Kindergarten Major Upcoming Texts Animals in Winter Now and Then/ Black History Month Skills to be covered: compare/contrast characters and events in stories main idea/main topic summarize using first, next, then, and last narrative writing explanatory/informative writing nouns/verbs plural nouns compound words antonyms Fluency Letter Naming Fluency: Letters named per minute Oral Reading Fluency: Words read per minute Nonsense Word Fluency: Sounds and/or nonsense words read per minute Letter Naming Fluency Oral Reading Fluency Nonsense Word Fluency End of Year Goals Letter Naming Fluency: 50 letters per minute Oral Reading Fluency: 40 words per minute Nonsense Word Fluency: 35 words per minute Math Skills to be covered Orally counting to 75 Count by 5 and 10 to 100 Composing/decomposing numbers up to 10 Addition/Subtraction (story problems/standard algorithm) manipulatives number bonds drawings pencil/paper Missing addends What is composing and decomposing numbers? Composing Numbers Taking two parts and putting them together to make a whole. Decomposing Having a whole and breaking it into two parts. part whole Reversals When you turn your numbers backwards. We are not counting off for reversals, however, you do want to make sure that you point it out to your child and encourage them to correct it. Transpose When you flip the numbers out of order. We are counting off for transposing numbers, because it creates a completely new number.