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| Kindergarten is all about learning, trying new things, working hard and having fun!
Just a few of the skills we will be working on this year:
Social Skills - Develop better self-control skills such as sitting still and listening quietly.
- Learn how to follow directions.
- Become more skilled at cooperating with others.
- Discuss families, holidays, and other things about their worlds.
- Learn all the letters of the alphabet and corresponding sounds.
- Learn lowercase and uppercase letters.
- Learn sight words or frequently-used words such as "the," "and" and "is".
- Start learning vowel and consonant blends.
- Write about themselves, animals and areas of interest and write stories together as a class.
- Learn stories, songs, and rhyming words.
- Talk about stories after reading them (a demonstration of reading comprehension), predict what may happen next, try to guess what characters might be thinking or feeling; re-tell what happened in the stories.
- Write words using invented spelling.
- Write letters to mom and dad.
- Label pictures they've illustrated.
- Count things around the classroom, such as how many days we've been at school, how many blocks are in a bin, etc.
- Identify basic shapes such as circle, square, triangle, etc.
- Recognize and write numerals up to 20 or more.
- Count by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
- Tackle basic addition and subtraction.
- Understand concepts such as "more than" or "less than" and "equal to."
- Create patterns with small objects and sort into groups by color and size.
- Identify coins (be able to distinguish between pennies, dimes, etc.)
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