Kindergarten

Kindergarten Jardín Infantil

//**Math - Matemáticas**//

On a daily basis, our students use the following chart to solve math problems step by step. Diariamente, nuestros estudiantes hacen uso de la siguiente tabla para resolver los problemas matemáticos paso por paso. Click to access the **ROWSLL** -Math Problem Solving Steps - [|ROWSLL Agassiz School Full Page.doc] Presiona el enlace para accesar la tabla que utilizan los estudiantes al resolver problemas matemáticos - **ROWSLL**

Presentación de Power Point sobre los Términos utilizados en el examen de MCAS -** [|MCAS Math Terms.ppt]
 * Power Point Presentation about MCAS Math Terms

Six Traits Writing is a systematic approach for looking at writing one part at a time. Since writing is such a complicated activity, this approach helps many people break down the task and understand it better. El método de Seis Peculiaridades o Rasgos de la Escritura se enfoca en enseñar y practicar las partes de la escritura una a una hasta llegar a unificarlas en la escritura de párrafos de excelencia. La destreza de una escritura eficiente requiere tiempo y dedicación. Este método encamina a los estudiantes a escalar cada peldaño poco a poco hasta llegar a la cima.
 * Six Traits of Writing - Seis Peculiaridades de la Escritura -** [|6 Traits - 6 Peculiaridades]

** AGASSIZ **** SCHOOL **** KINDERGARTEN COURSE OF STUDY ** This syllabus is an outline of the skills taught in kindergarten. Our English Language Arts program, developed by **__Reading Street__**, is designed to help students engage in a journey of discovery. Children learn about themselves, their surroundings, their community and the changes they go through as part of their growth and change. **__Unit 1__** **__All Together Now__** How do we live, work, and play together? Where do animals live? How do people, plants, and animals grows? Where will our adventures take us? How do people get from here to there? How do homes help us survive and enjoy life? Some of the program components include big books, small books, books on tape, print awareness, phonics (relationship of letters and sounds) and phonemic awareness activities (rhyme, words, syllables). Some of the teaching is whole-group work. In other instances, there is small-group instruction and independent practice.
 * SCHOOL YEAR 2009-2010 **
 * __ The themes are: __**
 * __Unit 2__** **__Animal Live Here__**
 * __Unit 3__** **__Watch Me Change__**
 * __Unit 4__** **__Lets Explore__**
 * __Unit 5__** **__Going Places__**
 * __Unit 6__** **__Building Our Houses__**

**Children are tested three times a year** (Fall, Winter and Spring). In the fall we test them in letter naming fluency, initial sound fluency and comprehension.

Kindergarten parents can also expect a **Kindergarten Report Card two times a year** (Winter and Spring). Students are evaluated in the following areas: Standard- Speaking and Listening Standard – Language Use Standard – Beginning Reading Standard – Responding to Literature Standard – Writing Strand – Number Sense Strand – Patterns and Relationships Strand – Measurement Strand – Data Strand – Geometry Strand – Problem Solving Following rules and routines in the classroom. Interacting productively and engaging in learning with others. Negotiating conflicts and reaching shared resolutions.
 * Language Arts **
 * Mathematics **
 * Social Development **

Good attendance helps students succeed. Poor attendance make students fail.**
 * There is a huge link between attendance and student performance.

Our curriculum is called **Investigations in Number, Data and Space**. As students explore mathematical ideas, they work in small groups, using a variety of materials such as blocks, tiles, cubes, and counters. Students are encouraged to express their mathematical thinking through talking, drawing and writing.
 * Mathematics**

This unit introduces the processes (using and caring for materials), structures (Math Workshop) and materials (pattern blocks, counters), that will be important features of math class during the school year. It also introduces the following math routines: taking attendance, using the calendar to count and keep track of times and events, counting sets of objects, and collecting and discussing data about the class.
 * Kindergarten Math Curriculum Units and Benchmarks**
 * Unit 1** Who is in school today? - Classroom Routines and Materials

Benchmarks: 1. Count a set of up to 10 objects. 2. Decide which object is longer. 3. Compare two quantities up to 10 to see which is greater
 * Unit 2** Counting and Comparing - Measurement and the Number System

Benchmarks: 1. Copy, construct, and extend simple repeating patterns. 2. Identify the unit of a repeating pattern
 * Unit 3** What comes next? – Patterns and Functions

Benchmarks: 1. Measure the length of an object by lining up multiple units 2. Count a set of 15 objects 3. Figure out what is one more or one fewer in a number
 * Unit 4** Measuring and Counting – Measurement and the Number System

Benchmarks: 1. Describe the overall size, shape, function, and/or features of familiar 2-D and 3-D shapes 2. Construct 2-D and 3-D shapes 3. Make 2-D and 3-D shapes by combining shapes
 * Unit 5** Make a Shape, Build a Block – 2-D (e.g., rhombus, trapezoid, hexagon, square, triangle, rectangles) and 3-D Geometry (e.g., triangular prism, rectangular prism, cone)

Benchmarks: 1. Write the numbers of to 20 2. Count a set up to 20 3. Combine two small quantities (solving story problems)
 * Unit 6** How many do you have? – Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System

Benchmarks: 1. Represent a set of data 2. Use data to solve a problem 3. Sort a set of objects according to their attributes
 * Unit 7** Sorting and Surveys – Data Analysis

HOMEWORK: Kindergarten is hard work for teachers, students and families. The success of our children depends on the relationship and the support that we give to each other. This includes homework.