1. Kindergarten Orientation
May 9, 2018

2. Orientation Information
Welcome! 
Our Day
Curriculum-
Science, Social Studies, ELA, and Math
How can I help my child prepare for Kindergarten?

3. Social Expectations for Kindergarten
Follow directions given
Being able to sit on the carpet and keep self to self with movement breaks
Walking quietly in the hallway
Self- care tasks such as: using bathroom independently, washing hands, blowing nose, learning to tie shoes, buttoning and zippering
Problem solving- using words to express how they feel instead of actions
Sharing
Properly getting a teacher’s or peer’s attention

4. Promoting Positive Peer Social Interactions
Peer interactions are extremely important for Kindergartners: Throughout the entire day they watch, imitate, model, and interact with each other. Kindergarteners learn to share, collaborate, and solve problems.
Positive social interactions come easily to some children, but not for everyone. As teachers we are here to support your child and model positive behavior socially and emotionally.
Skills can be taught by:
Explaining the skill
Demonstrating the correct way to use it
Demonstrating the incorrect way and letting the children figure out what step was missing
Letting a child practice with an adult/peer
Providing positive feedback and attention on use of the skills
Think to yourself: How can you help promote your child’s social development this summer?

5. ELA Math Social Studies Science Recess Lunch Specials Centers
Our Day At a Glance
ELA
Math
Social Studies
Science
Recess
Lunch
Specials
Centers
Interventions
Journal Time

6. Science Force and Motion Features of plants, animals, and humans
What is a scientist? What do they do?
Living Things
Features of plants, animals, and humans
Life cycles- caterpillar and tadpole
Essentials for living things
Environment
Force and Motion
Push and pull
Science teams will plan and create a vessel that moves
Earth and Sky
Objects in the day time and night time and how they change
Weather- observe/record
Man-made and natural resources

7. Social Studies The importance of rules
Rules/ Responsibilities
The importance of rules
Symbols and practices of the United States
Me and My Family
Environment- How people adapt
Past, present, and Future
Similarities/ differences in people
Technology
Me on the Map
Our environment/ community

8. Elementary English Language Arts
Kindergarten Expectations

9. Supporting Early Readers
Read to your child
Environmental print
Fictional and Informational texts

10. Concepts About Print Expectations
Identify parts/features of books
Correct way to hold the book with pictures and words upright
Front cover and back cover
Title
Letter vs. word
Words and pictures
Point to words as you read to show left to right direction
Some knowledge of punctuation (. ?)

11. Letter Identification Expectations in Fall (November)
Name 46 of the 54 letters
26 capital letters
26 lowercase letters
Print a and g

12. Increased Expectations
By June-
Blending and segmenting CVC words such rob, cup, sash
Know at least 50 high frequency words
Read level D books with at least 90% accuracy
Characteristics of a Level D Text
Many high frequency words
Simple words to decode
2-6 lines per page
Some longer sentences
Simple dialogue
Familiar content
Simple sequence of events
Picture support

13. Ways to Support Writing
Encourage correct pencil grip
Practice various activities to develop fine motor skills
Practice writing and/or tracing name
Journal writing
Have a special area for writing
Different kinds of markers, crayons and pencils
Variety of sizes, colors, and shapes of blank paper, pads, and note cards

14. Continuum of Drawing/Writing

15. Continuum of Drawing/Writing Continued

16. Increased Expectations
By January-
Be familiar with all print concepts (left to right, title, how to hold a book…)
Know all letters and sounds
Producing rhyming words and matching initial sounds
Apply knowledge of sounds in writing

17. Increased Expectations (May/June)
Apply knowledge of sounds in writing

18. Elementary Mathematics
What will my child be learning in kindergarten?

19. Kindergarten Standards
Counting and Cardinality
Know number names and the counting sequence
Count to tell the number of objects
Compare numbers

20. Kindergarten Standards
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Understand addition as putting together and adding to
Understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from
Play Acting Models and Drawing Ten Frames Number Lines Equations

21. Kindergarten Standards
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers to gain foundations for place value

22. Kindergarten Standards
Measurement and Data
Describe and compare measurable attributes
Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category

23. Kindergarten Standards
Geometry
Identify and describe shapes
Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes

24. Kindergarten Standards
Fact Fluency
Adding and subtracting 0 from numbers 1-20
Adding and subtracting 1 from numbers 1-20
Differences of zero or subtracting all
ex = 0
Students will be responsible for:
Other Representations:
Traditional Representations:
= _____
- 1 = _____
What is one more/less than 19?
______ =
______ =

25. Standards of Mathematical Practice
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique
the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in
repeated reasoning.

26. What can I do to help prepare my child for Kindergarten?
Play with Numbers
Numbers to 5, then to 10
Count, count, count…then count some more!!!!
Find numbers in the real world
Practice writing
Read counting books
Develop Vocabulary
Same, different
More, less; light, heavy; tall, short; longer, shorter
Left, right; on, under; above, below; first, last

27. What can I do to help prepare my child for Kindergarten?
Counting Rhymes and Counting Songs
Going for a Walk
Searching for Numbers
Sorting Laundry
Snack Time
Finding Shapes
Estimating

28. Questions?
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