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Kindergarten Celebrations: Skills for College, Career, and Citizenship

Celebrate the foundational skills being developed in kindergarten! This program focuses on key areas such as letter names, letter sounds, counting to 100, number recognition (0-31), and sight word mastery, with monthly assessments to track student growth. Parents can reinforce learning at home using personalized kits, ensuring children's readiness for first grade in reading, writing, math, and science. Encourage daily reading, writing activities, and engaging conversations around stories and problem-solving. Join us in fostering independence and curiosity for a bright academic future!

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Kindergarten Celebrations: Skills for College, Career, and Citizenship

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  1. Kindergarten Celebrations Preparing for college, career, and citizenship!!!

  2. Foundational Skills • Letter names • Letter sounds • Count to 100 • Recognize numbers 0-31 • Recognize 50 sight words

  3. Monthly Assessments

  4. Student GrowthLetter Names and Sounds September February 14of 23 students have mastered letter names and sounds • 0 of 24 students had mastered letter names and sounds

  5. Importance Of Using At Home Learning Kits • The data shows growth in sight words for the families that are using the at home learning kit.

  6. 1st grade readiness goals • Reading • D reader • All high frequency words • Mostly two to six lines of text per page • Longer Sentences • Identify story elements • Setting • Character • Main events • Retell familiar stories

  7. D level text example

  8. How can you help at home • At least 20 minutes of reading EVERY night • Conversations about the story elements • Characters • Main events • Setting • Problem and solutions • Oral story telling with beginning, middle, and end

  9. 1st grade readiness goals • Writing • Complete 3 page book • Beginning, Middle, End • 1 complete sentence on each page • Read the story in two ways • Reading the pictures • Reading the words

  10. End of Year Writing Samples

  11. How you can help at home • Provide the tools and environment for writing • Encourage child to write things down • Write down a problem • Write to relatives • Send an email • Write a note to a family member • Write a list • Label parts of your home with post-it notes

  12. 1st grade readiness goals • Math • Fluently add and subtract numbers to 5 • Know that adding is putting together • Know that subtracting is breaking apart • Nathan has 3 cats. Ava has 2 cats. How many cats in all?

  13. How you can help at home • Using calendars, rulers, magazines; have children find numbers • Solve story problems while setting the dinner table • Count mailboxes on the way home from school • Have children help with cooking projects • Play “guess my number” • Play ST Math

  14. 1st grade readiness goals • Science • Ask questions • Make predictions • Diagraming

  15. How you can help at home • Encourage exploration • Ask open ended questions • Why do the leaves fall off the trees? • Why does that ball roll? • Why can’t you smell that when you are sick?

  16. Closing Thoughts • Importance of on time arrival • Importance of a healthy breakfast • Importance of a early and consistent bed time • Importance of teaching independence • Importance of having conversations with your children • Have your child read the morning message to you each night and ask questions about their day • Importance of checking your child’s backpack every night • Have a conversation about the work they bring home

  17. Take a tour of our classroom • Show your family • What independent reading level you are • Where you are in ST Math • Your self portraits • Your writing folder • Read them your favorite true story • Dojo points! Tell your family about how to get dojo points! • Kelso’s choices and how you can solve small problems

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