Welcome to Open House Night Heather VonFeldt

A little about myself: Family – Monument, CO D#11 Graduate UNC - Bachelors in Elementary Education UCCS - Masters in Educational Leadership – Type D certificate 11 th year teaching – Kindergarten – 1 st grade – Reading interventionist

A little about Mrs. Fields: Colorado native BA from Colorado College MAT Candidate at Colorado College Mother of two children, ages 6 & 9 Married for 13 years

A little about Mrs. Oldberg: Raised two successful children in D11 schools with her wonderful husband of 36 years Has two degrees from the University of Colorado Taught for many years in D11 Family Literacy program teaching ESL adults and children She is passionate about Early Learning and teaching the fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Science as well as becoming good citizens. Enjoys climbing fourteeners with her family and spending time at her cabin in Northern New Mexico.

Goals for the school year: Build self-confidence in students – Grow socially, emotionally as well as academically Show respect for self and others – Build social skills needed to be a good friend – Gain independence and celebrate unique abilities Ability to take risks, have fun learning Build foundation to be life-long learners

Classroom Management: Stoplight System- Treasure Box Chart – Blue - 2 signatures in daily folder – Excellent! – Green- 1 signature in daily folder -- great day! – Yellow- Yellow check on feedback form – 1 offense – Orange- Orange check on feedback form – 2 offenses – Red- Red behavior slip – 3 offenses Each student that is on yellow, orange, or red has the chance to move his/her clip back up during the day if I catch them making better choices Bears to bed High fives Buckets – Filling and dipping

Character Counts: School wide positive behavior management system Students are encouraged to- – Make good choices – Follow class and school rules – Act appropriately in classroom Double R, Double C, F and T

Kindergarten Wiki Website: You can access our important kindergarten information at: Daily Schedule Weekly Themes Kinder Sight Word List Weekly Newsletters

DIBELs: FSF - First Sound Fluency (oral) Tested in Fall/ Winter phonemic awareness skill Students receive either 2 points for saying the initial phoneme of a word (e.g., saying the /s/ sound as the first sound in the word street) or 1 point for saying the initial consonant blend (e.g., /st/, /str/ in street), consonant plus vowel (e.g., /si/ in sit), or consonant blend plus vowel (e.g., /strea/ in street) The total score is based on the number of correct 1- and 2-point responses the student says in 1 minute

DIBELs: LNF - Letter Naming Fluency Tested in Fall/Winter/ Spring

DIBELs: NWF - Nonsense Word Fluency Tested in Winter/ Spring PSF- Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (oral) Tested in Winter/ Spring *If child does not benchmark on a given test, progress-monitoring will take place every 2-4 weeks*

Kindergarten Curriculum: Math: Math Expressions curriculum, ST Math Calendar: Days of the week, months, #chart, money practice, pattern practice, place value practice, DIBELs practice Literacy: Reading Wonders, Orton-Gillingham, Chipeta’s Leveled- Book Room Writing: Writer’s Workshop, Writing Workshop, Step-Up to Writing – Units of Study: ABC book, Personal Narrative, Pattern Book, All About Book, Opinion/ Persuasive writing, Letter writing, Informational Paragraph, Research Project, How-to- Book Science: Science Kit Units of Study: – Five Senses, Balls and Ramps, Plants, Temperature/ Weather, Butterflies, and Animals

Reading/ Homework: Classroom leveled book library begins in November Monthly Reading Logs Family Project worksheets

Data Folder: Letters/ Sound ID

Data Folder: Sight Word List

Data Folder: Sample of Student # writing

Snack & Lunch Time We have a 15 minute snack break We share snack and usually eat crackers. I LOVE when parents send in healthy choices Please let me know first. We have a 25 minute lunch break from 11:40 – 12:05. Don’t be surprised if your child does not eat as much as he/she does at home. Please send in cold lunch or have your child buy hot lunch. You can put money on your child’s lunch card on-line or send in a check.