1. Welcome to Kindergarten Curriculum Night Thursday, Sept 24, 2015

2. Class Schedules Field Trips and Events Student Expectations Communication Overview of Standards Assessments Through the Year Curriculum Night Agenda

3. Kindergarten Schedule 8:00-8:20 Morning Meeting 8:20-10:20 Literacy Block 10:20-10:50 Math Block 10:50-11:45 Lunch and Physical Activity 11:45-1:00 Math Block Continued 1:05-1:50 Specials (Art, Music, Media Center, P.E., Technology, Science) 1:50-3:00 Social Studies/Science 2:50-3:00 Dismissal

4. Kindergarten Field Trips/Events Apple Festival, In-school Activity - September 29 Pumpkin Festival, In-school Activity - October 30 Hunter Farms Field Trip – November 3 Thanksgiving Program – November 24 11am LWES Winter Parade – December 12 Classroom Winter Parties – December 18 The World in Your Backyard/China, In-school Activity – February 9 Field Trip to see Junie B. Jones Musical – March 4 Zootastic Park of Lake Norman Field Trip – May 6 End of School Luau Program – May Kindergarten Splash Days – May 31 or June 1 Classroom End of Year Celebration – June 9 Many of these activities require help from parents. Please be sure that you are registered as a volunteer at https://www.cmsvolunteers.com/

5. Expectations * If your child is sick or has a fever of over 100 degrees please keep them home for 24 hours. *If your child’s way of getting home in the afternoon changes, please send a note in their agenda. * Please check agendas and help your child with their homework daily. *Check Thursday folders Thursday night, take out all of their work, and send back on Friday. * Please read with your child daily and record the title of the book in your child’s agenda. * Please label any articles of clothing that your child is keeping at school (coats, change of clothes, sweaters, sweatshirts).

6. Communication * We send out weekly emails about what is coming up in the upcoming week. * notes in the agenda * Connect Ed * Monthly newsletters *Special event letters- ( apple festival, field trips, Luau) *Kindergarten web page on the Lake Wylie website * Homework folders and the homework calendar

7. 2015-16 Kindergarten Curriculum Literacy - Name and write upper- and lowercase letters/identify letter sounds -Use oral blending and segmentation to figure out unfamiliar words - Learn and use new words - vocabulary - Identify sounds in words – beginning, medial, ending, rhyming - Read common words – 92 high frequency words - Ask and answer questions about a story the teacher reads - Identify characters, settings, and major events in a story - Recognize the person, place, thing, or idea that an illustration shows - Participate in discussions by listening and taking turns speaking - Use a combination of drawing, speaking, and writing to describe an event, give information about a topic, or share an opinion - Appropriately use spaces, basic punctuation and upper/lower case letters to write a 3 - 5 sentence story. - Write using a combination of phonetic spelling and high frequency words - Retell stories read, including key details - Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly -Read an appropriately leveled book (D) with fluency and comprehension Social Studies History – understand how people, seasons change over time Geography and the Environment – use maps, globes, positional words (right/left, above/below, near/far), learn how people adapt to weather conditions, how they use the environment to meet needs Economic and Financial Literacy – recognize the difference between needs and wants, basic economic concepts Civics and Government – display responsible citizenship, at home in the classroom and other social settings Culture – understand how people are similar and different, celebrated holidays and special days in communities.

8. Math Counting and Cardinality – count to 100 by ones and tens - counts forward from any number - write numbers to 20 - count sets to 20 - compare numbers (greater than/less than) Operations and Algebraic Thinking – compose and decompose numbers to 10 - fluently add and subtract numbers to 5 Numbers and Operations in Base 10 – understand that numbers from 11 – 19 are made up of 10 ones and additional ones Measurement and Data – describe and compare measurable attributes (length, weight, heavier/lighter) - sort, classify and count objects in a category - use picture graphs Geometry – identify and describe 2-dimensional (flat) shapes and 3-dimensional (solid) shapes -circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder and sphere - - compose, compare and create shapes - use positional words math consists of a lot of hands on work with manipulatives. We will use a math workbook as a resource, but students will not have a paper product for math every day. Science Forces and Motion – understand position and how things move Matter – properties of matter (size, shape, texture, color, etc) - compare different materials (wood, paper, clay) Earth Systems – recognize weather conditions, patterns through the year Living Organisms - compare living things with non-living things, identify similarities and differences in animals, how living things grow and what they need to survive