• Kindergarten
Diana Downing
Kindergarten
 
Maria Escobar-Garza
Kindergarten
 
Claudia Espindola
Kindergarten
 
Melanie Huynh
Kindergarten
 
Rachelle Levitan
Kindergarten
 

  • Schedule:

    Lunch 11:15am -11:45am
    Recess 11:45am-12:15pm

  • Kindergarten Curriculum

    The following statement expresses the philosophy of the Early Childhood department of Plano ISD. It is printed each time student work contains temporary spelling published as a way of helping parents and community members understand the way young children learn.

    Young children learn to write much as they learn to talk. Even though toddlers make many "mistakes" or approximations in speech, parents enjoy the conversations and encourage the child to talk, knowing that talking develops by talking. In the primary grades, writing is approached in much the same way. Teachers accept children's approximations of spelling. Just as parents are proud of a child's every attempt to say works, teachers praise young writers efforts at writing. They allow much practice by encouraging very young children to use written language for real purposes: phone messages, shopping lists, labels, and stories. As words of high frequency appear in a child's writing, teachers model correct spelling, and children gradually incorporate conventional or standard spelling into their writing. A translation of the primary student's writing, made as the child reads his work aloud, is included when the writing is published.
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  • Math in Kindergarten

    We have listed the primary objectives for each six-weeks. Each objective is explored throughout the six-week period and then built upon in the following periods.

    1ST SIX WEEKS
    Number Concepts to Six, Oral Counting to Ten, Relative Position, Read a Calendar, Problem Solving Strategy - Draw a Picture, Processes and Tools.

    2ND SIX WEEKS
    Number Concepts to Ten, Oral Counting to Twenty, Patterns, Read a Calendar, Concrete Graphing, Problem Solving Strategy - Look for a Pattern, Processes and Tools.

    3RD SIX WEEKS
    Number Concepts to Ten, Oral Counting to Fifty, Measurement, Sorting and Classification, Problem Solving Strategy - Use Objects, Processes and Tools.

    4TH SIX WEEKS
    Number Concepts to Twenty, Oral Counting to Seventy, Shapes and Models of Solids, Read a Calendar, Pictorial Graphing, Problem Solving Strategy - Use Objects, Processes and Tools.

    5TH SIX WEEKS
    Concrete Modeling of Addition and Subtraction, Oral Counting to Ninety, Solids, Compare Based on Time/Temperature, Read a Calendar, Problem Solving Strategy - Act it Out, Processes and Tools.

    6TH SIX WEEKS
    Whole to Equal Parts, Concrete Modeling of Addition and Subtraction, Oral Counting to 100, Read a Calendar, Sequence Events, Problem Solving Strategy - Guess and Check, Processes and Tools.

  • Language Arts in Kindergarten

    The following language arts objectives are listed in the six-week period in which they are introduced. However, the skills are continually revisited thorough out the year in order to build upon those foundations.

    1ST SIX WEEKS
    Follow Directions, Using Illustrations to Comprehend Text, Sequencing Events in a Story, Initial Introduction of Letter Names, Phonological Awareness-listening for sounds, rhyming words, and sound sequencing, Understanding of writing from left to right, Writing name on paper.

    2ND SIX WEEKS
    Oral Comprehension, Story Details, Identifying Action Words, Identifying Capital and Lowercase Letters, Identifying Letters in a Word/Words in a Sentence, Identifying/Counting Syllables, Blending Sounds, Identifying Beginning/Medial/Ending Sounds, Using Diagrams, Idea of Using Pictures and Print to Convey Meaning.

    3RD SIX WEEKS
    Fantasy vs. Reality, Opposites, Oral Comprehension, Alphabetical Order, Making Predictions, Position Words, Matching Sounds, Word Patterns (Word Families), Writing Name and Familiar Words, Writing Top to Bottom.

    4TH SIX WEEKS
    Main Idea, Compare and Contrast, Inferences, Word Endings, Describing Words, Using Finger Spaces in Writing, Hearing Consonants to Write (Temporary Spelling).

    5TH SIX WEEKS
    Nouns, Story Structure, Summarization, Read Signs, Listening Skills, Word Endings/Digraphs, Finger Spacing in Writing, Using a period at the End of a Sentence.

    6TH SIX WEEKS
    Cause and Effect, Sequence a Story, Sort and Classify, Blending With All Vowels, Digraphs, Capital Letter to Start Writing, Describing Words Used in Writing.

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