Wilbur Elementary School Kindergarten Blog

We had an exciting first two weeks of Kindergarten. We have been reviewing our letters, numbers, and colors.

We have been exploring the materials that we will use throughout the year in Math and we are beginning  to count. On Monday we will start our Reading, Writing, and Social Studies curriculum.

There is a lot to learn this year and we are off to a great start!

Here is an overview of what we will be learning the 1st marking period.

Reading                                                                                                                                    Focus Skill: Making Predictions and Characters                                     High Frequency Words: I, a, my, the, go                                                               Letters and Sounds: m, s, t, n, p, c

Writing                                                                                                                        Names and Punctuation

Math                                                                                                                                 Counting and Comparing

Social Studies                                                                                                                   Following Rules

Science                                                                                                                              Trees

Here are some things that you can practice with your child over the summer so that they come to school confident and ready to learn. We will be working on these skills during the year but it will give your child a head start if they have already spent time with you practicing them.

*Recognizing all upper and lowercase letters.

*Writing name.

*Writing numbers and letters.

*Recognizing numbers 0-20.

*Counting objects up to 20.

*Cutting and gluing projects.

*Recognizing shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, trapezoid, cylinder, hexagon, and rhombus(diamond)).

*Recognizing colors.

Welcome to our Kindergarten Edublog!  We are so happy you decided to visit.  We invite you to look around, to find out about our curriculum and to learn more about us! Click on the links above to visit the other pages. You are your child’s most important teacher, and together we will make this school year a success! We are excited to meet you and get to know you and your family. We are going to have a great year in Kindergarten. Your child will make a lot of new friends and will learn all kinds of exciting things. We  look forward to meeting you in August!

Enjoy your visit and come back again, because we will be adding more throughout the school year!
The Kindergarten Team

It is amazing that the 2009-2010 school year has come to a close. Your children have learned so much! They are reading, writing, and evening beginning to solve addition and subtration problems. We are so proud all the progress they made this year.

Please continue to have your child practice the skills that were taught this year. Below are some things you can do with your child over the summer to help keep what they learned fresh in their minds.

*Set aside at least 15 minutes a day for reading. This can be your child reading to you and you reading to your child. Create a special reading area in your child’s room. Put a special pillow or stuffed animal in this area. Make sure the area has good lighting. Have books available for your child in this cozy area. Remember to check out your local library to bring home new and interesting books.

*Check out the great websites listed on our Websites page!!

* Use our high frequency word list and go on a word hunt, write, play games like memory, etc . Check cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines, flyers, etc. and see how many times the popcorn words appear! (I, a, my, the, go, to , he, come, here, this, me for, where, do, you, look, one, see, what, two, up, down, we, want, out, who, are, they, she, good, and, give, little, that, have, there)

* Have your child practice writing. You can have them write lists, journal about a great trip or special day, write a letter to someone and mail it, etc.

* Check out stores like the Dollar Tree and Walmart to find inexpensive items such as crayons, markers, stickers, special paper, etc. to keep in the house for fun activities. Your children are so creative! You might even find them trying to teach you something they learned this year.

This is about spending time with your child, having fun together, and teaching your child that learning is FUN!!! Enjoy!

Reading/Language Arts

Phonemic Awareness

• Initial Sounds, Isolation Sounds (Final Sounds) and Medial Sounds  - Students will listen and be able to tell what the first, middle and last sound they heard in each word.
• Phoneme Segmentation – bat (b-a-t)
• Blending sounds (et, ed, en, eg)
• Review /v/ v,
• Introduce consonant Jj

High Frequency/Popcorn Words

• Introduce words up, down, want, out, who, are, they, she, good

Comprehension

• Main Idea
• Reality/Fantasy
• Review: Answer Questions, Setting

Writing

• Describing person, place, thing
• Dialogue
• story

Math

• Relating 2-D Shapes to Real-World Objects
• Describing the Attributes of Circles, Rectangles, Triangles
• Developing Language to Describe and Compare 2-D Shapes and Their Attributes
• Relating 3-D Objects to 2-D Pictures of 3-D Shapes
• Exploring Geoblocks and their Attributes
• Combining 3-D Shapes to Make a Given 3-D Shape
• Matching a 3-D Block to a 2-D Outline of One of the Block Faces

Science

• 5 Senses

Social Studies

• Looking At People