1. William O. Schaefer School
WELCOME to
Meet the
Teacher Night
William O. Schaefer School
September 5, 2018

2. Keeping in Touch
Class Blog:

3. Housekeeping
Please have your child use the bathroom before leaving for school each morning.
Discuss at home the lunch choices and what your child will be buying for lunch.
Remind your child if you put a note in his/her folder for me or the school.
Please be considerate and keep your child home if he/she is sick.
Remind your child if he/she is a pick up.
Practice tying shoes at home! 

4. Homework Policy
Students should read/have someone read to them each night.
Play!

5. Snack
We have a brief snack in the morning around 10:25am followed by a morning recess
We ask that you please send in a separate bag with one snack per day with a water/juice
Please make sure to label your child’s snack and water bottle
We also encourage any and all healthy snacks of your choosing

6. Birthdays Celebrated during snack time or at the end of the school day
Parents may join us for a short celebration
We do not do birthday snacks
We invite a family reader to come in
We can do a birthday craft, if you’d like
All summer birthdays will be celebrated in June
Birthday invitations cannot be distributed at school

7. 9:15-9:30 Morning Routine: Unpack, lunch count, attendance
9:15-9:45 Calendar/Morning Meeting
9:45-10:25 Reader’s Workshop
10:25-10:50 Snack/Recess
10:50-11:10 Phonics
11:10-11:50 Special (P.E., Art, Music)
11:50-12:10 Shared Reading/Interactive Writing
12:10-12:50 Recess/Lunch
12:50-1:00 Read Aloud
1:00-1:40 Math Workshop
1:40-2: Writer’s Workshop
2:20-3: S.S./Science/Play Centers
3:15-3: Pack-up/Dismissal
Specials
Day 1: Music
Day 2: P.E.
Day 3: Music
Day 4: P.E./Library
Day 5: Art
Day 6: P.E./Technology

8. ELA Curriculum Units of Study

9. What does reading look like in Kindergarten?
Throughout the day children participate in a variety of different reading experiences.
Read Aloud- vocabulary, comprehension
Shared Reading- word work, fluency
Guided and Independent Reading- strategy instruction and practice
Phonics- Fundations

10. Mathematics Units Unit 1: Classroom Routines & Materials
Unit 2: Counting & Measurement 1
Unit 3: 2D Geometry
Unit 4: Counting and Measurement 2
Unit 5: 3D Geometry
Unit 6: Addition, Subtraction and the Number System 1
Unit 7: Modeling with Data
Unit 8: Addition, Subtraction and the Number System 2

11. What Tools do Scientists Use?
Science
What is a Scientist?
What Tools do Scientists Use?
For students to understand how and why scientist do experiments and explore the world through their senses.  Students will be introduced to some tools scientists may use in their studies.
Weather, Climate and Matter
For students to understand weather, weather patterns and how the movement of the Earth and Sun affect the changes in the seasons..  They will be able to describe the weather based on their senses and measurements taken by meteorologists. They will be able to use visual clues to predict the weather (ie grey clouds mean rain is coming).  They will then use this information to build a sun and rain shelter for the Monster friends Molly and Matty.
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants and Their Environments
Students will study what plants  and animals need to survive. Observe how plants and animals change their environments to meet their needs and how plants and animals interact in their habitat.  Within the study they will learn how human decisions impact their environment and suggest ways that humans can reduce their impact on the living and nonliving environment around them.   The garden can also be incorporated into this study
Force and Motion
Students will be able to describe pushes and pulls and experiment with how these change the movement of objects.  They will test how the amount of force and direction of force change these movements and design their own experiments to explore these concepts.

12. Thank you for coming! I’m looking forward to a great year!