BOOK BAG, HEADPHONES & MEMORY BOOK

** Kindergartners will need a book bag for their take home readers. Please send in $12.00 by next Friday to purchase one. These were not included in the school packs.

** Students will need a pair of headphones to use in class.  These were also not included in the school packs. Several students have already brought theirs in;  please send them in as soon as possible if you haven't already done so!

** Your child will be making a special book this year to capture our kindergarten memories.  This will include a monthly photograph of your child. Please send a $5.00 cash donation by next Friday to help defray the cost.

Thank you!

READING and WRITING SKILLS WE WILL LEARN in KINDERGARTEN

By the end of Kindergarten, students should be able to:

• Recognize and produce rhyming words

• Segment words in an oral sentence

• Segment words into syllables

• Segment and pronounce initial, medial and final phonemes in spoken CVC words

• Manipulate phonemes with additions or substitutions in one-syllable words

• Name all letters of the alphabet

• Write all manuscript letters in lowercase and uppercase

• Sequence letters of the alphabet

• Fluently produce sounds of consonants and short vowels when given the letter

• Fluently produce sounds for basic digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck)

• Name and write corresponding letter(s) when given sounds for consonants, consonant

    digraphs, and short vowels

• Distinguish long and short vowel sounds within words

• Read and spell approximately 200 CVC words 

• Spell other words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships

• Read and write our sight words

• Identify and name correct punctuation at end of sentence

• Capitalize words at beginning of sentences and names of people

• Name the author and illustrator of a story and define their roles

• Explain narrative story structure including character, setting and main events

• Use a combination of drawing and dictating to narrate linked events to tell about a story in  sequence

• Re-tell key details of narrative and informational text, using pictures or prompts as a guide

• Identify characters, settings and main events in a story, with pictures or other prompts

• Describe what happened in a story when given a specific illustration

• With prompts, compare and contrast the experiences of characters in two stories

• Explain difference between narrative and informational text

• Echo-read a passage with correct phrasing and expression

• Identify and explain new meanings for familiar words and newly taught words

• Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities

Curriculum Objectives

Language Arts: 

I can identify upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.  I can identify words that rhyme.

Math: 

I can read, write and represent numbers from 0 to 10.

Science: 

I can identify and sort objects by their properties of size, color, shape and texture. 

Social Studies: 

I can identify laws and explain why we have laws in the community. 

I can identify authority figures who help enforce the laws in the community.