Transcript Kindergarten Curriculum Night

“Children are made
readers on the laps
of their parents.”
Emilie Buchwald
Kindergarten Curriculum Night
September 17, 2013
Kindergarten Staff
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Angela Gehlhoff
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MaryKate Haake
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Amy Rutter
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Kaitlin Wermerskirchen
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[email protected]
About Me…
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Family
School
Teaching
Cycle days
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Jackson is on a 10 day cycle
 How cycle days effect kindergarten
Library days:
 Days 1 and 7 (our library days)
 One book checkout
 Days will be posted in “Weekly Updates”
on website
Personal skills
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Shoe tying
Clothes fastening
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Red folders
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Winter gear
Return as soon as possible
Child’s responsibility
Backpacks
Field Trips
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
 Cost = Free
 Chaperones
 November 6, 2013 (Habitat, Who needs that?)
 Winter 2014: (Introduction to Snowshoe Hiking)
 Spring 2014: (Forests Are More Than Trees)
 Zoo mobile
 Spring 2014
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Class Schedule
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Review schedule
Core & targeted time
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Math
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Core: 25 minutes
Target: 15 minutes
Language Arts
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Core: 60 minutes (30 reading/30 writing)
Target: 30 minutes
Benchmark Resource
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Reading
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Reader’s Workshop
Read Alouds
Reader’s Theatre
Phonics
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Zoo Phonics
Poetry
Centers/Guided Reading
Language Arts
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Reader’s Workshop
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Independent Reading Time
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Three ways to read
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One time a week & eventually leading up to daily
(increase time from 3 min-up)
Quality vs. quantity at home
Pictures, words, and retell
Book bins
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Leveled text, weekly poem, and HFW books
Language Arts
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Interactive Read Aloud
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Teacher models what good readers do and
think while they are reading stories.
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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
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3rd week of each unit
Language Arts
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Phonics
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Zoo Phonics
Rhyming
Letter identification
Beginning, middle, & ending sounds
High frequency words
Word families
Blending & segmenting
Language Arts
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Poetry
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One-to-one correspondence
Identifying high frequency & rhyming
words
Fluency
Visualizing
Poetry binders
Language Arts
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Guided Reading
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Teacher works with small groups of
children (4-5) on reading skills
Children are grouped with others who have
similar reading skills
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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)
Language Arts
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Centers
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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”
Benchmark Resource
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Writing
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Handwriting
Shared writing
Interactive writing
Writer’s Workshop
Language Arts
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Handwriting
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New verbal paths
Pencil grip
Forming letters correctly
Language Arts
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Shared Writing
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Students and teacher share ideas and
teacher uses pen to write
Turn and talk
Language Arts
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Interactive Writing
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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.
Language Arts
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Writers’ Workshop
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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
Math
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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:
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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
Other Curricular Areas
All topics are embedded within reading and writing
activities.
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Science
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Seasons
Weather
Scientific tools
Social Studies
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Families
Identify the symbols of our nation (flag and white house)
Map vocabulary
Other Curricular Areas
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Health
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Dental health
Personal, bus, and fire safety
Nutrition
Personal Growth
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Print first and last name correctly
Listening skills
Follows directions
Be safe, Be respectful, Be responsible, Be positive
Jackson Pride
Jackson Pride PAWS
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Individual “PAWS”
Marble jar
Jackson Pride
7/17/2015
Pearson Pride
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Miscellaneous
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Handouts
Website
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Pictures, monthly newsletters, weekly updates, links,
Scholastic, Benchmark books
Ms. Wermerskirchen’s website
Benchmark books (accessible on website)
Mega Math (accessible on website)
Volunteer background check forms
Questions?
“Children are made
readers on the laps
of their parents.”
Emilie Buchwald