🍎 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 back within 24 hours.
🍎 Grading: Letter and numerical grades 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 A.J. Behavior Expectations.
* Class Rules: https://sites.google.com/a/greenvilleschools.us/kpatel/class-information
* Essential 18: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mG364PwkcVrm44wq9l4r0SnZy3kFeFZM/view
* A.J. Behavior Expectations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNQI0092NBmu8MR5DC3aMn0TxVtp9G8C_ta-O6hJsNA/edit
🍎 Homework: Please check the red folder daily for homework.
🍎 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: Students will use their chromebook to complete e-learning assignments. Students are expected to participate in e-Learning. Students who do not participate in e-Learning will be marked absent. Choice board assignment will be posted in Google classroom for your child to complete at home.
🍎 Listed below are the units of study and standards for K4 students district wide. Children are challenged throughout the year to go beyond these standards as appropriate.
Unit 1: Welcome to School / Standards
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
ESD-5r: Follow social rules, transitions, and routines that have been explained to them.
CD-9f: Describe characteristics of the places where they live and play.
Unit 2: All About Me and My Family / Standards
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
ESD 1o: Describe themselves in concrete ways, with greater detail and accuracy.
ESD-1p: Express awareness that they are members of different groups.
ESD-2n: Express positive feelings about themselves by showing and/or telling others about themselves, things they like, or things they have done.
ESD-5w: Express respect and caring for all people, including people with disabilities.
ESD-5x: Recognize and honor cultural differences.
CD-6k: Talk about a wide circle of family members and other people important to the family, their relationships to each other, and shared experiences.
CD-6l: Adopt roles of a wide variety of family and community members during dramatic play, using props, language, and actions to add detail to their play.
CD-8g: Talk about how other children have different family members and family structures than their own.
CD-9g: Observe and talk about changes in themselves and their families over time.
Unit 3: The Amazing Alphabet / Standards
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
LDC-12e: Demonstrate an interest in learning the alphabet.
LDC-12f: Show they know the letters function to represent sounds in spoken words.
LDC-12g: Recognize and name many letters of the alphabet, especially those in their own name and in the names of others who are important to them.
LDC-12h: Make some sound-to-letter matches, using letter name knowledge.
LDC-13f: Represent thoughts and ideas in drawings and by writing letters or letter-like forms.
LDC-14d: Use known letters and approximations of letters to write their own name and some familiar words.
LDC-14e: Try to connect the sounds in a spoken word with letters in the written word.
LDC-15i: Use a variety of writing tools and materials with increasing precision.
LDC-15j: Imitate adult writing conventions that they have observed.
Unit 4: Discover the Night / Standards
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
CD-10k: Collect items from nature and classify them using physical characteristics.
CD-10l: Notice and react to the natural world and the outdoor environment.
CD-10m: Describe some things plants and animals need to live and grow.
CD-10o: Notice and describe weather conditions, position of the sun and moon at different times, and seasonal changes.
CD-11o: Ask questions and identify ways to find answers.
CD-11p: Compare objects, materials, and phenomena by observing and describing their physical characteristics.
CD-11q: Use an increasing variety of tools to investigate the world around them.
Unit 5: Changes and Traditions Around Us / Standards
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
CD-8h: Show acceptance of different cultures through exploration of varying customs and traditions, past and present (how people dress, how people speak, food, music, art, etc.).
CD-9g: Observe and talk about changes in themselves and their families over time.
CD9h: Observe and talk about how people adapt to seasons and weather conditions (put on sunscreen on sunny days, wear rain gear).
CD-10k: Collect items from nature and classify them using physical characteristics.
CD-10l: Notice and react to the natural world and the outdoor environment.
CD-10m: Describe some things plants and animals need to live and grow.
CD-10o: Notice and describe weather conditions, position of the sun and moon at different times, and seasonal changes.
CD-11o: Ask questions and identify ways to find answers.
CD-11p: Compare objects, materials, and phenomena by observing and describing their physical characteristics.
CD-11q: Use an increasing variety of tools to investigate the world around them.
MTE-5o: Describe the weather as hot or cold. (Continue to engage in explorations with temperature).
Unit 6: Fairy Tales / Standards
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
LDC-10o: Imitate the special language in storybooks and story dialogue with accuracy and detail.
LDC-10r: Relate personal experiences to an increasing variety of events described in familiar and new books.
LDC-10s: Ask more focused and detailed questions about a story or the information in a book.
LDC-10t: Discuss storybooks by responding to questions about what is happening and predicting what will happen next.
LDC-10u: Discuss storybooks by responding to questions about the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Unit 7: Being an Explorer / Standards
MTE-5o: Describe the weather as hot or cold.
CD-10k: Collect items from nature and classify them using physical characteristics.
CD-10l: Notice and react to the natural world and the outdoor environment.
CD-10p: Notice, describe, and attempt to explain properties of materials and changes in substances.
CD-11n: Represent what they learn during scientific exploration through drawing, modeling, building, movement, or other methods.
CD-11q: Use an increasing variety of tools to investigate the world around them.
APL-1m: Discover things that interest and amaze them and seek to share them with others.
APL-1n: Communicate interest to others through verbal and nonverbal means.
APL-1o: Show interest in a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
APL-1p: Demonstrate interest in mastering new skills.
APL-2l: Ask questions to find out more about the things that interest them, including questions about future events.
APL-2m: Choose among different ways to explore the environment based on experience.
APL-2n: Use what they know from experience to understand what is happening now.
Unit 8: Ramps, Wheels, and Things That Go! / Standards
CD-3l: Use language to describe their thinking processes with adult support.
CD-3m: Work on a project over several days, solving problems, and making their work more elaborate.
CD-11o: Ask questions and identify ways to find answers.
CD-11p: Compare objects and materials by observing and describing their physical characteristics.
CD-11r: Make and check predictions through observations and experimentation, with adult support and guidance.
CD-11s: Manipulate the environment to produce desired effects and invent solutions to problems.
CD-11t: Engage in the scientific process by observing, making predictions, recording predictions (through photographs, drawings or dictations), developing plans for testing hypotheses, trying out ideas and communicating outcomes.
CD-11u: Analyze the result of an attempted solution and use new information to solve a problem.
**This is subject to change.