WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN

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WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN
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Morning Meetings

• Greeting song/handshake/getting to know you
  activity
• Message this includes the goal of the day
• Activity sometimes this is a getting to know
  you activity or has curriculum tied to it (ie
  number game)

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READING LANGUAGE ARTSKindergarten readers
and writers focus on building a solid foundation
of readiness skills.

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5 Literacy Practices

• Read to self
• Read the Pictures
• Read the Words
• Retell the Story
• Read to Someone
• Listen to Reading
• Work on Writing
• Spelling/Word Work
• ___________________
• Lets Build Stamina!

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KindergartenSmall Groups Structure

• Oral Word Games (Phonemic Awareness)
• Letter of the Week (Jolly Phonics)
• Phonemic Awareness Activity
• Sight Word Activity
• Leveled Reading
• Writing

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Phonemic Awareness

• Main focus is on phonemes/sounds
• Deals with spoken language
• Mostly auditory
• Deals with manipulating sounds and sounds in
  words
• Involves hearing and playing with language
• c-a-t

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Phonics

• Main focus is on graphemes/letters and their
  corresponding sounds
• Deals with written language/print
• Both visual and auditory
• Deals with reading and writing letters according
  to their sounds and spelling patterns
• Seeing the text representing the language and
  play with it

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5 Basic Skills of Jolly Phonics

• 1. Learning the letter sounds
• 2. Letter formation
• 3. Blending
• 4. Identifying sounds in words
• 5. Word wall words

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Letter Sounds
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Digraphs
(two letters making one sound)
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Storylines and Actions

• Learning the /s/ sound
• Action
• Weave your hand like a
• snake, making an s
• shape, saying ssssss

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Letter Formation

• On the board modelling
• In the air large motor practice
• On paper
• (white boards, paper, handwriting books, homework)

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Pencil Hold

• Tripod grip
• Froggy legs
• Go and Stop Fingers

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Examples Letter Sounds
Group 1
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Blending Words
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Kindergarten Reading Learning Targets

• recognize all the letters sounds
• be able to blend sounds together to make words
• recognize our 51 popcorn sight words
• identify rhyming words
• understand sequencing,
• predicting,
• realism/fantasy,
• main idea,
• details

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Independent WritingKindergarten writers use
developmental spelling.

• Children need to know
• What they want to say and recall it
• The sounds they hear in the word
• The letters that make those sounds
• One way of writing the letters for
• the sounds they hear
• How to form the letters they want to write

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Beginning of the year writing
End of the year writing

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What can you do at home to help?

• read to with your child every day
• ask questions and listen to your childs response
• encourage eye contact when talking to each other
• give 2 or 3 step directions
• play word games
• play I Spy
• point out rhyming words
• encourage chopping words into individual
• sounds when writing
• express that learning is fun work at the
• same time!

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Kindergarten Math Learning Targets

• Counts to tell the number of objects
• Identifies numbers
• Counts sequentially
• Prints numbers 0 20 legibly
• Compares numbers
• Understands addition and subtraction
• Composes and decomposes numbers 11-19
• Describes and compares measurable attributes
• Classifies objects counts the number of objects
  in each category
• Identifies, Compares, Contrasts and Creates shapes

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What will we be doing in Math?

• SUBITIZING (instantly seeing how many)
• Learning to make connections between
• verbal Three
• symbolic 3
• Quantitative E

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What can you do at home to help?

• Encourage your child to
• count everyday objects
• count forward and backwards
• look for numbers everywhere
• make and notice patterns
• sort toys, clothes, objects
• talk about how she solves problems

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Science
Properties Trees Animals (mammals, birds, fish,
reptiles, amphibians) Health Five Senses
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Social Studies
Citizenship Me How to get along / Solve
problems Rules/Routines Friendship My
Neighborhood Needs and Wants Traditions /
Holidays
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• Assessing
• Illinois standards based report card
• 2 times a year informal report card
• 2 times a year formal report card
• constantly doing informal assessment to
  adjust teaching
• (Sign up for a conference
• ti tonight in lobby!)

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Please fill out the last 2 pages of the Nuts
and Bolts packet! Want to volunteering? Sign
up tonight or ONLINE! (see below) Questions?
Fill out a form! http//www.dg58.org/Page/8236
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Thank you for coming to curriculum night and
supporting your childs education and school!