3. Mrs. Thompson’s Daily Schedule
8:15-8:45 Attendance, Announcements,
Lunch count & Morning Work
8:45-9: Gathering Circle
9:00-9: Stepping Stones
9:35-10:25 PAMM- (P.E. Mon/Wed/Thurs.)
10:25-11:00 Theme Exploration and Rhyme Time
11:00-11:30 Lunch
11:30-12: Go Math!
12:30-12: Rhyme time round 2
12:45-1: Star Story
1:05-1: Write Away
1:30-2:00 Recess
2:00-3: Let’s Daydream, Let’s Think About it,
Pack Up & Labs
3: Dismissal

5. Please tell your child what lunch they will be eating
Please tell your child what lunch they will be eating. Will it be hot, cold, or PBJ school lunch? Lunch from home?
Bring a water bottle that is not glass with a name on it for PE/recess
Please help children make sure homework is correct and understood.

6. Classroom Management Class Expectations & Rules
Classroom Behavior chart
Cheetah Prides
Team Points
Class Compliments

7. Daily folders Should be brought to school every day
Please clean out the daily folder pockets every evening
Homework and important notes can be found in the front pocket
Includes monthly behavior & reading calendar-parents are to initial each day indicating that their child has read for 20 minutes and that they have reviewed their behavior for the day.
Marked daily with your child’s behavior indicated for that day (purple- fantastic day; green-good day; yellow-warning; red-needs improvement)
Calendar also includes information on the themes we are studying and important dates to remember.

8. Read 20 Minutes per night
Go Math! Pages
Practice sight words (in packet)
Later we will have reading and writing homework as well

9. Kinder Corner Theme Units
Unit 1: Welcome to School
Unit 2: I Am Amazing
Unit 3: Those Nearest & Dearest
Unit 4: Head to Toe
Unit 5: Cornucopia
Unit 6: What’s On the Menu
Unit 7: Sing a Song-Paint a Picture
Unit 8: Winter Weatherland
Unit 9: Day & Night, Dark & Light
Unit 10: Words & Roads Take Us Places
Unit 11: Safe & Sound
Unit 12: Buggy About Spring
Unit 13: City Gardens & Country Farms
Unit 14: Fur & Feathers
Unit 15: Water Wonders
Unit 16: Earth Day is Every Day

10. Reading -Students spend 1 week on each book
Success For All Kinder Corner program
We begin with phonemic awareness activities
Stepping Stones:
-Letter/sound concepts
White books (Concepts of Print) -theme related mini books; teacher directed reading activity used to teach concepts of print; books are sent home for students to practice with and return the following week.
KindeRoots Shared Stories- starts third quarter. 22 books in the series
-Students spend 1 week on each book
-Students will bring home 1 book for the week to read daily
and complete bookmark activities, then return the
following week.

11. We use a combination of SFA Kinder Corner and Florida state standards
writing strategies
6 traits writing
Journals
Literacy based writing- Read and respond to text
● Interactive Writing- Cooperative learning- writing strategies

12. Go Math! is used at Choices In Learning
Link:
Go Think Central
You will get a password and username soon.

13. Science and Social Studies
Science and social studies concepts are embedded into our theme units
Science Fusion
STEM
Robots
Weekly Readers

14. Grading Policy S-satisfactory N-needs improvement
The student’s grades are based on mastery of the Florida State Standards and mastery of concepts taught in class
Kindergarten promotion is mastery of % of the Standards
Students are graded by formal and informal assessments and teacher observations
Students are assessed quarterly with the opportunity to master the skills by the end of each quarter

15. You must register as a V. I. P
You must register as a V.I.P./Dividend in order to volunteer in the classroom, eat in the lunchroom, or go on field trips. This must be done every year.

16. Kindergarten Website School Website
Kindergarten Website
School Website

17. Reminders Please look through the entire packet that you were given.
Feel free to ask questions at this time!
Please make your way to the cafeteria to meet all of our SPAMM teachers starting at 5:35.
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