Back To School Night 20052006

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Back To School Night2005-2006

• Kindergarten Team
• Mrs. DiBenedetto, Ms. Nii,
• Mrs. Whitten, Mrs. Wilson

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Language Arts Components

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing

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Phonemic Awareness

• Potent predictor of reading achievement.
• Five components
• Phonemes-hearing separate words, consonants,
  syllables and alliteration
  
• Rhymes-sound alike, spelled differently
• Rimes-sound alike, spelled alike
• Blending-combine individual and sound clusters
• Segmenting-take apart sounds of words
• Manipulating-change initial sound of words

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Phonological Awareness

• Phoneme Deletion What word would be left if /k/
  sound were taken away from cat?
  
• Word-to-Word Matching Do pen and pipe begin with
  the same sound?
  
• Blending What word would you have if you put
  these sounds together? /s/ /a/ /t/
  
• Sound Isolation What is the first sound in
  rose?
  
• Phoneme Segmentation What sounds do you hear in
  the word cake?
  
• Deleted Phoneme What sound do you hear in meat
  that is missing in eat?
  
• Odd Word Out Which one starts with a different
  sound bag, nine, bike?

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PHONICSLETTER/SOUND RELATIONS

• BLENDING initial consonant dot /d/ /ot/ , rot
  /r/ /ot/
  
• individual sounds pig /p/ /i/ /g/
• SEGMENTING separating each sound or cluster
• cat /c/ /a/ /t/
• READING sight words 21 such as the, is, like,
  here
  
• Blending, Segmenting

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COMPREHENSIONREAD ALOUD

• STRATEGIES
• PREDICT
• INFER
• SUMMARIZE
• EVALUATE
• QUESTION
• MODIFY

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Evolution of a Childs Writing

• Scribble Stage
• Scribble
• Mock Letters
• Letter Strings
• Groups of letters with space in between words
• Picture Labeling
• Copies Environmental Print
• Uses First Letter of a word to represent the
  word
  
• Uses Beginning Letter and Ending Letter for a
  word
  
• Hears Medial Sounds
• Phrase Writing
• Whole Sentence Writing

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Math

• Our math program is Harcourt . Our centers
  include manipulatives and ideas from various
  programs.

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HARCOURT UNITS

• Sorting and Classifying
• Patterns and Movement
• Matching and Counting
• Numbers 0-5
• Numbers 6-10
• Geometry and Equal Parts
• Numbers 10-30
• Money
• Measurement and Time
• Exploring Addition and Subtraction

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Math Standards

• Name basic shapes
• Identifies tallest, shortest, heaviest, lightest
• Extends and Creates Patterns, AB, AAB, ABC
• Sorts by one or more attributes
• Makes and reads simple graphs
• Spatial Awareness, Puzzles, and Directionality
• 1 to 1 Correspondence up to 30
• Counts to 100, by 1s and 10s
• Counts Backward from 10
• Order and Sequence
• Names Days of the Week
• Tells Time to the Hour
• Estimates up to 20
• Recognizes and Writes Numbers to 30
• Solves Addition and Subtraction Story Problems 0
  -10 w/ manipulatives
  

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Science

• Science is integrated into the curriculum.
  Children experience success when they develop age
  appropriate knowledge and understanding of the
  life, earth and physical sciences.
• Our science program is Harcourt.
• Our curriculum includes hands on
• projects from various sources.

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Science Curriculum

• Getting Ready
• Five Senses
• Life Science
• Animals- Kinds, Growth, Movement, Body Parts
• Plants- Kinds, Parts, Growth,Usage, Life Cycles
• Earth Science
• Land, Air, Water- Landforms, Rocks, Soil, Natural
  Resources
  
• Weather - Tracking, Seasons, Predicting
• Physical
• Objects, Sorting, Movements, Magnets, Tools
• Investigating Water- Characteristics, Sink and
  Float, Forms