Kindergarten - Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Strell

The Kindergarten children have been busy since day one getting into and practicing the school/classroom routines and procedures.   

The Kindergarteners have also been working on many concepts and skills.  In Religion they have been practicing making the sign of the cross properly and reciting prayers, following in Jesus’ footsteps by treating others with respect. In Reading they are identifying letters and the sounds they make at the beginning and at the end of words, building a word wall and practicing rhyming words.  In Math we are counting by ones and skip counting by 10’s, counting and naming sets with numbers, sorting sets, reading and extending patterns.  In Social Studies and Science we are learning about the seasons, observations of nature, life cycle of a pumpkin and about holidays and customs.  The children are also working on printing in proper form, coloring neatly and cutting. These are just a few of the MANY concepts/skills we are working on daily in class!
 

• Sign of the Cross and daily prayers…Focus on Hail Mary
• Bible stories
• The blessings of God’s world
• Importance of praying and different prayers

• 8 basic color words (red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, black, brown) and number words 0-10 (zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten)  
• Word wall words: here, I, am, the, to, a, and, it, he, she, you, an…practice daily
• Letter recognition (capital and lower case) and letter sounds
• Matching the capital letter to the lower case letter (example Hh)
• Continue to work with SuperKid Oswald and identify short vowel /o/ at the beginning and in the middle of words…some examples are ocelot, otter, octopus, cob, pot, hop
• Identify what the author, illustrator, narrator jobs are in a story
• Identify the genre of story (fiction vs. nonfiction)
• Identify character, setting and plot of story
• Good listening…look and listen to speaker quietly and wait for directions
• Identify different types of sentences…telling vs. asking
• Punctuation marks…period…exclamation mark…question mark…comma
• Identify proper nouns, nouns and adjectives

• Practice writing letters, numbers and shapes in proper form in pencil
• Practice writing first names correctly on lined paper
• Coloring neatly within the lines
• Cutting and pasting

• Practice counting, number recognition/formation, patterns and shape identification
• Model and count objects with number names and written numerals
• Count by 1’s and 10’s
• Read and extend a given pattern…AB pattern
• Identify and practice drawing basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle)
• Use five frames to model numbers using counters (counters are red and yellow circles)
• Math vocabulary words: equal to, greater than, less than, more, fewer, compare
• Practice one to one correspondence between two sets
• Listen to and solve addition and subtraction story problems
• Model number pairs in a five frame for a given number
• Put numbers in counting order
• Practice number words…match number words to number

• Practice reciting complete address and phone number
• School rules/routines and drills

• Discuss healthy choices in food and play
• Safety in the classroom and at recess/dismissal
• Fire Safety
• Columbus Day