George has had a terrific school year. He has progressed and grown immensely since the beginning of the school year. George can recognize and name all letters of the alphabet and he can demonstrate all associated sounds and actions. He is able to use his knowledge of letters and sound-symbol relationships in order to read words and to establish meaning when reading aloud to adults. George is developing confidence when speaking to teachers and his peers. He is beginning to be able to sit and listen attentively to his peers during class discussions and when prompted, he will answer questions. George will participate in Shared Writing activities by offering a letter sound or coming up to the whiteboard to write a word for the class. He has memorized a number of high-frequency words and can now write many of them without needing to look at a model in order to complete simple sentences e.g. I love my book. As George explores, he is beginning to talk about the results of his explorations. When encouraged or prompted by a teacher, he is beginning to ask meaningful questions in relation to the activity. When faced with a task that is challenging for him he is now persisting for longer periods of time, rather than giving up in the early stages of the activity. I am happy to see him using strategies such as breaking big tasks down into smaller, more manageable pieces, working with friends to accomplish go
als, and trying again when a plan that he has does not work out the first time. It has been a pleasure to be his kindergarten teacher and I enjoyed watching him grow!
It has been a pleasure to be Williams kindergarten teacher this year. I have been extremely impressed with Williamss progress to date in this curriculum area; he demonstrates a very positive attitude when approaching all Literacy activities! William can recognize and name all letters of the alphabet and can demonstrate the sound and actions for all of these letters. He can speak clearly and use good words to explain and develop his ideas during group discussions. Williams handwriting is showing much improvement, he is consistently using lowercase letters and working on keeping all of his letters the same size. He is beginning to try to spell words using his phonological understanding. He is able to hear the initial and final sounds in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words allowing him to try to spell both familiar and unfamiliar words. He is very good in recognizing the digraphs -ch, -sh, and -th and uses this knowledge to improve his reading and writing. When reading, William is beginning to recognize familiar words in the text, including sight words, and patterned word groups. William has moved from simply being able to read individual words to comprehending more complex texts. I have enjoyed watching William grow and learn in K2.