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Kindergarten
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Kindergarten Teacher
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Miss Rochelle Bottemarbottemavcsknights.orgKindergarten Teacher
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"My faith is an important part of whom I am and God has given me a special responsibility and privilege to be a light in this dark world. I am truly blessed to work and teach God’s children and see the light of Christ grow in each of them."
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Kindergarten Academics
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Religion
- Learn prayers: The Sign of the Cross, The Lord’s Prayer, The Hail Mary, The Glory Be, Prayer Before Meals, and Prayer After Meals
- Participate in prayer (including weekly mass)
- Understand that God loves us and wants us to love others
- Understand that God created the universe
- Understand that God gave us Jesus
- Learn about feasts and liturgical seasons
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Reading
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Demonstrate developmental understanding of concepts of print texts such as how to hold books, how to track print, and how to distinguish words from pictures and letters from words
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Recognize sentences and begin to understand that sentences begin with capital letters and end with some type of punctuation
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Identify letters and distinguish letter sounds
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Demonstrate basic understanding of the sound-print code: words contain sounds that are represented by letters, and letters combine to make words
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Identify 20 basic sight words
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Recognize and produce rhyming words
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Writing
- Write letters of the alphabet and begin to represent words with letters
- Write expressively using drawings, letters, and words
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Communication
- Discuss prior knowledge of topics, relate to text, and make predictions before reading
- Sustain their attention for an age-appropriate length of time while reading or listening to books
- Complete a two-step task based on oral instructions
- Listen attentively to others
- Express ideas clearly in oral speaking
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Mathematics
- Count, compare, describe, and sort objects
- Connect numerals to the quantities they represent
- Identify, write, and order numerals 0-20
- Model (act out or use objects) problem solving involving simple addition and subtraction situations
- Recognize and name basic geometric shapes
- Explore objects in terms of their measurements
- Identify coins by name and value: penny, nickel, and dime
- Follow a daily schedule to help develop the concept of time
- Name the days of the week
- Identify, extend, and create patterns AB, ABB, ABC
- Understand comparative and positional terms: more than, less than, equal to, above, below, left, right, top, middle, bottom
- Understand and create simple graphs
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Science
- Use the five senses to make observations about the physical world
- Name and identify seasons
- Make daily weather observations
- List characteristics and life cycle of a bean plant and a painted lady butterfly
- Demonstrate how to care for their nose and teeth
- Name body parts
- Learn about personal safety through the “Talking About Touching” program
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Social Studies
- Develop responsibility by completing assigned weekly jobs
- Recognize that all people have needs and wants
- Describe how each person is special and unique
- Recognize and follow family and school rules
- Describe resources in the community (e.g. police officer, firefighter, library, etc.)
- Recognize national symbols and recite the Pledge of Allegiance
- Learn about holidays
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Art
- Art is taught regularly, as well as incorporated into daily activities
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Further curriculum enrichment includes:
- Field trips
- Guest speakers
- Service projects
- Reading incentive program
- Extracurricular activities
* Physical Education, Music, Spanish, Library, and Technology are taught
by specialists trained in these areas.