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Descubre
Conmigo Mascot
KinderRoo & Joey |
Descubre Conmigo is the Spanish version of KinderCorner.
Descubre Conmigo is a full-day comprehensive kindergarten
program to foster children’s language, cognitive,
mathematical, emotional, interpersonal, creative, and
physical development. Descubre Conmigo engages students
in topics ranging from Mis seres queridos to Cuidemos
nuestra Tierra. The focus on strong oral language skills,
a love of reading, and listening comprehension creates
a solid foundation for reading.
Descubre Conmigo is designed
as a full-day program but can be adapted for half-day
implementations.
welcomes children into the classroom to begin
the day with reading, writing, and other meaningful
activities.
settles children into a sharing time to promote
oral language development and a sense of community.
They learn vocabulary and thematic concepts for the
day.
promotes phonemic awareness and increases vocabulary
related to the theme through rhymes, songs, and games.
engages children in wonderful, age-appropriate
literature as they make predictions, recall events,
and learn new, theme-related vocabulary.
engages children in problem solving, exploring
materials, experimenting, observing, and recording.
connects math to everyday life. All the activities
center around an interactive bulletin board.
enhances children’s interpersonal, self-help,
and gross motor skills through peer and adult-child
interaction.
exposes children to phonics through letter-sound
connections, syllable blending, and segmenting. The
Kinder Lee Conmigo Shared Stories (Cuentos Compartidos)
provide a meaningful context to practice beginning reading
skills.
emphasizes number concept awareness and math
skills development, as students construct their own
understanding of mathematics.
provides poetry or beautiful prose filled with
imagery that children listen to as they rest.
has children writing about whatever they wish
or responding to theme-related suggestions by the teacher.
reinforces skills and concepts that children
have learned during the day.
promotes family involvement in children’s
education through an activity that links what children
learn at school with their life outside school.
Kindergarten teachers receive all the necessary instructional
materials to implement the Descubre Conmigo program,
including:
- A Descubre Conmigo Teacher’s
Manual that provides an overview of the program, including
chapters on the curriculum components, teaching reading,
teaching strategies, family and teacher support, and
assessment.
- Sixteen 2-Week Unit Theme Guides,
the backbone of Descubre Conmigo. Theme Guides provide
daily lesson guides, materials lists, objectives,
vocabulary, a detailed description of each component,
and a letter for parents.
- Four comprehensive kits containing
children’s books, puzzles, and other manipulative
materials that introduce and support the thematic
concepts and vocabulary of each theme.
- Big Books with bright, beautiful
photographs and illustrations that provide support
for instruction on concepts of print as well as thematic
concepts. Small black and white student copies of
each of these Big Books go home with the children
so that they can read them with family.
- 16 Kinder Lee Conmigo Shared Stories.
A powerful literacy strand includes colorful stories
with decodable text. Children’s consumable versions
help them build a library at home as they master reading.
- Rhyme Cards, Phonics Picture Cards,
Activity Cards, and Posters support instruction of
new concepts, concepts of print, and/or the children’s
practice of skills, e.g., sorting, classifying, and
so on.
- Cuentos y rimas CDs that provide
the children with additional opportunities to listen
to some of the stories that they have heard during
Árbol de cuentos. The children can “read
along” as the CDs provide a signal when to turn
the page. The rhymes and songs from Al ritmo del tema
encourage the children to recite or sing along, enhancing
phonemic awareness and vocabulary development.
- Matemática para el hogar
pages that the children take home to practice their
math skills.
Use the following link(s) to browse sample lessons from
Descubre Conmigo.
Descubre
Conmigo - sample lesson from Theme Guide 2
Your Descubre Conmigo Coach builds a partnership with
your school through training sessions, onsite coaching,
scheduled telephone meetings, quarterly progress reports,
and informal telephone support. Training sessions are
developed in conjunction with school leaders and are
customized to the needs of your staff.
A rich, active initial training prepares teachers to
begin implementing the program.
- 3 onsite training days are scheduled
in the late summer for teachers, assistants, and administrators.
- Training outlines the objectives
of Descubre Conmigo and prepares staff to begin implementing
the program.
As the school year begins, school/district leaders and
your Descubre Conmigo Coach will develop specific instructional
goals and outcomes. Each school receives:
- Quarterly monitoring of progress
toward school-wide goals.
- Periodic sessions to examine data
with leadership and staff to establish targets and
interventions for the following quarter.
As the year progresses, you’ll have a variety
of ways to work with your Descubre Conmigo Coach to
review your progress and refine your goals. Each school
receives:
- 3 half-day onsite support visits
over the year at each school (based on 3 classrooms
per school). Each visit consists of classroom visits,
trouble-shooting, data interpretation, and goal setting.
- 4 half-day joint training sessions
with other schools in the cluster. Training sessions
include topics such as classroom environment and management,
student portfolio assessment, and/or facilitating
Talleres de aprendizaje.
- 4 follow-up telephone meetings
with each school. These quarterly meetings provide
teachers added support for their implementation of
the program through further training, troubleshooting,
goal setting and help with assessment issues
Do you want to learn more about Descubre Conmigo? Please
call and talk to one of our staff members at 1-800-548-4998,
ext.2372, or fill out the information
request form online.
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