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!