Transcript Ride the Wave to Kindergarten

Now Starring
in Kindergarten
Curriculum Night
2012-2013
North Fayette Elementary
Rules and Procedures
• Classroom Rules
– Be Safe
– Listen
– Be a friend
– Use self control
– Follow directions the first time
• Behavior Chart
– 4 colors (green, yellow, red, pink)
– Pulled according to behavior stated
on the chart
• Ice Cream
– Wednesday Only, Starts Aug. 29
– 75 cents or $1.00
– Child’s behavior must be appropriate
to participate
– Child must have eaten a healthy
lunch
– Ice cream account will be credited
Behavior Chart
Parent Initials and Comments
Teacher Comments
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Green
Yellow
Red
Shooting star
behavior!
Warning!
I need to think
about my choices.
I did not make
good choices.
Pink
See
Choice Card
Class Rules
1. Be safe
2. Listen
3. Follow directions the first time
4. Be a friend
5. Use your self- control
Kindergarten Expectations
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core
• Reading
– Master the Storytown/Fry word
list (125) and Fry Lists to follow
– Storytown
http://www.harcourtschool.com/storyto
wn/
• Language Arts
– Write a complete sentence that includes
a capital letter, punctuation mark, and
spaces between the words
– Communicate ideas through narrative,
opinion, informative and response to
literature writing
• Math
– Mastery of the CCGPS Standards
– Become independent problem-solvers
• Social Studies/ Science/ Health
– Become responsible citizens at school,
at home, and in life
– Investigate, learn, and begin to
understand the world around them
Language Arts
CCGPS Standards
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Storytown
– Warm-up activities
• Songs and rhymes
– Phonemic Awareness
• Oral manipulation of sounds
– High Frequency Words
• Mastery of sight words
– Word work/phonics
• Letter/sound connection
• Pre-decodable books
• Decodable books
– Comprehension
• Read aloud
-Parent Component
Checklist of homework
ideas, which goes home
at the beginning of each
new theme (10 themes)
-Phonemic Awareness vs.
Phonics
-Narrative writing rubric
– Vocabulary
– Small group instruction
-Storytown and Fry word
lists
– Writing
Read every night!
• Leveled texts
New & Improved for
the W2 Standard!
Math
CCGPS Standards
-Literature based
-Hands-on activities
-9 Week Math Assessments
• First Nine Weeks
• Second Nine Weeks
– Numbers 0-20
• Counting, writing, and counting
from a given number
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Comparing sets to 10
Ordinal numbers 1st –5th
Patterns
Sorting
Penny and Nickel
Graphing
– Shapes (solid and flat)
• Naming, composing, and
decomposing
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Positional Words
Comparing sets to 10
Dime
Problem solving
Patterning (AB, ABB,
AAB, ABC)
– Counting to 50
– Ordinal numbers 1st-10th
Math (Cont.)
• Third Nine Weeks
– Counting to 100
– Number combinations
• Composing and decomposing
numbers (2+5 and 3+4 is 7)
– Addition and Subtraction
– Counting strategies
– Problem solving (word
problems)
– Quarter (Name and
amount for all coins)
• Fourth Nine Weeks
– Measurement (weight,
height, capacity, length)
– Counting to 100 by 1’s and
10’s
– Ordering daily events
– Days of the week
– Months of the year
– Seasons
– Know when weekly events
occur (specials schedule)
Social Studies
• Harcourt Brace text book
• Know phone number, address,
and birthday
• Field Trips
– Farm – Long Ago and Today
– Publix/Community Helpers
• Units of Study
– Myself and my family
– My friends
– My school & community
– Economics
- Holidays
- Famous people
- Character traits
Science
• Harcourt School
Publishers
• Field Trips
– Aquarium?
• Units of study
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Inquiry
Human body-five senses
Animals
Plants
Gravity
Push and Pull
Earth Materials
Day/night sky
Health
• Harcourt Brace
• Field Trips/ Visitors
– Dentist
– Firefighters
• Units of study
– Alcohol, tobacco, and
other drugs
– Disease prevention
– Family living
– Growth and development
– Second Step-feelings and
problem solving
– Nutrition
– Personal health
– Safety
Second Step
• Violence Prevention
Program
• Use of story box,
puppets, and role
playing
• Units of study
– Empathy Training
– Impulse Control
– Anger Management
D.I.V.E. Program
• Differentiated Instruction
for a Valuable Education
• Used to extend and refine
students knowledge of a
topic or subject
• Takes the topics included in
the standard curriculum and
applies them using real world,
more in-depth models
• Child works more
independently
• Extended homework in the
form of project-based
activities
• Information will be sent
home in January
Choice Card Celebrations
• Choice cards are sent home weekly indicating
your child’s school-wide behavior. This is a
communication between school and home
regarding your child’s behavior in and out of
the classroom. Please sign and return.
• There will be a school-wide celebration each
nine week period for the students whose
choice cards have not been written on by a
teacher because of a behavior issue and
whose card has been signed by a parent each
week.
Attendance
• Students are considered absent if
they miss more than half the
school day (11:00am is the cut off
time).
• Students are not considered
absent as a result of excused
tardies.
• Please send an excuse note
whenever your child is absent.
How can I help at home?
• Visit www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core
for information regarding the Kindergarten
Curriculum
• Sign up to volunteer in your child’s classroom
• Attend conferences and communicate with your
child’s teacher
• Weekly homework has started! Please do
homework nightly. It is designed to reinforce
concepts taught in the classroom. Homework
will be checked for completion, but not graded.
If homework is not consistently completed, it
will show under completes assignments on the
report card
• Read with your child every day!
Parent Resources
• School Website
www.northfayetteelementary.org
• Kindergarten Website
www.nfekindergarten.com
• Infinite Campus (lunch account)
Q&A
Closing
Thank you for helping us
“identify and enhance
the giftedness in your
child!”