Textbook: We Believe - God Made the World -- Sadlier

• We allow students freedom to explore their images of God through creative art, storytelling, and play.
• Students will learn how God’s love is reflected in creation and in the life and teaching of Jesus.
• Students will celebrate the Church’s liturgical year and learn about Baptism and Eucharist.
• Students will grow in their ability to work cooperatively with others. In doing so, they also learn to show respect, kindness, and compassion towards others.
• Students will participate in prayer service with others and try ways to pray by themselves and with their families.
• Students will share their faith in class, at home, and in the Church.
• Students will live their faith by caring for others as Jesus did.

God gives us many things:

• God made all things
• God gives us light
• God gives us water
• God gives us the land
• God made the Animals

God is our Creator:

• God made all people
• God made us
• God helps us to discover
• We Learn about God with our Families and Friends

Jesus shows us God’s Love:

• God chooses Mary
• God the Father gives us Jesus
• Jesus grew up in Nazareth
• Jesus teaches and helps us
• Jesus wans us to love

Jesus wants us to share God’s Love:

• We belong to the church
• We pray as Jesus did
• We celebrate Jesus’ gift of himself
• We care about others as Jesus did
• We celebrate that Jesus is out friend

Seasonal Chapters

• The Church year
• Ordinary time
• Advent
• Christmas
• Lent
• The Three Days
• Easter

Textbook: Progress in Mathematics -- Salier-Oxford

• Step- by- Step instruction that leads to conceptual understanding.
• Frequent, sequenced practice that develop fluency with skills.
• Support for the development if higher-order thinking skills.
• Strong development of problem solving competence.
• Pedagogical practices leading to engages, reflective learners.
• In-depth questioning that fosters strategic thinking.

Sorting

• Sorting by size, color, and shape
• Alike/Different
• Sort two ways

Geometry and Patterns

• Cylinder, cone, cube, sphere, and rectangular prism
• Plane figures on solids
• Triangles, circles, square, rectangle
• Making patterns

Positions

• Above, below, top, middle, bottom, over, under, inside outside, left and right

Numbers 0-100

• Count to 100
• Explore tens and ones
• Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• Odd and Even

Tables, Graphs, and Fractions

• Tally marks, tally charts, picture graphs, bar graphs, surveys and real graphs.
• Equal parts, halves and fourths

Addition Readiness

• Adding 1-4 more
• Vertical addition
• Use ten frames to add

Subtraction Readiness

• Take away
• Subtracting by 1-4
• Vertical subtraction

Money

• Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
• Counting money
• Subtracting money

Time:

• Time sequence: first, next and last
• Calendar
• Yesterday, today and tomorrow
• Time on the hour
• Tell the time

Measurement

• Comparing by size, length, height and weight
• Holds more or holds less
• Temperature
• Measure distance all around

Textbook: Trophies -- Harcourt

Phonemic Awareness

• Word segmentation
• Rhyme recognition and production
• Syllable blending
• Syllable segmentation
• Syllable deletion
• Onset and rhyme blending
• Initial phoneme isolation
• Final phoneme isolation
• Medial phoneme isolation
• Phoneme blending
• Phoneme segmentation
• Phoneme addition
• Phoneme deletion

Reading Aloud

Reading aloud to students contributes to their motivation, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, knowledge base, literary understanding, familiarity with academic and literary terms, sense of community, enjoyment, and perhaps to a lifetime love of literature.

Reading aloud exposes students to more challenging texts than may be able to read independently.

Listening skills and strategies are greatly improved during read-aloud activities.

Reading Aloud:

• Models fluent reading behavior
• Builds students’ vocabularies and concepts
• Creates an interest in narrative structures
• Builds background knowledge by introducing children to new ideas and concepts and by expanding on what is familiar to them
• Exposes students to different text structures and genres, such as stories, alphabet books, poetry and informational books.

Comprehension

Comprehension strategies are interactive processes that allow readers to monitor and self-assess how well they are understanding that they are reading.

Vocabulary

Trophies provides students with a wealth of opportunities to read a rich variety of text:

• Big Book
• Read-Aloud Anthologies
• Library books collection

Reading for Fluency:

• Echo Reading - Students repeat (echo) what the teacher reads aloud
• Choral Reading - Groups of students read aloud with teacher simultaneously
• Repeated Reading - the teacher models, and students reread several times
• Readers’ Theater- students assume roles and read them aloud from the text
• Partner Reading - students take turns reading aloud to a partner
• Tape-Assisted Reading- Students listen to an audio text and read along with the recording
• Phrase Cued Text - Students read text that have been “chunked” into syntactic phrases
• Shared Reading - Students join in as the teacher reads to the whole group

Writing

In Kindergarten students begin to write sentences and brief narrative about familiar experiences.

Writing Journals

• ABC Journal
• Rhyming Journal
• This or That Journal
• Writing Journal
• Scribble Journal

Assessment

The use of both informal and formal tools and strategies, include formative and summative assessments, provides a comprehension picture of students’ achievements as the progress through an instructional program.

Textbook: Sight Word List -- 100 Words -- Dolch

• Sight words are a key building block in teaching children to read.
• Sight Words are words that a child can just look at and read quickly.

Textbook: D'Nealian Handwriting -- Scott Foresman / Addison Wesley

D’Nealian handwriting, is the innovative, continuous-stroke method of teaching students to write.

Continuous Stroke means fewer pencil lifts that ball and stick so there are fewer chances for mistakes

Textbook: Texas Studies Weekly -- Studies Weekly
The publication consists of 24 weekly magazines along with quarterly review units.

Textbook: Science Studies Weekly -- Studies Weekly

A 45-minute daily rotation is provided for the Kindergarten enrichment

• Physical Education
• Music
• Library

Once a week, there is a 45-minute enrichment in the Computer Lab.

30 minute Recess Daily
15 minute Centers Daily

• Recess increases focus
• Recess develops social skills
• Recess reduces stress
• Exercise is healthy
• Physical activity feeds the brain