1. Welcome! Please find your child’s Flag and pull up a tiny chair
Index cards and pencils provided for notes.
Extra chairs in back.

2. Miss Brittney Wilson Kindergarten Roxbury Elementary
Curriculum night 2017
Miss Brittney Wilson Kindergarten Roxbury Elementary

3. Lunches and Water bottles Change in Transportation Home Parent Survey
Housekeeping
Overview of day
Rewards
Bring Book Tomorrow!
Green is Gold
Lunches and Water bottles
Change in Transportation Home
Parent Survey

4. Reading expectations Kindergarten Reading Level Expectation is a 4/C
What is a 4 and how does my child get there?
Review the handout for explanation of leveled texts 1-4
Guided Reading Bags(coming in November)
How do Bag Books work??

5. Sight words
Solon Kindergarten sight word requirement is 25 words. (Sight Word Ring)
We will learn WAYYYYYY more than 25 sight words in this room 
Your child will be exposed to over 200 sight words over the course of this year and it will be possible to learn them all! (Heidi’s songs)
Sight words directly correlate with reading levels and comprehension.
Please practice sight words daily at home with sight word ring!

6. writing How can you help your child develop into a confident writer?
Do not tell them how to spell words! **Help your child sound out instead**
What does stretching out the words look/sound like?? (use the arm and other strategies!)
Encourage
Support
What Writing Looks Like in the Classroom
Lessons are broken into parts
Building tools for your child to become a confident reader in the classroom.

7. Differentiation in the classroom
Guided by Data
ELA
DRA2
Formative
Summative
State tests
Mini Lesson
Small Group Guided Reading
Individual Conferencing
Math
Problem Solving
Direct Instruction & Guided Practice
Flexible Grouping

8. math Math Lesson Math Homework What does a math lesson look like??
Daily Common Core Review
Video
Newspaper
Please be sure to complete math homework daily! Tear off back page.
No math homework will be given on a test day!
I will send home tests, but need them to be signed and returned the next day!!

9. Mindset Mondays at roxbury
All students will be provided with tools to have a Positive Growth Mindset. ***YOU CAN DO IT***
We want to stay “above the line”.
New lesson will be taught on Mondays via announcements and the focus will continue throughout the week.

10. Snack Homework Calendar
1st homework calendar will be sent home on September 1ST. Please keep this hung at home in a safe place.
They should be signed and returned on the last day of the month.
Please remember to send in a daily snack. Teachers may not give students snacks  No peanut/treenut, cinnamon in the classroom!

11. Scholastic Book Orders Picture Day
Every month I will distribute a set of Scholastic book order forms.
Money spent earns our class points=FREE BOOKS!! 
Makes a great reward/present!
Picture Day is September 12.
Picture order forms were sent home in the first week of school.
Keep forms until picture day and send in then.

12. Security Guard E-Forms
Roxbury will have an onsite security guard present during school hours.
Secure safety of all students!
All E-Forms should be completed!

13. Our classroom webpage
Navigate to the Solon City Schools website Click Roxbury, followed by staff directory, and click on my name! *Pictures

14. PTA
You may pay tonight! If not, please send the money in the sealed envelope PTA provided to you.
Thank you, thank you 
JOIN THE PTA!!!!

15. Look About Lodge: OCT 11 (please sign permission slip now)
Playhouse Square: OCT 24
Young Chef’s Academy: FEB 20
Moms and Muffins: MAY 3 1:30-2:15
Cleveland Zoo: MAY 17
Dads and Desserts: MAY 31 1:30-2:15
Look About Lodge: TBA
Important dates
I will only be taking volunteers to the Playhouse Square and Young Chef’s academy.
Everyone is welcome to come to the zoo!

16. Signup sheets Classroom Parties – Meet your Classroom Coordinators
Parent-Teacher Conferences
November 7: 4:00pm-7:00pm
November 8: 4:00pm-7:00pm
November 9: 8:00am-11:00am
NOTE DIFFERENT CONFERENCE DATES
Volunteers can signup for 4 parties:
Halloween
Holiday
Valentine’s
End of Year
Organizers who signup will be responsible for coordinating the party! They are the ONLY ones able to attend!!!

17. Volunteers
There is still time to volunteer!
Days, times, and lists will be finalized in the coming weeks.

18. Can you help?
Math books!
Ipads
Note for your kinder