Welcome Kindergarten Teachers 2nd 9 weeks Curriculum Update Team Leader Meeting North- October 29, 2014 Team Leader Meeting South- November 12, 2014

Strategy Steps for 14-15 “Look Fors” in AISD Classrooms – AISD will develop “look fors” organized under the instructional core. Owner – Associate Superintendents (lead – Academics) Timeline – Phase 1 draft September 1 / Final May 2015 Communication – Leadership Institute / PW / Principals Council / Dept chair meetings / Cloud Measure of Success – “Look Fors” document

Spring Professional Development Will continue limited # of after-school PD that will be on HCP. PD on demand will be available through EC dept. Menu of PD on demand Schedule with EC contact Minimum 15 participants

Food Groups & Healthy Eating Habits RACE TO FILL THE FOOD TRAY GAME

Exemplary Lesson: Composing/ Decomposing Numbers 0-5 Kindergarten Math CRM 7 Exemplary Lesson: Composing/ Decomposing Numbers 0-5

Display an assortment of yellow and red Unifix® cubes Display an assortment of yellow and red Unifix® cubes. Randomly select five cubes from the assortment and arrange them on each of your five fingers, which you will want to spread apart to resemble an autumn tree. Refer to your hand as you recite the verse to the poem, Autumn Leaves Aglow. Blow on your hand (to simulate the wind) and wiggle your fingers as you allow the cubes to drop one by one to the floor. Arrange the cubes so that all the yellow ones are stacked on top and the red ones are on the bottom. Prompt the children to use numbers to describe what they see: How many cubes are there altogether? How do you know? Count the cubes in the tower to confirm the children’s responses.

Match My Color Instruct the children to arrange the 1-5 leaf numeral cards in numerical order inside the horizontal rows of squares on the game board. The children then shuffle and place the color leaf cards (the cards without the numerals) inside a paper bag. [NOTE: You may wish to substitute connecting cubes for the color cards.] Direct the children to draw one color card at a time, arranging each one in the order that it is drawn (e.g., first, second, third, fourth, and fifth), going left-to-right within the row of squares directly below the numerical arrangement of leaves. Remind the children that they must use a marker or crayon to represent the order of their draw on the available recording sheet. The children make tally marks on the recording sheet to show how many correct/ incorrect color matches they made to the numerical order of the top row of cards on the game board. Allow the children to play two rounds. Debrief the results with the child: During which round (A or B) did you have the greatest number of color matches?

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