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Welcome
to the Kindergarten
Resource Room web site. The resource staff includes Cheryl Grady,
Special Education teacher and Cheryl West, Special Education assistant.
To
support teaching and
success for all kindergarten students we work with small groups and
individual students both in and out of the classroom. We are
lucky to know all the students and spend time in all the kindergarten
classrooms. There is so much to learn on a daily basis and to
remember from day to day. Children enjoy practicing what they
have learned in a game format with friends. They also appreciate extra
help remembering daily routines and negotiating with friends throughout
the day. I enjoy seeing children at lunch and recess as well as
in their classrooms.
The
purpose of small group
work is to reinforce skills introduced and provide extra practice for
students as needed. Students may be invited to join a group in
their classroom or visit the resource room for games with friends to
reinforce skills. Parents are asked to sign a skills group
permission form if your child is coming to work with a small group on a
regular basis. All the Kindergarten children also benefit from daily
input from Linda Plath. She works in all the classrooms to
reinforce phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness includes skills such
as recognizing the sounds that letters make and identifying these
sounds at the beginning of words, matching sounds to letter symbols,
recognizing the number of syllables in words and identifying rhyming
pairs.
Current Small group focus:
Language Arts-
Initial
Sound association
for M and P. More letters will be added as they are introduced in
class.
Can
you name all the letters
in our name? Can you write all the letters in your first name with
upper and lower case letters?
Fine Motor-
Children
play many Games and
Exercises to reinforce holding a pencil correctly and forming the
shapes necessary to write numbers and letters.
If your child mentions
they
played a game with one of us ask them what it was.
Cheryl Grady
 
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