Welcome to Kindergarten

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Welcome to Kindergarten

• Curriculum and Instruction Night

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Reading Curriculum

• Predicting and sequencing events
• Draw conclusions
• Experiment with print
• Written communication

• Capital letters
• Lowercase letters
• Consonant sounds
• Vowel sounds
• Rhyming words
• Segmenting individual sounds

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Spelling Curriculum(Words Their Way)

• During each lesson the students will learn a new
  word pattern. This will help eliminate the need
  for spelling lists because they will be
  incorporating the new word pattern into other
  words.
• The students will be actively engaged in sorting
  activities where they categorize words and
  patterns through examining similarities and
  differences of spellings.
• The students will find words with similar word
  patterns in real life media sources such as
  newspapers, magazines and books.
• The students will apply their skills in both Word
  Study Notebooks and in everyday writing.
• Students will engage in games and activities that
  may be sent home for word work practice.

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Math Curriculum

• Recognize numbers
• Rote counting
• 11 correspondence
• Identifies colors
• Locates/plots numbers on a number line
• Writes numbers from memory
• Orders numbers

• Classifies/recognizes shapes
• Identifies coins and values
• Ordinal positions
• Patterns
• Time
• Addition
• Subtraction

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Science and Social Studies Curriculum

• Science
• Five Senses
• Food Pyramid
• Weather
• Living/Non-Living
• Health Promotion
• Disease Prevention

• Social Studies
• Identify School and Home Leaders
• Identify Location, Direction, and Distance
• Needs and Wants
• City/Rural Community
• Saving Money
• Locate major geography features

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Technology Curriculum

• Basic technology skills and concepts
• Social, ethical issues
• Technology productivity, communication, research,
  problem solving and decision making tools.

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Assessment

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
  (DIBELS)
• Formative Assessment
• Writing Portfolios

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Report Cards

• Report cards are standard and skill based.
• You will receive your child's first report card
  during your conferences in October.
• If you have not already signed up for
  conferences, please see your childs teacher.

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• School Wide Behavior
• Take Care of Yourself.
• Take Care of Each Other.
• Take Care of This Place.
• Bear Slips
• Kindergarten Behavior Supports
• Behavior Bingo
• Penny systems
• Positive reinforcement will be the focus of our
  classroom management strategies.

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Field Trip

• We will be taking a trip to the KC Pumpkin Patch
  in October 7th
• The cost is 5.00 includes a pumpkin and
  activities Parents will also pay 5.00.
• This will be a half day trip
• No siblings due to insurance reasons.
• More information coming soon!

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How you can help as Parents

• Homework will be sent home Monday through
  Thursday.
• Book It!
• Classroom Volunteers
• Parties (Head Room Parents always needed!)
• READ to your child every day!
• Ask specific questions about your childs day.

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Pick Up and Dismissal

• Thank you for your patience!
• Children arriving before 815 will wait in the
  gym.
• For morning kindergarten Pick up is 1125
  after 1130 your child will be waiting for you in
  the office.
• For afternoon and full-day kindergarten pick up
  is at 325.

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Milk Break and Snack

• Please see Bonita Grant in order to put money in
  your childs accounts for milk and lunch.
• Milk will be offered during snack time on
  Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Please make sure you send a healthy snack with
  your child to school each day.

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Question and Answer?Please proceed to your
childs for more specific information regarding
your childs class.