Kindergarten students continue to work and grow as learners in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies through the month of December.
In ELA, Kindergarten students have begun a unit about what makes a community. During this unit, we will read books about the people and places in a community, and the ways in which we all work together to make a community strong. Children will write letters to teach others about our community, practice identifying and producing rhyming words, identify story elements such as character, setting, and topic/main idea. In small reading groups, they will engage in foundational reading skills such as blending and segmenting sounds, sound spelling, and apply those skills into word reading.
In math, the kindergarten students will begin a unit on Geometry. They will learn to identify, describe, analyze, compare, and create two-dimensional shapes. Students will look for shapes in the world around them, for example, they may look at a tissue box and say it looks like a rectangle. Pattern block activities will also be used, as a way to support the students developing spatial awareness.
In Science and Social Studies, students have been engaging in a Unit of Construction. In this unit, students explore and participate in play centers while they learn concepts of stability. Read-Alouds are used to support students understanding of what it takes to build structures, and what makes structures strong and sound. Students will also learn about different types of buildings and structures, as well as different types of building materials.
