- H. W. Mountz Elementary School
- Welcome
- Curriculum Goals
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Phonics/Phonemic Awareness and Reading Readiness SkillsWelcome to Kindergarten! Working with letters, sounds and wordsFirst and Second SemestersWe are learning how to read a book in Kindergarten.There are many ways to do this!We are learning to:- recognize capital and lower case letters
- letters make up words....like our names!
- every letter makes a special sound
- there are words called "sight words" that we don't have to sound out (they pop up all over the place, so we need to know them lickety split!)
- we are all readers
- THE BIG IDEA: READING IS THINKING!
Readers Build Good Habits:Good readers:- make predictions about the stories they read
- take picture walks to find clues
- notice a writers special way of telling a story...does he use repeating lines? does he draw really cool pictures?
- make connections with the characters in a story book, when we make a connection we may say...that reminds me of.....
- re-tell stories...when we re-tell a story it helps us to understand it better!
- we can re-tell a story by thinking about the characters. Where did the story take place? What happened first? What happened next? What happened after that? How did it end?
Non-Fiction in KindergartenLast semester
The big idea for kindergartners is: We read nonfiction books to learn about a special topic. Nonfiction books teach us about our world.Student Strategies:When I read a nonfiction book I can:-
take a picture walk
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I can ask myself: What is this book trying to teach me?
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I can stop, think and wonder about what I'm learning
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I knew....I wondered...I learned...
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I can notice all the photographs and imagine them in my mind
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I can share what I learned by saying:
1. Wow! I learned...2. That's so cool.....3. I never knew........
MathWhat we are learning: First and Second Semesters- How to write numbers 1 to 20
- How to count groups of objects up to 10
- How to put numbers in order 1-20
- How to count by 10's
- How to count to 100!
- Compare numbers....is it less than? greater than or equal?
- Add numbers...the word plus means to join together.
- Recognize number patterns...like doubles, and the plus one and plus zero rule.
Last semester:We will be adding and subtracting numbers.We will be studying Geometry:
We will learn how to analyze, compare, and create shapes.Curriculum Quick Links:
www.corestandards.org