Welcome to Welcome to Curriculum Night Curriculum Night

20122012

Welcome to Welcome to Curriculum Night Curriculum Night

20122012

Your children are the high school graduates Your children are the high school graduates of 2025of 2025

The First Few Weeks…

• Functioning in a classroom setting• Adjustment to school routines • Understanding of “school language” • Emphasis on listening and following

directions

Environment

• Lifeskills: Emphasis on friendship, responsibility, respect, initiative, and problem solving

• Focus on Positive behavior• Value of self/others• Positive self image promotes learning

Development of the Whole Child

All children start kindergarten with a variety

of experiences.• Previous formal educational• Large group setting• Listening and following directionsOur focus is to develop the WHOLE child. Which begins with…

… Emotional and Social Development

Kindergarten is the foundation of your child’s learning experience. They learn how to …

• be a student. • be a part of a classroom community. • share and get along.

Academic Development

Every child has their own learning style. We offer a variety of methods to accommodate all of the different learning styles.

•Audio•Visual•Physical•Kinesthetic

Fine and Gross Motor Skills

• Fine motor: Through writing, coloring, cutting, etc. (pencil grip)

• Gross motor: PE and recess

Curriculum

• Opening: Attendance, calendar, tally, number line, counting, place value, patterns, weather graph, tooth graph, poems, rhymes, flash cards with numbers and words.

Curriculum• Reading: (Harcourt) Morning Message, Phonemic

Awareness, Sharing Literature, Early Literacy Skills & Application, Reading Groups, Daily Journals. Whole group and small group differentiated instruction.

• Math: Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley, Investigations and Cognitive Guided Instruction. Begins with manipulatives and progresses to pencil and paper activities along.

Curriculum• Centers: Students participate in a variety of centers

during the week. Centers are self managed and based upon objectives taught earlier in the day or week for reinforcement.

• Writing Activities: Individual and class books, sight word book, journals, dictation, story starters, spelling, and nursery rhymes.

• Integrated Units: Peter Pockets Parsons (shapes), Lines, Lines, Lines (animal families), Indians, Nutrition, America The Beautiful!, Oceans, Zoos (animal habitats, wild/tame, herbivorous/carnivorous/omnivorous), Plants, Farms, and Community Helpers.

Specials

• Music (45 min. once a week)• P.E. (45 min. once a week)• Library (45 min. once a week)• Computer Lab (30 min. once a week)• Art (45 min. once a week)

Behavior PlanReinforce positive behavior…•Star Jar•Challenger Cheers•Miss Manners •School store

Challenging behavior…•Think walking•Lifeskill Timeout •If necessary phone calls home and/or office referrals

Special Services• Speech/Language• Resource

• Both are available to every child. We will contact if it is necessary.

• SEI – Structured English Immersion

Testing

• Reading Readiness Language Test• DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early

Literacy Skills) state mandated reading test– Given three times a year, fall, winter and spring

• Cognitive Guided Instruction (CGI)• Continual assessments of curriculum skills

Progress Reports

• Conferences: Fall and Spring• Report Cards: January and May

Homework

• 3-4 times a week • It should take 10-15 minutes • Reinforces skills• Teaches children responsibility and

accountability

Absences

• Please make sure to call and report absences to the office first.

• Absence line 480-541-3801• Request homework

Keeping Us Informed

• Make sure your emergency and contact information is current.

• To ensure your child’s safety please keep us informed of any changes regarding dismissal.

• Changes need to be in writing. • We can only release your child to people listed

on their emergency card.

Birthdays• Invitations

– NO birthday invitations at school – This is a district policy, Please do not ask

me to do so! Thanks • Goodies

– There are no edible treats. – May bring pencils, erasers, stickers to pass

out at the END of the day.– Donate a book to the library

Nutrition • Snacks

– Small and healthy– Consumed within 5 minutes– Water ONLY

• Lunches – Can pay ahead and online – Lunch money in pencil pouch– Checks- write student’s & teachers

name

Important “Stuff”

• “Things Kids Say”• Star Student

– May bring in items to share during their week• Events

– Thanksgiving Feast– Nutrition Party – Friendship Party– Field Trips

– End of Year Celebration

Parent Volunteers

• Classroom• Event Parents• Art Masterpiece• Parent Readers

– Sign ups will be sent home the month before.

Enjoy Mr. Fallgatter’s presentation in the Library! Beginning

at 6:10