Kindergarten

Kindergarten literacy includes Skills, Writer’s Workshop, and Reader’s Workshop.

Skills:

• Kindergarten classrooms use the Fountas & Pinnell phonics program to learn letter names and sounds

Writer’s Workshop:

• Students learn to tell and draw their stories, write pattern books, personal narrative, expert books, poetry, and how-to books

Reader’s workshop:

• Students practice reading as a whole class, read books at their levels independently or with a partner
• Students learn to become strong readers by mastering foundational skills in print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics/word recognition, and fluency

Kindergartens work on the following mathematical skills and concepts:

• Read, write, and represent whole numbers up to 31 using numerals, pictures, real objects, picture graphs, spoken words, manipulative, and tally marks
• Count forward and backward with objects and without objects
• Recognize, identify, create, complete, and extend patterns
• Recognize and sort basic two and three dimensional shapes
• Compare and order objects according to location and measurable attributes