Kindergarten Curriculum.Responsive Classroom
Throughout the Rochester Memorial School Community, we use Responsive Classroom as part of our social curriculum. Responsive Classroom is a research-based approach to K-8 teaching that focuses on the strong link between academic success and social-emotional learning. Using Responsive Classroom helps develop a high-quality education for every child that is built on the foundation of a safe and joyful learning community. There are seven principles that guide this approach:
Fundations
Fundations is a systematic literacy program aligned with the Common Core Standards that focuses on:
Heggerty Heggerty is designed to supplement the existing literacy curriculum. Lessons provide daily opportunities to develop phonological and phonemic awareness through:
Reading Street
The Reading Street curriculum is aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in order to help raise student reading achievement. Reading Street nurtures the love of reading by using various forms of literature. It builds a foundation for reading focusing on: phonics, speaking, listening, and language. Reading Street helps grow student capacity in the following areas: content, comprehension, and writing. It also helps inspire confidence while utilizing small and large group instruction.
Go Math
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GO Math is a K-6 curriculum also aligned with the CCSS that is used in our school to help streamline math skills between grade levels. In Kindergarten, we teach basic skills such as: number sense, operations (addition and subtraction), comparisons, measurement, geometry, and data while forming a base for the next grade level to build upon. In Kindergarten, we will be introducing new concepts during large group time (at the table or on the rug). We will then break into small group centers to reinforce learned concepts. One of the most important skills in math that students begin in kindergarten is putting things together and taking them apart in various ways. They'll think about different ways that a number can be made from two other numbers as they begin to think about addition and subtraction. The geometry that the Kindergarteners learn reinforces this idea of putting together and taking apart, too. For example, students may be asked to make two triangles from a square or to put together shapes to form a new one. All of this investigation is carefully directed to develop skills important for later grades. |