Kindergarten Page

Kindergarten is....

Kindergarten Supplies

Kindergarten Guidelines

Classroom Pictures

Kindergarten is Orientation

• A bridge between home/preschool and school
• Becoming a member of a group
• Functioning as part of a group
• Learning to get along with classmates, to take turns, and to respect the rights of others
• Developing a positive self-esteem and independence

Kindergarten is Experiencing

• A year of learning that lays the foundation for life
• A year of carefully planned experiences designed to establish academic readiness
• Building with blocks, dramatizing stories, cutting, pasting, painting, center activities
• Participating in hands on math and science experiences
• Learning letter names, sounds, basic sight words

Kindergarten is Acquiring Tools Necessary for Reading

• To build vocabulary, to know words and to use words
• Learn to use and love books
• Time for listening to stories read aloud and answering questions about the stories
• Time for being exposed to written word
• Time for experiencing stories and charts; to learn what can be said and written; and what can be written and read
• Participating in Shared and Guided Reading

Kindergarten is Writing

• Developing large muscles and fine muscles
• Learning to coordinate hand muscles with eye muscles
• Manipulating toys and puzzles and play dough
• Finger-painting, drawing, coloring, and pasting
• Learning to write one's own name correctly;using a capital letter for the first letter and lowercase letters for the rest of the name
• Shared, modeled and dictated writing experiences
• Learning to write using phonetic/sound spelling

Kindergarten is Mathematics

• Building number concepts
• Using manipulatives to explore one to one correspondence, sorting, grouping, adding and subtracting
• Comparing sizes, recognizing shapes, colors, likenesses and differences, how many and how few (attributes)
• Position and comparison words
• Creating and extending patterns
• Estimating, collecting data, and building graphs
• Writing the numerals from 1-30
• Counting to 100 and skip counting