Ms. Cox's Kindergarten Class

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Oral Language
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Sharing Literature
• Early Literacy Skills
• Reading Decodable Books
• Shared Writing
• Handwriting
• Writing to express meaning

MATH:

• Introduction to pennies, nickels, dimes, and coin exchanges
• Introduction to 3-dimensional shapes
• Exploration of various ways to measure and compare
• Introduction to skip counting by 2s
• Continuation of patterning activities
• Continuation of exploring 2-dimensional shapes and symmetry
• Reinforcement of counting, numeral recognition, and number writing skills, number sequencing and number comparson skils
• Continuation of graphing, measuring, estimation, and probability activities
• Introduction to the concept of half
• Develop strategies for solving simple addition and subtraction problems, including joinng, take-away, and comparison situations
• Continuation of measurement activites using standard and nonstandard tools and units

SCIENCE:   Life Science 

• Identify major structures of common living organisms
• Observe that differences exist among individual living organisms
• Observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of living organisms
• Observe that living organisms closely resemble their parents
• Use the senses to observe surroundings, and describe the observations
• Identify the body parts of the human body and the functions of these parts
• Recognize that germs exist and may cause disease