| Submitted by Larry Stinn
The kindergarten teachers and para-professionals are team teaching in the mornings this year at Pleasant Hill School. The
students go to all five learning stations for a 20-minute lesson on different kindergarten objectives.
Mrs. Becky Czap teaches each group awareness of the sounds that make up language. This is a foundation which must be
in place to learn phonics. Later in the year she will introduce them to phonics, the relationship between letters and
sounds.
Mrs. Czap teaches language sounds
Through children's literature Mrs. Kristi Ritchie teaches comprehension of what is heard and later read, concepts about
print, identifying and describing the characters in a story, noticing details, comparing and contrasting.
Mrs. Kristi Ritchie teaches comprehension
Mrs. Becky Miller teaches students about the way language is put together (naming words, singular and plural, etc) and
writing. Children's "emergent" writing can take the form of drawings, lines and squiggles, or some words.
Mrs. Miller teaches language and writing
Mrs. Anne Smith teaches beginning math skills to each group: shapes, counting, correspondence between numbers and
objects, patterns.
Mrs. Smith teaches math skills
Mrs. Bette Ritchie teaches students about computers and beginning keyboarding skills. They practice the reading, writing
and math skills they have learned in other groups.
Mrs. Bette Ritchie teaches computers
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