Reading
We will spend the first 28 days learning the alphabet letters and sounds. In order for us to learn to read, we must first have a quick introduction of all letters. By the end of the 28 days we will have learned the letter name, main sound, and will have practiced writing the letters. As the year proceeds we will continue working on these sounds, and blending them into simple as well as more complex words.
Hunks and Chunks
The students not only need to know the 26 sounds in order to read, but must also learn additional sounds that they will see while reading and use while writing. We will learn a variety of sounds by learning different "songs" and rhymes to help us remember the sounds. This will be hard work, but we will learn a lot of sounds to help us become readers!
Hight Frequency Words
Each week we will be introduced to 5 new high frequency words. I will send these words home at the end of each previous week. We will play games and sing songs to help us recognize these words. Many of the words have spelling patterns, including hunks and chunks, that help them be decodable. We will discuss these as we learn them. These words are important to practice and know in order to become fluent readers.
Writing
Our year will start with drawing pictures and adding labels to our drawings. This is an important first step in the writing process, and will be great practice until we learn more sounds to add to our writing.
Math
We will start our year by practicing our counting. The goal for kindergarten is that students can count to 100 by 1's and 10's. Although August and September will focus on counting to twenty. The students can practice rote counting, which is simply counting aloud. They will also practice one-to-one correspondence where they have a group of items and touch and count the items. This is a wonderful and easy skill to practice at home as well! Have your child count anything and everything.
Theme
We will begin by discussing colors and shapes during our theme time. These are simple introductory items that help us know basic information for the whole year.
We will then have a week long theme of "Me and My Family". To help us get to know our classmates better we will spend the week learning about our class friends.
Finally, our September will end with a study of apples! We will get to be chefs and make some apple sauce and enjoy other apple treats! This will be a really fun two weeks for the students!
We will then have a week long theme of "Me and My Family". To help us get to know our classmates better we will spend the week learning about our class friends.
Finally, our September will end with a study of apples! We will get to be chefs and make some apple sauce and enjoy other apple treats! This will be a really fun two weeks for the students!
This year is going to be filled with so many wonderful learning opportunities! I am truly excited to see what fun we can have learning and becoming our best selves. I will do my best to keep you updated as we move through these topics, but please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have regarding any concepts that we are covering.