1. Mary G. Clarkson 2013-14 Kindergarten Orientation

2. 2 Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS)  Provide consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn  Robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers  Fully prepare students so U.S. will be positioned to compete in the global economy

3. English Language Arts and Literacy  Reading Standards for Literature  Reading Standards for Informational Text  Foundational Skills  Writing 3

4. What Your Child Will Be Working On:  Naming upper and lower case letters, matching those letters with their sounds, and printing them  Comparing the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories  Retelling familiar stories and talking about stories  Using a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to describe an event, including his or her reaction to what happened 4

5.  Representing and comparing whole numbers  Describing shapes and space Mathematics CCLS Critical Areas in Kindergarten 5

6.  Count to 100 by ones and tens  Count forward beginning from a given number (instead of 1)  Write numbers from 0 to 20  Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10  Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 (5=2+3)  Fluently add and subtract within 5  Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders. and spheres)  Analyze and compare shapes; model and draw shapes What Your Child Will Be Working On: 6

7.  Language and Word Study  Reading Workshop  Writing Workshop Literacy Collaborative Comprehensive Instructional Framework 7

8.  Language and Word Study  Interactive Read Aloud  Interactive Writing  Modeled/Shared Reading  Modeled/Shared Writing  Handwriting  Language/Word Play  Letter/Word Study Minilessons Literacy Collaborative Language and Word Study 8

9.  Reading Workshop  Guided Reading  Writing Workshop  Guided Writing  Interactive Writing  Independent Writing Literacy Collaborative 9

10. Science  Plants  Animals  Our Earth  Our Home  Weather / Sky  Matter  How Things Move 10

11. Social Studies  Our Home  Our Community  Community Workers  Holidays  Citizenship  Character Education 11

12.  Talk to your children  Oral language development  Vocabulary development  Ask them about their day  Read to your children  Model how reading should sound  Talk about the story, pictures, and characters  Share –A-Book  Success in school  Parent/Teacher Workshops  Classroom  Jamboree  Parent / Teacher Conferences  Join the PTA  Check your child’s backpack every day  Home/school correspondence  Quality time  Increase children’s background knowledge through experiences and reading to them  Support and supervise homework  Participate in after-school activities with your child  Let your child know you listen to them  Visit the Bay Shore Brightwaters Library  Educational websites: see attached Home/School Connection 12

13.  Personal and Family Health  Safety and Injury Prevention  Nutrition and Physical Activity  Tobacco and Your Body Health Smart 13

14. Bay Shore Wellness Policy The establishment of universal nutrition standards for food available to students on school property is necessary for the following reasons:  To minimize negative contributions to students’ health  To maximize students’ learning potential  To protect children from potential food allergens and food-related illness 14