Welcome to Curriculum NightOpen House

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A Typical Day in Kindergarten

at Memorial-Spaulding

Good Morning!

The children arrive at school by bus or car and get

themselves ready for the day.

Allowing the children to do things by themselves

encourages their independence and gives them

a sense of pride.

Daily jobs such as signing in and

answering the question of the day foster

responsibility and create a sense of community.

Morning Routine

Having a consistent arrival-time routine helps the children

transition from home to classroom.

Morning MeetingWe start each day with a greeting, share, activity and reading a morning message. This will also be a time

to implement our anti-bullying curriculum called Open Circle.

The Kindergarten Literacy Block

Shared Reading

During shared reading, the teacher and children read big books and poems.

During guided reading, teachers work with

students to guide them in using their emerging

reading strategies. By using books that

gradually increase in difficulty, students work at their own levels and

feel very successful! The end goal is for students to

become confident, proficient readers who

LOVE to read!(WE WON’T START THIS UNTIL LATE JANUARY OR

EARLY FEBRUARY)

Guided Reading

Interactive Writing

This is a time we share the marker, tap out sounds, and write important labels to use in the classroom.

Workboard/Literacy Centers

Workboard/literacy centers provides meaningful reading and writing

experiences as students work to apply skills and strategies learned during

shared and guided reading lessons.

Typical workboard/literacy center jobs may be the ABC, writing, listening, poetry, science, and

reading around the room.

Multi-sensory activities promote phonics, phonemic awareness and handwriting

skills.

FundationsStudents experience the joy in

being able to manipulate sounds and letters to create and read

words.

Writing WorkshopChildren have a lot to say about the world and they can express themselves on paper through inventive spelling

and drawing.

Writing Workshop builds on the children’s strengths, provides

meaningful, structured opportunities to write, exposes them to beautiful

literature and actively teaches the skills and strategies that writers need.

Snack/Lunch

Kindergarteners eat snack in their classrooms. Kindergartners eat lunch in the cafeteria. Some students buy lunch, while others bring it from home. Lunchtime is a great opportunity for

students to talk and build social skills.

Recess

Children learn important social skills on the playground. Recess helps to develop skills such as

cooperating, helping, sharing, and problem solving.

MathKindergartners participate in the Everyday Mathematics and the Kathy Richardson

program.

The children do many hands-on activities involving counting, numeration,

measurement, geometry, sorting, adding subtracting

and data collecting.

Science and Social StudiesKindergartners explore and discover the things and people

around them and make connections between their own personal lives and the larger world around them. In science

some of the the things we study are, ladybugs, bulbs, the engineering of blocks, sand and water. Our social studies units are, seasons, All about Me, families, and important

people, dates, and holidays throughout the year.

TechnologyKindergartners will be given the chance to explore and use computers and IPads for different projects – creating and

writing stories and making thinking visible in math.

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Special ClassesEach week the kindergartners go to

Art, P.E., Music and Library.

Choice TimeDuring choice time the kindergartners have a chance to develop social skills. They practice teamwork, taking turns and problem solving.

We’re looking forward to a great year!

Reading LogDay Title of Book Who did you

read with?Parent Initials

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Why can’t I skip my 20 mins of reading?

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