1. Kindergarten Parent Meeting
Hanover-Horton Schools

2. Alphabet Chart
At round up you will be given a bag filled with some activities to try at home.
The first is an alphabet
One way to use this chart is to sing the ABC song and point to the letters. Talk about the pictures on the chart.
You will be given foam letters in upper case and lower case. Match the letters to the alphabet chart.

3. Match upper case and lower case letters
Spell out your child’s name
Spell out mom or dad

4. Free Book! Activity Calendar
Activity calendar- have ideas for an activity with your child
Free book
Point to the words as you read- read it again and again- just like watching that same episode of Paw Patrol over and over at this age kids prefer to have the same book read again and again. This is because it is predictable. They like to know the ending.
While we are talking about tv episodes, consider using the “closed Caption” feature. Reading is memorizing words ask your child to watch a show with the words at the bottom.
Activity Calendar

5. Blank book- possibilities are endless
ABC book
Stories
Scissors, glue and crayons
Give magazines to cut up or just colored paper

6. 10 Frame 10 + 10 = 20 Counting chips- reversible for 2 colors
Start counting on board
2 +2 = 4
This is not something to try this week before round up. These are items that will help support your family all year long.

7. 2 + 2 = 4
Add 2 numbers using colored chips

8. 5 + 2 = 7
6 + 2 = 8

9. Counting Children need to know how to count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s
Count items at dinner time
Count chocolate chips, pennies, buttons, legos

10. Short video demonstrating letter tracing Letter Tracing

11. Graph for letter tracing
Progress of Students Who Knew Fewer Than 40 Letters
Total Students in K
Total Students knowing less than 40 letters
4 weeks later
8 weeks later 62
40 (65%)
25 (40%)
4 (6%)
This graph shows you that 62 K students started in the fall. These are not our students. We will be testing our students in the fall and starting tracing.
65% of them knew less than 40 letters. You might say there are only 26 letters- that includes upper case and lower case letters
After 4 weeks 40% of them didn’t know their letters after 8 weeks only 6% didn’t know more than 40 letters.

12. Sight Words a and away big blue can come down find for funny go help
here I in it is It
Jump
Little
Look
Make Me my
not
one
play
red
run
said
see
the
three to
two up we
where
yellow
you
I have given you the beginning list of sightwords. If you go to my webpage you can look ahead for the next 3 years.

13. Folder – you take home tonight 
Alphabet Chart
Individual Letters
For tracing
Chart to 100
We have covered a lot tonight.
Go over packet- don’t try it all- over achieving parents run home and turn the corner of your living room into a school.  I strongly believe that it takes a great partnership between a school and parent to raise a child. These are the tools we are going to be teaching them. If you practice at home as well, we can work faster.
Literacy ideas
100 chart
Sight words
Alphabet chart
Letters
I am going to share a few tips that have never been shared before. When children start handwriting, the letters are started at the top. Here is a quick video to show you what it will look like. You should correct your child and ask them to trace the letters starting at the top.

14. Kindergarten vs. Young 5 Young 5's is best for my child if...
Is still learning how to correctly grasp a pencil
Needs help recognizing their name
Doesn't know most of their letters and sounds
Cannot identify and write numbers to 10
Has difficulty following 1 or 2 step directions
Is still 4 years old
Is working on self-help skills (clothes, shoes, etc.
Low maturity level
Kindergarten is best for my child if…
Can grasp a pencil correctly
Can recognize their own name
Can write their first and last name by memory
Knows most letters and sounds
Can identify and write numbers to 10
Can sort objects to 10
Must be able to work independently
Is able to work cooperatively with peers
Don’t read aloud

15. What will my child learn in Y5’s vs Kindergarten
Young 5's my child will learn...
Will have a slower approach to learning
Learn all the letters and sounds
Fine motor skill development
To identify and write numbers to 10
Introduction to kindergarten sight words
How to write simple sentences
How to work independently and cooperatively with their peers
Kindergarten my child will learn...
Can write words other than their name
How to write two complete sentences using sight words, punctuation and capital letters.
Read grade level texts independently (DRA level 4)
Will learn 45 sight words
Identify and write numbers to 20 by memory
Fluently add and subtract to 5
Can count to 100 by 1's and 10's

16. Questions??