Syllabus
🍎 Contact Information: Email: kpatel@greenville.k12.sc.us Phone: 864-452-0514
🍎 Website: https://sites.google.com/a/greenvilleschools.us/kpatel/home
🍎 Parent Teacher Communication: If you need to reach me, please email or call me. I will email or call you within 24 hours.
🍎 Grading: Letter and numerical grades are not issued in K4. Progress reports are not issued in K4. However, listed below are report card progress ratings:
M = consistently meets or exceeds end-of-year expectations for the standard
P = shows expected growth/progress in meeting end-of-year standard
B = beginning to progress toward meeting end-of-year standard
N = needs intensive support at school and home to develop end-of-year standard
If left blank, the standard was not addressed or assessed during the reporting period.
🍎 Missed or Make-up Work: Students who miss work will be allowed 5 school days to complete assignments.
🍎 Classroom Expectations: We will follow our class rules, AJ Essential 18, and the discipline matrix.
*Class Rules: https://sites.google.com/a/greenvilleschools.us/kpatel/class-information
* Essential 18: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mG364PwkcVrm44wq9l4r0SnZy3kFeFZM/view
*Discipline Matrix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TRVeisEx_yElJSTEvgJvBf83tfppZF6k/view
🍎 Homework: https://go.boarddocs.com/sc/greenville/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ABDNW961BF84
🍎 Materials Needed for Class: Please bring tote bag and red folder daily. Please bring a towel on Mondays of each week.
🍎 K4 Daily Schedule: https://sites.google.com/a/greenvilleschools.us/kpatel/class-schedule
🍎 E-Learning Guidelines for Inclement Weather: A question will be posted in Google classroom for your child to respond for attendance. A response must be posted by 2:15 pm to be marked "present" for that day. Choice board assignments will be posted in Google classroom for your child to complete at home. For additional information, please click on the link below. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j0b10ks-R6lQmIPSAGy9wQ10lLAcXDYOf085ZrtB7QY/edit?usp=sharing
🍎 Listed below are the units of study and goals for K4 students district wide. Children are challenged throughout the year to go beyond these goals as appropriate. All units are approximately 6 weeks in length.
Units of Study
Unit 1: My School and Me
Unit 2: Construction
Unit 3: Families
Unit 4: My Community
Unit 5: Transportation
Unit 6: Growing and Changing
🍎 Approaches to Play and Learning
Goal APL-1: Children show curiosity and express interest in the world around them.
Goal APL-2: Children actively seek to understand the world around them.
Goal APL-3: Children engage in increasingly complex play.
Goal APL-4: Children demonstrate creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.
Goal APL-5: Children are willing to try new and challenging experiences.
Goal APL-6: Children use a variety of strategies to solve problems.
Goal APL-7: Children demonstrate initiative.
Goal APL-8: Children maintain attentiveness and focus.
Goal APL-9: Children persist in challenging activities.
🍎 Emotional and Social Development
Goal ESD-1: Children demonstrate a positive sense of self-identity and self-awareness.
Goal ESD-2: Children express positive feelings about themselves and confidence in what they can do.
Goal ESD-3: Children form relationships and interact positively with familiar adults who are consistent and responsive to their needs.
Goal ESD-4: Children form relationships and interact positively with other children.
Goal ESD-5: Children demonstrate the social and behavioral skills needed to successfully participate in groups.
Goal ESD-6: Children identify, manage, and express their feelings.
Goal ESD-7: Children recognize and respond appropriately to the needs and feelings of others.
🍎 Health and Physical Development
Goal HPD-1: Children develop healthy eating habits.
Goal HPD-2: Children engage in active physical play indoors and outdoors.
Goal HPD-3: Children develop healthy sleeping habits.
Goal HPD-4: Children develop the large muscle control and abilities needed to move through and explore their environment.
Goal HPD-5: Children develop small muscle control and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects and work with tools.
Goal HPD-6: Children develop awareness of their needs and the ability to communicate their needs.
Goal HPD-7: Children develop independence in caring for themselves and their environment.
Goal HPD-8: Children develop awareness of basic safety rules and begin to follow them.
🍎 Language Development and Communication
Goal LDC-1: Children understand communications from others.
Goal LDC-2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults.
Goal LDC-3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Goal LDC-4: Children communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Goal LDC-5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
Goal LDC-6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well.
Goal LDC-7: Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary.
Goal LDC-8: Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.
Goal LDC-9: Children develop book knowledge and print awareness.
Goal LDC-10: Children comprehend and use information presented in books and other print media.
Goal LDC-11: Children develop phonological awareness.
Goal LDC-12: Children begin to develop knowledge of the alphabet and the alphabetic principle.
Goal LDC-13: Children use writing and other symbols to record information and communicate for a variety of purposes.
Goal LDC-14: Children use knowledge of letters in their attempts to write.
Goal LDC-15: Children use writing skills and writing conventions.
🍎 Mathematical Thinking and Expression
Goal MTE-1: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of numbers and quantity during play and other activities.
Goal MTE-2: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of numbers and operations during play and other activities.
Goal MTE-3: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of algebraic thinking by sorting, describing, extending, and creating simple patterns during play and other activities.
Goal MTE-4: Children begin to identify, describe, classify, and understand shape, size, direction and movement during play and other activities.
Goal MTE-5: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of measurement (the idea of repeating the use of an object to measure) and a beginning understanding of data analysis through comparing, and interpreting data during play and other activities.
Goal MTE-6: Children use mathematical thinking to solve problems in their everyday environment.
🍎 Cognitive Development
Goal CD-1: Children use their senses to construct knowledge about the world around them.
Goal CD-2: Children recall information and use it for addressing new situations and problems.
Goal CD-3: Children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking: reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions.
Goal CD-4: Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expression.
Goal CD-5: Children demonstrate self-expression and creativity in a variety of forms and contexts, including play, visual arts, music, theater, and dance.
Goal CD-6: Children demonstrate knowledge of relationships and roles within their own families, homes, classrooms, and communities.
Goal CD-7: Children recognize that they are members of different groups (e.g., family, preschool class, cultural group).
Goal CD-8: Children identify and demonstrate acceptance of similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Goal CD-9: Children explore concepts connected with their daily experiences in their community.
Goal CD-10: Children observe and describe characteristics of living things and the physical world.
Goal CD-11: Children explore the world by observing, manipulating objects, asking questions, making predictions, and developing generalizations.
**This is subject to change.