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Kindergarten Celebrations. Preparing for college, career, and citizenship!!!. Foundational Skills. Letter names Letter sounds Count to 100 Recognize numbers 0-31 Recognize 50 sight words. Monthly Assessments. Student Growth Letter Names and Sounds. September. February.
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Kindergarten Celebrations Preparing for college, career, and citizenship!!!
Foundational Skills • Letter names • Letter sounds • Count to 100 • Recognize numbers 0-31 • Recognize 50 sight words
Student GrowthLetter Names and Sounds September February 14of 23 students have mastered letter names and sounds • 0 of 24 students had mastered letter names and sounds
Importance Of Using At Home Learning Kits • The data shows growth in sight words for the families that are using the at home learning kit.
1st grade readiness goals • Reading • D reader • All high frequency words • Mostly two to six lines of text per page • Longer Sentences • Identify story elements • Setting • Character • Main events • Retell familiar stories
How can you help at home • At least 20 minutes of reading EVERY night • Conversations about the story elements • Characters • Main events • Setting • Problem and solutions • Oral story telling with beginning, middle, and end
1st grade readiness goals • Writing • Complete 3 page book • Beginning, Middle, End • 1 complete sentence on each page • Read the story in two ways • Reading the pictures • Reading the words
How you can help at home • Provide the tools and environment for writing • Encourage child to write things down • Write down a problem • Write to relatives • Send an email • Write a note to a family member • Write a list • Label parts of your home with post-it notes
1st grade readiness goals • Math • Fluently add and subtract numbers to 5 • Know that adding is putting together • Know that subtracting is breaking apart • Nathan has 3 cats. Ava has 2 cats. How many cats in all?
How you can help at home • Using calendars, rulers, magazines; have children find numbers • Solve story problems while setting the dinner table • Count mailboxes on the way home from school • Have children help with cooking projects • Play “guess my number” • Play ST Math
1st grade readiness goals • Science • Ask questions • Make predictions • Diagraming
How you can help at home • Encourage exploration • Ask open ended questions • Why do the leaves fall off the trees? • Why does that ball roll? • Why can’t you smell that when you are sick?
Closing Thoughts • Importance of on time arrival • Importance of a healthy breakfast • Importance of a early and consistent bed time • Importance of teaching independence • Importance of having conversations with your children • Have your child read the morning message to you each night and ask questions about their day • Importance of checking your child’s backpack every night • Have a conversation about the work they bring home
Take a tour of our classroom • Show your family • What independent reading level you are • Where you are in ST Math • Your self portraits • Your writing folder • Read them your favorite true story • Dojo points! Tell your family about how to get dojo points! • Kelso’s choices and how you can solve small problems