PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT

We had a great turnout last night! It was so nice to see so many familiar faces, as well as many new faces! Thank you to everyone who was able to attend. If you still have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your child's teacher.

EMAIL YOUR CHILD'S TEACHER

If you have not already done so, please email your child's teacher (email addresses are above) so that we can create an e-mail contact list for each class. Please add any other email addresses if you would like us to send class information and updates to additional family members. In the email, please include one word to describe your child's week. Thank you for your help!

BOOK BAG, HEADPHONES & MEMORY BOOK

** Kindergartners will need a book bag for their take home readers. Please send in $12.00 by next Friday to purchase one. These were not included in the school packs.

** Students will need a pair of headphones to use in class.  These were also not included

in the school packs. Several students have already brought theirs in;  please send them in as soon as possible if you haven't already done so!

** Your child will be making a special book this year to capture our kindergarten memories.  This will include a monthly photograph of your child. Please send a $5.00 cash donation by next Friday to help defray the cost.

Thank you!

GREEN FOLDERS

Students have been taking home green "Take Home" folders every day. Please be sure to empty the folder daily and go over any work with your child, especially if there is something that they had difficulty with . Your child will get a stamp everyday for making good choices - the color of the stamp does not matter. If your child had a difficult day, we will write in his/her folder to let you know. It is important for you to discuss this with your child. There is no need for you to initial the behavior sheet daily, unless it was written in.  If you need to send in any notes to the teacher, please put them in your child's folder and let your child know that they're in there so that they will get to the teacher.

READING and WRITING SKILLS WE WILL LEARN in KINDERGARTEN

By the end of Kindergarten, students should be able to:

• Recognize and produce rhyming words

• Segment words in an oral sentence

• Segment words into syllables

• Segment and pronounce initial, medial and final phonemes in spoken CVC words

• Manipulate phonemes with additions or substitutions in one-syllable words

• Name all letters of the alphabet

• Write all manuscript letters in lowercase and uppercase

• Sequence letters of the alphabet

• Fluently produce sounds of consonants and short vowels when given the letter

• Fluently produce sounds for basic digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck)

• Name and write corresponding letter(s) when given sounds for consonants, consonant

    digraphs, and short vowels

• Distinguish long and short vowel sounds within words

• Read and spell approximately 200 CVC words 

• Spell other words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships

• Read and write our sight words

• Identify and name correct punctuation at end of sentence

• Capitalize words at beginning of sentences and names of people

• Name the author and illustrator of a story and define their roles

• Explain narrative story structure including character, setting and main events

• Use a combination of drawing and dictating to narrate linked events to tell about a story in  sequence

• Re-tell key details of narrative and informational text, using pictures or prompts as a guide

• Identify characters, settings and main events in a story, with pictures or other prompts

• Describe what happened in a story when given a specific illustration

• With prompts, compare and contrast the experiences of characters in two stories

• Explain difference between narrative and informational text

• Echo-read a passage with correct phrasing and expression

• Identify and explain new meanings for familiar words and newly taught words

• Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities

Curriculum 

Language Arts: 

I can identify upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.  I can identify words that rhyme.

Math: 

I can read, write and represent numbers from zero to 10.

Science: 

I can tell what a scientist is and does.

Social Studies: 

I can tell the job of an authority figure at home, at school and in the community.