Welcome to Kindergarten Curriculum Night Thursday, Sept 24, 2015

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

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

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

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).

Communication * We send out weekly s 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

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 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.

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