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| Literacy | Math |
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| Activity Set 1 | Learn letters in their name, sounds associated with those letters, and how to write their name. Words are made up of groups of letters; letters represent sounds; words begin with the letter on the left and ends with the last letter on the right. Learn to recognize words to familiar songs and poems. | Understand that a number represents a set of objects; practice counting, ordering, and comparing groups of objects. Learn to count, write, identify, and represent numbers 1 to 5. |
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| Activity Set 2 | Learn the sound associated with certain letters. Emphasize the sound letters make as words are written. Help children make sense of print by talking with them while writing. Help children listen for and repeat the initial sound in his/her name. | Count a set of objects to 10 and identify the numerals 1 through 10. Sort groups of objects and practice observing, describing, and making distinctions between the characteristics of objects. Practice counting to 10. |
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| Activity Set 3 | Listen to and discuss family stories. Through interesting discussions children will understand how “stories” work. | Order sets of objects and learn how to compare the relative differences between them—longest to shortest, lightest to darkest, more to less, lightest to heaviest. |
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| Activity Set 4 | By conducting interviews children learn how to ask questions to gather information. Use information to create books and stories to share with family and friends. | Recognize, create, and extend patterns. Understand that a pattern is a form of ordering that eventually repeats itself. Make predictions about what happens next based on an understanding of the pattern. |
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| Activity Set 5 | Practice making letter-sound connections. Pronounce words as they are written. Emphasize sounds at the beginning, middle, and end of each word. | Understand that geometry is the study of shapes and spatial relationships. Provide children opportunities to relate math to the real world by looking for and naming different shapes. |
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| Activity Set 6 | Understand all the reasons why we read and write. For example, to remember information (make a list), communicate information (write a letter), learn new information (read a paper). | Explore numbers one through 20. Understand that the number 12 is represented by one group of 10 plus 2 ones, 15 is presented by one group of 10 plus 5 ones. |
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| Activity Set 7 | Learn new words and understand how words are organized into complete sentences. Learn to organize thoughts and make themselves understood. Learn to express their ideas and stories as well as understand the ideas and stories of others. | Add two sets of numbers together to get a total. Play with sets of objects and counting to find the total number. |
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| Activity Set 8 | Recall events, retell stories, and speak in complete sentences. Help children master prerequisites for learning to read. | Practice adding to and taking away from sets of objects. |
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| Activity Set 9 | Review all the skills learned during the previous 8 sets. Think about and discuss how to identify and discuss children’s questions about Kindergarten. | Review math activities from the previous eight sets. Observe the ways children’s approaches differ now from when they did the task earlier. Make up number riddles to challenge children to think about numbers one to twenty. |
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