Welcome to Kindergarten!

Hemingway STEAM School currently has two Kindergarten classes.

Our vision is simple. We want all of our Kindergarten students to feel successful, acquire academic skills, strive for social responsibility, and develop a love for learning. In addition, we recognize that student learning is an ongoing life-long process.

STEAM

Our Kindergarten team has worked to integrate our curriculum with the Common Core Standards as well as our social studies, science, health and social emotional standards. We are excited to provide our students with hands on experiences while answering real world questions.

Cirriculum Goals

Kindergarten is a fun and exciting time for your child. Understanding the goals, curriculum, and expectations will allow you to help and guide your child at home as you support his/her school experience.

Behavioral/Social Goals

Listen and participate during group time

Stay on task during independent, small group and whole group activities

Work cooperatively in a group of 2 or 3, taking turns and sharing materials

Follow directions and classroom rules

Recognize and read social cues or follow actions of others

Express/identify feelings

Create lasting friendships

Know personal information: parents' names & other family members, phone number, address, birthday, first & last name

Be a good sport and play fair during class and on the playground

Reading Goals

Recognize capital and lower case letters

Understand letter and sound relationships

Identify more than 48 letter names per minute & 36 letter sounds per minute

Understand print concepts: know what a word is, know that print goes left to right and top to bottom, explain the terms author, illustrator, illustration, cover, title page

Participate in shared reading (big books, morning messages, etc.)

Participate in guided reading (small books with repetitive text)

Recognize and produce rhyming words

Learn at least 25 sight words

Learn to spell sight words, CVC words and CVCe words

Math Goals

Count to 100

Count back from 20

Count on from a number within a known sequence

Recognize numerals to 20

Participate in calendar work: recognize and extend patterns, know days of the week, months, seasons

Count by tens to 100, begin counting by 5s

Copy, recognize and create patterns

Sort, classify, count and label groups of objects

Write numerals 1-20

Add and subtract within 10 using objects or a picture/model

Solve simple story problems using objects, pictures or models

Count with 1 to 1 correspondence to 30

Understand and use the terms more than, less than, equal

Recognize shapes

Fine Motor Goals

Write comfortably with a pencils, crayons and markers in lines and spaces

Cut with scissors comfortably

Control a crayon and marker

Buttoning and zipping coats

Manipulate a backpack

Tie shoes

Writing Goals

Help teacher write words and sentences by supplying letter sounds

Using letter/sound relationships to attempt to write words and sentences independently

Learning the proper formation of letters

Writing first and last name

Use letter sounds knowledge to stretch words and write with best guessing

Specials

All kindergarten children are given the opportunity to receive out of class instruction in Art, Music, Engineering Design, and P.E. Weekly visits are also made to the school library to listen to stories and participate in book appreciation activities.

Parents are always welcome in our program. Opportunities for parent participation are arranged to accommodate parent's schedules with respect for cultural and family differences.