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1	Grade 4K Family Guide: 2024-25
2	Holy Hill Area School District
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4	Themes	Back to School Colors Apples	Pumpkins Leaves Fire Safety	Shapes Thanksgiving Friendship	Snowflakes Cookie Baking	Mittens Scarves Snowpeople	Teddy Bears Hearts 100 Day Dental Health	Robots Construction	Ladybugs Butterflies Flowers	Pizza Ducks Boats
5	Purposeful Play Workshop	School store Bus *Apple Orchard	Farmers Market Farm Fire Truck Vehicles	Kitchen Grocery Store Restaurant Delivery Truck	Xmas Tree Lot Bakery *Sled / Snowboard	Snowplow Snowblower Winter Shop Hot Choc/Coffee Shop	Vet Hospital Ambulance Dentist Office Post Office *Teddy Bear Hospital	Dumptruck/ Digger Construction Site *Robot Factory	Flowershop Nature Center *Tractor	Pizzeria Boat Bait Shop Fishing
6	Reading Foundational Skills	We are readers.	Characters identifying parts of a book Words match the pictures.	Identifying parts of a book introduce turn and talk	Partner Reading and building stamina	Understanding the difference between fiction and non-fiction	Introduce repetition of books. Introduce writing finger	Introduce nightly reading / home reading. Use beginning sounds and picture cues to read rhyming books.	Continue to build stamina and emphasize using reading finger to read words.	Readers Celebration. Review reading strategies learned.
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10	Interactive Read Alouds
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12	Literacy Foundational Skills	Throughout year: Concepts of Print. Namewriting. Drawing. Storytelling. Labeling. Cutting.
13		Letters L	Letters J, A, D, P, Z	Letters K, V, O	Letters F, M	Letters S, X, I, L, N	Letters R, H, U, G	Letters C, Q, W	Letters Y, E	Letter Celebrations
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16	Writing Foundational Skills	We are writers.	Introducing Journal adding expressions adding details and color to our drawings.	Different kinds of writing Staying on topic. writers can add more detail.	develop writing stamina share writing with a friend.	Introduce writing the room, talking about environmental print in writing.	label drawings using scribbles and/or beginning sound letters.	Writing books of lists	Understand the use of real color in drawings / write number stories.	Writing Celebrations. Celebration of stories.
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20	Math	Apples Establishing Calendar Routines. Shapes and Colors: Same and Different	Pumpkins/Leaves ABAB Pattern - Pumpkin Seed Graph	Shapes ABAB Pattern. Counting.	Snowflakes ABAB Pattern - Gingerbread Graph.	Mittens, Scarves, Snowpeople ABC Pattern - Sorting Marshmallow Graph	Teddy Bears AABB Pattern - 100th Day, Counting On, Sorting.	Robots AAB Pattern - Solid Shapes.	Ladybugs, Butterflies, Flowers ABCD Pattern - Count by Tens	Ducks and Boats Pattern and Shape Celebrations
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23	Heggerty Skills	Phonological Awareness throughout the Year : Blending, Segmenting, Rhyming, Nursery Rhumes, Syllables, Deletion, Addition, Manipulation
24	Social Development and Science	Expectations Be Responsible, Safe, and Kind Community	Excellence	Show Gratitude	Empathy	Serve: Help Others	Integrity	Insipre	Persevere: Never Give Up	Teamwork
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28	Fine Motor Skills	Pencil Grasp Cutting Glue Control Tracing Modeling Threading and Lacing			Control/Refining Trimester1 Skills Modeling Letter Formation Modeling Numbers Zipping/Buttoning/Snapping			Decreasing Deviation in Cutting Writing Numbers and Letters Fastening Buttons and Snaps
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32	Gross Motor Skills	Moves Safely Self-Regulation
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36		***This Family Guide is subject to change throughout the school year based on student and class need, state/local/national/world events, pacing, etc.								updated 11/2022