1. Room 19 Kindergarten Curriculum
Everyday Math
Benchmark Literacy
Heggerty: Phonemic Awareness
Jolly Phonics
Being A Writer
Zaner-Bloser Handwriting
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Harcourt Science
PBIS

2. Welcome to the
wonderful world
of learning
in Room 19 !

3. Making Meaning - reading comprehension
Retelling
Visualizing
Wondering/questioning
Making connections
explore Text Features
Values:
- responsibility
- respect
- caring
- fairness
- helpfulness
Social skills:
- talking and listening to one another
- Speaking clearly
- Sharing ideas
- Respecting other’s ideas

4. Reading Concepts Sequence of events Use illustrations Story Details
Classification
Fantasy and Reality
Make predictions
Main idea
Compare and Contrast
Story Structure
Summarization
Cause and Effect
Make Inferences

5. Phonemic Awareness Increasing Language Awareness Rhyming
The understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, manipulate the sounds and blend and segment the sounds into spoken and written words.
Phonemic awareness is an auditory training process. It does not involve print. It is not phonics.
Increasing Language Awareness
Rhyming
Identifying Onsets
Blending
Identifying Final and Medial Phonemes
Segmenting
Substituting Phonemes
Adding Phonemes
Deleting Phonemes

6. Jolly Phonics: Parent Information
Learning the Letter Sounds
In Jolly Phonics the 42 main sounds of English are taught, not just the alphabet sounds. For
each sound there is an action which helps the children remember the sound the letter makes.
As the letters are taught, the children will bring home a sound sheet, please practice them as mush
as possible.
The letters are not introduced in alphabetical order. The first group “s a t i p n” has been
chosen because they make more simple three letter words than any other six letters. Sounds with
more than one way of being written are first taught in one form only. For instance, the sound
“ai” (rain) is on the Sound Sheet. The alternatives “a-e” (cake and “ay” (day) will be taught later.
Blending
Blending is a process of saying the sounds in a word and then running them together to make the
word, IE- “c-a-t” is “cat.” It is a technique your child will need to learn, and it improves with
practice. Some children take longer to do this than others. To start with, you should sound out
the word and see if your child can hear it. The sounds must be said quickly to hear the word.
It is easier if the first sound is said slightly louder, IE- “b-u-s.”
Identifying Sounds in Words
If your child is going to be able to write independently, she/he will need to be able to hear the
sounds in words and to write the letters for those sounds. When all the sounds have been
taught, we will begin our Homework Writing Book.. This will be an opportunity to practice
writing words through dictation. Specific instructions will accompany these books.
Sight Words
Our student’s learn words from the Dolch Sight Word list. This is a list of words that are
common words in the English language. These words need to be mastered to achieve reading
fluency. Some words cannot be sounded out or spelled correctly by listening to the sounds in
them. These are “tricky words!”

7. Jolly Phonics: Games The Pairs Game Other Activities
This game is very useful for developing memory and reasoning, as well as learning the letter sounds. When each set of letter sounds has been taught, your child will bring home a sheet with two of each of the letters on it.
To play, the individual letters are turned face down. The first player to start turns over a card and says the sound. Then they turn over another card and again say the sound. If the sounds are the same they keep the cards and take another turn. . If not, the cards are turned face down again, and it is another player’s turn. The person to get the most pairs is the winner.
Other Activities
Reading Words – The letters can be arranged to make simple regular words. The children blend the sounds and read the word.
Building Words – This time the children are told a simple regular word, ie. Pig, pot, etc. They have to listen for the sounds, pick up the letters that make that sound and lay them in the correct order. Then they check if it is correct by blending the sounds and getting back to the original word. In the beginning help may be needed, but gradually they can do it by themselves!

8. Being A Writer
Conventions-directionality, spacing, capitalization, punctuation
Telling More – adding details
Nonfiction
Visualizing
Poetry

9. Handwriting Kinesthetic Learner
The goal of Zaner-Bloser Handwriting is to teach children to write legibly.
Kinesthetic Learner
(using playdough, shaving cream, Karate writing, chalk and dry erase boards)
Auditory
(verbalize the letter strokes)
Visual
(notice the entire letter (tall/short, fat/skinny), where does it touch the lines?)

10. Social Studies Units Unit 1: Families and Friends
Groups, Leaders, and Rules
Unit 2: A Big Wide World
People, Places, and Jobs
Unit 3: Long Ago and Today
Change over Time
Unit 4: Our Country, It’s a great Place!
Symbols, Heroes, and Leaders

11. Science Units Weather and Seasons Water Magnetism
Animals: Ocean and Farm
Plants
Transportation: Land, Air, and Water

12. General Information

13. Project 64 The goals of Project 64 include improving:
Hand-eye coordination skills
Fine motor skills
Directionality skills
Organization skills
Self esteem
Following directions
Handwriting
Drawing skills
Attention span