The emphasis at Rowe School is on laying the foundation for Yarmouth Core Values and Life Role Outcomes. As a member of the Rowe School community, your child is working towards being safe, kind, helpful, and polite and developing positive work habits.

Responsible Community Member

• Shows respect for others (sensitive and tolerant of others, respecting rights & property of others, good manners, works and plays well with others)

• Shows respect for school environment (materials, workspace, belongings)

• Follows rules and routines of the school (classroom, playground, and hallways)

• Exhibits self control

• Takes responsibility for own actions

• Contributes positively in a group

Self-Directed Learner

• Listens attentively to others

• Follows directions

• Works independently

• Uses time constructively

• Seeks help when necessary

• Completes work

• Shows best effort

• Expresses ideas clearly when speaking

The reading and writing report card indicators are based on end-of-year standards from the Common Core.  It is common for students to still be “Developing” toward those standards midyear.  Unmarked indicators have not yet been assessed.  

Foundational Skills: 

• Reading Habits: Reads with stamina and engagement  

• Print Concepts: Understands basic features of print; left-right, spaces, text-voice match. Recognizes and names all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet. 

• Phonological Awareness: Demonstrates understanding of syllables, sounds (phonemes), and rhyming words

• Phonics: Decodes all consonant sounds, CVC words in isolation, and all short vowel sounds

• Sight Words: Reads grade-appropriate high frequency words by sight 

• Comprehension: Reads and comprehends texts at grade level 

Narrative Reading:

• Summarize: With prompting, retells a story including beginning, middle, and end

• Compare and Contrast: With prompting, identifies similarities and differences in familiar stories

Informational Reading: 

• Summarize: With prompting, identifies the main topic and retells key facts 

• Text Features: With prompting, uses text features to locate key facts or information

• Analysis:  With support, compares and contrasts two texts on similar topics

Text Types and Purposes:

• Narrative Writing

  • Structure: Tells, draws and writes sequenced stories

  • Development: Includes details about who was there, what they did, and how they felt

• Informational Writing

  • Structure: Tells, draws and writes about a topic

  • Development: Includes some important details about a topic

• Opinion Writing

  • Structure: Tells, draws and writes to introduce and explain an opinion

  • Development: Includes details in pictures and words

Writing Process:

• Planning: Generates ideas and orally rehearses writing

• Revising: Reviews pictures and can reread to add details

• Editing: Rereads writing to check for spaces between words, capital letters and punctuation

• Spelling: Applies word study concepts and uses the word wall to help with spelling

• Writing Habits: Draws and writes with grade-level stamina and engagement

• Handwriting: Writes legibly and efficiently

The following goals are at the core of our Kindergarten curriculum. Please note that these are important goals, but they are not the only concepts to which students will be exposed at this grade level. Students will have a rich curriculum, and their experiences in math will introduce them to many new concepts that will deepen over time.

Counting and Cardinality

• Know number names and the count sequence

• Count to tell the number of objects

• Compare numbers

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from

Number and Operations in Base Ten

• Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value

Measurement and Data

• Describe and compare measurable attributes

• Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category

Geometry

• Identify and describe shapes

• Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes