Garner-Hayfield Kindergarten


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	Our Kindergarten Curriculum: Our reading readiness program is The Land of the Letter People. The 26 colorful puppet characters give students basic skills they need while offering a multitude of hands-on opportunities to use those skills through stories, art, science, social studies and songs. Our writing program is Handwriting Without Tears. Handwriting Without Tears teaches students how to correctly form letters and numbers using simple strokes. Our math program is Everyday Mathematics. It introduces children to numbers sense, algebra, measurement, geometry and probability. The program helps teachers move beyond basic arithmetic and uses critical thinking skills. The program uses everyday real-world problems while also building and maintaining basic skills. The DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literary Skills) test is administered at the Kindergarten level. A favorite pastime of the day is center time. Center time allows the students to learn through play and to express their creativity. Some of the centers include: Dramatic Play, Computers, Blocks, Art, Library, Legos, Puzzles, Games, and Carpet Toys.		DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literary Skills) Why are we doing the DIBELS assessments? Current research is telling us: We can improve reading outcomes to the average range by focusing on the early literary skills that DIBELS assess Students who are poor readers at the end of First Grade are likely to require intensive instructional support to reach Third Grade reading outcome Students who meet the DIBELS benchmarks throughout Kindergarten and First Grade are likely to be reading at the expected level in Third Grade DIBELS assesses the areas of: Phonemic Awareness Onset Recognition Fluency (e.g., beginning sounds Phoneme Segmentation) Fluency (e.g., orally segmenting words) Alphabetic Principle Nonsense Word Fluency (e.g., sounding out unknown words)

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