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KindergartenKindergartenKindergartenKindergartenMrs. Pickens ClassMrs. Pickens Class
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Housekeeping• Please initial your child’s folder and
return to school each day.• Please return homework on Friday.• Transportation changes must be
made on the orange transportation form in your child’s folder.
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BPS Text Alerts• School Closings
• Inclement Weather (Early Dismissal)
• Upcoming Events
• Reminders
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Money• Please send all money in a envelope
or zip top bag labeled with your child’s name, explanation of payment, and amount. Put this money in the pencil pouch that is in your child’s folder.
• Please do not combine payments.
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Attendance• It is very important that your child
is at school everyday.• If your child is sick, please send an
excuse note with your child the next day.
• If you do not send a note your child’s absence will be unexcused.
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Tardies and Dismissals• The tardy bell rings at 8:00
• School dismisses at 2:30
• Please keep tardies and early dismissals to a minimum.
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Homework• Students will have homework each night.
It should last around 5 minutes.
• Sight words need to be practiced each night.
• Please have your child try to complete the homework independently.
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Assessments• G-KIDS
• DIBELS NEXT
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G-KIDS• Standards based
• Will be used for report cards
• See example
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DIBELS NEXT• Dynamic Indicator of Basic Early Literacy Skills
• Given 3 times a year• Letter Naming Fluency, First
Sound Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation, and Nonsense Word Fluency
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Letter Naming Fluency• Students have 60 seconds to read
as many letters as they can.
• The student must track the print themselves moving left to right.
• Indicator of future reading fluency
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First Sound Fluency• Students are given 60 seconds to give as
many beginning sounds as they can.
• Students will be given a word and they must tell the first sound they hear in the word.
• September score at or above 10
• January score at or above 30
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Phoneme Segmentation
• Students are given 60 seconds to segment as many words as possible.
• Jan. score at or above 20
• May score at or above 40
cat c/a/t
horse h/or/s
bun b/u/n
shoe sh/oo
flower fl/ow/er
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Nonsense Word Fluency
• Students are given 60 seconds to read or sound out as many nonsense words as they can.
• Jan. score at or above 17
• May score at or above 28
noz mok
vip foj
mig lom dat wuk
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Word Use• Students are given a word and
asked to use it in a sentence.
• Students have 60 seconds to complete this portion of the test.
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BEE ATTITUDES• BEE Respectful
• BEE Responsible
• BEE Safe
• BEE a Problem Solver
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Beehive and Bee Bucks• School-wide discipline plan
• Each student starts on Good Green each morning.
• Students move up or down on the beehive depending on their behavior.
• Students making good choices can move their bee up the hive.
• Students making bad choices move their bee down the hive.
• Students can also earn Bee Bucks to following the BEE Attitudes. Students can redeem these bucks for rewards.
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Behavior Steps• Classroom System (Bee Chart)• Chill Zone (reflection spot in room)• Buddy Zone (reflect in another
room)• Reflection Zone (reflection room)• Continue disruptive behavior-
Reflection Zone for entire day
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Reading and Writing Standards
• Read high fluency words (sight words)
• Sound out words in order to read• Know the sounds letters make• Write about what they know• Use sight words when writing
stories
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Word Wall Words• Kindergarteners learn 78 sight
words.• These words usually cannot be
sounded out. • Please practice reading these
words every night.
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Math Standards• Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s• Identify greater than, less than,
equal to• Decompose numbers to 10 (5= 2 +
3)• Solve addition and subtraction story
problems• Identify 2-D and 3-D shapes
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Class Schedule7:45-8:00 Morning Work and Announcements
8:00-8:10 Community Circle
8:10-9:30 Literacy Workshop(Phonics)
9:30-9:45 Snack
9:45-10:30 Math Workshop
10:30-11:15 Writer’s Workshop
11:15-11:45 Calendar
11:49-12:19 Lunch
12:19-12:50 Recess
12:55-1:35 Music (M & W) PE (T & F) Computer (Th)
1:35-2:15 Shared Reading
2:15 Dismissal
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Morning Work and Announcements
• Each morning there will be a worksheet or activity at your child’s table for them to complete.
• Students have until after the announcements to complete the activity.
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Community Circle• Helps build community within our
classroom.
• Students get the opportunity to share every morning.
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TRIBES• Attentive Listening
• Appreciations/No Put Downs
• Mutual Respect
• Right to Pass
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Literacy Workshop• 16 groups
• Students do literacy based activities in each group.
• I will work with small groups of students. (Guided Reading, Sight words, phonemic awareness, etc.)
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Lucy Calkins Writing• Mini-lesson
• Writing Workshop
• Sharing Time
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Mini-Lesson• Each lesson focuses on a specific
writing skill.
• Stretching out words, adding detail, punctuation, capitalization
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Writing Workshop• Students spend 30-45 minutes
writing a true story.• We conference with the students
on how to make their story better.• Students draw a picture and
sound out words during writing workshop.
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Sharing Time• Two students share their story
each day.• The class tells the author one
thing they like about their story and one thing that could make their story better.
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Writing Rubric• Writing is graded based on our
writing rubric.
• This rubric changes throughout the year.
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Snack• We have a small snack each day.
• Send a snack each month for our class to share.
• Goldfish crackers, cereal, vanilla wafers, and pretzels are some examples.
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P.E. and Music• Students must wear tennis shoes to
participate in P.E.
• Our class goes to Music on Monday and Wednesday.
• We go to P.E. on Tuesdayand Friday.
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StoryTown• Phonemic Awareness and Phonics • Letters• Letter sounds• Rhyming• Blending/Decoding
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Shared Reading• I work with students on listening
and reading comprehension.• Retelling, summarizing,
sequencing, “wh”questions• Identify story elements
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Calendar• During calendar time we learn:
months of the year, days of the week, seasons, counting, place value, and money.
• Multiple Representations
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Handwriting• It is very important that each child
knows how to make the letters correctly.
• We teach students to start their letters at the top of the line.
• Examples are in your packet.
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Math Workshop• Mini-lesson
• 4 groups
• Students do math games and activities in each group.