1. Welcome to Curriculum Night!
Miss Rachel Hawes
Kindergarten Room 7

2. Breakfast, notes, hot lunch
Students should know if they’re getting breakfast or milk/hot lunch
Take home folders should be checked every night!!
Students will give me any notes that are in their folder each morning.

3. Calendar/Weather Math, science and language skills are learned.
Each student gets the opportunity to be calendar helper.
Calendars go home at the end of each month.

4. Letters, Phonics & Handwriting
Each week we focus on 1-2 letters.
Phonemic Awareness, “Blue Book”, we do every day to practice phonics.
Handwriting Without Tears-please have your child practicing their handwriting using this program’s style of writing.

5. Shared Reading Interactive reading activity.
Students join in on reading a book, poem or text.
We do a weekly poem-poetry notebooks will go home every Friday for you to read together at home, and need to come back every Monday.
Please help students read and point to words in poem- you will notice that they will be reading the poems instead of memorizing words by the end of the year.

6. Snack Snack time is usually at 9:10 every day.
Must be healthy snacks-cookies and chips will be put back into their lunchboxes.
Label snack and make it easy for children to find.
Water can be brought in, but we have a water fountain in our classroom, so drinks are not necessary for snack time.

7. Specials We have specials every day.
Friday newsletters will list specials for the next week.
PE-every day
Music-Tuesday and Thursday
Computers- Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Library- Wednesday

8. Daily 5/Guided Reading
I work with small groups on reading at their level, the rest of the class is at a designated center practicing skills that they’ve learned.
Books at your tables are AA-D leveled books. AA is where most students start coming into kindergarten, and D is where we want them to be by June.
Books at your tables and their levels:
AA-Colors All Around
A-Dinner Time with Bella and Rosie
B-Our Pumpkin
C- Little Chimp and Big Chimp
D- The Toytown Helicopter

9. Recess/Lunch
We go to recess first for 20 minutes and then lunch for 20 minutes
Students only get those 20 minutes to eat, and no longer, so they need to start eating right away.

10. Quiet Reading Time
10-15 minutes after lunch that the students can relax quietly and read a book.
Lights are off. Students can lay down and close their eyes if they want to.

11. Math & Math Journals Math journals will begin in October
Each month students will get a new journal and we will do a page a day.
Journals will go home at the end of the month. Try to complete for extra practice- if students bring them back they earn a special pencil.
Math centers will be 2 times a week and will reinforce skills that the students have learned, while 1 group works with me on a new skill.
Number of the week activities.

12. Writing Lucy Calkins units of writing.
Learn to write first through pictures and then sounding out words and putting letters down.
Narrative unit, How-to unit, Persuasive unit.
Invented spelling

13. Science Our first unit is on the weather and the 5 senses.
Hands on activities
Mystery science

14. P.E. P.E. is every day of the week.
Mrs. Tomlinson is the P.E. teacher.
Please have your child wear or bring gym shoes every day so that they can participate!

15. Reading & Writing Strategies
Inventive spelling-let your child sound out words and write down the letters they hear.
I will never tell them how to write a word exactly during writer’s workshop.
Reading=basics.
Left to right, top to bottom, words vs. letters, where the title is located.
They aren’t born knowing this, it has to be taught.
They should be pointing and following as you/they are reading to show that EACH WORD HAS IT’S OWN PLACE.

16. Star Student Schedules went home at open house.
I will send home a reminder and a star student bag the Friday before your child’s week. Bags and stuffed animals must come back to school.
Please let me know if you will be out of town during your child’s week (only if you’ll be gone the whole week)

17. Addresses
My weekly newsletter comes home via unless you request a paper copy.
If you haven’t been getting any of my s, please let me know so I can get the right address written down.

18. Newsletter Short note that gets emailed out every Friday.
Recaps the week and gives you a small heads up on the next weeks plans.
Materials we might be low on.
Important information and schedules will be on there-please take a few minutes to read it.

19. Homework & Sight Words Homework Sight words
Comes home every Friday in your child’s take home folder.
Reinforces things your child has been doing at school, and helps them practice those skills.
Sight words
They will come home at the beginning of every month
Should be practiced every night.
Keep them in a baggie or on a binder ring.