Mrs. Olinger’s Class

 I’ve been teaching 19 years, 10 have been at CLECC – Kindergarten is my favorite grade.  My husband and I have been married 28 years. We have 4 children and one grandson.  I have my masters in Reading and ESL.  I’m certified to teach K-6, English & Social Studies 7- 8, & Reading and ESL K-12.

 The Vision of the Cedar Lane Early Childhood Center is to provide a child-centered, developmentally appropriate environment which promotes the social/emotional, academic, physical, and technological success of diverse young learners.

 The mission of the Cedar Lane Early Childhood Center is to create life-long learners by providing standards based curriculum through differentiated instruction. All children will be taught with a safe and nurturing environment designed to reach our diverse student population.

 To provide all children a developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, child centered education involving both families and community.

 All children at CLECC will become fluent in letter and sound identification and apply these skills to segment and blend words to become independent beginning readers and writers as measured by internal and external measures.

Reading is Power  C reating  L eaders  E ducating  C aring  C hildren

 9/10 concepts of print  Identifies all capital and lowercase letters  Identifies commonly used letter sounds  Reads sight words  Segments beginning, middle, and ending sounds  Blends sounds in presented words  Identifies character and setting  Creates rhyme  Orally answers open ended questions about text

 Writes left to right, top to bottom and uses spacing  Uses beginning, middle and ending sounds in writing  Uses sight words in writing  Uses capitalization and ending punctuation  Writes to provide an opinion, give information and to inform  Writes 3 to 5 sentences about the same topic

 Counts to 100  1:1 correspondence to 25  Identifies and writes numerals 0 to 20  Makes combinations up to 10  Fluently adds up to 5  Fluently subtracts down from 5  Identifies 2D and 3D shapes

Conducted in LFS format through units of study 1. Reading Readiness 2. Story Elements 3. Informative Texts 4. Story Elements 2 5. Author’s Purpose 6. Research 7. Author’s Study

 Kid Writing

 TERC hands on activities

 Push Pull Go, Trees, Wood and Paper

 PE, Music, Art and Library

Mrs. Francis - Art, Coach Hensley - PE, Mrs. Marsh - Music

 Coleman’s Farm – October  The others will include in house trips as well as others to be announced at a later point.

 Homework will be sent home on Friday then returned on the following Friday.  See example on CLECC website.   Read to your child and once they can read have them read to you.  Photocopied books will be sent home as a part of homework with a book response after our conferences in November.

 Please be sure that your child’s snack is clearly marked. Write “snack” on a brown paper bag or separate bag.  Please include a bottle of water or container of water.  Snack item and snack is meant to be a light snack, not another meal.

 This is new this year and Mrs. Robinson stated at the Kindergarten Preview night that items will remain in backpacks.  If you wish your child can just use the clothes available at the nurse’s office and you can keep the clothes at home.

 Please have your child either buy or pack. Some children have been buying and packing then they want to eat their lunch for snack.  Once snack is at a center there will be no time for more than just a small snack – one item and water.