1. Welcome to Open House Night 2017-2018
Jessika Hills

2. A little about myself:
UCCS for both undergraduate and graduate degrees
Bachelors in History
Masters in elementary curriculum and instruction
In 10th year of teaching kindergarten

3. Miss Stautz: Our class Kindergarten Aide
Currently attending UCCS and working on a Bachelor's degree in Communication.
Loves working with kids and has five years of experience teaching spring break and summer camp classes at School Crossing & Toy Station.
Three favorite activities are: reading, cooking, and hiking!

4. Goals for the school year:
Build self-confidence in students
Grow socially, emotionally as well as academically
Show respect for self and others
Build social skills needed to be a good friend
Gain independence and celebrate unique abilities
Ability to take risks, have fun learning
Build foundation for aspiring life-long learners

5. Kindergarten Curriculum:
Math: Math Expressions, ST Math
Calendar: Days of the week, months, #chart, graphing, pattern practice, place value practice, DIBELs practice
Literacy: Reading Wonders, Orton-Gillingham, Smarty Ants, Chipeta’s Leveled- Book Room
Writing: Writer’s Workshop, Writing Workshop, Step-Up to Writing
Units of Study:
ABC book, Personal Narrative, Pattern Book, All About Book, Opinion/ Persuasive writing, Letter writing, Informational Paragraph, Research Project, How-to- Book
Science: Science Kit Units of Study:
Five Senses, Balls and Ramps, Plants, Temperature/ Weather, Butterflies, and Animals

6. Building a Growth Mindset

7. Classroom Management:
Card System-
Blue - 2 stars in daily folder (above and beyond)
Green- 1 star in daily folder (great day!)
Yellow- Yellow check on feedback form (1 offense)
Red- Red check on feedback form (2 offenses)
Each student that is on yellow or red has the
chance to move his/her card back to green during
the day if I catch them making better choices

8. Classroom Reward Systems
Warm and Fuzzy Jar & Weekly Goal Chart- whole group
Reach for the Stars Graph- small group
Character Counts- individual student

9. Kindergarten Wiki Website:
You can access our important kindergarten information at:
Daily Schedule
Weekly Themes
Kinder Sight Word List
Weekly Newsletters

10. DIBELs: FSF- First Sound Fluency (oral)
Tested in Fall (10)/ Winter (30)
phonemic awareness skill
Students receive either 2 points for saying the initial phoneme of a word (e.g., saying the /s/ sound as the first sound in the word street) or 1 point for saying the initial consonant blend (e.g., /st/, /str/ in street), consonant plus vowel (e.g., /si/ in sit), or consonant blend plus vowel (e.g., /strea/ in street)
The total score is based on the number of correct 1- and 2-point responses the student says in 1 minute

11. DIBELs: LNF- Letter Naming Fluency Tested in Fall/Winter/ Spring
phonics skill

12. DIBELs: NWF- Nonsense Word Fluency PSF- Phoneme Segmentation
Tested in Winter (17)/ Spring (28)
phonemic awareness skill
PSF- Phoneme Segmentation
Fluency (oral)
Tested in Winter (20)/ Spring (40)
*If child does not benchmark on a given
test, progress-monitoring will take place
every 2-4 weeks*

13. Data Folders:
Literacy- letters, sounds, sight word recognition, running records Math- # recognition, # writing, counting, 1 to 1 corr.

14. Reading/ Homework:
Monthly Reading Logs
Family Project worksheets

15. ??? Questions ???