3. Mrs. Thompson’s Daily Schedule
8:15-8:45 Attendance, Announcements,
Lunch count & Morning Work
8:45-9: Gathering Circle
9:00-9: Stepping Stones
9:35-10:25 PAMM- (P.E. Mon/Wed/Thurs.)
10:25-11:00 Theme Exploration and Rhyme Time
11:00-11:30 Lunch
11:30-12: Go Math!
12:30-12: Rhyme time round 2
12:45-1: Star Story
1:05-1: Write Away
1:30-2:00 Recess
2:00-3: Let’s Daydream, Let’s Think About it,
Pack Up & Labs
3: Dismissal

4. Please tell your child what lunch they will be eating
Please tell your child what lunch they will be eating. Will it be hot, cold, or PBJ school lunch? Lunch from home?
Bring a water bottle with a name on it for PE/recess
Please help children make sure homework is correct and understood.

5. Classroom Management Class Expectations & Rules
Classroom Behavior chart
Cheetah Prides
Team Points
Class Compliments

6. Daily folders Should be brought to school every day
Homework and important notes can be found in the front pocket
Includes monthly behavior & reading calendar-parents are to initial each day indicating that their child has read for 20 minutes and that they have reviewed their behavior for the day.
Marked daily with your child’s behavior indicated for that day (purple/pink- fantastic day; green-good day; yellow-warning; red-needs improvement)
Calendar also includes information on the themes we are studying and important dates to remember.

7. Read 20 Minutes per night
Go Math! Pages
Practice sight words (in packet)
Later we will have reading and writing homework as well

8. Kinder Corner Theme Units
Unit 1: Welcome to School
Unit 2: I Am Amazing
Unit 3: Those Nearest & Dearest
Unit 4: Head to Toe
Unit 5: Cornucopia
Unit 6: What’s On the Menu
Unit 7: Sing a Song-Paint a Picture
Unit 8: Winter Weatherland
Unit 9: Day & Night, Dark & Light
Unit 10: Words & Roads Take Us Places
Unit 11: Safe & Sound
Unit 12: Buggy About Spring
Unit 13: City Gardens & Country Farms
Unit 14: Fur & Feathers
Unit 15: Water Wonders
Unit 16: Earth Day is Every Day

9. Reading -Students spend 1 week on each book
Success For All Kinder Corner program
We begin with phonemic awareness activities
Stepping Stones:
-Letter/sound concepts
White books (Concepts of Print) -theme related mini books; teacher directed reading activity used to teach concepts of print; books are sent home for students to practice with and return the following week.
Kinderoots shared Stories- starts third quarter. 22 books in the series
-Students spend 1 week on each book
-Students will bring home 1 book for the week to read daily
and complete bookmark activities, then return the
following week.

10. We use a combination of SFA Kinder Corner and Florida state standards
writing strategies
Journals
Literacy based writing- Read and respond to text
● Interactive Writing- Cooperative learning- writing
strategies

11. Go Math! is used in Seminole County
Link:
Go Think Central
You will get a password and username soon.
Home work will come home almost every night. Please review their classwork math sheets at home.

12. Science and Social Studies
Science and social studies concepts are embedded into our theme units
Weekly Readers

13. Grading Policy S-satisfactory N-needs improvement
The student’s grades are based on mastery of the Standards and mastery of concepts taught in class
Kindergarten promotion is mastery of % of the Standards
Students are graded by formal and informal assessments and teacher observations
Students are assessed quarterly with the opportunity to master the skills by the end of each quarter

14. You must register as a Dividend in order to volunteer in the classroom or go on field trips. This must be done every year.

15.
Class Website
School Website

16. Reminders Please look through the entire packet that you were given.
Feel free to ask questions at this time!
Please make your way to the cafeteria to meet all of our SPAMM teachers starting at 5:35.