Sheridan Hill Elementary

TEACHER: Kate Callahan

SCHOOLOGY PAGE

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This website will serve as an extra form of communication between parents and teacher throughout the 2021-2022 school year.

Make sure your kindergartner is well rested, has a good breakfast and is dressed in comfortable clothes for a busy day of learning fun!

• Counting
• Number Sense
• Geometry
• Joining and Separating Sets
• Addition/Subtraction Facts

Language Arts/Literacy Curriculum   

Our goal is to prepare our students for the adventure of lifelong reading and writing.  Ways we immerse our students in reader's and writer's workshop are:

• Shared Reading- A way we learn to read books together.

• Guided Reading - This is when we read in small groups to focus on reading strategies.

• Read Alouds - An opportunity to foster students' love of many types of literature.

• Writing - The children write everyday.  Sometimes it may be letter formation, writing together, or journal writing.

• Phonics - Students learn about the relationship between letters and sounds.

In kindergarten we use formal science units provided by ESP.  These kits are:                                   

•  Weather
•  Worms
•  Pushes & Pulls

We also study other science related topics such as nutrition and animals.

Kindergarten students develop their awareness of themselves and their communities through our Social Studies curriculum.  The areas we discuss are:

• Myself and Others
• Families
• Communities
• Citizenship
• Holidays, Traditions, and Various Cultures

Other aspects to our curriculum are Character Education and Conflict Resolution.  These two units run throughout our entire school year. 

Students learn to take responsibility for their actions and to solve disputes in a positive way, using words.