Kindergar ten Family Games and Learning Activities

What are standards? Standards are clearly defined statements and/or illustrations of what all students are expected to know and be able to do. Standards = Indicators

How many Kindergarten Standards are there? L-O-T-S !! Math34 Reading/Writing/Listening 54 Science/Social Studies/Health 52 Technology8 Social Skills 12

Examples of Kindergarten Standards Social Studies Identify jobs held by family members. Recognize classroom jobs. HealthIdentify the location of the heart and brain. Identify a variety of healthy and unhealthy foods. MathDevelop understanding or ordinal positions first to fifth. Understand and represent the fraction 1/2.

What are Assessments? Measurements of student achievement in each area of the curriculum based on the standards. Can be used to evaluate students’ strengths and weaknesses and drive instruction.

Reporting Progress Conferences: – November and February Report CardsFebruary and June Interim ReportsAs needed Phone CallsAs needed

Math End of Unit Assessments

Name: ______________________________________________ Date: ______________________ Teacher’s Name: ______________________________________ Patterns Dear Parents/Guardians, Our class completed a district assessment titled: Patterns. The assessment covered the following CYSD indicator: Identify, extend, and construct patterns Our goal is for your child to demonstrate these tasks by the end of kindergarten. Once mastered, students need to maintain this skill throughout the year. Please note that this assessment is not the only way that your child is being assessed in math. It is one of the numerous ways that is used to determine if a student has mastered the skills and concepts in our math curriculum and what areas are still in need of improvement. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or concerns regarding this assessment. ______ Met District Standard on this assessment ______ Did not meet District Standard on this assessment

How can you track progress? Kid Writing Progress Read their journals when they come home Language Arts Read Bag-A-Books and library books every night

Report Card

What can you do at home? Keep it fun Be consistent Use everday situations to read, play games, and practice skills

Reading

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader? Talk, sing, and play with your child to develop their oral language. Answer their questions respectfully and as fully as you are able. Read to them daily! (Especially Dads and Granddads!

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader? Talk, sing, and play with your child to develop their oral language. Answer their questions respectfully and as fully as you are able. Read to them daily! (Especially Dads and Granddads!)

Start a home library of children books. Surround them with numerous and varied books. Give books as gifts for special occasions. Model reading in your own life. What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader?

Provide them with access to numerous and varied writing tools and materials. When reading aloud slow down and enjoy. Read it again and again!

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader? Try stopping at an expected part of the story once in a while and let the child fill in what is missing. Encourage school learning at home with a play “school room.”

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader? Encourage older siblings to read with younger siblings. Make everyday experiences and activities opportunities to learn and read. Give each child a library card and use it regularly.

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader? Make reading time an enjoyable, together time. Show your children that you value their efforts to learn to read. Have a daily routine that includes an independent and family reading time.

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful reader? Turn the TV off after 10 hours per week. Try watching captioned TV with the sound turned off. Have a message board for leaving messages.

Writing

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful writer? Practice writing upper and lowercase letters from top to bottom. Write together - thank you notes, greeting cards, letters, lists, etc. Keep a journal or diary. Have children orally tell “stories in their heads.”

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful writer? Practice writing No Excuse words aam andgo Iis mythe towe

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful writer? Practice identifying the following high frequency words

What can I do at home to help my child become and remain a successful writer? Identify letter sounds Practice segmenting words Practice blending sounds into words: “Can you guess what this word is ? m-o-p.”

Math

What can I do at home to help my child develop math skills? Create counting opportunities: Count the number of cars you see while driving, count the number of items put in the laundry. Read the calendar and count the number of days until an upcoming event. Count the number of items you bought at the store. When you child counts, make sure he/she touches each object once

What can I do at home to help my child develop math skills? Help them recognizing shape and size relationships At the grocery store, ask your child to find items that are a triangle, circle, rectangle, square, and rhombus (diamond). Stack groceries by container shape. Organize a scavenger hunt where your child has to find objects of different shapes and sizes. Make paper snowflakes using symmetry.

What can I do at home to help my child develop math skills? Have them collect and organize Information Look around the house to find groups of 2 objects, like pairs of gloves or socks. Look for groups of 3’s, 4’s, etc. Help sort laundry by various categories - by color, or by who the item belongs to. Use paper of different colors to make a paper chain with strips of paper and glue or tape. Create patterns - AB, ABB, AAB, ABC Collect items in nature - leaves, rocks, shells, etc. Sort them by color size, shape or type. How many different categories can you find? How many objects are in more than 1 category?

What can I do at home to help my child develop math skills? Develop their reasoning skills Help your child think about the permanance of a set. Put 6 pennies in a row, then change the arrangement. Ask “Did the quantity change?” Kindergarteners love repetition and patterning. Clap patterns to help your child discover sequences and predict what comes next.

What can I do at home to help my child develop math skills? Play Family Games Card games that require counting and score keeping Dice Games and Dominos help kids learn to recognize groups of dots for Board games that involve counting squares, such as Chutes and Ladders. Tic Tac Toe and Connect Four build recognition of rows 3 and 4 counters.

Skills of Independence

What can I do at home to help my child develop Skills of Independence? Let them do things themselves! Have them help set the table. Let them complete jobs with 1 and 2- step directions Let them pick out their outfits the night before school

What can I do at home to help my child develop Skills of Independence? Let them do things themselves! Have them take their folders out of their backpacks and give it to you. Have them put notes for school in their folders themselves and put it by the door each night. Have them zip their coats and tie their shoes. They should be managing their own clothing.

What can I do at home to help my child develop Skills of Independence? Give them choices Do you want to play a Math Bingo or use the white board?

Technology

What can I do at home to help my child develop skills using the computer? Allow your child to play fun games that reinforce skills, but limit their overall time on the computer each week.

What can I do at home to help my child develop skills using the computer? Check out our websites Family Games and Activities website scrapbook/default.php?cms_mode=view&sectio ndetailid=21143&go=&& Teacher Websites

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