ELA Reading Block, Centers, and Handwriting:

This year we will be using Collaborative Classroom for our ELA instruction.  The program has been carefully designed to nurture students academically and socially while providing rigorous instruction in early reading strategies, including reading comprehension, fluency, phonics and decoding, high frequency word recognition, vocabulary spelling and handwriting.   

This year our units will focus on: 

Unit 1- The Classroom Community (Fiction, Non- Fiction, & Poetry) 

Unit 2- Focus on Making Connections (Fiction and Poetry)  

Unit 3- Focus on Retelling (Fiction and Poetry)  

Unit 4- Focus on Visualizing (Poetry and Fiction) 

Unit 5- Focus on Wondering (Fiction and Poetry)  

Unit 6- Focus on Making Connections (Non-Fiction and Poetry) Unit 7- Focus on Wondering (Non- Fiction, Poetry and Fiction)  

Unit 8- Focus on Using Text Features (Non-Fiction and Poetry) 

Math:

During math, the students will meet together for a short whole group lesson.  Afterwards, they will work independently or within math stations on skills at their specific level or on independent/group practice.  In Kindergarten, the math curriculum will focus on skills such as sorting, number identification and number writing 0-20, counting to 100 by 1’s, counting to 100 by 10’s, base ten principles, place value, geometry, graphing, addition, and subtraction; including fluency with fact from 0-5. 

Writers Workshop:

We will follow the Being a Writer Curriculum, which is part of Collaborative Classroom. The lessons will consist of a whole group activity, and then the students will work on writing, at their own pace and level. As this occurs, I will meet with individual students to provide support at their level. At the end, the children share their work with each other and discuss the new strategy we learned. Our writing units will focus on narrative, informative and opinion writing, as well as writing poetry.  

Social Studies:

Kindergarten Social Studies introduces young learners to the foundational concepts of identity, community, and citizenship.  Aligned with the NYS K-8 Social Studies Framework, the units will help students explore their roles within families, schools, and communities.  

The units covered will be: 

      Myself and Others, Being a Good Citizen, and Economics and Geography

Science:

Kindergarten Science introduces young learners to the foundational concepts of the natural world through hands on exploration, observation, and inquiry.  It encourages curiosity and critical thinking as students investigate patterns and relationships in the enviornment around them. 

       The kits we will cover this year are: Weather, Pushes and Pulls and Worms