Ms. Emily Stefanik– Kindergarten
Email: estefanik@saintstansschool.org
Office Hours: Tuesdays 7:45-8:10am (Math/Handwriting), Wednesdays 2:45-3:10pm (Reading/ELA)
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Welcome to Kindergarten!
The first few weeks of school we have worked on routines, positive classroom expectations, learning how to move around the building safely, and kindness. Kindergarten has made a “Kindness Pledge” that is hung in our classroom to remind the class how to be kind.
Below is an outline of how we will begin the year in each subject area.
Religion: We will be using the books Word Of Life from the Augustine Institute. This quarter we will be focusing on learning about God’s love, the Blessed Trinity, and how to Pray to God. We are also attending Mass every week, and once a month on the first Friday we will be spending time in the Chapel in Adoration.
Reading: We will be using The Superkids Reading Program. Throughout September and October we will be reading so many fun books! While we read we will be learning the parts of a book, characters, setting, rhyming words, new vocabulary words, genre, syllables, and decoding pictures. In our warm up unit the stories we read will teach us how to be a good friend and how we use kindness in the classroom. Unit 1 we will be introduced to our first superkid! That superkid is going to teach us a specific letter and letter sound.
ELA/Phonics: We also will be using The Superkids Program for ELA/Phonics. The warm up unit will consist of learning how to handle a book, environmental sounds, alphabet and number recognition, breaking apart sentences into words, color identification with different drawing activities, rhyming words, recognizing and counting syllables, blending/segmenting syllables. We will be starting Unit 1 at the end of next week. Unit 1 will consist of introduction to the letter /m/, initial phoneme isolation, initial letters, coloring by shape, and name recognition. We also have a separate book from the Superkids program specifically geared towards Phonemic Awareness. This will start when we begin Unit 1. Throughout Unit 1 of Phonics students will learn to articulate phonemes, specifically /k/. They will also continue to work on breaking sentences into words, identifying and recognizing different environmental sounds, and alphabet recognition.
Science: We will be using the Interactive Science Program. This quarter we will be learning about The Nature of Science: the questions to ask, how we observe, how to learn together, what do you use to observe, and how do you feel safe? We will also be talking about how to problem solve
Math: We are using Sadlier – Oxford Progress in Mathematics. We will be learning Alike / Same, and different, shapes – 2D and 3D, sorting, and patterns. We will also be practicing how to count to 100.
Social Studies: We are using Impact Social Studies: Learning and Working Together by McGraw Hill. In our first chapter we will be learning about how to be good citizens. Throughout this chapter we will learn about how people work together, why rules and laws are important, and what it means to be a good citizen. In our second chapter we will be learning about our world. Throughout the chapter we will learn about our neighborhood, where we live, and how people move from one place to another.
Feel free to contact us throughout the year with any questions or concerns that may arise. You may contact the school office at 592-5135 or send an email. Estafanik@saintstansschool.org, Rdorion@saintstansschool.org.
Thank you for your continued support and we are so excited to see how the Kindergarten class grows throughout the year.
~Ms. Emily Stefanik and Mrs. Rebecca Doiron
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