1. Welcome to Kindergarten Open House
Holly Grove Elementary

2. Jessie
Heisenberg

3. Sweet, little
Isaiah Wood

4. We come to school to learn, to make new friends, to be safe, and to have fun.

5. Four Strands 1. Reading 2. Writing 3. Speaking and Listening
Literature
Informational
Foundational Skills
2. Writing
3. Speaking and Listening
4. Language
There are four strands throughout the standards.
Let’s begin with Reading. Within the reading strand your child will work on learning to read both literary and informational texts. You may know these better as fiction and nonfiction. An additional component of this strand is the Foundational Skills which focuses on developing the Phonological Awareness and phonics skills that will help your child learn how letters and sounds work together to create words and how to read those words. Kindergarten students will spend time on this key area because it is the foundation for beginning reading success.
Writing is an equally important strand for students as they begin to put their thoughts, ideas, and evidences on paper. We sometimes say that writing is thinking with a pencil. Kindergarten students will begin with pictures, words, or even letter strings to tell their story. Writing, like reading, will include stories but students will also be asked to write about their opinions, like a favorite book or animal, as well as create informational texts.
Speaking and Listening is a new standard that helps our students learn how to be good listeners as well as how to participate in conversations and discussions. Students will learn how to ask and answer questions in a variety of settings to increase their understanding of topics being studied.
Language includes both conventions of standard written and spoken English as well as vocabulary development and understanding. Kindergarten students will look at texts to identify ways that authors use conventions (capital letters, periods, and sentences) to convey their meaning. Students will appropriate language in their sharing of wants, needs, and ideas within the classroom setting.

6. The big ideas
Prompting and support are provided by the teacher as students learn to read, write, and discuss their learning
Identifying topics and details in text read or heard
Asking questions to deepen their understanding of text read or heard
Participating in classroom discussions following agreed upon rules
The big ideas in Kindergarten include the following:
Teachers will provide prompting and support as your student begins to read, write, and discuss their learning. Teachers will model the expected behavior and then provide support for students as they practice and learn the new strategy. The ultimate goal is that the student can apply this learning on their own.
Students will be asked to identify topics or main ideas in texts that are heard or read along with details from the text to support their thinking.
Students will learn to ask questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) as they participate in discussions and deepen their understanding.
Students will learn the agreed upon rules for participating in classroom discussions (taking turns, listening, speaking in complete sentences) and follow those rules.
These skills provide the foundation for your student that they will continue to build upon throughout their academic career.

7. Reading Behaviors Print Concepts
Picking up and repeating a patterned text
Use picture clues
Left to right directionality
One to one correspondence

8. Phonological Awareness
Recognize and produce rhymes
Syllable work
Word work – isolating, deleting, blending, and changing sounds in words

9. High Frequency Words “Rainbow Words” Your child will be learning to recognize and read high frequency words. For example: and, is, the, we, I, go, here, a
Ways to practice Rainbow words at home:
Make flashcards with each word
Identify them in books you read to our with your child
Practice writing them in chalk, crayon, paint, marker, etc.
Create a heart word bingo game
Sight word videos on YouTube (Harry Kindergarten)
Rainbow words starting 2nd quarter!
Volunteers needed!

10. mClass Assessed beginning, middle, and end of the year
Diebels: Letter naming fluency, phoneme segmentation fluency, first sound fluency, nonsense word fluency
TRC

11. Reports will go home in red folders tomorrow!

12. Level 5-6 Text

13. Reader’s Workshop
Provide opportunities for students to practice new reading skills and strategies while groups, based on ability, are being instructed (guided reading groups).
read to someone
read to self
listen to reading
retell class read alouds

14. Writing

15. Types of Writing Simple pattern books Informational Writing
Opinion writing
How to (procedural) writing
Narrative

16. Developing Writing Skills
Use a combination of drawing and writing to express ideas with supporting details in writing multiple sentences about a topic.
Provide reactions or reflections on a topic.
Correctly form upper and lowercase letters.
Use consistent punctuation and spacing.
Use capitalization correctly.
Spell sight words correctly.
Spell simple words using dominant sounds.
Write legibly.

17. Literacy Parent Workshops:
Save the Date
First of Three
Literacy Parent Workshops:
September 2nd

18. Kindergarten Math Content Standards
Instructional time will focus on these critical areas:
Understand relationship between numbers and quantity
Compare groups of objects within 10
Counting and understanding quantities within groups of 5
Compose and decompose numbers 11 – 19
Identifying, composing, and comparing shapes (2D and 3D shapes)
Fluently add and subtract within 5
Add and subtract within 10
Measurement using attribute vocabulary
Critical areas have been identified at each grade level. Although these are not the ONLY skills students are responsible for mastering, it does focus the work at each grade

19. Guided Math Whole Group Lesson 3 rotations
Students go to centers (technology, games, partner work)
While in centers, I pull groups of students back with me to practice specific skills

20. Five strands include: History Geography and Environmental Literacy
Civics and Government
Culture
Economics and Personal Financial Literacy
The changes in curriculum will bring about significant shifts in the way that instruction is delivered in the Social Studies classroom. The new curriculum will provide opportunities for students to become more critical thinkers. There will be a greater emphasis on teaching students to make connections and to see the big picture. In doing so, there will be less focus on recalling facts. In many instances, students will investigate collaboratively to grow their learning as well as create work products with the use of instructional technology. Specifically, kindergarten students will explore aspects of self, others, families and communities across the world.

21. Areas of Focus for Grade K:
Animals Two by Two
Investigating Properties
Weather
With inquiry-based science, instruction begins with open-ended questions or demonstrations. Students do experiments or collect data and take a “hands-on” approach to science. They experience science rather than merely read about it. Kindergarteners will observe and record similarities and differences between various animals, such a goldfish and guppies. They will also explore properties – color, shape, size, flexibility – of various objects. Kindergarteners will record weather data related to temperature, wind, cloud cover, and precipitation.

23. Homework PLEASE check red daily folders EVERY NIGHT!!!!!
Read and retell a story nightly
Complete any unfinished class work
Math homework/Extra Practice
Weekly Reading Folders (2nd Quarter)

24. Standards Based Grading
Students will receive a grade of 1,2,3, or 4.
These grades DO NOT correlate to A, B, C etc.
A level 3 indicates that a student is on grade level, and a 4 is significantly and consistently above grade level expectations.
A score of 1 or 2 indicates that the student is not meeting the benchmarks.

25. PTA Please JOIN the PTA! (I am a member!)
The PTA provides wonderful materials and special programs for our school.
PTA Kick-Off Party is Thursday, 27th, 6:00-8:00. Bring a side dish and beverages and come meet your new Hedgehog family! Please RSVP via the Evite sent to your .

26. Volunteers
All volunteers must be cleared through WCPSS before working with students in the classroom/lunch bunch
Field trip chaperones must also be cleared by WCPSS
Visit the media center to register

27. Lunch Bunch Lunch and reading with your child and 3 classmates!
Must be a registered volunteer
me the day before or the morning of

28. Field Trips
We will take 1 off-campus field trip to the NC Zoo in the Spring. GREAT time to have one-on-one experience with your child.
The PTA will also provide 2 on-campus science field trips ~ one, Property Party, is next Tuesday! 

29. Conferences There will be two parent/teacher conferences this year.
Report cards will be sent home at the end of each quarter.

30. Questions?
Thank you for coming! 