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In The Classroom – As your child’s teacher, I promise to…

• Use the latest research to teach students.

• Provide open communication through folders, conferences, phone calls and notes.

• Establish collaboration with the support teachers for student instruction and scheduling/pull-out.

• Provide materials that are interesting and motivating.

• Help parents understand instructional practices, class expectations, and grading policies.

• Plan meaningful lessons that meet individual student needs.

• Provide a safe school environment that promotes learning and encourages a partnership with the school.

• Employ effective classroom management skills.

• Promote a feeling of belonging for all.

At Home – As the child’s parent/guardian, I promise to…

• Read nightly with my child.

• Help my child with his/her homework.

• Provide an appropriate area for doing homework.

• Engage in activities that encourage learning.

• Provide encouragement and positive reinforcement.

• Talk with my child about his/her school day.

• Attend school activities & parent-teacher conferences.

• Show respect with my words and actions for my child, other children, and their families, the teachers, and the school.

• Communicate and work with the school to encourage my child’s learning and positive behavior.

• Ask specific questions to stimulate my child’s conversation/oral language skills.

• Encourage regular & prompt attendance.

A sample of what your child will be learning in Kindergarten Language Arts:

• Naming upper-and-lower case letters, matching those letters with their sounds, and printing them

• Retelling familiar stories using details

• Using drawing, dictating, and writing to describe an event

• Stating an opinion about a topic or book

• Taking part in classroom discussions

• Speaking clearly to express thoughts, feeling, or ideas

• Asking and answering questions about key details in stories

• Learning to recognize, spell, and properly use grammatical words that hold language together

Some activities you can do to support Language Arts learning at home:

• Read with your child every day. Ask your child to explain his or her favorite part of the story. Share your own ideas.

• Encourage your child to tell you about his or her day at school. Encourage speaking in complete sentences.

• Keep paper, markers, or crayons around the house for your child to write letters or words or draw a picture about his or her day. Have your child describe the picture to you.

• Play word games like I Spy, sing songs like Itsy Bitsy Spider, and make silly rhymes together.

A sample of what your child will be learning in Kindergarten Math:

• Counting objects to tell how many

• Comparing two groups of objects or two numerals to tell which is more

• Acting out or drawing models to solve addition and subtraction word problems

• Adding with a sum of 10 or less and subtracting from a number of 10 or less

• Counting on from a given number

• Correctly naming 2D and 3D shapes regardless of orientation or size

• Using positional words in context

• Identifying and writing numbers to 30

• Counting to 10.

Some activities you can do to support Math learning at home:

• You write a number, and your child writes the next number.

• Ask your child questions that require counting as many as 20 things.

• Ask your child questions that require comparing numbers. “Who is wearing more bracelets, you or your sister?”

• Look for word problems in real life. For example, ask “I have 2 cookies and you have 3. How many do we have all together?

• Count to 100 as often as possible.