Halfday Schedule

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Welcome!!
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What is All Day Alternate Day kindergarten and
how is it different from half-day everyday?

• Students attend half-day kindergarten for 549
  hours distributed over a half-day, every day
  throughout the school year. Students in All Day
  Alternate Day (ADAD) kindergarten attend for the
  same 549 hours, but on a different schedule, in
  our case, 5 full days spread over 2 weeks.

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What is all day alternate day kindergarten and
how is it different from half-day everyday?

• In support of half day every day kindergarten,
  students go to school everyday, receiving daily
  reinforcement of concepts and routines. The
  drawback is that time is very limited. Once the
  daily calendar and opening routine is complete,
  teachers barely have time to introduce academics
  and its time to pack up at mid-day to send the
  students home.

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What is all day alternate day kindergarten and
how is it different from half-day everyday?

• With all day alternate day (ADAD) kindergarten
  schedule, teachers have many of the advantages of
  the full day every day schedule. Teachers are
  with one set of children throughout the day.
  After the initial opening routine, time may be
  spent introducing, reinforcing, and even
  re-teaching a concept throughout a whole day. The
  whole day is less stressful for students and
  teachers because learning isnt crammed into a
  half day.

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Remember When.

• A kindergartners day consisted of
• Finger painting
• Playing games
• Drawing pictures
• Taking naps
• Having a snack
• Show and Tell

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Kindergarten isnt what it used to be.

• Michigan Kindergarten Grade Level Content
  Expectations (MGLCEs)
• Understand and follow 2 step directions
• Recognize that words are made of sounds blended
  together and words have meaning
• Discuss simple story elements retell a story in
  their own words
• Easily recognize correctly spell approximately
  40 high frequency words
• Write a brief personal story using pictures,
  words or sentences
• Write from left to right and top to bottom,
  leaving space between words
• Put together and take apart numbers that total up
  to ten
• Learn number sense (more than or less than)
• Record mathematical facts by writing simple
  additional and subtraction facts.

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Comparing the Day

• Current Half day Schedule
• Arrival/Announcements (15 minutes)
• Large Group Activities (50 minutes)
• Specials (30 minutes)
• Centers Snack or Library or Computers (40
  minutes)
• Center time clean-up (10 minutes)
• Prepare to go outside (5minutes)
• Recess (15 minutes)
• Prepare to go home Dismissal
• (15 minutes)
• pass out notes, summarize our day, announcements
  and reminders for the next school day.

• All Day / Every other day
• Arrival/Announcements (15 minutes)
• Large Group Activities (60 minutes)
• Literacy Block (60 minutes)
• Computer Lab/ Library (40 minutes/1 each day)
  Snack
• Lunch/ Recess (50 minutes)
• DEAR time (10 minutes)
• Math instruction (35 minutes)
• Specials (60 minutes)
• Center Time snack (40 minutes)
• Center time clean-up (10 minutes)
• Prepare to go home Dismissal
• (15 minutes)
• pass out notes, summarize our day, announcements
  and reminders for the next school day.

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Instructional Time(All approximate times)

• Current
• Large Group 50 minutes
• Center Time (3 days a week _at_ 40 minutes)
• Equals
• 50 minutes x 5 days 250
• 40 minutes 3 days 120
• 370 minutes a week
• X 2 weeks 740 minutes every 2 weeks (of
  academic instruction)

• ADAD (In 1 day)
• Large group 60 minutes
• Literacy Block 60 minutes
• DEAR Time 10 minutes
• Math time 35 minutes
• Center time 40 minutes
• Equals 205 minutes x 5 days 1025 minutes every
  2 weeks (of academic instruction)

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This means we can add

• 285 minutes of instructional time over 2 weeks
  which equals
• 5700 minutes a year
• Which equals to 95 MORE hours of instruction in a
  school year!!

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What will the schedule look like?Children will
attend Kindergarten either
OR

• Monday, Thursday and
• every other Wednesday
• If they need K they will attend K on
• Tuesday, Friday and off Wednesdays

• Tuesday, Friday and every other Wednesday
• If they need K they will attend K on
• Monday, Thursday and off Wednesdays

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Large Group Activities

• Currently 45 minutes
• Will be 60 minutes
• Includes
• calendar time, student of the week, morning
  message, predictable charts,story time/poems,
  mini-lessons, phonemic awareness activities,
  phonics, fluency, comprehension skills, and music
  motion.

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Literacy Block

• Currently This is included in the 45 minutes of
  large group activity
• Will be a 60 minute Block
• Guided reading groups
• Phonemic awareness
• Listening center (comprehension)
• Writing center
• Sight word activities
• Pocket chart poems

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DEAR Time (will be
added)

• Students need to develop a love of books
• They need opportunities to self select books of
  their choice
• They learn concepts of print through repeated
  exposure
• Top to bottom
• Right to left
• Picture relationships
• Words have meaning

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Math Instruction
Currently This is embedded in daily calendar
time

• Will be a 35 minute Block,
• During this time we will use hands on activities
  and manipulatives that will introduce and
  reinforce the following concepts from the
• Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
  (MGLCEs)
• The GLCE at Kindergarten emphasize counting,
  grouping, and ordering numbers. Teachers will
  talk about what numbers mean, what they are
  called, and about the patterns in numbers.
• Put in order sets of up to 30 objects and compare
  using such phrases as same number, more than,
  or less than.

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Math Instruction

• Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
  (MGLCEs) cont.
• Count to 30 by 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Compose and Decompose Numbers
• Put together and take apart numbers that total up
  to 10. Example Describe and make drawings to
  represent 5 41 5 23
• Create, describe, and extend simple number
  patterns. Example 1, 2, __, 4, 5, __, 7
• Know and use the common words for the parts of
  the day (morning, afternoon, evening, night).
• Know the common words for relative time
  (yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, next
  year).
• Compare two or more objects by length, weight and
  capacity.

• Relate familiar three-dimensional objects inside
  and outside the classroom to their geometric
  name.
• Name, sort, and group objects by attributes
  and identify objects that do not belong in a
  particular group.

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Centers (will still be 40 minutes each day they
come, these are very important for Oral Language
development)
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Computers Library Time30 minutes each week
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Specials
PE Mr. Behnke
Music Ms. Hunter
Science Mrs. Krisciunas
Art Ms. Zanni
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Lunch/ Recesswill be added to the day

• Helps student feel a part of entire school day
• Are big kids now
• Smoother transitions to 1st grade
• Develop oral language skills necessary for
  reading comprehension

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Kindergarten Plus

• A Unique Childcare Program that is designed to
  meet the very special developmental needs of our
  kindergartener students.
• Students are guided by a dedicated childcare
  staff.
• The classroom is a print rich environment with
  many centers for our kindergarteners to explore
  and enrich the same concepts they are working on
  in their kindergarten classroom
• It WILL be available on the alternate days when
  your child does not have kindergarten

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Kindergarten Plus activities enrich extend
Kindergarten program

• Activity Board Math manipulatives, games,
  measurement
• Story Time Quiet time everyday while being read
  to 20-30 minutes.
• Group Activity Letters, letter sounds, phonemic
  awareness
• Centers Reading, Game Table, Writing,
  Sensory Table, Math, Lego/Play Dough,
  Computers and Painting
• Music and Movement Songs for finger play, body
  movement
• Creative Writing Language arts activities,
  modeled, shared and independent writing.
• Dramatic and Free Play Activities that promote
  constructive and dramatic play.
• Art and Crafts A variety of art activities that
  build creative skills.

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ADAD KindergartenBenefits to Parents who Do Not
need child care

• Days your child comes to Kindergarten
• No longer rushing up to school in the middle of
  the day
• Convenient times to schedule appointments
• All day to complete errands, shopping, other
  necessary activities
• Children come and go from school with older
  siblings or neighbors

• Days your child is home with you
• All day to visit Zoo, library, or relatives
• All day for play-dates, or other enrichment
  activities
• If your child is one who needs more rest they
  have the
• next day to
• catch-up

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ADAD Kindergarten Benefits to Parents who DO
need child care

• Kindergarten Plus available All day everyday your
  child is NOT in kindergarten
• Cost savings over most traditional childcare
  rates
• More academically orientated program than
  traditional childcare or babysitting
• Consistent Schedule children become accustomed
  to attending school all day everyday and feel
  more apart of school community.

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Additional Benefitsto children(Shared from East
China teachers parents who have already been
doing ADAD for 2 years.)

• Transition to first grade much smoother
• Less anxiety with being in school full day
• Learn lunch procedures
• Feel more a part of school, here all day, more
  connected with everything going on in the
  building
• Kindergartners ride to and from school with older
  siblings

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Research

• The research, overall, shows all day alternate
  day kindergarten schedule and the half-day every
  day kindergarten schedule are comparable in the
  areas of academic performance, attendance, and
  social-emotional measures.
• Many incoming students have a preschool
  experience that is on alternate days so ADAD
  isnt a drastic difference for most students.
• Research states that ADAD is advantageous for
  at-risk students. Teachers have a longer stretch
  of time with the same group of students and are
  more apt to recognize when students are
  struggling, and provide interventions sooner.

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Research

• How does attendance in ADAD programs compare to
  half day? If a student is ill on his/her day of
  school, isnt he/she really missing out on two
  days of school.
• Research and site visits support that attendance
  in ADAD is comparable to half day. Students have
  a 50 chance that they would be sick on their off
  school day as on the day they usually attend
  school. Teachers we interviewed said the full day
  allowed more time for teachers to work with
  students who had been absent than did the half
  day programs. Parents we talked with are more
  likely to send their students to school on a full
  day and use the off day for appointments,
  shopping, etc, than keep a student away from
  school. Schools did not report an increase in ill
  students coming to school on the full days.

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Research

• Is ADAD developmentally appropriate? Wont my
  child be tired in the afternoon?
• Research supports all day every day kindergarten
  as the best schedule , and actually, up until
  WWII, kindergartners attended school for the full
  day every day. It was only when the war hit that
  teachers were less available and kindergarten
  changed to half day.
• More kindergartners come to us already accustomed
  to alternate day preschools experiences.
  Attending kindergarten every other day is a
  structure to which students and parents become
  accustomed. Teachers did not report that students
  were more tired under the ADAD schedule.

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Other Schools that are already doing All day
Alternate Day (ADAD)

• Macomb County Utica, Warren Consolidated, LAnse
  Creuse,
• Oakland County Rochester, Lake Orion, Huron
  Valley, South Lyon, Walled Lake, Brandon, Holly
• St. Clair County East China
• Indiana
• Illinois
• Ohio
• Georgia

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Upcoming Handouts

• Green Survey Form Please fill out and return
  by April 4th NEXT WEEK
• Yellow Student Information Sheet add to your
  registration packet Due at Registration
• Goldenrod Mail Out A great way for us to
  communicate with you
• Colored Brochure K additional information!

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Upcoming

• Registration
• Packets already sent home If you dont have one
  pick one up tonight
• April 25th -- 130-400 530-700
• Drop off completed paperwork
• Kindergarten Round-up
• May 22 --- 630-800
• This is a time for you and YOUR child to
  experience what kindergarten at Cherokee will be
  like ! It is a great evening.

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Thank you for coming

• Questions, Comments
• Please complete our survey and return to the
  office by Wednesday,April 4th.
• Have a Great Night!