Kindergarten - Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Strell

  
Listed Below are concepts & skills we are working on in class:
Religion:

• Sign of the Cross and daily prayers…Focus on Hail Mary
• Bible stories
• 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…practice daily
• Letter recognition (capital and lower case) and letter sounds
• Matching the capital letter to the lower case letter (example Hh)
• 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
• Identify proper nouns, nouns and adjectives

• Practice writing letters and numbers in proper form
• Practice writing our names correctly on lined paper
• Work on left to right progression
• 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 to 100 by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• Read and extend a given pattern…AB pattern
• Identify and practice drawing basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle)
• Math vocabulary words: match, pair, equal, vertices, model and number words 0-10
• Put numbers in counting order
• Practice number words…match number words to number 

• Practice reciting complete address and phone number
• Discuss daily weather and the four seasons
• Learn about the months and days
• School rules/routines and drills
• Good manners

• Discuss healthy choices in food and play
• Safety in the classroom and at recess/dismissal
• Four seasons and the position of the Earth

Peace and Prayers,
Mrs. Johnson
Mrs. Strell