1. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
Emilie Buchwald

2. Kindergarten Curriculum Night
September 17th, 2013

3. Kindergarten Staff Angela Gehlhoff MaryKate Haake Amy Rutter
MaryKate Haake
Amy Rutter
Kaitlin Wermerskirchen

4. About Me…
Family
School
Teaching

5. Cycle days Jackson is on a 10 day cycle.
How cycle days effect kindergarten
Library days:
We go to library on cycle days 3 & 8.
Kindergarten children are allowed to checkout one book.
Day will be posted in “Weekly Updates” on website.

6. Personal skills
Shoe tying
Clothes fastening
Red Folders
Backpacks

7. Field Trips Volunteer Forms Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Cost = Free
Chaperones
November 7th, 2013 (Habitat, Who needs that?)
Winter 2014: (Introduction to Snowshoe Hiking)
Spring 2014: (Forests Are More Than Trees)
Zoo mobile
Spring 2014

8. Class Schedule
Review schedule
Core & targeted time

9. Benchmark Resource Reading Reader’s Workshop Read Alouds
Reader’s Theatre
Phonics
Zoo Phonics
Poetry
Centers/Guided Reading

10. Language Arts Reader’s Workshop Independent Reading Time
One time a week-daily (Increase time from 3min-Up)
Quality vs. Quantity at home.
Three ways to read.
Pictures, words, and retell.
Browsing Boxes
Leveled text, weekly poem, and HFW books.
Book Bags (January)
Benchmark Books (January)

11. Language Arts Interactive Read Aloud
Teacher models what good readers do and think while they are reading stories.
Predicting what will happen
Connecting to other events
Understanding the meaning of words
At home, you can have a conversation about the story you are reading.
Reader’s Theatre
3rd week of each unit

12. Language Arts Phonics Zoo Phonics Rhyming Letter identification
Beginning, middle, & ending sounds
High frequency words
Word families
CVC words

13. Language Arts Poetry One-to-one correspondence
Identifying high frequency & rhyming words
Fluency
Visualizing
Poetry binders

14. Language Arts Guided Reading
Teacher works with small groups of children (4-5) on reading skills
Children are grouped with others who have similar reading skills
Directionality (left to right)
One-to-one match
Monitoring known and unknown words
Understand what has been read
Level C book by end of year (show parents)

15. Language Arts Centers Centers are literacy based
Children engage in independent learning
Children rotate through centers
Teacher pulls small groups for guided reading
Children might refer to “centers” as “play”

16. Benchmark Resource Writing Handwriting Shared writing
Interactive writing
Writer’s Workshop

17. Language Arts Handwriting New verbal paths Pencil grip
Forming letters correctly

18. Language Arts Shared Writing
Students and teacher share ideas and teacher uses pen to write.
Turn and talk

19. Language Arts Interactive Writing
A group writing experience where the children compose and write for a purpose.
Children write what they can and the teacher fills in what they don’t know, without drawing attention to it.

20. Language Arts Writers’ Workshop Oral stories.
Let children say words slowly and listen for the sounds they hear.
Write the sounds they know and (for now, let the rest go).
Share time.

21. Math
We teach math through daily practice, read aloud books, and hands on learning activities.
Resource: “Expressions” Math
Parent Letters and “Mega Math”
Practice these at home:
Count forward to 50; backward from 20
Recognize and write numbers through 31
Sorting and patterning
Identify one more and one less
Count a set of objects with a one-to-one match
Add and subtract numbers up to 10

22. Other Curricular Areas
All topics are embedded within reading and writing
activities.
Science
Seasons
Weather
Scientific tools
Social Studies
Families
Identify the symbols of our nation (flag and white house)
Map vocabulary

23. Other Curricular Areas
Health
Dental health
Personal, bus, and fire safety
Nutrition
Personal Growth
Print first and last name correctly
Listening skills
Follows directions
Be safe, Be respectful, Be responsible, Be positive
Jackson Pride
Jackson Pride PAWS
Class “PAWS”
Individual “PAWS”

24. Jackson Pride
12/29/2018
Pearson Pride

25. A few things…. Scholastic book orders Read-A-Thon
Orders monthly-info sent home and on website
Books=points for classroom
Free coupons when ordered online (teacher and student)
Build our classroom library
Read-A-Thon
Tuesday October 15th, 2013
School fundraiser this year
What does it look like in Kindergarten?

26. Miscellaneous Handouts Website Questions?
Pictures, monthly newsletters, weekly updates, links, Scholastic, Benchmark books
Group s (did you get the 1st one?)
Ms. Rutter’s website
Benchmark Books (accessible on website)
Mega Math (accessible on website)
Questions?

27. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
Emilie Buchwald