​What Will We Learn?
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Kindergarten Citizens Will...

• Understand and use the elements of critique: Kind, Specific, and Helpful

• Wonder about things (how/why... questions)

• Share ideas and actively listen to others ideas

• Work well with partners/small groups (solving problems together)

• Build independence

• Use the High Tech High 5 Habits of Hearts and Mind: Curiosity, Empathy, Integrity, Confidence, and Reflective

• Take risks. Learn from mistakes. When met with failure, persevere.

• Understand that we are part of a community, that the community has norms, and that every member is valued

 

Kindergarten Readers Will:

• Work towards reading at Level C/D by the end of the year with fluency and comprehension (retell main events of the story in sequential order)

• Understand the Concepts of Print

  • Identify front/back cover

  • Read from left to right, top to bottom

• Develop Phonemic Awareness

  • Understand the sound/symbol correspondence

  • Blend and segment cvc words, onset/rime

  • Identify initial/medial/final sounds in cvc words

• Use decoding strategies such as picture clues and blending sounds

• Read sight words, high frequency words, and word family words

 

Kindergarten Writers Will:

• Write simple ideas independently or with some support by...

  • Making illustrations that match writing

  • Know all the letters and sounds to use in writing

  • Blend letter/sounds to use inventive spelling

• Learn the conventions of writing including developing use of spaces and end punctuation

• Write sight words, high frequency words, and word family words

 

Kindergarten Mathematicians will:

• Read/write numbers 0-20

• Accurately count objects to 30

• Fluently add/subtract through 5 with automaticity

• Add/subtract within 10 using pictures/manipulatives

• Name and draw basic shapes