Kindergarten
Our full day kindergarten classes follow the Mesa Public Schools curriculum, which is aligned with the Arizona Academic Standards.
Reading:
The goal of MPS is for every child to be a successful and independent reader. Skills taught in kindergarten include:
- Concepts of Print
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonetic Skills
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension-Literary Text (fiction)
- Comprehension-Informational Text (nonfiction)
Writing:
Through daily writing activities, students will develop the elements or traits of beginning writing. These include:
- Ideas
- Organization
- Voice
- Word Choice
- Sentence Fluency
- Conventions- write the 26 letters of the alphabet; use a capital letter to begin important words; attempt end punctuation; use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell simple words with some consonants and a few vowels.
Writing Applications: Through a variety of writing applications, students will begin developing their written communication skills. These include:
- Write a narrative or story by drawing, dictating, or writing.
- Create list, observations, or journals.
Math:
In math, kindergarten students will learn:
- count, read, and write numbers to 20
- count forward to 20 and backwards from 10
- model, order, and compare numbers to 20
- determine ordinal positions first through fifth
- identify all number combinations and manipulative sets of numbers 0-10
- use objects to explore concepts of addition and subtraction
- model addition and subtraction facts to 10 using objects
- add and subtract models of halves
- identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar
- identify the symbols:+,-,=
- data analysis, graphing, and discrete mathematics
- patterns and algebraic thinking
- geometry and measurement
- problem solving
Katie Crame | Rm. 11 | 472-7711 | |
Kim Crosby | Rm. 8 | 472-7708 | |
Ailey Hubbard | Rm. 9 | 472-7709 | |
Ashlee Margerum | Rm. 10 | 472-7710 | |
Denise Cook | Rm 14 | 472-7714 |