Zimmer

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL LEARNING

Managing emotions in a way that enhances personal growth and social relations

• Exhibit skills of an active member of the class community such as responsibility and trustworthiness.

• Respect peers, adults, and property.

• Work independently and stays on task

• Actively engage in investigation/activities

• Listen attentively without interrupting

• Take risks to attempt new tasks

• Verbalize feelings/manage disappointment

• Follow directions and instructions

• Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups

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Developing the skills to care for one’s body, belongings, and environment

• Button, snap, zipper, and tie clothing with increasing independence

• Organize self, material, and belongings

 

 

LANGUAGE and LITERACY

Listening and responding to words, conversations and stories, reading, thinking critically

• Identify, compare, and discuss story elements within books.

• Describe relationships between illustrations and text.

• Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

• Recognize and write all upper and lower case letters.

• Demonstrate letter-sound recognition and apply grade level phonics when decoding words

• Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five vowels.

• Read age-appropriate text with understanding.

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative, narrative, and persuasive texts.

• Participate in shared research and writing projects; recalls information from experiences or gather information to answer a question.

• Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

• Ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify.

• Describe familiar people, places, things, and events; with prompting, provides additional detail.

• Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

• Apply knowledge of basic rules of punctuation and capitalization as well as English grammar when writing and speaking.

 

 

MATHEMATICAL

Building a sense of numbers, shapes and space through manipulation and exploration

• Learn number names and employs 1 on 1 counting, demonstrating sequence, to determine the value of a set.

• Compare numbers and classify objects into sets.

• Demonstrate understanding of addition as putting together and subtraction as taking apart.

• Work with numbers 11-19; building foundation for place value.

• Understand use of nonstandard and standard measurements.

• Describe and compare measurable attributes.

• Identify and describe shapes.

• Analyze, compare, create, compose shapes.

• Replicate, execute, create, and extend patterns.

• Develop an understanding of data collection, recording, and analysis.

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JEWISH STUDIES

Exposure to universal core values through Jewish holidays, stories and traditions

• Stories, rituals and lessons appropriate to each of the Jewish holidays

• Bible stories and lessons

• Alef-bet letter recognition, and letter formation

• An assortment of Mitzvot explorations

• The Land of Israel

• Weekly Shabbat Celebrations, with homemade Challah bread

• Makes blessings before eating, and to start the day

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Developing physical strength, control, and coordination of muscles to accomplish tasks

• Demonstrate age appropriate coordination and balance when running, jumping, hopping, kicking, and skipping.

• Demonstrate appropriate hand-eye coordination when throwing and catching.

• Develop grasp for tools required for writing and drawing.

• Cut accurately with scissors.

• Exhibit core strength required to sit at desk and complete written assignments.

• Show strength and control in small muscles within hands required to complete kindergarten work.