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Curriculum Night

2. write your child a letter
First!
Before we begin, please pass around the Class Directory on your table and check for errors. Please note any corrections.
papers at table
write your child a letter
write notes

3. My Experience with Education
Graduate of Grand Canyon University
Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education
6th year Kinder kid
1yr first grade – 2yr Title One second grade – 2yr 4th grade

4. Reading Differentiated Learning Environment
Cooperative Learning -Guided Reading Groups, Instructional Focus Groups (IFG) and Literacy Work Stations
Literacy Work Stations
1. Handwriting: Ball and stick
2. Computers: letter recognition and sounds – writing
3. Listening Center: comprehension
4. ABC center: letter focus center
5. Writing: writer’s workshop
6. Reading Center: interaction with books and practice to read fluently

5. The Cafeteria lunch accounts OR Pay daily/weekly/ monthly
send in money PENCIL CASE in binder - not pockets (show)
Tell student when money is in binder and have them let me know!
will be told when low on account by note in folder.
recess - 15 minutes after lunch.

6. Snack Everyday – please send one with your child Water only
HEALTHY! HEALTHY! HEALTHY!
Birthdays – Sorry, no birthday treats.

7. Language Arts
Research is clear that closing the gap for every child, engaging all our students in learning and providing enriching experiences requires that we share common knowledge and that is what Core Knowledge is all about.

8. Student Path to Learning
Core Knowledge is aligned to Common Core Reading Standards
Comprehension of Literary and Informational Text
Writing narrative, informational and opinion pieces
Listening & Speaking Skills
Language/Vocabulary
The guiding principle of this curriculum is to provide educational excellence and equity for all children
Research shows that in order to achieve this guiding principle, students must have equal access to common knowledge.

9. To achieve this learning outcome (common knowledge), your child will daily engage in 60 minutes of instruction that will focus on:
Listening to, discussing and interacting with coherent, cumulative and content-specific topics
Engaging lessons that will create interactive opportunities to question, discuss and share ideas centered on the text, including extensive, connected vocabulary
Focus on a domain topic or theme for days of instruction in which time the read-alouds grow increasingly complex
Preparing to produce a written performance task that demonstrates student knowledge and vocabulary of the focused topic
Each new domain or topic of study within your child’s grade level will build on knowledge gained from their previous learning.
Over time and grade levels, students will experience a cohesive and broad knowledge of social studies, science, health and cultural literacy (see next slide).
A parent letter will be sent home at the beginning of each Domain explaining the focused topic of study.

10. CKLA Kindergarten Theme’s
Nursery Rhymes and Fables
The Five Senses
Stories
Plants
Farms
Native Americans
Kings and Queens
Seasons and Weather
Columbus and the Pilgrims
Colonial Towns and Townspeople
Taking Care of the Earth
Presidents and American Symbols

11. Student Path to Learning…
Systematic & Explicit daily lessons to teach students how to read and write
Instruction focuses on sounds first, followed by the introduction of letters
Synthetic phonics approach that teaches students to read by blending through the whole word
Non-decodable words are called “tricky words” and only the non-decodable word parts are memorized/remembered
Lower case letters are taught before upper case letters

12. Writing Curriculum Writing narrative, informational and opinion pieces
Ball and Stick Handwriting
Example: My name is Cheryl.

13. Math, Reading and Language Arts College and Career Readiness Standards

14. Math curriculum INVESTIGATIONS an activity based math resource.
develops critical thinking skills,
deeper understanding of the math and how to apply it.
encourages to reason mathematically
develop strong problem solving strategies
represents their thinking using models, diagrams and graphs.
free and guided exploration
hands-on activities and games
use of concrete materials and technology

15. Calendar Routines – Daily Wednesdays and Fridays
counting, awareness of days, weeks, months, explore in depth number practice, graphing, problem solving, place value, shapes, patterning
Wednesdays and Fridays
Problem solving
Place value

16. Math College and Career Readiness Standards

17. Science integrated into reading, writing, and language arts hands on activities and experiments -introduce formulating, predictions, questions, and hypothesis based on observations - build higher level thinking skills weather living and non-living 5 senses earth properties of objects magnets

18. SOCIAL STUDIES integrated into reading, writing, and language arts maps Native Americans community workers US Symbols Arizona Symbols Astronauts Holidays- MLK Jr., Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, President’s Day

19. Recess and Special Schedule
Recess – 11:00-11:15 (after lunch) 12:50-1:05 (afternoon)
Specials
Computers (Monday)
PE (Tuesday) Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
Library (Wednesday)
Music (Thursday)
Art (Friday)

20. Classroom Information
PBIS Positive Behavior Intervention and Support: Clip Chart is school wide
INDEPENDENCE
Birthdays- district policy
4 classroom parties 1:30-2:30 Fall, Winter, Friendship, End of The Year Celebration (no graduation)
I Can! Award

21. Classroom Information Continued…
Binders
End of Day – any change in pickup
Homework – monthly calendar

22. Parent Volunteers Cutting/collating papers from home Beginning soon!
Literacy Workshops: 8:20-8:55 M/T/Th/F
Math workshops : 11:25-12:55 M/T/Th/F
Computer Lab help : 1:00-1:45 Monday
No Wednesday volunteer time
Cutting/collating papers from home
Parent Meeting: Thursday, August 31st 3:00-3:30
Parent volunteers start September 5th.
Siblings allowed at class parties but not during instructional volunteering hours

23. Contact With Me Email cherylchance @kyrene.org Binders Webpage
Phone calls – (480)
Conferences in late October and Feb/March
Report cards twice year (January and May)

24. Some things to think about
Read my s and newsletters (please)

25. More to Think About Independence is constant theme
No belts please – practice tying shoes and using buttons.
If they are sick, keep them home!
Check backpacks for hijacked toys from home
Put your child’s name on all items

26. Your turn….
Questions?