Welcome to Half Day Kindergarten 2015-2016

Mrs. Hansen’s Helping Hands

Room 4A

2nd StepSocial Skills Curriculum

•Skills for Learning•Empathy•Emotion Management•Problem Solving

Future Ready

• Complex Thinker• Quality Producer• Self Directed Learner• Responsible Decision Maker• Effective Communicator• Collaborative Teammate• Community Contributor• Conscientious Worker

Kindergarten Thinking Skills

· Observing Using your senses to learn about something in detail

 · Comparing/Contrasting Looking for similarities and differences · Sequencing Arranging things in an order · Classifying Grouping things by common

characteristics and assigning labels · Finding Patterns Detecting repetitions · Predicting Determining what will happen next 

Kindergarten Thinking Behaviors/Habits of Mind• · Persisting• • · Thinking Flexibility• • · Striving for Accuracy• • · Understanding and Empathy• • · Taking Responsible Risks• • · Managing Impulsivity• • · Gather Data Through the Senses• • · Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision• • · Responding with Wonderment and Awe• • · Finding Humor• • · Remains Open to Continuous Learning•

Math Fall Expectations

• Count to 30 • 1 to 1 correspondence to 10• Recognize #s 0 – 10 (out of order without

counting up from 1)• Identify 2 shapes (circle, square, triangle,

rectangle)• Writes numbers 1-5

Math Curriculum

• Math Expressions– Quick Practice– Math Talk– Student Leaders– Differentiated for All

Learners– Hands On

Math: What Can You Do?

• Play games that use counting and number recognition

• Sing math songs and chants• Play math games online• Play Thinkcentral games online when the

information comes home from school.

Reading• Shared: – Big Books– Word Wall

• Guided Reading– Begins in December– Read at home: begins in January– Home book at independent reading level

• Individual (mumble reading)– I Can Read Book– Memorized text okay– Kindergarten Sight Words

Reading: What Can You Do?• · Participate in PTSA Prrr Reading Program• Begins in October• 20 minutes a day/20 minutes a day• • · I Can Read Binder • Read to, with and by child• Point to each word as you read• Return binder every Monday

• Use Raz-Kids online.• • · Point under words in easy readers so child sees direction left to right and top to bottom• • · Look for sight words they know• • · Allow your child to use picture clues as they read. NEVER COVER UP THE PICTURES WHEN A CHILD IS LEARNING TO

READ!!!! This is not considered cheating.• • · Encourage child to retell story in own words. This develops comprehension.• • · Don’t focus on having child “sound out” words when reading. Often the child just hears a bunch of sounds, but the story

makes no sense.• • · Memorizing text develops fluency and confidence as a reader. Show you are proud of them when they “read” you a story

that is really memorized. Again, THIS IS NOT CHEATING!!!!• • · Help your child read their Read-At-Home book beginning in January. Read with them each time a book comes home.

Writing

• Targets That Build On Each Other– Detailed Drawings: Rubric 1,2,3,4– Beginning Sounds M D I C– Ending Sounds MI DG IZ CL– Sight Words My dog is cl– Middle Sounds My dog is cdl– Vowels My dog is cudle

• Move to lowercase letters• Narrative• Informational• Opinion

Writing: What Can I Do?

• When child draws picture, say “Tell me about your picture?”

• Have them hold pencil correctly.• Start with labels at first. Don’t worry about sentence

writing until November. • Stretch out word like a Slinky.• Encourage them to use ABC sheet, attached, to write

letters. Start letters at the starting spot.• Accept whatever they did. Underwrite in adult writing

what they dictate they wanted to say.

Integrated Kindergarten Units

Fall: Communities• Family, School, Neighborhood• Five Senses: Help us to learn about our world• Life Cycles of apple and pumpkin: Field trip to Pumpkin Patch Winter: Nutrition and Our World

• Food groups• Eating healthy• Continents and Oceans Environments: Spring

• Growing plants, frogs, chicks, butterflies• Field Trip to zoo-TBD

OTHER IMPORTANT DETAILS• Join PTSA! You get email updates of things

going on. Helping out is optional, but being aware of things going on at school is great.

• Buy Wildcat Cash.• Complete Volunteer Paperwork