Transcript Welcome to Cashell Elementary School Kindergarten BTSN
Welcome to Cashell Elementary School
Kindergarten BTSN 2012-2013
Agenda
Meet the Staff Arrival and Dismissal Procedures Lunch School Supplies Birthdays Health Information Volunteer Opportunities Curriculum Overview Report Cards/conference Teacher Contact Odds and Ends
M
eet the Staff
Principal: – Mrs. Maureen Stamoulis Kindergarten Teachers: – Mrs. Christine Homon – Mrs. Andrea Siska
Arrival Procedures
School begins at 8:50 a.m. Children will line up by 8:40. (Breakfast is served at 8:20.) Safety patrol and adult supervision begins at 8:20 a.m.
Students arriving after 8:50 a.m. will be marked tardy. They should check into the office before coming to the classroom. Please give the late slip to the teacher.
Please do not enter the classrooms before 8:50 a.m.
Dismissal Procedures
Dismissal begins at 3:05 p.m. Safety patrols will walk bus riders to their busses.
Car riders and walkers will be dismissed through should wait outside this door for their child.
Bar-T children will be picked up by a teacher from the classroom during the first weeks of school.
Leaving School
If your child will be leaving school any other way than you.
If it’s an emergency situation, call the office.
Lunch
Kindergarten lunch/recess hours are 11:40 pm. 12:40 p.m. Children may buy or bring a healthy lunch.
Kindergarten students buying lunch will be offered a regular or alternate lunch choice.
Lunch costs $2.50 and will be paid through the school debit system - SNAP.
School Supplies
Your child will need to bring a backpack, assignment papers and notices will be brought home in this folder so it’s important to check and remove the contents each night.
These supplies will be helpful to have for home use: Crayons Glue Pencils Scissors
Birthdays
Students’ birthdays will be recognized by a birthday pencil and a certificate given by the school office and teacher.
Health Information
Student medications and medical notes must be includes applying sunscreen.
If your child is sick, please keep him/her at home.
Volunteer Opportunities
Classroom volunteer Room parents Field trip chaperone Teachers will communicate additional volunteer opportunities for individual classes.
Make sure to sign in the office and get a visitor’s badge.
EIC Elementary Integrated Curriculum 2.0
MCPS
Upgraded Existing MCPS Curriculum • develops students’ critical and creative thinking skills • develops essential academic skills • devotes more learning time to subjects such as the arts, information literacy, science, social studies, and physical education • blends these subject areas with the core content areas of reading, writing, and math
What do students need to know?
Reading/Language Arts
Concepts about print Phonemic awareness Alphabetic principles/phonics Oral language development Word recognition/vocabulary Comprehension process
Writing
Writing Workshop
Ideas and Development (narratives, opinions, biographies)
Organization Conventions
Word Choice Voice
Mathematics
Counting and Cardinality Operations and Algebraic Thinking Number and Operations in Base Ten Measurement and Data Geometry
Science
Attributes of Weather Conditions Weather Patterns Life Cycles External Features Used for Survival Adaptations in Environments
Social Studies
Community Symbols Needs and Wants Physical and Natural Features Human-made Features Economics Customs, Traditions, Culture
How will we know that they have learned it?
Montgomery County Public Schools Assessment Program (MCPS AP)
Reading
Kindergarten Performance Tasks
Math
Ongoing Teacher observation
What will we do when they haven’t learned it?
Re-teach Flexible grouping Para-educator support Practice, practice, practice!
What will we do when they already know it?
Students working at their instructional reading level
Higher order thinking skills in math
Computer enrichment activities (reading, writing, and math)
Report Cards/ conferences Kindergarten conferences are scheduled once a year. If you would like a conference at any other time during the year, please send a note to the teacher.
Kindergarten report cards are sent home twice a year. The first one is in Februar y and then again in June.
Teacher Contact Information
Send a note.
Call the school.
Send any notes to the teacher or other school information via the folder.
If the note is extra important, pin it to your child.
Odds and Ends
Make sure all your child’s belongings are labeled with his/her name.
Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather, specials and outdoor recess play.
Please place all money and corresponding forms for projects, field trips, etc. in an envelope with your child’s name, the teacher’s name and the activity written clearly on the envelope.
Too much information???
You may find any information presented tonight on the Cashell Elementary school web site under kindergarten.
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