Welcome to Open House Night 2017-2018 Jessika Hills 328-5541 jessika.hills@d11.org

A little about myself: UCCS for both undergraduate and graduate degrees Bachelors in History Masters in elementary curriculum and instruction In 10th year of teaching kindergarten

Miss Stautz: Our class Kindergarten Aide Currently attending UCCS and working on a Bachelor's degree in Communication. Loves working with kids and has five years of experience teaching spring break and summer camp classes at School Crossing & Toy Station. Three favorite activities are: reading, cooking, and hiking!

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 for aspiring life-long learners

Kindergarten Curriculum: Math: Math Expressions, ST Math Calendar: Days of the week, months, #chart, graphing, pattern practice, place value practice, DIBELs practice Literacy: Reading Wonders, Orton-Gillingham, Smarty Ants, 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

Building a Growth Mindset

Classroom Management: Card System- Blue - 2 stars in daily folder (above and beyond) Green- 1 star in daily folder (great day!) Yellow- Yellow check on feedback form (1 offense) Red- Red check on feedback form (2 offenses) Each student that is on yellow or red has the chance to move his/her card back to green during the day if I catch them making better choices

Classroom Reward Systems Warm and Fuzzy Jar & Weekly Goal Chart- whole group Reach for the Stars Graph- small group Character Counts- individual student

Kindergarten Wiki Website: You can access our important kindergarten information at: http://hvonfeldt.pbworks.com/w/page/7257779/FrontPage Daily Schedule Weekly Themes Kinder Sight Word List Weekly Newsletters

DIBELs: FSF- First Sound Fluency (oral) Tested in Fall (10)/ Winter (30) 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 phonics skill

DIBELs: NWF- Nonsense Word Fluency PSF- Phoneme Segmentation Tested in Winter (17)/ Spring (28) phonemic awareness skill PSF- Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (oral) Tested in Winter (20)/ Spring (40) *If child does not benchmark on a given test, progress-monitoring will take place every 2-4 weeks*

Data Folders: Literacy- letters, sounds, sight word recognition, running records Math- # recognition, # writing, counting, 1 to 1 corr.

Reading/ Homework: Monthly Reading Logs Family Project worksheets

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