What does a kindergarten schedule look like?

Key Points:

• Students have a 40 minute specials block (possible specials - P.E., music, art, STEAM, library, computers).
• Science and Social Studies is infused throughout the school day.

Examples of Routines for the Workshop Classroom

Classroom Routines (Teacher Action)

• Establish guidelines for Readers and Writers Workshop and Learning Centers
• Ask students to create positive worded classroom rules, rewards, and consequences
• Encourage accountable talk
• Manage independent reading

Classroom Routines (Student Action)

• Discuss a book by taking turns
• Keep noise at an appropriate level
• Know what to do if the student needs help and the teacher is working with another student
• Understand how to use various classroom work areas and centers
• Respect the learning of others

Writing Workshop (Teacher Action)

• Establish student writing folders
• Teach students how to use frequently encountered words
• Teach students how to store finished writing projects
• Provide writing references and resources
• Encourage student choice
• Teach writing as a process
• Set up peer conferences
• Encourage students to use word walls as a resource when writing

Reading Workshop (Teacher Action)

• Teach students how to choose just right appropriate books
• Model the expectations for independent reading
• Establish a reader’s notebook
• Model how to talk about books with a partner

What does a report card look like?

What learning standards are expected of a kindergartener?

How can families help prepare their children for the rigors of kindergarten?

Reading

What does a kindergarten text look like?

By the end of kindergarten, most students will be reading books with 2 lines of text with words that repeat and have a different word at the end that they need to use the pictures and letters/sounds to figure out. (This is a at a Level D, or Rigby 5-6, text.) Kindergarten reading is focused on mastering letters and sounds, memorizing high-frequency words, blending 3 and 4- letter words, and being able to use picture clues and letter-sound knowledge to read unknown words.

Math

What does a Kindergarten math problem look like?

By the end of kindergarten students are expected to be able to count to 100 from any given number, write and identify numbers 0-20, add and subtract up to 10, identify and name basic 2D and 3D shapes, understand tens and ones up to 20, compare numbers and groups, decompose numbers up to 10, solve word problems, and compare and categorize items.

Below is an example question for each standard domain for kindergarten mathematics.