Welcome to Back to School and Title I Night

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Welcome to Back to School and Title I Night

• Kindergarten
• Cradlerock Elementary School
• 2014-2015

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Prior Care

• IN WHAT CATEGORY IS MY CHILDS PRIOR CARE
  CONSIDERED?
•   PUBLIC PRE-KINDERGARTEN
• Cradlerock Elementary Guilford Elementary
• Atholton Elementary Talbott Springs Elementary
• Deep Run Elementary Bellows Springs Elementary
• any Baltimore County/City Public School
  
• CHILD CARE CENTER
• Cradlerock Childrens Center Childrens Learning
  Center at HCY Journeys At Owen Brow
• Child Time Learning Center Columbia Academy
• Bright Beginnings The Goddard School
• Lornwood Child Development Center Kindercare
• NON PUBLIC
  NURSERY SCHOOL
• Oakland Mills Nursery School The Learning
  Cottage Montessori Schools
• Liberty Baptist Preschool Bet Yeladim Preschool
• East Columbia Preschool Emmanuel United
  Methodist Preschool
• HEAD START
• Dasher Green Head Start Ellicott City Head
  Start
• Harriet Tubman Head Start First Presbyterian
  Head Start
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  HOME/INFORMAL CARE

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PBIS at Cradlerock

• At Cradlerock Elementary School students will be
• Respectful
• On Task
• Cooperative
• Kind

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Day in the Life of a Kindergartener

• 803-815 Arrival, Breakfast
• 815-830 Calendar Math
• 830-1005 Language Arts
• 1005-1105 Recess, Lunch
• 1105-1135 Content
• 1135-1235 Related Arts
• 1235-1250 Take 15
• 1250-135 Math
• 135-240 Centers/Snack
• 240-245 Pack Up, Dismissal

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Arrival Dismissal

• School begins at 815
• Students may enter the building at 803
• Dismissal is at 245

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Connecting School Home

• Daily Folders with Calendars
• Progress Reports, Report Cards
• Conferences

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Volunteers

• Classroom Volunteers start Oct. 6
• Please fill out the volunteer sheet if youre
  able to help out in the classroom.

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Field Trips

• Space is limited but we appreciate your
  willingness to chaperone!
• If a parent/guardian would like to chaperone,
  they must check the chaperone box on their
  childs permission form, provide contact
  information, and return the form to the childs
  teacher.
• Permission forms may be turned in before
  payment.

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Field Trips

• Chaperones will be selected based on the order in
  which the forms are received. Parents/guardians
  who have not attended a previous field trip will
  take priority.
• Parents/guardians who are not selected will be
  placed on a waiting
• list. If you volunteer to chaperone,
• you will be notified whether you are
  
• selected or not.

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Language Arts

• Treasures
• School-wide reading and writing program
• Balanced program emphasizes letter/sound
  relationship sight word recognition
• Develops deep comprehension of varied texts
  (poetry, nonfiction, short articles, fables and
  more
• Math
• Common Core State Standards
• Curriculum emphasizes the development of number
  relations, computation, and problem solving
  through use of hands on materials

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Daily Five

• Children become better readers and develop a love
  for reading by having time to actually read and
  write.
• A way of organizing language arts instruction so
  that every student is engaged in meaningful
  literacy tasks.
• Students receive explicit whole group instruction
  and then are given independent practice time to
  read and write independently while the teacher
  provides focused instruction to individuals and
  small groups.

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Snack

• Snack is brought from home.
• Please limit the snacks to
• Fresh fruit, fruit snacks, dry cereal,
  goldfish, pretzels, or crackers.
• Please pack the snacks separate from lunch. Snack
  should be packed in a disposable bag, not a lunch
  box.
• No peanuts or peanut products
• No LIQUIDS Please

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Homework

• We will start homework in October.
• Math homework
• Refer to the math calendar in the homework
  journal. Do at least 2 activities each week and
  initial the calendar.
• Language Arts Work on 2 poems each week.
  Complete selected activities from the back of the
  poems.
• Return homework journals quarterly.

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Questions
Thank you for coming tonight!