General Information |
B.E.E. Awards- Every Friday, two students are selected and sent to the office to choose a small prize.
B-being
E-excellent
E- everywhere
100 Club- When a student can count to 100 independently, they are given a certificate for becoming a member of the 100 Club!
Curriculum:
Reading Literature & Informational Text
Writing & Language Arts
Speaking & Listening
Language
Fundations- To achieve these reading, language arts common core standards, Walsh School has adopted a total literacy solution called Fundations. Your child will participate in daily lessons that focus on carefully sequenced skills.
Math
Report cards: During the year, you will receive your child’s report card three times.
B-being
E-excellent
E- everywhere
100 Club- When a student can count to 100 independently, they are given a certificate for becoming a member of the 100 Club!
Curriculum:
Reading Literature & Informational Text
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
- Retell familiar stories
- Name author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling a story
- Identify character, setting and major events in a story
- Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in a story
Writing & Language Arts
- Command of the usage of standard English grammar
- Print capital and lowercase letters
- Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs
- Identify parts of sentences
- Constructs simple sentences
- Use descriptive words
- Edit and revise
- Identify and use punctuation
- Use drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces, informative pieces, and narrative pieces
- Use a capital for the first word in a sentence
- Spell simple words phonetically
- Using context clues to identify meaning the of unknown words and homophones and apply accurately
- Use antonyms
Speaking & Listening
- Speaks audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics
- Ask and answer questions about key details to show understanding of text
- Describe familiar people, places, things and events with prompting and support
- Understand and use questions words and most common prepositions
Language
- Fluency
- Presentation of literature
- Expression
- Conversationally express ideas
- Vocabulary
Fundations- To achieve these reading, language arts common core standards, Walsh School has adopted a total literacy solution called Fundations. Your child will participate in daily lessons that focus on carefully sequenced skills.
- Print knowledge
- Alphabet awareness
- Phonological Awareness (whole words, syllables and onsets)
- Phonemic Awareness (manipulate individual sounds)
- Decoding vocabulary, fluency, and spelling
Math
- Sorting, classifying, and counting data
- Comparing and ordering numbers 0 to 20
- Identifying, describing and composing shapes and positions of shapes
- Counting, comparing, and ordering numbers to 100
- Understanding addition and subtraction
- Measurement
- Length (inches)
- Geometry: 2D and 3D shapes
- Using data to answer questions
- Time
- Problem solving
Report cards: During the year, you will receive your child’s report card three times.