welcome to curriculum night! mrs. labore’s kindergarten class
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Welcome to Curriculum Night!
Mrs. LaBore’s Kindergarten Class
Welcome to Kindergarten! We will meet in the
morning starting at 8:00 and class ends at 10:40.
Please note am Kindergarten schedule and Early Release schedule-Dismissal at 11:00 and no kindergarten bus.
Attendance is important! Request for Excused
Absence
Our Goals To give your child the academic
and social skills he/she needs to progress to first grade.
To provide a supportive and fun classroom environment.
To help your child make new friends and discover new interests.
Routines Arriving
Students can arrive at 7:40. There is no earlier supervision except at breakfast that is served at 7:30.
Please have your child line up at the sign outside the unit doors to the courtyard.
For students riding the bus use older siblings, neighbors or buddy to get your child to the right line up place. Practicing also helps.
Routines Going Home
I will escort students to the kindergarten bus.
If you are picking up your child you may meet them at the unit doors or along the wall perpendicular to the bus lane.
An adult needs to meet a kindergartner off the bus.
Please provide a note if your child is going home a different way.
More Routines Bathrooms—
Bathroom “Field Trip” Look for the Flowers Bathroom Buddy Practicing helps too Supply of clothes in backpack
Folder Communication between school &
home please check daily. Students will get a sticker for bringing their folder to school.
More Routines Seaview Handbook
Please review and sign Behavior Matrix
Snack Please provide daily a healthy
snack for your child Birthday Treats New District Policy-
non-food treats only-pencils, stickers or bookmarks.
First Day Jitters Suggestions
Plenty of Sleep Brain Power Breakfast Visit the School Provide a comfort item—picture of
the family Assure them of the schedule
Food Policy New Federal Mandated Guidelines
for food in schools District Policy-No Birthday Food
Treats• Daily Snacks• Peanut Free Classroom
Three times involving food
Common Core Standards
Common Core are Standards that 43 states have adopted
Standards for what students need to know kindergarten through 12th Grade
Standards are not a curriculum Visit online at
http://www.corestandards.org/
Tentative Schedule· 7:50 Students enter classroom· 8:00 Kindergarten begins-- Morning
Meeting· 8:20 to 9:30 Mon. Literacy Block—
Reading, Writing, Phonics and Phonemic Awareness and Math Tues. and Wed. Reading Groups, Thurs. Writing Workshop & Math and Fri. Math Stations
· 9:20 to 9:40 Snack and Story · 9:40 Recess· 9:55 to 10:25 Mon. Library, Tues.
Music, Wed. Math, Thus. PE Fri. Science/Social Studies
· 10:30 Pack Up and Review our day· 10:40 Dismissal
Components of our Morning Meeting
Greeting—each person is greeted every morning.
Sharing—students are given the opportunity to share a poster and book as Star Student.
Calendar Activities—promoting cooperation.
Announcements—daily message to let students know what will be happening and to practice literacy skills.
Reading Program
Shared Reading Reading Groups at
students’ level Read Aloud Quiet Reading Literature for Writing
Reading Skills Pre-Reading Skills Phonics—Letter Sound Recognition Phonemic Awareness—Ability to
hear sounds in words Focus on Decoding Strategies Learning Sight Words Comprehension—Reading for
Meaning
Decoding Strategies Look at the picture Look at the beginning letters and get your
mouth ready Look at the ending letters Is it like any other words you know Take a running start Skip the word and come back to it Think about the story and does it make
sense Does it sound right Break the word into chunks –look for little
words in big words Substitute a word that makes sense
Reading Read Alouds— modeling how
to use the different comprehension skills
“Discussing, sharing, writing, and recording our understanding and/or thinking of a story
Working on the different comprehension strategies
Comprehension Strategies
Making Connections-text to self (using our schema), text to text, and text to world
Questioning Visualizing Determining Importance Inferring Synthesizing Information Monitoring For Meaning
Writing Program Structured Writing—
Journal Writing Capitalization & Punctuation Spelling of Sight Words
Writer’s Workshop— Writing like Authors Dictation & Best Guess Spelling Publishing and Sharing
Types of Writing Narrative-Tells a story Informational-Gives
information or “How To” Opinion-Gives an opinion or
persuades-”My favorite book is…”
Phonics & Phonemic Awareness Skills
Letter-sound recognition Blending and Segmenting
Words Rhyming Spelling Patterns Making Words
MathMath program spirals the different math
strands in the curriculum rather than in isolation.
Number Sense—Counting to 31 & Beginning Adding and Subtracting Math Facts to 10
Comparing, ordering and grouping numbers Patterns Geometry Graphing Problem Solving StrategiesWeekly homework and remembering pages New online math resource IXL
Science Foss Science
Silt, Sand and Pebbles
Science Notebooks
Predictions, Observations & Diagrams
Social Studies Communities -rules, jobs, roles of
community members Geography
-making maps Learning about Diversity Learning about people
Health Emergencies and Safety Friendships Environment
Classroom Community Our classroom is a community. In our
community, we have rules to help us get along with each other.
Our class rules are: Respect yourself Respect others Respect property
Homework
Kindergartners should be read to or read 15 to 20 minutes a night five times a week.
Letter Activities will be home sent about once a week.
Nightly math homework will be sent home Mondays and Wednesdays.
Check your child’s folder for homework.
Resources At Home Online resources your child can
use at home RAZ Kids IXL ABCya!
Parent Help in the Classroom
Parent help is needed during Reading Centers and Math Centers. If you are able to volunteer in the classroom please sign the volunteer form and the days and time you are available.
We will have one or two local field trips during the year.
Classroom special activities or Art Projects. Please fill out a Volunteer form if you are able
to sign up to help. Remember a photograph of your child for
our Star Bulletin Board.
Communication Folder goes home nightly with
homework, corrected work, information from teachers, office & PTA
Every other week Newsletters (Distribution list-our school goal is to send most communications via email)
Please review email/contact information Please email with questions:
laborek@edmonds.wednet.edu I check email daily!
Class website http://teacher.edmonds.wednet.edu/seaview/knarruhnlabore/index.php
Let’s Have a Great Year!
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