Kindergarten - Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Strell

KA and KB students are working hard to learn new concepts and skills using what they learned in the first semester as a “spring board.” We continue to practice naming letters and the sounds they make, blending sounds into words, building a word wall, and even reading simple sentences! In Math, we continue to practice counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens to 100.  We are building a number chart to show how many days we’ve been in school! The children are learning how to solve word problems with addition and subtraction. In Religion, we continue to discuss making good choices, praying every day, and saying, “yes” to God.  In Science, the children are discussing winter and all the changes this season brings to our weather, clothing, eating habits, and activities/sports. In Health, the children are learning about Healthy choices in their diet, exercise, and personal hygiene. The children continue to work on fine motor skills such as printing in proper form, coloring neatly, pasting, cutting, tying shoes, and buttoning/zipping coats.
 

• Sign of the Cross and daily prayers…Focus on Hail Mary…Our Father…Glory Be
• Bible stories
• Importance of praying and different prayers
• Choosing is good…making good choices

• 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, he, she, you, an, is, in, on, we, at, be, go, it’s, like, see, me, if, have, can, as, did, do, get, my, of, was, his, her, are, ask, yes, no, all, look, had, that, big, down, little, up…practice daily
• Letter recognition (capital and lower case) and letter sounds
• Matching the capital letter to the lower case letter
• Listen for short vowels in the middle of a word
• Identify beginning and ending sounds of words
• Practice identifying /a/ at the beginning and in the middle of words
• Identify rhyming words
• Blending letter sounds together to form words
• 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
• Punctuation marks…period…exclamation mark…question mark…comma
• Identify proper nouns, nouns and adjectives

• Practice writing letters and numbers in proper form in pencil
• Work on left to right progression
• Practice writing names in proper form
• Practice copying sentences in proper form
• Coloring neatly within the lines
• Cutting and pasting neatly

• 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 and ABB pattern
• Use ten frames to model numbers 6-10 using counters (counters are red and yellow circles)
• Identify number pairs for given numbers between 6-10
• Identify number neighbors…example: 5 and 7 are 6’s number neighbors
• Math vocabulary words: equal to, greater than, less than, more, fewer, compare, addition, sum, equation, equal sign, plus sign
• Practice one to one correspondence between two sets
• Listen to and solve addition and subtraction story problems
• Practice writing and reading addition equations
• Put numbers in counting order
• Practice number words…match number words to number
• Compare and contrast numbers

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

• Healthy habits
• Penguins
• Habitats