Learning Focus:
* Handwriting: We will be praticing and learning proper letter formation and writing our names in titlecase.
* Writer's Workshop: We will working on how to label pictures and then begin writing narratives, informational reports, opinions, etc. We will learning the conventions of writing as well.
* Reader's Workshop: We will be learning all the different strategies of reading through workshopping and groups. We will read "just right" books on a daily basis.
* Phonemic Awareness: Written language is like a code that kids must crack and phonic is the key to cracking it. Structured Literacy will also be a big part of our reading lessons.
* Math: We will work on decomposing numbers 1-10. We will talk about important math vocabulary and gain a deeper understanding of how numbers work.
* Science: How do we use our senses to work like scientist?
* Social Studies: We will learn about the community and people around us!
* Handwriting: We will be praticing and learning proper letter formation and writing our names in titlecase.
* Writer's Workshop: We will working on how to label pictures and then begin writing narratives, informational reports, opinions, etc. We will learning the conventions of writing as well.
* Reader's Workshop: We will be learning all the different strategies of reading through workshopping and groups. We will read "just right" books on a daily basis.
* Phonemic Awareness: Written language is like a code that kids must crack and phonic is the key to cracking it. Structured Literacy will also be a big part of our reading lessons.
* Math: We will work on decomposing numbers 1-10. We will talk about important math vocabulary and gain a deeper understanding of how numbers work.
* Science: How do we use our senses to work like scientist?
* Social Studies: We will learn about the community and people around us!
SECRET STORIES
"Written language is like a code that kids must crack and phonics is the key to cracking it."
Phonics:
* Phonics instruction helps to learners to decode words by associating sounds to letters and letter patterns.
* Phonics instruction increases fluency and reading accuracy.
* Phonics instruction boosts reading comprehension.
* Phonics instruction helps increase vocabulary.
While kindergarten students learn that the letter /y/ makes the sound “yuh,” it’s often not until second grade that they learn it can also make the sounds of /e/ and /i/.
It is also a common for early learners to spend an entire kindergarten year on mastering the individual letters and sounds, despite the research showing that the ability to identify all of the letters and sounds by Halloween (in kindergarten) is a primary predictor of later student reading success (Allington, 2013).
Even the small parts of the code that beginning grade learners do know will often appear contradictory to the sounds that letters make (together) in actual text since the letters in isolation almost never seem to make the sounds that they are supposed to when they come together in real words.
For example, kindergartners are taught that /t/ says “tuh” as in the word turtle, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the time, /t/ won’t actually say “tuh” when it is observed in text, as per high frequency words like: the, this, them, they, those, there, then, etc… And yet, traditionally, the /th/ phonics pattern isn’t formally introduced until late fall or early winter of first grade. For beginning readers, such blatant instructional discrepancies can feel like the reading equivalent of a wild goose chase.
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"Written language is like a code that kids must crack and phonics is the key to cracking it."
Phonics:
* Phonics instruction helps to learners to decode words by associating sounds to letters and letter patterns.
* Phonics instruction increases fluency and reading accuracy.
* Phonics instruction boosts reading comprehension.
* Phonics instruction helps increase vocabulary.
While kindergarten students learn that the letter /y/ makes the sound “yuh,” it’s often not until second grade that they learn it can also make the sounds of /e/ and /i/.
It is also a common for early learners to spend an entire kindergarten year on mastering the individual letters and sounds, despite the research showing that the ability to identify all of the letters and sounds by Halloween (in kindergarten) is a primary predictor of later student reading success (Allington, 2013).
Even the small parts of the code that beginning grade learners do know will often appear contradictory to the sounds that letters make (together) in actual text since the letters in isolation almost never seem to make the sounds that they are supposed to when they come together in real words.
For example, kindergartners are taught that /t/ says “tuh” as in the word turtle, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the time, /t/ won’t actually say “tuh” when it is observed in text, as per high frequency words like: the, this, them, they, those, there, then, etc… And yet, traditionally, the /th/ phonics pattern isn’t formally introduced until late fall or early winter of first grade. For beginning readers, such blatant instructional discrepancies can feel like the reading equivalent of a wild goose chase.
Visit this website to understand more about Secret Stories
www.thesecretstories.com
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING?
As we kick off our year together we will be focused on learning to work together in our new classroom with our new friends. We will learn about our new job as a kindergartener, our school, and the important people that work here.
We will begin the year mastering letter names and learning letter sounds as we learn about one another in a fun Name Study Unit. Please be sure you practice at home so that your child can write his/her own name independently. We will focus on writing it with one capital letter at the start and the rest of the letters lowercase.
As we kick off our year together we will be focused on learning to work together in our new classroom with our new friends. We will learn about our new job as a kindergartener, our school, and the important people that work here.
We will begin the year mastering letter names and learning letter sounds as we learn about one another in a fun Name Study Unit. Please be sure you practice at home so that your child can write his/her own name independently. We will focus on writing it with one capital letter at the start and the rest of the letters lowercase.