Welcome

Kim DileEast Hanover Elementary

Kindergarten

I want my students to be as excited about coming to school as I am !

Typical Kindergarten Schedule• Morning work – attendance – jobs- Pledge of

Allegiance• Morning Meeting • Read aloud- Guided Reading• Specials: Music, Art, Phys. Ed., Library,

Computer• Handwriting Without Tears• Math Activities• Recess/Snack Time• Work Stations• Science/Social Studies Activities• Writing Workshop• Individualized Reading Groups• Dismissal

Class Meeting

• Daily Message

• Calendar – Counting Routines

• Daily Graphing

• Rhyme of the Day

• Songs and Movement

• Sharing

• Daily Agenda/Schedule

• Poems – Shared Reading/Writing

The Big 5 of Kindergarten Literacy*

1. Phonological awareness (strong predictor of future reading success)

2. Alphabetic principle-ability to associate sounds with letters and use these sounds to form words.

3. Oral language4. Early reading behaviors – check the picture,

look at the beginning letters, and get mouth ready, say a word that starts with the correct sound and makes sense

5. Writing

LiteracyStudents 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:

• To hear environmental sounds

• To recognize how words sound (same, different, rhyme)

• To differentiate letters/words/sentences

• To segment words in sentences

• To hear small units of words (syllables, onset rime)

• To finally segment at the phoneme level

(2 phoneme words, 3 phoneme words

• To manipulate and delete phonemes

Literacy cont’d

• Printing first and last name (Uppercase/Lowercase)

• Identifying and printing uppercase and lowercase letters

• Identifying sounds heard in words-phonemic awareness

• Associating letters with their sounds-phonics• Creating words and sentences using Kid writing, shared writing, independent

writing (journals)

• Recognizing and writing sight words (30)

• Reading-

– Big Books – Shared Reading

– Guided Reading (leveled books take home packs)

– Automaticity – letter naming, sight words, letter sounds

Handwriting Without Tears 

• Handwriting Without Tears is a developmentally-based method of teaching that makes handwriting easy to teach.

• Jan Olsen, an occupational therapist, developed this program for children struggling with the formation of letters.

• The purpose of this program is to make handwriting available to all children as an automatic, natural skill.

• Children who write well and easily do better in school, enjoy their classes more and feel proud of themselves.

• This comprehensive, easy-to-use curriculum appeals to administrators, teachers and parents.

• 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

• Number s, Number Systems and Relationships• Computation and Estimation• Measurement and Estimation• Mathematical Reasoning and Connections• Mathematical Problem Solving and

Communication• Statistics, Data Analysis • Probability and Predictions• Algebra and Functions• Geometry• Trigonometry (Identify triangles and discuss how

they are alike and different)• Calculus (order numbers 0-20 from least to

greatest value)

Mathematics con’t

Learning Goals:

• Identifying, naming, and printing numerals 0 -20

• Rote counting 1-100• Counting objects with 1:1 correspondence (30)• Recognizing halves and wholes

• Recognizing coins by name (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)

• Sorting and classifying objects according to more than one attribute

• Participating in oral number stories and using drawings and objects to solve addition and subtraction problems.

• Identifying, reproducing, describing, and creating patterns

• Identifying time on the hour

• Naming, and describing, two-dimensional shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder, and cone)

• Performing simple data collection and graphing

• Measuring using non- standard units

Social Studies• Developing concepts of self and

others (appearance, family, celebrations)

• Learning significance of important people, places, and holidays

• Learning school rules, class rules, and individual responsibilities

Science

• Naming the four seasons and

stating typical characteristics of

each

• Trees

• Animals two by two

• Balls and Ramps

Recommended Websites• Literacy

– Website to explore literacy with the help of children’s favorite characters• www.pbskids.org/stories• www.scholastic.com/kids/playground

– Learn-to-read website primarily designed for pre-kindergarten through second grade

• www.starfall.com

• Mathematics– Comprehensive pre-kindergarten through sixth grade math program

• www.everydaymath.uchicago.edu• www.harcourt math.org

• Science– Official site for the inquiry-based science curriculum

• www.fossweb.com– A unique award-winning health, science, and technology site

• www.brainpop.com

• Social Studies– Children's educational websites and games designed to capture the imagination while

maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment• www.enchantedlearning.com