Welcome to Kindergarten Curriculum Night!

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Welcome to KindergartenCurriculum Night!
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1st Quarter Curriculum

• Spalding
• Learn to correctly form and orally identify
  phonograms 1-45
• Writing
• Daily Journals
• Details in pictures
• Apply phonograms as we learn them
• Reading
• Narratives
• Informatives
• Authors purpose, concepts of print, elements of
  a story.
• Comprehension

• Thinking Maps
• Math (Kindergarten)
• Count to 50 by 1, 5, 10
• Back from 10
• By 2s to 10
• Patterns
• Days of the Week
• Months of the Year
• Identify, write, model 1-20

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Curriculum

• Social Studies and Science
• Music
• Art Materpiece
• P.E
• Library
• Technology
• Second Step

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Kindergarten -Common Core

• Chandler Unified School District has adopted the
  Common Core curriculum Standards into the
  Kindergarten Curriculum to align with State and
  National Standards.
• You can get more information about the standards
  at the following website http//www.pta.org/KFeb4
  .pdf

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CTA- Language Arts

• Language Arts
• New Journeys Adoption
• Spalding Method
• Phonograms and Spelling
• Writing words, sentences, and stories
• Reading Words, sentences and stories
• Comprehension
• Identifying Narrative, Informative, and
  Informative-Narrative Stories
• Identifying characters, setting, and plot in a
  story
• Identifying facts and details in a story
• Telling the events of a story in correct order
• Making predictions about stories

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CTA- Spalding Materials

• We Recommend
• Phonogram Cards (only one set needed per family)
• Audio CD of phonograms
• Visit  http//store.spalding.org/c-3-instructional
  -materials.aspx

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CTA- Mathematics

• Math
• 1st Quarter - Kindergarten Skills
• 2nd 4th Quarter -
• 1st Grade Skills and Saxon Program
• Addition facts to 20
• Subtraction facts from 12
• Counting by 1, 2s, 5s, 10s to 100
• Writing Numbers to 100
• Place Value
• Shapes and Fractions
• Time and Money

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Your Childs Typical Day

• Morning Work
• Specials/Bathroom Break
• Spalding
• Math
• Lunch/Recess/Bathroom Break
• Calendar
• Science/SS/2nd Step
• Spalding
• Snack/Recess/Bathroom Break
• Journals/writing
• Reading/Centers/Groups

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Specials

• Day 1 PE
• Day 2 Music
• Day 3 Library
• Day 4 PE
• Day 5 Music
• Day 6 LAB

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Home Work

• Check childs homework folder nightly.
• Practice correct pencil grip and correct letter
  formation.
• Accept only their best work!
• Homework should not exceed 45 minutes (including
  15 min of reading).

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Discipline

• 3 Cubes are kept in their pencil box daily.
• Students will get one warning before I start
  taking their cubes away.
• If a student keeps 2 cubes-thats still a good
  day. If a student has 1 or 0 cubes then that
  means they had a difficult day.
• I will started awarding caught ya being good
  certificates. If your child comes home with one,
  be sure to give extra praise and encouragement. I
  will also start the treasure box.
• If work is not done, students may be asked to
  miss recess to complete work.

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Star Student

• Your child will have a turn to be our Star
  Student.
• This will include a student survey and your child
  will make a poster with photos of the things
  he/she would like to share.
• You will be notified the Wednesday before so that
  you have plenty of time to prepare.

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Volunteers

• We will start having classroom volunteers in the
  2nd quarter.
• Bulletin boards Are you crafty?
• THANK YOU to all who have already volunteered to
  be our Art Masterpiece teachers and room parent.

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Field Trips

• We need your tax in order to take Field
  Trips! (One in the Fall and one in
• the Spring.)
• http//www.cusd80.com/page/1131
• Please consider donating. Thank you!

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Dismissal

• Keep your car tag visible until your child is in
  the car with you.
• Your child needs to say goodbye to the
  kindergarten teacher on duty.

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Lunch 1130-1205Recess /Snack 120-145I will
be sending out a sign up genius for snacks.We
have 23 kids in our class. Please be sure that
they are nut free. ? Thank you!
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Packing Up

• Getting Organized
• Packing folder
• Every night students should take home his/her
  Homework folder. Parents, please check your
  childs class work daily! Thank you.

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Library Books

• Students will start checking books out of the
  library soon.
• Library books will be due the following library
  day 2 (usually about a week).

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Other Business

• Please be on Time!
• Attendance is very important!
• Contacting Me - Email is best
• Wish List Thank you!!
• Newsletter check email

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Thank you for coming!