• RELIGION   cross

    * God Gives Us Many Gifts

    - Everything God made is good

    -God gives us these gifts because He loves us and cares for us

    -God wants us to take care of His gifts

    * God Is Our Creator

    -God made everyone and loves all people

    -God gives us our senses to discover His world

    -God gives us our family and friends to share His love

    * Jesus Shows Us God's Love

    -Jesus is one of us

    -Jesus was kind, good, and caring

    -We should be like Jesus

    * Jesus Wants Us To Share God's Love 

    -The Church is God's family

    -At Baptism we become members of the Church

    -Jesus shows us how to pray

    -Jesus wants us to care about others

    * The Church Year - Ordinary Time, Advent, Christmas, Lent, The Three Days, and Easter 

    -God wants us to celebrate His love for us

    -Jesus asks us to live as He did

    * Prayer: The Sign of the Cross, Hail Mary, Our Father, Gaurdian Angel, Glory Be, Grace Before Meals, and Grace After Meals

     

    MATH   shapes

    -Position Words

    -Classifying Objects

    -Sorting

    -Data and Graphs

    -Patterns

    -Numbers 1-100

    -Money = pennies, nickels, dimesa, quarters, dollars

    -Measuresment = length, capacity, weight, temperature

    - Time = calendar, to the hour, to the half hour 

    -Addition Concepts to 10

    -Subtraction Concepts from 10

    -Geometry and Fractions = 2D and 3D shapes, equal parts, halves  

     

    READING/LANGUAGE ARTS   reading

    *Concepts of Print

    -Understand directionality

    -Print awareness

    -Identify seperate sounds

    -Understand that letters make up words

    -Name upper and lowercase letters

    -Book handling

    *Phonological Awareness 

    -Recognize and generate rhyming words

    -Blend and segment sounds

    *Phonemic Awareness

    -Count phonemes

    -Isolate initial, medial, and final sounds

    -Short and long vowels sounds (silent e)

    -Add, delete, and substitute phonemes

    *Phonics and Decoding/Word Recognition and Fluency

    -Know the alphabet

    -Sound/letter correspondence

    -Blend sounds into words

    -Blend common word families

    -Identify and read high frequency words

    -Plural nouns

    *Comprehension Strategies and Skills

    -Ask and answer questions

    - Draw inferences/predictions and conclusions

    -Retell a story

    -Story structure (beginning, middle, and end)

    -Cause and effect

    -Compare and contrast

    -Reality vs. Fantasy

    -Using illustrations

    -Main idea and key details

    *Literary Elements

    -Character

    -Plot developement/events

    -Setting

    *Writing Applications

    -Capitalization

    -Spacing

    -End punctuation

    -Complete thought

     

    Science, Social Studies, STEAM, Art, Social Play will all be incorporated into the day of kindergarten.

     

    The children will also attend specialized classes which are Library, Music, Gym, Computers, Spanish, and Art.