2. A Typical Day in Kindergarten
Spanish Immersion Program
Sra. Rachel Rivera
Sonia Sotomayor
Elementary School

3. Good Morning!
The children arrive at school by bus or car and get themselves ready for the day.
Travel to/from school - bus, car
Allowing the children to do things by themselves encourages their independence and gives them a sense of pride.

4. Morning Routine
Having a consistent arrival-time routine helps the children transition from home to classroom.
Morning jobs - fostering responsibility
* We always take a bathroom break and wash hands when we first get to school

5. Morning Meeting
We start each day with a greeting, share, activity and reading a morning message. We talk about the calendar, days of the week, months of the year, and the weather.
Morning Meeting / Calendar / Weather / Days of School

6. Phonics
Independent Reading / Reading Workshop
This is a time we share the marker, tap out sounds, and learn how letters combine to make syllables and words. *Recess 9:00-9:20

7. Kindergartners participate in the Investigation programs.
Math
Kindergartners participate in the Investigation programs.
Math
The children do many hands-on activities involving counting, numeration, measurement, geometry, sorting, adding subtracting and data collecting.

8. Snack/Lunch Lunch Recess: 10:30-10:50 Lunch: 10:50-11:15
Afternoon snack-
*Allergies
I have cups to hand out snacks, they do not need to be individually wrapped.

9. Shared Reading
During shared reading, the teacher and children read big books and poems.
Shared Reading

10. Workboard/ Literacy Centers
Workboard/literacy centers provides meaningful reading and writing experiences as students work to apply skills and strategies learned during shared and guided reading lessons.
Literacy Stations - Hands on literacy work
Typical workboard/literacy center jobs may be the ABC, writing, listening, poetry, science, and reading around the room.

11. Guided Reading
During guided reading, teachers work with students to guide them in using their emerging reading strategies. By using books that gradually increase in difficulty, students work at their own levels and feel very successful! The end goal is for students to become confident, proficient readers who LOVE to read!
Guided Reading

12. Typically we have PM recess everyday except Fridays.

13. Writing Workshop
Children have a lot to say about the world and they can express themselves on paper through inventive spelling and drawing. ( we will use Handwriting without tears).
Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop builds on the children’s strengths, provides meaningful, structured opportunities to write, exposes them to beautiful literature and actively teaches the skills and strategies that writers need.

14. Science and Social Studies
Kindergartners explore and discover the things and people around them and make connections between their own personal lives and the larger world around them. In science some of the the things we study are, ladybugs, bulbs, the engineering of blocks, sand and water. Our social studies units are, seasons, All about Me, families, and important people, dates, and holidays throughout the year.
Science - experimentation and discovery

15. Technology
Kindergartners will be given the chance to explore and use IPads for different projects – creating and writing stories and making thinking visible in math.
Science - experimentation and discovery

17. Parent and Teacher Communication
Parent/Teacher Conferences can be scheduled with your child’s classroom teacher.
Daily Folder
Students will have a binder in their backpack for parent/teacher communication.
Thursday Folders will be sent home every Thursday, it is a school wide system, all parents know to look for the folder daily. Parents review the folder, keep the contents and then send the folder back.

18. Walker Day Care Bus Rider How do I get home?
Please keep your child’s teacher informed about the way your child will be getting home from school. Make sure on contact information is kept up to date.
Parents must send a note in order for the child to be sent home another way.
Please be on time to pick up your child from school.
Walker
Day Care
Bus Rider

19. Classroom Schedule Monday: No Specials Tuesday: P.E.
Wednesday: Art and Music
Thursday: Library
Friday: P.E., Art, and Music

20. Sertoma Butterfly House Other trips may come up throughout the year.
Special Events
Trips
Special Events
Sertoma Butterfly House
Thanksgiving Feast
Great Plains Zoo
Holiday party
Other trips may come up throughout the year.
February 14th
Valentine’s Day party

21. We’re looking forward to a great year!
The End