General Studies
The only regular homework assigned in kindergarten.
What is reading to/with your child(ren) every night!
-reading is developmental (crawling, walking)
-improves language, literacy, and listening skills.
-promotes bonding and emotional development
This folder goes home full at the end of each week.
What is the Friday Folder?
-will come home full of projects and assignments completed during the week.
-should be returned EMPTY on Monday.
-stickers for every Monday it is brought back empty.
This is the Rabbi that will be working closely with Kindergarten.
Who is Rabbi Mari?
After years of not being able to do this, we will have three of these off-campus activities this year.
What are field trips?
1. Fire Station
2. Aquarium of the Pacific
3. Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum
The name of our math program.
What is My Math?
- Math books for each student to write in.
-modeled lessons, guided practice, independent practice, and "homework" as review.
-Math is everywhere, not just in a book!
The names of the two school-wide performances at Briskin.
What is Global Fest and Intergenerational (IG) Day?
-Kindergarten and First Grade will be studying Greece this year!
This first Kindergarten family event will be celebrating the Jewish holiday of the harvest.
What is the Kindergarten Family Sukkot Program!
October 13 from 8:15-9:15 a.m. on the Courtyard.
Kindergarten engages in this activity every morning to build social, emotional, and fine/gross motor skills.
What is Explorations?
-We start each day with explorations.
-Emphasis on learning through play!
This is a black and white bird that cannot fly.
What is a penguin?
Units of study are based around science but are cross-curricular.
Five senses, magnets, sink and float, force, penguins, and butterflies.
This is a very exciting day of kindergarten in late February and it includes creating an at-home project.
What is the 100th day of school?
-each student makes a 100th-day project
-the entire day is focused on the number 100!
Our students have learned a song about their hands, or ____________, in Hebrew.
What is Yadayim?
-current vocabulary unit is focusing on body parts.
-throughout the year, they will learn vocabulary for clothes, food, colors, numbers, family, home, class, holidays, and more!
This is the name of the puppet that visits our class every 10th day of school.
Who is Zero the Hero?
During this time, students are put into small groups and go through rotations focused on particular skills.
What is language arts?
-4 times per week
-two teacher-led groups and one independent group
-focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and handwriting.
-books from Reading A-Z
The name of the project each student will complete when they are "student of the week."
What is Marvelous Me?
-each student will be assigned a week to be marvelous me.
This weekly Jewish holiday is a focus for Kindergarten Hebrew, Judaic Studies, and General Studies.
What is Shabbat?
-celebrated in Hebrew on Fridays
-Shabbat curriculum throughout the year in Judaic Studies
-each student is assigned a day to be our Shabbat Helper!
The name of the website we use for movement breaks and fun!
What is Go Noodle?
Educational, themed, silly, and fun!
This is the name of the writing framework we use.
What is Writer's Workshop?
Units: Telling Stories Through Pictures, List Books, Pattern Books, All About Books, and Small Moments.
Students use inventive spelling and choose topics of their choice.
This is the name of the social-emotional learning approach we use at Briskin.
What is R.U.L.E.R.?
Recognizing
Understanding
Labeling
Expressing
Regulating
Tools include Charter, Mood Meter, Meta Moment, Blueprint, feeling word curriculum
This is the kindergarten Middah, which means "in the image of G-d."
What is Btzelem Elohim?ˆ
These are the six specialist classes that our students go to each week.
What is Drama, Music, Art, Yoga, Library, and P.E?