Bent School

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Bent School

• Kindergarten Power Point

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During Kindergarten your child will

• Learn to be part of a class
• Learn to work together as part of a class
• Learn to work independently
• Learn that its okay to make a mistake---you just
  need to fix it
• Learn about letters
• Learn about writing
• Learn about reading
• Learn about math
• Learn to lead class activities as a helper
• Learn new centers

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Attendance

• Attendance at school is very important!
• Call the office ph. 828-4315 in the morning if
  your child will not attend school that day.
• Your child should be fever-free for 24 hours
  before he/she returns to school after an illness.

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Back packs or School Bags

• Please write your childs name on their back
  pack!
• Back packs must be brought to school daily.
• Please check back packs daily for notes, art
  projects, homework, etc,.
• Have a set spot for keeping back pack in your
  home.

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Classroom Rules

• Listen
• Follow all directions the first time they are
  given
• Make good choices
• Keep hands, feet, and all body parts to
  yourselves
• Participate in all kindergarten activities

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Homework

• Homework will come home every Friday in your
  childs Homework Folder.
• Homework is due back every Monday morning.
• Homework should be completed neatly in PENCIL
  only.
• PLEASE READ TO YOUR CHILD DAILY !!!!!!!!!!

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Parent / Teacher Conferences Report Cards

• Parent / Teacher Conferences will be held in
  November and February.
• Written report cards will be given to you at the
  Parent / Teacher Conferences.
• A final report card will be mailed home at the
  end of the school year.
• Other conferences can be set up as needed.

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Newsletters

• Newsletters are sent home every Friday in your
  childs Homework Folder.
• They contain current information about classroom
  activities and upcoming events.

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Awards Assemblies

• Will be held at the end of each quarter
• Awards will be given for
• ---completing the weekly homework neatly and
  turning it in every Monday
• ---counting to 100 by 10s, 5s, 1s and even
  by 2s
• ---being our Student of the Week
• ---At-Home Reading Program

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OUTERWEAR

• Please make sure your childs jackets, coats,
  sweaters, shoes, boots, hats, and mittens are
  labeled with their name.
• Please make sure your child comes dressed for the
  weather.
• And PLEASE encourage your child to tie, zip or
  fasten clothes by themselves.

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LANGUAGE ARTS

• The Language Arts program that is used in my room
  consists of
• Houghton Mifflin Reading Series
• Frog Street Press Alphabet Series
• Alphabet taught through Nursery Rhymes

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• During Language Arts, we will learn about
  different reading strategies and work on the
  following skills
• Predicting
• Making inferences
• Comparing/contrasting
• Rhyming words
• Sight words
• Categorizing
• Beginning, middle end
• Retelling the story

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Our weekly study of letters will include the
following activities

• letter bag activities where the children bring an
  item that starts with the targeted letter and
  give clues to the rest of the class to see if
  they can guess what the item is.
• learning the sound that goes with the letter of
  the week, learning how to write the letter of the
  week, learning words that begin with end with
  the letter of the week.
• learning a nursery rhyme that goes with the
  letter of the week

Kelly brought flowers in for letter Ff day!
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Study of letters cont.

• reading singing the Frog Street Alphabet story
  for the letter of the week.
• reading our pocket chart letter of the week
  story.
• working in our letter of the week books (this
  goes along with our pocket chart letter of the
  week story).
• making an art project that goes with the weekly
  nursery rhyme.

Brianna brought in Mickey Mouse for letter Mm
day!
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Math

• During math there will be a lesson introducing a
  math concept / skill, a time to practice the
  skill as a class in small groups or
  individually a time to review, and a time to
  explore with new math concepts that will be
  taught in coming weeks.

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• Math skills that we will work on are
• Recognition of colors and color words
• Recognition of shapes
• Creating identifying patterns
• Counting to 100 by 10s, 5s, 1s and even by 2s
• One-to-one correspondence
• Left / right
• Sorting classifying by size, shape, color and
  kind
• Identifying numbers 0 12
• Writing numbers 0 12
• Coin recognition value

Our Shape Hunt
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• Concepts of more less
• Simple addition
• Ordinal numbers (first, second, etc)
• Problem solving
• Concepts of space (longer, shorter, taller, etc)
• Concepts of comparison (above, below, between,
  etc)

Eva Joshua found shapes to put in their shape
book!
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Zero the Hero

• Zero the Hero loves to count! He makes a special
  appearance in our classroom on every 10th of
  school!

On the 10th day of school, the children made a
10-day headband and a special Zero the Hero
necklace to wear on every 10th day of school!
Check out our Zero the Hero activities from this
past years class at http//www.district87.org/sta
ff/hernandezk/web page 05-06/Zero the Hero
days.htm
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SCIENCE

• During the 2006 / 2007 school year, we will begin
  using Scott Foresman Science as our science
  curriculum. We will learn about Life Science
  Needs of Plants and Animals, Growing and
  Changing, Plants and Animals All Around, Earth
  Science Our Land, Water and Air, Weather and
  Seasons, Physical Science Matter, Heat and
  Light, How Things Move and Space and Technology
  Day and Night and How Things Work. During each
  unit we will learn songs and finger plays, learn
  science vocabulary, read stories, make
  hypothesis, make inferences, make predictions and
  do some hands-on experiments.
• We will spend approximately 75 minutes
  per week on Science!

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SOCIAL STUDIES

• Our social studies curriculum is Social Studies
  Alive. We will use literature and experiential
  exercises whole group and working in pairs as
  we learn about ourselves, learn about our
  families at home, learn how to get along with
  others, learn how to solve problems with others,
  learn how to be a good helper at school, learn
  about things in our neighborhood, learn about the
  world, learn about how people live around the
  world and learn how to take care of our world. We
  will also spend some time learning about Careers
  / Community Helpers. Our culminating activity for
  this will be our Kindergarten Play called When We
  Grow Up! We will present our play to all our
  family members as well as to the other children
  in our school during early April!
• We will spend approximately 75 minutes
  per week on Social Studies activities!

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Other Important Information

• Our classroom web page can be found at
  www.district87.org/staff/hernandezk
• Mrs. Hernandezs email address is
  hernandezk_at_district87.org