Welcome to a new school year and to Jr. Kindergarten. My name is Julie Keever and I will be your child's teacher this year. I taught Pre-K last year here at CCS, however, I am looking forward to a great year in Jr. K.
Meet the Students in our class.
Our language/reading curriculum is called Texas Journeys for Kindergarten. It is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and is being used by several of our local school districts as well. The First two weeks we will be "Getting Ready for Kindergarten", a unit that reviews some basics that include: Rhyming, recognizing names, book handling, distinguishing between letters and numbers, letter names and Environmental print. For Math we will be using Saxon Math for Kindergarten. The first few lessons will included familiar with the tools we will be using during our lessons. Some of these include: Counting Bears, Pattern Blocks, Pictographs for Graphing and Linking Cubes.
Throughout the year we will have lessons in Science and Social Studies. During August and September we will look at What makes us Special, Families, Johnny Appleseed, and The Five Senses.
I will send out a monthly calendar to give you an over view of the many activities we will be doing throughout the year. The first one for August is attached below.
