WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!!!

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WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!!!
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• BEAR Notebooks
• Tuesday Folders
• Weekly Newsletters
• School Reach (automated messages from the
  principal to your cell phone)
• School Website
• Teacher Website
• Meet the Teacher Parent Packet
• Teacher Remind 101

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Now a word from our sponsor (administration)
Successful Kindergarteners

• Arrive to school ON TIME
• ATTEND SCHOOL DAILY
• Attendance habits are forming now!
• STAY in School ALL DAY

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B.E.A.R Notebook

• Clean out notebook daily!
• PLEASE put a note with the money so the teacher
  will know what the is for
• All transportation absence notes can be placed
  in the front sleeve of the binder
• Initial Conduct Folder EVERYDAY!!!!
• Homework needs to be turned in the next day
  (unless otherwise noted)

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VOLUNTEERS

• Need to fill out a CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK
  FORM---- even if you want to join on a field
  trip.
• Other ways to volunteer
• cut out laminating/ creating unit books
• make examples for a teacher
• make copies
• read with a student
• hall decorations
• etc.
• Volunteer Meeting Sept. 24th _at_ 840 am Our
  Classroom!!
• PLEASE RSVP!!

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Ways to volunteer in October and November

• Pumpkin donations for activities
• Cut out Indian Vests
• Provide one item for friendship snack
• Help with pictures for reading celebration
• Help with art activities
• Pilgrim Pictures
• Take pictures for your childs teacher as needed

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GOOD HABITS FOR KINDERGARTENERS

• Do homework at a desk or kitchen table
• Clean out backpack and BEAR Notebook EVERYDAY!!!!
• Take a break, if you are tired or frustrated
• GET PLENTY OF REST!!!!!
• EAT BREAKFAST
• Read home readers and do homework in a quiet
  place with no distractions
• Make a nightly routine and stick to it!!
• Take your time and do your best
• Be able to button and unbutton own clothes
• Please practice tying shoes
• Be able to go to the bathroom by themselves

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Read-Well Kindergarten

• What is Read-Well?

• Instruction includes

• Read Well is a systematic Phonics program that
  provides multiple opportunities to develop oral
  language, vocabulary and phonemic awareness.

• Letter/ sound associations
• Blending (Sounding out words)
• Word patterns
• Tricky words (irregular words)
• Duet stories (shared reading with rich content)
• Solo stories (Student read stories)

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READ WELL

• Bumpy blending --- /c/ /a/ /t/--- say the sound
  of each letter quick
• Smooth blending --- saying sounds of the letters
  smoothly and connecting to make a word
• Fluency ---- a students ability to read a text
  quickly and accurately enough to ensure
  understanding. i.e. no smooth blending or bumpy
  blending words.

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Whole Group
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Small Group

• Begins in October
• Each student will be assessed to determine their
  independent learning level
• Not every student will start at the same unit
• Each unit could take from 5-7 days to complete or
  longer until all skills are mastered
• Every child is unique. Their pace will all be
  different.

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Brag Folder

• Folder that is sent home weekly
• Teacher will mark the unit that your child needs
  to work on for the week .
• Do one page 3 times a night
• Inital the star each night
• This is to reinforce what your child has already
  completed in small group
• Used to build a stronger foundation for reading

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Brag Folder

• On the left, the unit and week will be written
• Turn to the unit in folder
• Do one page a night three times
• Sign one star a night