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Summary Of Kindergarten:
Reading
Kindergarten currently participates in the Reading Street Common Core program. Each student is assessed in September and then placed at their appropriate level for reading. While students read and with the Kindergarten teacher at the reading table, other students are engaged in literacy stations. Currently, literacy stations are the following: Work on Writing (practicing handwriting skills, and letter recognition), Listening Station (listening to fluent readers on CD read stories) computer (starfall.com, pbs.com, reader rabbit kindergarten and jumpstart kindergarten), ABC or Word Work (letter recognition, letter sounds), Fine Motor (puzzles, playdough, manipulative mats, cutting), Read to Someone (easy readers, big books with pointers, flip charts, sight word books) and Makerspace.
Reading expectations are focused on the following:
Language Arts
Being able to read and decode words is an essential part of a Kindergartener’s academic success! The following are the items worked on throughout the year for language arts.
Phonics:
Handwriting/Writing:
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Religion
Creedal Church:
- St. Peter’s K5 is a full-day program
- Common Core Reading/Language Arts standards
- Common Core Math standards
- Mass on Thursday mornings
- Religion Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
- Science (STEAM)
- Social Studies
- Specials: Gym, Music, Art and Library
- Reading buddies
Reading
Kindergarten currently participates in the Reading Street Common Core program. Each student is assessed in September and then placed at their appropriate level for reading. While students read and with the Kindergarten teacher at the reading table, other students are engaged in literacy stations. Currently, literacy stations are the following: Work on Writing (practicing handwriting skills, and letter recognition), Listening Station (listening to fluent readers on CD read stories) computer (starfall.com, pbs.com, reader rabbit kindergarten and jumpstart kindergarten), ABC or Word Work (letter recognition, letter sounds), Fine Motor (puzzles, playdough, manipulative mats, cutting), Read to Someone (easy readers, big books with pointers, flip charts, sight word books) and Makerspace.
Reading expectations are focused on the following:
- Understand that words convey meaning
- Reading comprehension skills
- Connects reading to personal experiences
- Knows that reading is done from left to right
- Retells a story
- Uses picture cues to gain meaning
- Shares/communicates experiences and ideas with others
- listening/visual literacy
- Listens to assess and evaluate information
- Participates in rhymes, songs, conversations and shared reading
Language Arts
Being able to read and decode words is an essential part of a Kindergartener’s academic success! The following are the items worked on throughout the year for language arts.
Phonics:
- Identifies letters of the alphabet
- Recognizes high-frequency sight words
- Makes connections between letters and their corresponding sounds
- Identifies initial and final sounds of a spoken word
Handwriting/Writing:
- Using correct letter formation
- Copies and writes name, letters, and words
- Attempts to put words in sentence format
- Uses spacing between words
- Demonstrates awareness of punctuation
- Demonstrates awareness of capitalization
- Understands the concepts of letters, words, and sentences
- Shares own writings
- Demonstrates knowledge about conventions of print
Mathematics
- Count by 1’s to 100
- Count by 5’s to 100
- Count by 10’s to 100
- Identify/write numbers 1-30
- Understand the process of addition and subtraction
- Understand the use of ordinal numbers (first through tenth)
- Interpret graphs
- Construct picto-graphs
- Identify basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle)
- Math shapes to create designs
- Use shapes to create designs
- Understand basic concepts of symmetry
- Compare and sequence objects by size
- Estimate amounts and sizes
- Use cubes to measure
- Know the days of the week and months of the year
- Understand concepts of sorting
- Use math symbols to represent simple equations (+,-, =)
Science
- Weather
- Space
- Changes in Earth
- Earth’s structure/composition
- Forces, motion & energy
- Electricity and magnetism
- Animals (classification, cycles, characteristics, behavior)
- Plants (characteristics, cycles, classifications, adaptations)
- Environment habitats
- Human body
Social Studies
- Economics
- History
- Geography
- Political science
- Behavioral science
- Catholic social teachings
Religion
Creedal Church:
- Learns that God created the world
- Learns that God made and loves him/her
- Learns that God gave us the gift of his son, Jesus
- Recognizes that Jesus was part of a family with Mary and Joseph
- Begins to understand that he/she is a part of God’s family, which is the church
- Identifies the Bible as a book of stories about God
- Is familiar with the Nativity Story
- Is familiar with the story of Jesus blessing the children
- Learns that the body is a gift from God
- Liturgy/sacrament
- Moral Life
- Christian Prayer (sign of the cross, church prayers, Advent wreath, hand positions in prayer)
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For more information on St. Peter's School
3001 Elm Street, East Troy, WI 53120
Phone: 262-642-5533 - E-Mail: school@stpetersschoolet.org
