**Welcome To Kindergarten**

ELA: English Language Arts
 ELA instruction is where your child will take part in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, The goal is to not only become readers and writers and meet the CCS but more importantly to develop a love of reading and writing. The lessons are structured so that our young readers are takling and writing about and exploring their world through various genre.

RL/RI:K.3 I can identify characters, setting and major events in a story
RL/RI:K:6 can name the title, author and illustrator of story and define the role of each in telling the story.
RL.K.2/RI.K.2 Retells the events in a story/main topic in a text in ssequence.
RF.K. a-c Reads from left to right
RF:K:1d I can recognize and name all upper/lowercase of the alphabet.
RF:K:2 I can show my understanding  of spoken words, syllables and sounds.
RF:K:2a I can recognize and produce rhyming words.

Writing:
Your child will learn how to write upper/lowercase letters to formulating words to simple sentences. They begin by drawing pictures to express ideas. Then, to adding simple sentences that explain their topic.   
W.K.2 Uses pictures to express ideas
W.K.1 Generates ideas for writing

Speaking and Listening:
SL:K1a I can follow agreed-upon rules for discussions.
SL.K.1b Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges
SL:K 2 I can ask and answer questions to seek help, get information or clarify something that I do not understand.
SL.K.6 Speek audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.

Language:
L:K:1 I can show my command of English when speaking.
L:K: 1a I can print all upper/lowercase letters.

Math:
Your child will be exploring, experimenting, counting, sorting and explaining. Classification activities allow students to analyze and observe their world. Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence in counting numbers. Model composition and decomposition of numbers to 20. Understand concept of addition as putting togeter. We use various maniputlative to help our young students navigate their way through the world of Mathematics. 

K.MD.3 I can classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
K.CC.2 I can count forward beginning from a given number within 10.
K.CC.6/K.CC.7 Compares numbers
K.CC.4 I can understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.
K.CC.4c I can say that a number is one more than the number before it.


Religion:
The children will learn that God made the world and He made all things good. To demonstrate their understanding of God, they will hear, view and create stories from The Beginners Bible. To enhance their understanding, they will learn various prayers and The Rosary. On Fridays the children will bring home "Sharing Faith with My Family," please review and enjoy the activities with them.

Science:
The children will be able to describe the meaning of science and the role of a scientist through various hands-on activities. They will observe, describe and record the weather a daily. We will look at the seasons and how they effect the way we live.  Our young scientists will hypothesize, predict and record informationon pertaining to living and non-living things, plants and animals and how objects move from one place to another.

*Observes and desbribes the weather
*Demonstrates understanding of cause and effect relationship
*Identifies needs of living things
 
 Social Studies:
The children will make "connections" to people, places and events during the year. They will make connections to their identify by developing an awareness of self and others, to their roots by exploring how they are connected to family and to place by developing an awareness of a particular communiy, our state and the world. They will retell events in chronological order to answer the "how" and "why" events unfold in the way they happen. We will explore maps that highlight the states, our world and physical features. 

*Identifies features and interests of oneself
*Identifies similarities and differences among oneself and others
*Makes connections between oneself, home and the community
*Identifies members of the school community and their function