*Journal Writing: students
are encouraged to draw a picture about a specific topic. The main goal for this activity is to teach
students to convey messages into creative writing, as the year progresses
students will write sight words and short sentences phonetically.
*Literacy Center:
it gives the students ample
opportunity to practice the four important skills of listening, reading,
writing and speaking. It also lays focus on increasing comprehension,
vocabulary and fluency of oral language.
*Language
Arts: during this time students will use 3 A Beka workbooks as follows:
Writing with Phonics K4: is correlated with basic
phonics sounds to help children learn phonics as they practice correct writing
formation
Writing with Phonics K5: as vowels, consonants,
consonant – vowel words are introduced students will practice writing them. As
the year progresses, students will be practicing basic/short sentence writing.
ABC123: this workbook introduces number concepts and
the writing of numbers 1-20, it also provide guided activities in the following
areas: short and long vowel sounds, simple consonant sounds, blending of
consonants and vowels and words containing one and two vowels.
*Math
Makes Sense: during this time students will participate in
a variety of hands on activities, these are the Math units throughout the year:
Unit 1: Data Management
Unit 2: Number Sense
Unit 3: Spatial Sense and Geometry
Unit 4: Patterning
Unit 5: Measurement
Unit
6: Numbers and Applications
*The students
engage in four Units of Inquiry
throughout the year. These units are designed to enable students to construct
knowledge and understanding of the world around them through meaningful and
purposeful engagements relating to the students’ own first hand experiences.
Throughout the inquiries, students reflect on their learning, continually
constructing and modifying theories and making connections between their
learning within the school environment and their experiences in the wider
world.
*Here is a list of the Inquiry
Centers we will be doing in our classroom:
- Writing: develop discrimination of left and right,
hand-eye coordination, in-hand strength, finger and in-hand manipulations, finger
isolation skills, pencil control skills, drawing skills and letter formation
skills.
- - Dramatic: permits children to fit the reality of the world into their
own interests and knowledge. Promotes self expression.
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- Block/Building: promotes fine motor skills,
language, math and problem solving skills.
- - Arts and Crafts: promotes language skills, art skills, problem solving,
fine motor development and creativity.
- - Math/Games/puzzles: math skills such as sorting and classifying,
patterning, number concepts, one-to-one correspondence, problem solving skills
and risk – taking.
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- Science: promotes use of senses, make
observations, describe, compare, sort, classify, gather data and work
cooperatively with others.
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