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How to Prepare Your Child Before Kindergarten:
Write their own name
Fine motor skills: Pencil grip and scissor hold
Alphabet knowledge- capital and lowercase letter names
Letter sounds
Rote counting to 20
Naming basic shapes
Naming basic colors
1st Quarter Expectations
Letter sounds
Letter identification (capital and lowercase)
Know 13 High Frequency Words/Sight Words
Book and Print Awareness (tracking print/left to right sweep, punctuation, first and last letter of the word, identifying upper and lower case letters, difference between letter and word)
Number to object correspondence- counting with objects to 10
Write numbers 1-10 when counting objects
Identify 2D and 3D shapes
Position words: in, out, in front, behind, beside, below, above
Citizenship/Following the Rules at school and at home
Changes/Weather and change over time
Animals/Needs/Similarities and Differences
Kindergarten Important Information:
Your child’s teacher will send all important information in a homework folder each night. It is vital that you check this folder and communicate with your child’s teacher. Should your child be absent due to an illness, please send a signed excuse note with your name, your child’s name, and the date of the absence. If you are sending money to school (for a field trip or snack), please place the money in a labeled envelope.
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Kindergarten Supply List
- box of 24 crayons
- glue sticks
- pack of pencils
- 1 box of tissues
- paper Towels
- hand Soap (Liquid soap)
- box of washable markers
- book bag/back pack (no wheels)
- 1 solid colored 2-pocket folder
- hand sanitizer (Purell/Dial/GermX)
- change of clothes (Place in a zip-lock bag with student's name on the outside of the bag.)
- 1 box of zip-lock bags (quart/gallon) for flash cards, take-home books, etc.)
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High Frequency Words
a all am and as at be boy but can did do down for girl go had has have he her him his I in is it little look not of on other out said see she so some that the then there they to up was we were what when with you
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Please consider donating the following items to your child's class:
Clorox wipes
Hand sanitizer
Extra Underwear (girls/boys)
Napkins
Extra Crayons and Glue Sticks
Play Dough
Stamp Pads
Seasonal Stickers
Sidewalk Chalk
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Parallel Block
In Kindergarten at Mineral Springs Elementary, we have the opportunity to teach reading in small differentiated groups during parallel block. Students are working in groups at their instructional reading level. Each day, students will spend 40 minutes in small group with their classroom teacher. During this time, they are learning reading skills and strategies, practicing comprehension and responding to the stories they read through writing and group discussions. Students will also spend 40 minutes in our reading lab. The reading lab consists of three adults working with students in small groups. We have a morning and an afternoon session with three differentiated rotations. Each rotation is approximately 40 minutes of small group instruction. These groups contain 7 to 8 students at the most. One group focuses on phonological awareness and decoding skills. One group focuses on recognition of sight words. The third group works on the computer program iReady while a teacher pulls them one by one to review sight words, letters and sounds. The phonics and sight word group rotates within the 40 minute block of time. Parallel Block is not offered in every kindergarten program. It has shown to be a great support to our kindergarten readers here at MSES!