by
substituting /t/ for /c/
Position of sounds in words
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| Comprehension
Skills |
- Compare and
Contrast
- Noting Details
- Inferences
- Making Predictions
- Summarize
- Story Structure:
- Character
- Setting
- Beginning
- Middle
- End
- Drawing Conclusions
- Cause and effect
- Plot
- Fantasy/realism
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| Concepts of Print |
- Directionality:
- Left to right
- Top to bottom
- Return sweep
- Capital at the
beginning of a
sentence
- End punctuation (.?!)
- Word Spacing
- Match spoken words to
print
- Distinguish difference
between a letter, word
and a sentence
- First and last letter in a
written word
- Quotation marks
- Recognize use of all
CAPS
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| Writing |
- Shared Writing
- Lists
- Descriptions
- Observations
- Stories
- Notes
- Friendly
letters
- Interactive
Writing
- Sentences
- Friendly
letters
- Class stories
- Rhymes
- Poetry
- Independent
Writing
• Genre
- Simple stories
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| Oral Language |
- Use describing
words
- Use exact naming
words
- Use singular and
plural naming
words
- Use action words
- Use position words
- Use rhyming
words
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Reading Strategies
Remember to ask the magic words: “Do you
want think time or do you want coaching?”
- Look at the picture, and get your mouth ready
to say the word.
- Take a running start (reread the sentence).
- Skip the word, and come back to it.
- Break the word into parts.
- Sound out the word.
- Does it make sense? Does it look right? Does it
sound right?
- Ask someone (the last thing you do).
*Reading strategies can be used in any order.
Early Numeracy and Mathematical Thinking
Children are curious, active learners
who have individual interests, abilities
and needs. Early mathematical thinking
is intuitive and constructivist in nature
and develops as children experience the
world around them. Early numeracy
focuses on helping children connect
their natural learning with the
conventional language and processes of
mathematics. They learn to construct
their own meaning of mathematics and
use mathematics to help them make sense of their world.
We are using Investigatons in Number, Data, and Space developed by TERC in Cambridge, MA. The material is based on work
supported by the National Science Foundation.
The math curriculum at the Kindergarten level is organized
into three specific Curriculum Focal Points. These focal
points are Number and Operations, Geometry, and
Measurement. A workbook accompanying the entire
curriculum for Kindergarten contains the consumable
pages for student work, including in-class work, game
recording sheets, and all pages for daily practice and for
homework.
Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
will include the following units at the
Kindergarten level:
- Who is in School Today?:
Classroom routines and materials
- Counting and Comparing:
Measurement and the Number System 1
- What Comes Next?:
Pattern and Functions
- Measuring and Counting:
Measurement and the Number System 2
- Make a Shape, Build a Block:
2-D and 3-D Geometry
- How Many Do You Have?:
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System
- Sorting and Surveys:
Data Analysis
Click here to view a presentation which explains the Investigations program.
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