Kindergarten Parent Orientation

2017 Mrs. Wilson’s Class

Breakfast

• Starting the day with a good breakfast is important to help your child do their best at school!

• Students may buy breakfast from the cafeteria in the morning, if necessary.

• Students who buy breakfast are dismissed from the bus first. They eat in the cafeteria and come to class when finished.

• Students are still expected to get their morning work done!

• If you wish to change what you indicated on the note at the beginning of the year, please let me know.

Lunch Money

• Send on Mondays, if possible.

• Send in baggie labeled with your child’s name and teacher’s name in their blue folder.

• Lunch money will be sent to the cafeteria where it will be put on your child’s account.

• Please let me know if you would like to send a birthday treat for your child on their birthday. The children will have the opportunity to enjoy the treat at lunchtime. Please consider sending something simple, such as a pre-packaged treat or cookies. THANK YOU!

• Please note our school is encouraging is encouraging students to bring non-food treats this year. (small prize, stickers, etc)

EZ Pay

• Can be used to manage breakfast/lunch money accounts and to pay fees.

• Fees are probably not yet posted. They are $50 for K.

• You will receive fee statements with report cards.

• It will send you a notice when your account is low.

• Please email me if you need your student’s ID number to set up your account.

EZ Pay

Transportation

• If your child is a frequent car rider, they will give you a blue pick-up card at dismissal. This is your ticket to pick up your child.

• If you ever need to change bus drop off or pick up address, please contact the bus garage AND the school.

• If your child will be a car rider, send a note in their blue folder.

Bus Garage: 539-0324

Monroe Primary Newsletter

• MPS Newsletters can be found:

• on the school website

• our class website

• Through e-mail updates

• or hardcopy (if requested on school forms).

Mrs. Wilson’s Newsletters

• My newsletters will come home weekly in your child’s blue folder and be posted on the class website.

• Read to check weekly goals, poem, readers, and see what skills we are working on in reading, writing, math, and social studies.

• Email Updates from Mrs. Wilson will also be sent periodically, as needed.

Mrs. Wilson’s Class Website www.mrswilsonshornets.weebly.com

Check periodically for picture updates, home activities, and newsletter archives.

Class Dojo!

Class Dojo

• Students get green or red points based on behavior.

Class Dojo

• Please connect to Dojo through parent accounts.

• Let me know if you did not receive the link/code to sign up!

• You can see your child’s specific behaviors each day, notice patterns in behavior, view our “class story”, and receive individual messages and pictures from me.

Shape Up Chart

Please check each day.

Color will match child’s behavior.

Teacher will send a note or call

home if on red or black.

•Students will move bees for more severe misbehaviors (hitting, name calling, etc.) OR if they receive too many red points on dojo. •Students will move to blue when they receive several/the most green points.

Behavior Calendars

Mrs. Gehm!

• You may hear about Mrs. Gehm at home! She is our trusty classroom volunteer.

• Mrs. Gehm, my mother, is a retired educator.

• She comes in to help out 1-2 times a week.

• She also subs for me whenever possible. It is great to know the students are in good hands when I have to be out.

Report Cards

• First report cards will come home in October.

• Items assessed match with standards.

• We spread out the assessments throughout the year and will assess new skills each quarter and reassess skills as necessary.

• Skills assessed each quarter correspond to weekly goals in the newsletter.

• Students can receive the following marks

• E-excels at grade level standard

• S- satisfactory: meets grade level standard

• P- progressing with grade level standard

• N- not progressing with grade level standard

Conferences

• Fall Conferences

• I will meet with everyone.

• November 2 & 9

• Conference Schedule will be available tonight for you to check your time or sign up if you still need to.

• Winter Conferences

• I will meet on an “as needed” basis.

• January 30 & February 6

• You will receive a note stating your time in advance.

Standards

• Common Core Standards

• Reading & Math

• Nationally adopted

• www.corestandards.org

• New Learning Standards

• Science & Social Studies

• Ohio adopted

• education.ohio.gov

Daily Schedule

• Morning Work

• Morning Meeting

• Calendar

• Phonics

• Word Work

• Unified Arts (M & Th: Art, T & F: Gym, W: Music) 10:00-10:50

• Letter Friends/ Penmanship

• Recess (11:35-:11:55)

• Lunch (11:55-12:25)

• Writing Workshop (Journals)

• Shared Reading

• Reading Workshop

• Math

• Extra Recess/Movement

• Work Stations

• Science/Social Studies

• Dismissal

Morning Work • Students independently work

on skills previously learned in class.

• Teacher takes attendance and collects notes.

• Daily Message

• Greeting

• Getting to Know You Chart

• Attendance Count

Morning Meeting

Calendar • Month/Days of the Week

• Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow

• Patterns

• Seasons/Weather

• Days of School/ Counting

• Number Line Math

Word Work • New Words introduced on

Monday and Tuesday each week

• Students practice their sight words through different activities:

• Armtapping

• Individual Flash Cards

• Sight Word Bingo

• Songs & Videos

• Dry Erase Boards

• Writing/Tracing/Spelling

• Sight Words Poems

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Phonics Language Skills “Games”

• Rhyming

• Onset-Rime Blending

• Syllable Segmenting & Counting

• Syllable Blending

• Phoneme Discrimination

• Phoneme Blending

• Phoneme Addition/Substitution/Deletion

• Beginning/Middle/Ending Sounds

Unified Arts

• Mon & Thur: Art

• Tue & Fri: Gym

• Wed: Music

• Every Thurs: Library (2:30-2:50)

• Don’t forget to return books!

Letters & Penmanship

• Students will learn 2 letters a week.

• We focus on the name of the letter, the letter sound, words that begin with that letter and how to write the capital and lowercase letters.

• Go over penmanship papers that come home with your child. Review how to write letters correctly.

• Letter Friends and letter friend stories help us learn and practice sequencing & retelling.

Recess 11:35-11:55

Lunch 11:55-12:25

Writer’s Workshop •Students write everyday. •Right now we are focusing on:

•Making pictures tell story •Adding details (No scribbling!) •“Sounding out” words

•Topics we will cover this year include: •Multi-page stories •Writing personal narratives •Writing non-fiction text •How-to Writing

•Students will meet with the teacher for an individual writing conference once a week. •Students will work to meet individual writing goals assigned by the teacher.

Adding Details to Pictures

Writing Whole Ideas (Sentences)

Using Writing Conventions Correctly.

Writing Multiple Sentences Over

Several Pages to Tell a Story.

Shared Reading • We learn through reading:

• Big Books

• Poem

• Read Alouds

•We work on:

•Concepts of print (reading left to right,

pointing at each word, etc.)

•Finding words we know

•Retelling and Comprehension.

•Making predictions

•Author, Illustrator, Publisher, dedication

page, title page, and the spine of the book

•Students use books (on their level) in their book baggies. •Students complete reading activities throughout the week.

•Read to Self •Read to Someone •Write About Reading •Word Work •Guided Reading Groups

Reader’s Workshop

Reading Levels

•Reading/Book Levels based on Fountas & Pinnell Assessment System.

Level AA Level A Level B

• Simple Sight Words

• Very repetitive text.

• More Sight Words

• Repetitive text.

• Wordless

• One word per page.

• Pictures with words.

Nov.-Dec.

Level C Level D Level E • More Sight Words

• Sentence structure varies a little.

• More Text per page.

• Sentence structure varies more.

• More Text per page.

• Sentence structure varies.

Feb.-Mar. May

Math (Envisions) • Students receive a whole group lesson, then practice math

skills at Math Workshop (centers).

• The Whole Group Lesson includes: Problem Solving, Visual Learning (short video), and Guided/Independent Practice (in workbooks)

• Some math topics we are/will be working on this year include:

• Writing & Counting Numbers 0-20

• Comparing Numbers

• Addition/Subtraction

• 2D & 3D Shapes

• Measuring Length, Weight, Capacity

• Counting & Classifying Data

• Math Homework Packets will come home at the beginning of each topic. If returned, students will receive a reward. It is recommended to work on 1 pg. a night.

Extra Recess/Movement

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• Dances

• Stretches/Yoga

• Sports

• Calming Exercises

Work Stations • Children visit Work Stations to practice and reinforce skills in groups

of two or three students.

• Some Work Stations include:

• Housekeeping Station

• Big Book/ Poem

• Library

• Puppet Theater

• Listening Station

• Computers

• ABC Station

• Writing Station

• Puzzles & Games

• iPods

Social Studies/ Science

• Myself & Others

• School Rules/Citizenship

• Wants & Needs

• Five Senses

• Community Helpers

• Weather

• Location/Maps

• Moon, Sun & Stars

• Sound

• National Symbols

• Environment

• Living & Non-Living

Some topics we will cover this year are:

Kindergarten Sight Words

• There are 40 sight words that will be assessed for report cards.

• Students should have complete mastery of these 40 words.

• They should recognize them quickly by sight in flash cards and in books (without sounding out).

• They should use and spell them correctly in their writing.

• There are also 30 supplemental sight words.

• These include number & color words.

• These are words students need to know and recognize, but will be reviewed/taught again in later grades.

• These will not be assessed for report cards, although I will still assess them on weekly sight word checklists as they are taught.

*At Home: •Print and practice sight words flash cards at home. •Practice any flash cards that come home on Wednesdays with your child. •Go over sight words checklists with your child at the end of the week.

*”Red Words” are words that can not be spelled phonetically.

What to do with your child at home…

• READ READ READ with your child!

• Book It Program will start in October!

• Practice the Class Goals from our class newsletter.

• Read the poems in the poetry folders.

• Print off flashcards for letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and sight words to practice at home with your child. These are located on our class website under Home Activities. Practice identification and fluency.

• Check out the Recipes for Fun on the website under Home Activities each month for fun home activities that promote what we are learning in the classroom.

Before you leave…

• Sign up for Fall Conferences if you have not already OR feel free to double check your date and time.

• Get your code to sign up for Class Dojo if you have not already done so.

Thank you so much for coming tonight!!! Questions?