Kindergarten Notes

(Updated as necessary)
Mrs. Lanning/Mrs. Plummer

Daily Schedule:
7:25--Language Arts skills review; 7:45-Announcements, pledge, etc.;
8:00--Language
Arts Block;  9:40-10:10--Enhancement Classes;
10:20-10:50--Math Block Activities; 10:50--11:20--S.P.A.(Structured Playground Activities) 11:26-12:10--LUNCH; 12:20-1:00 Math Block, Part 2; l:00--Story time/Character Ed. /Learning Activity Centers/Small group help/ Individual assistance/Agenda responses/ Catch-up time, as needed/ Occasional rest time
2:05--Prep for Departure

Enhancements--Mondays--Media with Mrs. Schull/ Mrs. Vick; Tuesdays--P. E. with Mrs. Mitchem
                     2nd Step with Mrs. Silverberg
Thursdays--Math and Science Lab with Mrs. Shuping
Fridays--Music with Mrs. Trivette
Computer Lab--once per week, days vary

• Math--shapes, both plane and solid; meaningful counting to 30;  rote counting to 100; sorting and classifying; alike and different; direction words; recognizing and creating patterns; number recognition 0-30, in and out of order; more and fewer; solid figures and parts of shapes; equal and unequal parts; probability; symmetry; coin recognition and value; standard and non-standard measurement; time; tallying; counting by twos, fives, and tens; graphing; money;  ordinal numbers first through tenth; calculator terminology, and so much more!
• MUCH of our EVERYDAY MATH program is "hands-on."  Your child may not bring home lots of papers, but that does not mean we haven't been busy!!
• We will be adding one and subtracting one from numbers through 10;
  We will learn the -, + and = signs.
  
• Language Arts--Letter recognition, sound, and handwriting, which letters are capital and which are lower case; long and short vowel sounds; reading vocabulary--title, author, illustrator, character, setting, detail, period, question mark, exclamation mark, predicting, retelling with proper sequence of events; title page, selection, capital, lower case, quotation marks, pointing to each word as a story is read; difference between a letter and a word; thinking maps--circle, flow, bubble, double bubble, tree, bridge; letter/word differentiation; writing with sound spelling; "sounding out" simple words; color words.  BASIC SIGHT WORD LIST:  the, in, he, as, at, of, is, was, with, be, and, you, for, his, this, a, that, on, they, have, to. it, are, I, from  YOUR CHILD SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE THESE WORDS.
  
• OUR PHONICS PROGRAM IS CALLED "ZOOPHONICS." Your child will learn a signal and sound for each letter before learning the letter name and will learn the lower case letters before learning the capitals.     Each letter has a corresponding animal which aids in letter/sound recall. It's fun and exciting!
  
  
• General Studies--Rules & expectations; calendar terms--days of the week, months, year, seasons, weather words; left to right progression in reading and writing; left and right; coloring; cutting; following oral directions; computer terminology and skills; drawing with detail and setting;story retelling with proper sequence of events