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Kindergarten Times
January 2016
Reading/Language Arts
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Identify text features such as table of contents, index, labels, photos
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Comprehension of informational texts
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Ask and answer questions about key details in text
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Letter sound relationships: initial consonants, short vowel sounds & ending patterns
Writing
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Learning to be a writer: conventions (editing for spelling, periods, and capital letters)
Drawing and writing to convey ideas using pictures/letters/known words
Math
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Count by 10’s to 100
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Apply understandings of counting and cardinality to combine and compare quantities
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Model addition and subtraction word problems and apply counting strategies to solve
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Decompose a quantity into two parts
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Describe attributes of 2-dimensional shapes
Science / Social Studies
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Life Sciences: Animal/Human life cycles- comparisons, comparing offspring to
parents, features needed to survive
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Geography: Describe how people adapt to and modify their immediate environment
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Geography: Identify ways people modify the environment to meet needs and wants
Calendar
Jan. 18th – Holiday No School
Jan. 25th - Professional Day No school for students
Feb. 3rd - Report Cards distributed