Mrs. Martin's Kindergarten Blog

Welcome!

This is the first day of our Kindergarten Blog! I wanted an avenue for all of my kindergarten parents to have access to a variety of curricular activities that you can do with your child while we are learning from a distance. Here you will be able to find hands-on learning, worksheets, resources and many other ideas that will help you keep your child’s education blossoming.

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Kindergarten At-A- Glance!

I wanted to give you an overview of our Kindergarten program:

Early Literacy

• Comprehend and Respond to various different texts
  • Connect oral language with picture and print
  • Identify rhyming words in oral language
  • Draw or tell about ideas and experiences
• Manage Ideas and Information
  • Ask Questions to satisfy curiosity and make sense of information
  • Share new learnings with others
• Communicate Clearly
  • Form some kind of recognizable letters
  • Connect sounds with sounds in words
  • Follow on-or-two step instructions
• Respect and support Others
  • Participate in class or group activities
  • Find ways to be helpful to others

Physical Skills and Well-Being

• Assume responsibility to lead an active lifestyle
• Activity
  • Dance
  • Games
  • Individual activities
  • Activities in alternate environment
• Develop attitude and behaviors that promote healthy lifestyles, wellness, and safely for self and others.

Personal and Social Responsibility

• Show positive attitudes and behaviors towards learning
• Contribute to group activities
• Accept and practice responsibilities
• Develop positive relationships with others
• Express feelings in socially acceptable ways
• Demonstrate and practice independence

Environment and Community Awareness

• Become aware of materials in the environment and how they are used
• Show curiosity and willingness to learn about the environment and community
• Explore familiar place and things in the environment and community

Early Numeracy

• Space and Shape
  • Use direct and indirect measurement to compare two different objects
  • Sort and build 3D objects
• Number
  • Describe, orally, and compare quantities from 1-10
• Patterns and Relations
  • Identify retreating patterns
  • Sort objects based on a single attribute

Citizenship and Identity

• I am Unique
  • Value unique characteristics, interests, gifts and talents of self and others
  • Examine what makes them unique
  • Explore how we demonstrate respect for ourselves and others
• Skills and Process
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Historical and geographical thinking
  • Decision making and problem solving
  • Cooperation, conflict, and resolution
• I Belong
  • Value how personal stories express what it means to belong
  • Value and respect significant people in their lives
  • Examine what brings people together in groups
  • Examine how people create climate

Please note that we have been working on all of these areas all year long. As I update this blog I will include activities that encompass many of these areas for reinforcement.

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