We welcome all of you to the new academic year at HUBS!

1. HUBS • We welcome all of you to the new academic year at HUBS! • We are excited to have your children in our school; it will be fun for them to learn so many new things and fun for us to prepare them for their successful future. • Our goals for the 2009/2010 school year: • To know each student’s individual potential and to guide them with academic lessons in order to establish a strong foundation. • It will take time, patience, and encouragement from both school and home to achieve our goals. • Your continued cooperation and support is greatly valued. • My colleagues and I will show you step by step the academic plan. At the end of our presentation we will answer any questions you may have.

2. S H C O L O Welcome to PreK!!!

3. Language Arts Oral Skills Phonics Reading Writing

4. Build vocabulary Communicate needs Participate in group conversation Share ideas and experiences Oral Skills

5. Recognize initial sounds Identify letters and sounds Phonics

6. Guesses what a story is about using book illustrations Identifies beginning and ending of stories Aware of settings, characters, and sequence of events. Reading

7. Develop fine motor skills Develop eye/hand coordination Scribble and draw Trace shapes and lower case letters Writing

8. Math Counting & Numbers Geometry Patterns Measurement

9. Recognizing Numbers Counting a set Constructing a set Counting & Numbers

10. Naming and Matching Shapes Completion of Rotated Figures Geometry

11. Identifying and Describing Patterns Pattern Extension Patterns

12. Comparison of Length Measurement

13. Science Life Science Earth Science

14. The Five Senses Living Nonliving Life Science

15. Weather The Sky Seasonal Apparel Earth Science

17. Welcome to KG1!!!

18. At HUBS we follow a highly organized, integrated curriculum which covers the following basic skills: Language Arts Math Science

19. Language Arts Oral Skills Phonics Reading Writing

20. Oral Skills Build vocabulary Follow oral directions Answer questions Participate in group discussions Communicate needs Share ideas and experience

21. Phonics Identify letter names and sounds Recognize that words are made up of a series of sounds Introduce rhyme and rhythm Match words with the same beginning sound

22. Reading Guess what a story is about using book title and illustrations Predict what might happen next in a story Learn story elements: setting, characters, and sequence of events Identify beginning and ending of story Follow print from left to right

23. Writing Develop fine motor skills Develop eye/hand coordination Scribble and draws Trace shapes, numerals, and letters; upper and lower case Print own name from left to right Draw pictures to illustrate a story

24. Math Numbers and Operations Algebra Geometry Measurement Reasoning

25. Numbers and Operations Count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects Connect number words and numerals to the quantity Develop a sense of whole numbers by composing and adding Understand various meanings of addition

26. Algebra Sort, classify, and order objects by size, number, and other properties Recognize, describe, and extend patterns Analyze how growing patterns are generated

27. Geometry Recognize, name, build, draw, compare, and sort two dimensional shapes Describe attributes and parts of two dimensional shapes Create images of geometric shapes

28. Measurement Recognize the attributes of length, volume, weight, area, and time Compare and order objects according to these attributes Understand how to measure using standard and nonstandard units

29. Reasoning Sort and classify objects according to their attributes and organize data about the objects Represent data using concrete objects, pictures, and graphs Describe parts of the data

30. Science Life Science Earth

31. Life Science Five Senses Living humans plants animals Needs of the Living Nonliving

32. Earth Land, air, water Weather Seasons Seasonal Apparel Sky

33. Through out their journey into the world of Science in Kindergarten , our children will learn about the climate changes around the world and value the natural differences in the environment. They will also start to see how different living things require different needs and how we are a part of this circle of life. Children will learn how to use their 5 senses in understanding the differences between living and non living things.

35. Montessori This year HUBS school is Introducing Montessori Program to KG classes to enrich the children’s educationand widen their horizon. The children will be working hands on in the Montessori classroom.

36. Who is Maria Montessori? More than a century has passed since Year (1907), when the name Montessori flashed like a comet across the sphere of Education. Maria Montessori was born in Italy in the year 1870. She was the first woman to become a doctor in medicine. She started taking interest in children when she was appointed as a child Psychiatrist. She was studying them, meditating over their conditions, and longing to help them. She came in contact with the famous French educators also working on feeble minded children. She started preparing a special method not just for the disabled children but for normal children, too. She made many of her own materials and was constantly experimenting, modifying, and adapting.

37. Maria Montessori’s Philosophy “Whatever the child can grasp in his/her tiny hands, he tries to grasp in his mind! It all comes as grist to the mill.” “We can only help the child by providing the best conditions.” Dr Montessori described the ages 3-6 years, the kindergarten age, in the child development as a “sensitive period,” a “searchlight coming from within the mind.”

38. Montessori classroom is divided into 6 areas of work: Practical life: this area helps the child in his daily life (eating) (getting dressed) (taking care of others)… Sensorial: Refine the children senses through exercises of attention, comparison and judgment. Language and math: the children start learning from concrete to abstract.

39. Science: Introduction to Botany (parts of a flower, tree, roots). Zoologie (parts of a horse, bird, fish…), human body, living non-living and a lot more… Social study: The children will learn that we live on earth, and earth is formed of water and land. Also, the children will learn about continents, countries, and flags.

40. The Italian government honored Dr. Montessori by printing her picture on the 1000 Lire bill, the standard currency used prior to the Euro. She advocated pre-school education at a time when there was no school for children under the age of six. Maria Montessori’s ideas have been incorporated into today’s educational programs all over the world.

41. Compensation plan for this year: • 1. Cancel all major events and integrate them within the curriculum. • Examples: • International Day will be integrated with social studies • Green Day will be integrated with science • 100 Hundred Days of school will be integrated with morning calendar and math activities. • 2. Morning assembly will be canceled except for Thursdays. This will add an additional 45 minutes to our schedule four days a week where we will be working on their fine motor skills and ESL.

42. Schedule as of Now