We welcome all of you to the new academic year at HUBS!

We are excited to have your children in our school; it will be fun for them to learn so many new things and fun for us to prepare them for their successful future.

Our goals for the 2009/2010 school year: To know each student’s individual potential and to

guide them with academic lessons in order to establish a strong foundation.

It will take time, patience, and encouragement from both school and home to achieve our goals.

Your continued cooperation and support is greatly valued.

My colleagues and I will show you step by step the academic plan. At the end of our presentation we will answer any questions you may have.

HUBS

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Welcometo

PreK!!!

Oral Skills

Language Arts

Reading

Phonics

Writing

Oral Skills

Build vocabulary

Participate in group conversationCommunicate needs

Share ideas and experiences

Phonics

Identify letters and sounds

Recognize initial sounds

ReadingGuesses what a story is about using book illustrationsIdentifies beginning and ending of stories

Aware of settings, characters, and sequence of events.

WritingDevelop fine motor skills

Develop eye/hand coordination

Scribble and draw

Trace shapes and lower case letters

Math

Patterns

Geometry

Measurement

Counting &

Numbers

Counting & Numbers

Recognizing Numbers

Constructing a set

Counting a set

Geometry

Naming and Matching ShapesCompletion of Rotated Figures

Patterns

Identifying and Describing Patterns

Pattern Extension

Measurement

Comparison of Length

Science

Earth Science

Life Science

Life Science

The Five Senses

Nonliving

Living

Earth Science

Weather

Seasonal Apparel

The Sky

WelcometoKG1!!!

Language Arts

At HUBS we follow a highly organized, integrated curriculum which covers the following basic skills :

Math

Science

Oral Skills

Language Arts

Phonics

Reading

Writing

Oral Skills

Build vocabulary

Follow oral directions

Answer questions

Participate in group discussions

Communicate needs

Share ideas and experience

PhonicsIdentify letter names and sounds

Recognize that words are made up of a series of sounds

Introduce rhyme and rhythm

Match words with the same beginning sound

ReadingGuess what a story is about using book title and illustrations

Predict what might happen next in a story

Identify beginning and ending of story

Learn story elements: setting, characters, and sequence of events

Follow print from left to right

WritingDevelop fine motor skills

Develop eye/hand coordination

Scribble and draws

Trace shapes, numerals, and letters; upper and lower case

Print own name from left to right

Draw pictures to illustrate a story

Math

Algebra

Geometry

Measurement

Reasoning

Numbers andOperations

Connect number words and numerals to the quantity

Numbers and

Count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects

Operations

Develop a sense of whole numbers by composing and adding

Understand various meanings of addition

Algebra

Sort, classify, and order objects by size, number, and other properties

Recognize, describe, and extend patterns

Analyze how growing patterns are generated

Geometry

Recognize, name, build, draw, compare, and sort two dimensional shapes

Describe attributes and parts of two dimensional shapes

Create images of geometric shapes

MeasurementRecognize the attributes of length, volume, weight, area, and time

Compare and order objects according to these attributes

Understand how to measure using standard and nonstandard units

Reasoning

Sort and classify objects according to their attributes and organize data about the objects

Represent data using concrete objects, pictures, and graphs

Describe parts of the data

Science

Life Science

Earth

Living

humans

plants

animals

Life ScienceFive Senses

Needs of the Living

Nonliving

EarthLand, air, water

Weather

Seasons

Seasonal Apparel

Sky

Through out their journey into the world of Science in Kindergarten , our children will learn about the climate changes around the world and value the natural differences in the environment. They will also start to see how different living things require different needs and how we are a part of this circle of life. Children will learn how to use their 5 senses in understanding the differences between living and non living things.

This year HUBS school is Introducing Montessori Program to KG classes to enrich the children’s education and widen their horizon.

The children will be working hands on in the Montessori classroom.

Montessori

More than a century has passed since Year (1907), when the name Montessori flashed like a comet across the sphere

of Education. Maria Montessori was born in Italy in the year 1870. She was the first woman to become a doctor in

medicine .

Who is Maria Montessori?

She started taking interest in children when she was appointed as a child Psychiatrist. She was studying them,

meditating over their conditions, and longing to help them. She came in contact with the famous French educators also

working on feeble minded children.She started preparing a special method not just for the disabled children but for normal children, too .

She made many of her own materials and was constantly experimenting, modifying, and adapting .

“Whatever the child can grasp in his/her tiny hands, he tries to grasp in his mind! It all comes as grist to

the mill”.

“We can only help the child by providing the best conditions”.

Maria Montessori’s

Philosophy

Dr Montessori described the ages 3-6 years, the kindergarten age, in the child development as a “sensitive period,” a “searchlight coming

from within the mind”.

Montessori classroom is divided into 6 areas of work:

Practical life: this area helps the child in his daily life (eating) (getting dressed)

(taking care of others)…

Sensorial: Refine the children senses through exercises of attention, comparison and judgment.

Language and math: the children start learning from concrete to abstract.

Social study: The children will learn that we live on earth, and earth is formed of water and land. Also, the children will learn about continents, countries, and flags.

Science: Introduction to Botany (parts of a flower, tree, roots). Zoologie (parts of a horse, bird, fish…), human body, living non-living and a lot

more …

She advocated pre-school education at a time when there was no school for children under the age of six. Maria Montessori’s ideas have been incorporated into today’s educational programs all over the world.

The Italian government honored Dr. Montessori by printing her picture on the 1000 Lire bill, the standard currency used prior to the Euro.

1. Cancel all major events and integrate them within the curriculum.

Examples: International Day will be integrated with social studiesGreen Day will be integrated with science100 Hundred Days of school will be integrated with morning

calendar and math activities.

2. Morning assembly will be canceled except for Thursdays. This will add an additional 45 minutes to our schedule four days a week where we will be working on their fine motor skills and ESL.

Compensation plan for this year:

TimeSunMonTuesWedThurs

7:15 – 7:55

Fine motor skills

WritingMathConversationMorning assembly

8:00 -8:45

Oral language

8:45-9:00

lunch

9:00-9:30

Specials

9:30-10:00

Phonics

10:00-10:30

Math

10:30-11:00

Recess

11:00-11:45

Arabic

11:45-12:30

centers

12:30-1:00

Closing Circle &

snack

Schedule as of Now