Rainier View's Classrooms 2000-2001 Classrooms Click on the Teacher's name to view their classroom webpage. The children enter school with a wide range of abilities and are all expected to be doing some reading by the end of the year. The focus in kindergarten is capital and lower case letter identification, sounds and rhymes. We begin looking at how letters go together to form words. In math, we practice counting, work on patterning, write numbers and explore addition.
Social skills are a huge part of the kindergarten year.
Children begin to learn how to work in a group, how to solve problems in socially acceptable ways and how to take turns. Working toward the goal of reading with comprehension, writing with skill, and communicating effectively and responsibly, your child will learn to integrate reading, writing, and communication skills to produce high-quality projects and assignments. They will see reading as a source of information and as an enjoyable leisure-time activity. In math, they will learn the basic addition and subtraction facts as well as getting into some beginning fractions, money counting, and geometric shapes. The second grade team will be focusing on expanding student's reading, writing, and math skills.