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Welcome to Beginner’s Night!

Helping your child become a Bobcat!

Daily Schedule…

8:00-3:00: Instructional Day (7 hours)

2 hours of Literacy: Shared Reading, Writing, Word

Work, and Independent Reading.

2 hours of math (Investigations and workshop)

45 min. of Science/Social Studies

45 min. of Specials: Art, P.E. Music, Media,

Computer

30 min. of Lunch; 30 min. of Physical Activity

3 Basic Rules

Be a learner.

Be safe.

Be respectful.

Ready to Read!

Before starting Kindergarten in August:

Write their name

Identify capital and lowercase letters

Can read some sounds

Learning to Read

First we learn Letter I.D. Next we learn the

sounds

Learning to Read…

Then we’ll use the

sounds we’ve learned to

blend .

c a n

Over the course of the year we

will be learning many new sight

words. Sight words are words

your child will recognize

immediately, without having to

sound them out.

C A N

Leveled Readers…

Leveled readers are books designed to match a child to the reading level that suits their ability.

Each classroom has 2 hours of literacy per day, where students are receiving instruction in Balanced Literacy: Reading, Writing, Shared Reading, and Word Work.

No matter where your child starts, we will meet them where they are, and go on from there.

Leveled Readers…

Leveled Reader: C is where kindergarten students

are expected to be by the end of the year.

This type of text has 1-2 sentences per page. The

pages will have a lot of sight words, and then some

words they will need to decode.

Stages of Writing…

Scribbling Marks on paper represent an

idea.


Letter-like

symbols

Identifiable picture and letters are

imitated.


Strings of

letters

Writes some letters, but not

matching most sounds.


Beginning

Sounds

Uses the beginning sound to

represent a word. Writes left to

right and often reverses letters.


Consonants

represent

words

Include beginning and ending

sounds and some vowels. Uses

sight words correctly.


Initial, Middle,

and Final

Sounds

Writes more than one sentence

with spaces between words.

“Readable” writing.


Transitional Writing is “readable”. Uses

phonetic spelling for unfamiliar

words. Uses capitals and

periods correctly.

Young Mathematicians!

Before starting Kindergarten in August it would be

helpful for your child to know the following:

Identify and write the numbers 1-10

Count from 1-10

Colors

Basic Shapes (square, triangle, circle, rectangle)

Math Summed Up…

Our math framework includes five main categories:

Number Sense

Patterns, Relationships, & Functions

Geometry, & Measurement

Data Analysis

Numerical & Algebraic Operations

Number Sense…

It’s more then just counting!

Number relationships

Ordering numbers

Count accurately from any starting point

Counting backwards

End of Year Expectation: Count, Write & Recognize 1-30

Count backwards from 10

Ordinal numbers 1-10 (First, Second, Third, etc…)

Patterns, Relationships, & Functions…

Patterns are something we see in everyday life, and

they help kindergarteners understand the underlying

structure of things.

Patterns also help us make predictions about what

will come next.

Student Patterns…

AB pattern, where the student

has identified the UNIT in the

pattern (the part of the pattern

that repeats).

AABB pattern, the top portion

was completed as a class, the

bottom independently.

Geometry & Measurement…

Shape, size , attributes. We are

not only learning about shapes,

but how shapes make up other

shapes, and objects in our

world.

Measuring and describing in

non-standard units. Here we

used snap cubes to measure

ourselves!

Data Analysis

For data analysis, we complete

class, and individual graphs.

We also use the calendar

throughout the year, and track

the weather.

We also take many

surveys, and create our own to

collect data on our peers.

Numerical & Algebraic Operations…

Students will be able to

use various operations

to solve problems.

We add and subtract in

traditional, and non-

traditional ways.

Any Questions?

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