Kindergarten

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Kindergarten Curriculum Night
Welcome! Please take a packet from outside the
classroom and have a seat anywhere. ?
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transportation

• PLEASE inform your childs teacher of any changes
  in E-MAIL or WRITING!!
• If transportation change occurs that same day,
  please contact the office.
• If address, phone, work number or any other
  important information changes please keep me
  updated in writing.

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CLASSROOM INFO

• Labeling
• Please label your childs belongings, so children
  will not mix up various items.
• This labeling needs to include lunchboxes, snack,
  backpacks, jackets, water bottles, etc.
• Lunch
• Please consider paying for lunches online. This
  alleviates lost money.
• Homework
• Homework packets are sent home on Monday and are
  due on Friday.

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Daily Schedule

• 740 Bell Rings
• 745-755 Unpack/Attendance
• 800-915 Language Arts
• 915-930 Recess
• 930-1050 Language Arts/Daily 5
• 1050-1130 Lunch/Recess
• 1130-1250 Math
• 1250-135 Specials
• 135-150 Snack
• 150-230 Pack Up/Choice Time
• 235 Dismissal

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LIBRARY P.E.

• Remember your childs library day and have your
  child bring their book to school. Students wont
  be able to check out a new book if they dont
  return last weeks book.?
• Also remember your childs P.E. day and make sure
  that they wear tennis shoes.

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Snacks

• Children are asked to bring their own snack to
  school everyday.
• Please provide your child with a healthy snack.
• Please keep the snack separate from his/her
  lunch, since we place snacks in a bin every
  morning.
• We will NOT have snack on Wednesdays.

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Celebrations

• Fall Batty Party
• Winter Party
• Friendship Day Party
• End of the Year Celebration
• Volunteers are needed for these parties ?
  Signup Genius links will be sent out for donation
  requests prior to the party.

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BIRTHDAYS

• Birthday parties CANNOT take place during school
  hours.
• Invitations and treats CANNOT be given out at
  school. We will send home a kindergarten
  directory for your convenience.
• Thank you for your understanding!

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Conferences/report cards

• 1st Quarter Parent/Teacher Conferences
• 2nd Quarter Report Cards
• 3rd Quarter Student Led Conferences
• 4th Quarter Report Cards

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Parent/Teacher Communication

• Daily Folder
• Newsletter
• E-mail/notes/voicemail
• Web Pages-check frequently for updates
• Please feel free to contact us at anytime?

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KindergartenStandards
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Reading COMMON CORE- LITERATURE

• Key Ideas and Details
• RL.K.1. With prompting and support, ask and
  answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.K.2. With prompting and support, retell
  familiar stories, including key details.
• RL.K.3. With prompting and support, identify
  characters, settings, and major events in a
  story.
• Craft and Structure
• RL.K.4. Ask and answer questions about unknown
  words in a text.
• RL.K.5. Recognize common types of texts (e.g.,
  storybooks, poems).
• RL.K.6. With prompting and support, name the
  author and illustrator of a story and define the
  role of each in telling the story.

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Reading COMMON CORE- LITERATURE

• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
• RL.K.7. With prompting and support, describe the
  relationship between illustrations and the story
  in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a
  story an illustration depicts).
• RL.K.8. (Not applicable to literature)
• RL.K.9. With prompting and support, compare and
  contrast the adventures and experiences of
  characters in familiar stories.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
• RL.K.10. Actively engage in group reading
  activities with purpose and understanding.

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Reading COMMON CORE- INFORMATIONAL TEXT

• Key Ideas and Details
• RI.K.1. With prompting and support, ask and
  answer questions about key details in a text.
• RI.K.2. With prompting and support, identify the
  main topic and retell key details of a text.
• RI.K.3. With prompting and support, describe the
  connection between two individuals, events,
  ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
• Craft and Structure
• RI.K.4. With prompting and support, ask and
  answer questions about unknown words in a text.
• RI.K.5. Identify the front cover, back cover, and
  title page of a book.
• RI.K.6. Name the author and illustrator of a text
  and define the role of each in presenting the
  ideas or information in a text.

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Reading COMMON CORE- INFORMATIONAL TEXT

• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
• RI.K.7. With prompting and support, describe the
  relationship between illustrations and the text
  in which they appear (e.g., what person, place,
  thing, or idea in the text an illustration
  depicts).
• RI.K.8. With prompting and support, identify the
  reasons an author gives to support points in a
  text.
• RI.K.9. With prompting and support, identify
  basic similarities in and differences between two
  texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations,
  descriptions, or procedures).
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
• RI.K.10. Actively engage in group reading
  activities with purpose and understanding.

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Reading COMMON CORE- FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

• Print Concepts
• RF.K.1. Demonstrate understanding of the
  organization and basic features of print.
• Follow words from left to right, top to bottom,
  and page by page.
• Recognize that spoken words are represented in
  written language by specific sequences of
  letters.
• Understand that words are separated by spaces in
  print.
• Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase
  letters of the alphabet.

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Reading COMMON CORE- FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

• Phonics and Word Recognition
• RF.K.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and
  word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound
  correspondences by producing the primary or most
  frequent sound for each consonant.
• Associate the long and short sounds with the
  common spellings (graphemes) for the five major
  vowels.
• Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g.,
  the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
• Distinguish between similarly spelled words by
  identifying the sounds of the letters that
  differ.
• Fluency
• RF.K.4. Read emergent-reader texts with purpose
  and understanding.

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Daily 5

• The Daily 5 is a structured language arts program
  that helps students develop the daily habits of
  reading, writing, and working with peers that
  will lead to a lifetime of independent literacy!
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• Students are carefully taught how to choose a
  good-fit (just-right) book to read. Each student
  in our classroom has his/her special book box to
  place all just-right books in.
• While students work independently, teachers will
  teach guided reading and confer with individual
  students.
• While we work with a small reading group, all
  other students are highly engaged in the Daily 5
  reading activities around the room.
• Check out the website!
• thedailycafe.com

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writing

• Dnealian handwriting
• -Proper grip
• -Paper (slant, lines)
• Writers Workshop
• Journals (writing, alphabet, math etc.)
• Daily 5 work on writing

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Writing COMMON CORE

• Text Types and Purposes
• W.K.1. Use a combination of drawing, dictating,
  and writing to compose opinion pieces in which
  they tell a reader the topic or the name of the
  book they are writing about and state an opinion
  or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My
  favorite book is...).
• W.K.2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating,
  and writing to compose informative/explanatory
  texts in which they name what they are writing
  about and supply some information about the
  topic.
• W.K.3. Use a combination of drawing, dictating,
  and writing to narrate a single event or several
  loosely linked events, tell about the events in
  the order in which they occurred, and provide a
  reaction to what happened.

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Writing COMMON CORE

• Production and Distribution of Writing
• W.K.4. (Begins in grade 3)
• W.K.5. With guidance and support from adults,
  respond to questions and suggestions from peers
  and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
• W.K.6. With guidance and support from adults,
  explore a variety of digital tools to produce and
  publish writing, including in collaboration with
  peers.
• Research to Build and Present Knowledge
• W.K.7. Participate in shared research and writing
  projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a
  favorite author and express opinions about them).
• W.K.8. With guidance and support from adults,
  recall information from experiences or gather
  information from provided sources to answer a
  question.

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Math COMMON CORE

• Counting and Cardinality
• Know number names and the count sequence.
• Count to tell the number of objects.
• Compare numbers.
• Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Understand addition as putting together and
  adding to, and understand subtraction as taking
  apart and taking from.
• Number and Operations in Base Ten
• Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for
  place value.

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Math common core

• Measurement and Data
• Describe and compare measurable attributes.
• Classify objects and count the number of objects
  in each category
• Geometry
• Identify and describe shapes.
• Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
• Investigations website
• http//investigations.terc.edu/index.cfm

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Math common core

• Common Core Standards
• Mathematical Practices
• 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in
  solving them.
• 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the
  reasoning of others.
• 4. Model with mathematics.
• 5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
• 6. Attend to precision.
• 7. Look for and make use of structure.
• 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated
  reasoning.

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Science

• 5 senses
• Living Things
• Magnets
• Weather
• Balls N Ramps
• Conservation

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Technology

• Develop essential technology skills
• Apply technology
• Integrate other content areas
• Students will work on laptops and the SMART board
  during the Daily 5 and throughout the day
• Computer lab once a week
• Dreambox
• Educational Resources

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Independence

• Please work on independence with your child at
  home.
• Important skills your child might need support
  with
• Zippers buttons
• Opening water bottles snacks
• Tying their shoes
• Using words to solve problems

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QUESTIONS?