{"id":594,"date":"2015-09-14T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.ourladymtcarmelschool.org\/?page_id=594"},"modified":"2017-10-13T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:03:53","slug":"kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/olmcs.org\/?page_id=594","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students in Kindergarten receive instruction in religion, integrated language arts and reading, math, science and social studies. The following are the summaries of the curriculum covered in each of these subject areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b>Religion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text &#8211; We Believe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Sadlier, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will study the seasons of the liturgical year, special feast days, Creation, Baptism, the Blessed Trinity and Mary. Special emphasis will be placed on Jesus including His life, miracles and mission. The students will be exposed to spontaneous, as well as formal, prayer on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>English Language Arts<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phonics (K)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0Modern Curriculum Press, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One letter of the alphabet will be introduced each week with an emphasis on sound recognition and correct formation through printing practice. The students will be exposed gradually to consonant blends and digraphs. With the mastery of sounds, the boys and girls will progress to blending them to form words with a concentration on short medial vowel sounds. Color and number words will be introduced, and there will be an emphasis placed on high frequency words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication and comprehension skills will be developed through daily exposure to various types of age appropriate literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Story writing will reinforce the use of punctuation, upper and lower case letter usage, action words, words of description and creative expression. Writing will also assist in exposing the students to spelling for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Math<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Text &#8211; Go Math! (K). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The skills to be covered will include: patterns, shapes, size-comparison, measurement, recognition and printing of numerals (0-20). In working with sets, the students will become familiar with the terms \u201cgreater than\u201d, \u201cfewer than\u201d and \u201cequal to\u201d. Instruction progresses to joining and separating sets and simple problem solving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Science<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Supplemental Materials: \u00a0Science Spin. Scholastic, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Science Dimensions.\u00a0 Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt, 2018<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will study the five senses, the seasons, characteristics of living things, planting, nutrition, the human body, weather and drug resistance awareness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Social Studies \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supplemental Materials: \u00a0Let&#8217;s Find Out. Scholastic, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Topics included will be: the concepts of self, family and community, maps, direction, the globe, famous people in history and present day, holidays and community helpers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Additional Information<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students in Kindergarten also attend classes in Art, Library, Computer, Spanish, Music and Physical Education. For a program description in these subjects, please click on the corresponding menu item at the top of the page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a description of the Curriculum Guidelines of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, visit the website of<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aopcatholicschools.org\/elementary-schools\/curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Archdiocese of Phiiadelphia Office of Catholic Education<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For information regarding Core Curriculum State Standards for Kindergarten, click here:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicschools-phl.org\/images\/Kindergarten_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.catholicschools-phl.org\/images\/Kindergarten_Standards.pdf <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Kindergarten receive instruction in religion, integrated language arts and reading, math, science and social studies. The following are the summaries of the curriculum covered in each of these subject areas. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Religion Text &#8211; We Believe. Sadlier, 2015. 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