1. Welcome to Kindergarten’s Virtual Curriculum Night
(Please make sure your volume is turned on.)

3. We are very happy you are at Story Elementary for the 2016-2017 school year!
Mrs. Abraham
Mrs. Cook
Miss Gable
Ms. Glade

4. Story Facts: We are the Story Falcons
School Colors are Blue and Silver
Our mascot’s name is Sammy
On Friday’s we wear Allen
or Story shirts for Spirit day.
We are in our 29th year

5. Kindergarten Chant
Story Falcons
Silver and Blue
We love Kindergarten!
How about you?

6. Kindergarten’s Daily Schedule
7:55 – 8:10 Prepare for the day, Morning Work, Announcements
8:10 – 8:30 Calendar/Phonics
8:30 – 9:15 Reading & Social Studies
9: :40 Recess
9:45 – 10:30 Writing
10:30 – 11:00 Math/Science
11: :40 Lunch
11:40 – 11:58 Recess
12:00 – 12:30 Focus/Daily 5
12:30 – 1:10 Math& Science Centers
1:15 – 2:00 Specials
2:00 – 2:30 Snack & Free Centers
2:30 – 2:45 Pack-up, Clean-up, End-of-Day Reflection

7. What To Expect
In Kindergarten...

8. Kindergarten Behavior Expectations
1.     Follow directions of all staff.
2.     Listen when others are speaking.
3.     Keep hands, feet and objects to your self.
4.     Use school appropriate language.
5.     Tell the truth.

9. Click on the picture for a video
Kindergarten Reading
Read To
Why read aloud?
To provide a reading role model
For vocabulary and language development
To build listening comprehension skills
To identify story patterning and sequencing
It’s fun!
Click on the picture for a video
about reading aloud!

10. Big books, poems, posters
Read With
Shared reading – students are invited to read along with the teacher
Big books, poems, posters
Guided reading – small group instruction based on the student’s instructional level to apply reading strategies and skills
Easy words
Repetitive text

11. Read By
Students read independently based on their independent and instructional levels.
Reading buddies
Book baggies (Book baggies will start coming home in October.)
Book box (school)

12. Daily 5 The Daily 5 is a literacy structure that will help students
develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working
with peers that will lead to a lifetime of independent
literacy. During the Daily 5, students will….
1.Read to Self
2.Read to Someone
3.Work on Writing
4.Listen to Reading
5.Work on Words
3 Ways to read a book:
Read and talk about the pictures
Read the words
Retell a previously read book

13. High Frequency Words Sometimes called “sight words” or “hot words”.
These are words your child should know by looking at them. We will include them in your newsletter each month. They are also listed on the Kindergarten website.

14. First Reporting Period:
Please practice them at home. You can create flash cards with these words to use with your child.
First Reporting Period:
I, see, like, to, am, a, can, you, my, are, the, we, an, go, it, and, on, in, look 
Second Reporting Period:
do, what, is, for, up, at, no, me, this, here, come, will, they, all, of, she 
Third Reporting Period:
he, said, big, that, not, his, her, so, him, down, was, with, play, make, yes, too, some, have, one, two, little, out
Fourth Reporting Period:
there, be, but, did, get, from, them, find, who, where, more, how, when, then, many, why, saw

15. Kindergarten Writing Write to
The teacher demonstrates the reasons for writing and the thought process behind it.
The teacher models writing strategies that include spacing, handwriting, spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary choices.

16. Write With
The students and teacher collaborate to create different types of writing. These may include morning message, class stories, class poetry, and a class research project.
The students and teacher share the pen while the teacher guides, responds, and extends the students’ skills and ideas.

17. Write By Students will write in Draft Books
Students select topics and are in charge of their own writing.
Students will write every day.
The teacher supports each student based on their individual writing level.
All writing is collected and kept in a blue binder that students will bring home at the end of the school year.

18. Writing Continuum

19. Math
Math To
The teacher presents mini-lessons to explain new concepts and materials.
Math With
The teacher interacts with the students to apply the new skill.
Math By
The students independently practice
and demonstrate the concepts taught.

20. Social Studies and Science
We often embed social studies and science into our literature and across curriculum.
We also set aside time during the regular school day to participate in a variety of activities such as labs, hands-on learning, watch videos, listen to speakers, etc.

21. Topics to be covered include. .
Social Studies and Science
Topics to be covered include. .
--All About Me and my Family --Becoming a Scientist
--Needs and Wants --Matter and Energy
--My Community Weather
--Holidays, Customs and Traditions --Space
(Fall, Winter, Patriotic) --Force and Motion
--Voting Living and Nonliving
-- Presidents Earth Science
--National/State Symbols --Plants
--Texas historical figures --Natural Resources
--Maps, Regions of the world --Animals

22. Grading
Kindergarten focuses on the development of reading, writing, math, and social skills, and students develop these skills at different rates. As a result, the students do not receive typical grading marks such as A, B, C etc. The grading marks below indicate the level of mastery your child is performing at in any given area.
4 Demonstrates high achievement of grade level
expectations.
3 Meeting grade level expectations.
2 Progressing toward grade level expectations.
1 Not yet demonstrating grade level expectations.

23. Report Card/Testing
Report Cards are sent home 4 times per year at the end of each nine weeks in a manila envelope.
Please sign envelope on the signature line for the correct nine weeks and return only the envelope to school with your child. The report card is yours to keep.
ISIP ( Reading Readiness – 3 times a year)
AMI ( Math – 3 times a year)
CogAT (Cognitive Abilities - December)

24. Let’s Talk About Arrival
School doors open at 7:30 a.m.. Please make sure your child is at school and in the cafeteria by 7:45 a.m. (Teachers will pick them up promptly at 7:45).
Side doors lock at 7:55 a.m. Students are late if they are not in their classroom by 7:55. If you arrive later, you will need to drop them off at the front door.
If students are eating breakfast, they need to arrive in time to finish breakfast by 7:50 a.m.

25. Let’s Talk About Dismissal
Afternoon dismissal is at 2:50. Kindergarten will dismiss a few minutes early .
Carpool
Please hang your kindergarten car tag when you drive through the car line.
Daycare and Bus Riders
Students will be picked up by a staff member and taken to a designated spot for day care pick-up.
Bus riders are also picked up by a staff member and taken to a designated area to wait for their bus.

26. Dismissal Continued Walkers Walk-ups
Walkers are students who will be walking home with other students but without an adult. Kindergarten walkers go to the gym and wait for the older student to pick them up before they may leave the building.
If the student your child will be walking home with is absent please let us know how your child will be getting home that day.
Walk-ups
Walk-ups are students who will be picked up by a parent or designated adult. They will exit the gym door by the bike racks.
If a parent is not picking up their child but has designated another adult to do so, the student’s teacher needs this in writing. We will ask that adult to present ID.

27. Snacks
Each child may bring one snack for themselves daily. Due to state nutrition laws, students/teachers cannot provide a snack to others.
Please put your child’s snack in a separate container from their lunch. Be sure to choose something healthy. Please do not send candy or anything messy.
A sports type water bottle is acceptable. Please be sure to only fill with water, and use a leak/spill proof container.
Please do not send anything with
peanuts or peanut products. Please be aware
that we have several students with food
allergies.

28. Kindergarten Communication
We will send home a Daily folder each day with your child. Please check, empty and initial the folder each night.
Most information will be coming home via , so please make sure to check it daily for important reminders and events.
A Kindergarten newsletter will be ed monthly.
On Tuesday, a school folder will come home. Please check these folders, remove all papers, and return the folder the next day.
The school will also send out an electronic newsletter each Tuesday.

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30. Teamwork
An apple for a teacher is really nothing new, except when you remember, parents are teachers, too!
We look forward to working with you this year as we, together, teach your child so many new things!

31. IMPORTANT
If for any reason your child needs to go home a different way you must send a note or call the office notifying us of the change. Teachers cannot rely on the student’s word alone. Please do not rely on an sent the same day.
If another adult is picking up your student, they will need to present identification and be on the list in skyward.

32. How to Help at Home
Practice writing first and last name (with 1st letter being upper case and the rest lower case)
Practice recognizing birthday (month, day, year)
Saying the alphabet (not singing the song)
Identifying letters of the alphabet- both upper and lower case letters randomly
Practicing Letter Sounds
Identifying numerals 0-20
Counting orally
Identifying shapes and colors
Taking care of personal needs ( zipping, buttoning, tying shoes etc.)
Please click HERE for more activities!

33. Thank you for watching our presentation!
Please review the Kindergarten ABCs for further information!
We look forward to an amazing year!

34. All I Ever Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
There are things I learned: Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK . Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you
are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Robert Fulghum