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| Kindergarten Curriculum |
| Communications |
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In Kindergarten, Communications is a broard term, which includes Shared Reading, Guided Reading, Read Alouds, Phonemic Awareness activities, and Kidwriting. |
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Shared Reading provides the opportunity for teachers to select text with specific instructional obectives in mind. Shared Reading may be done with big books and predictable text. Often after reading, students complete a book related activity. |
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| Guided Reading allows the students to work in small groups according to similar reading abilities. The students are first guided through the reading with the teacher and then practice the text independently both in school and at home. |
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| Read Aloud is a time where the teacher reads from a highly motivating text that has a great story line and interesting words. The purpose of read alouds are to build vocabulary, background knowledge and build listening skills in students. Read alouds are for the mere pleasure of reading. |
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| Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken words. These skills help children learn to read, spell, and write. We teach this through rhyme, rhythm and repitition of familiar songs, poems, games and predictable stories. | |
| Kidwriting Your child will also be doing KidWriting. We will keep a journal that will include your child's writing about his/her own experiences and things that they enjoy. Students learn handwriting skills, spacing, capitalization and sentence structure. | |
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Our Math program is called Everyday Mathematics for Kindergarten. It is a hands-on based program. The purpose of Everyday Mathematics is to show children how math is used in everyday situations. Your child will learn new concepts by playing games, singing songs and using math manipulatives. Your child will be introduced to concepts such as counting, numeration, measurement, geometry, patterns and graphing. Classroom routines such as keeping track of the days of school on a number line and chart, graphing weather conditions, and calendar activities all give children real life opportunities to develop a variety of mathematics skills. |
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