Transcript Daily Procedures - Kyrene School District

Welcome to Brisas!
Kindergarten Curriculum Night
August 15, 2012
Created by: Ashley Magee, www.firstgradebrain.com Graphics © ThistleGirlDesigns
Welcome Principals
Principal Christie Winkelmann
Assistant Principal Dino Katsiris
The Kindergarten Team Presents…
Daily Procedures
• Daily attendance is important
• Learning starts at 7:40 AM
• If you are late, take your child to the office
to get a late pass
• If your child will be absent, call the
attendance line 480-541-2001
• If you are changing your going home plan,
you need to notify the teacher in writing.
• E-mail may not be the best option, as we
don’t always have time to check our
messages throughout the day.
• If there is a change of who is picking up
your child, notify the teacher in writing
Lunch Procedures
• Students eat lunch in the cafeteria
• Your child’s teacher is NOT with them during
lunch time, lunch aides are on duty to help
students
• Hot Lunch -$2.50 Adults-$3.00
• Milk -50¢, Juice-35¢ for sack lunches
• On-line purchases available, check balances
• Cash/Check can be sent in with your student
in a baggie/envelope. Please write your child’s
name on it.
• Vegetables/salad/beans
Lunch procedures con’t
• Parents will be notified when
account is low
• Students must have an individual
account
• Siblings may not share the same
account
• Applications are available for free
and reduced lunch through the
office (sent home last week)
Reading
Balanced Approach/Harcourt
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
39 sight words,(in the K - handbook)
Large Group: Big Books, Poems,
Songs
• Small Group Instruction
• Individualized Reading at varied
levels
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Reading
Writing
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D’NealianHandwriting
Writing Workshop
Journal Writing
Inventive Spelling
Writing Rubric
Math Expectations
• *Count objects to tell how many there are
• *Comparing two groups of objects to tell which group,
if either, has more; comparing two written numbers to
tell which is greater
• *Acting out addition and subtraction word problems
and drawing diagrams to represent them
• *Adding with a sum of 10 or less; subtracting from a
number 10 or less; and solving addition and subtraction
word problems
• *Adding and subtracting very small numbers quickly
and accurately (ex: 3+1)
• *Correctly naming shapes regardless of orientation or
size (ex: square oriented as a diamond is still a square)
Integrated Science/Social Studies
Introduction to…
• Plants/Insects
• Animals Habitats and Life cycles
• Earth/Space
• Five Senses/Healthy Habits
• Seasons/Weather
• United States/Holidays
• Community
Progress Reports/ Conferences
• Report Card -2x a year in
January & May
• A mini progress report is sent home
in March
• Conferences
*Parent-Student-Teacher Conference
in October/November
*Group Portfolio Conference in March
Homework
• Homework packets will be sent home
electronically each week. Parents please
PRINT and send completed packets back to
school with your child. Please notify the
teacher if you have any problems.
• http://sw.kyrene.org
Stay Connected!
Newsletters will be posted on each teachers home page.
School/Class website: http://sw.kyrene.org/bri
Individual teachers contacted from their homepage
**New phone numbers this year…
School Phone: (480) 541-2000
Learning Trips
Field Trips
• Permission Slips
• Desert Breeze Park (Trees/Leaves,
Fire/Police stations, Train, Water Day,
picnics, etc.) 2 day notice
• Bus field trips
• Field Trip Volunteers
• Tax Credit donations: indicate Kindergarten
• All I really need to know about how to live and
what to do and how to be…I learned in
Kindergarten.
• Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them. Clean
up your own mess.
• And it is still true no matter how old you arewhen you go out into the world, it is best to
hold hands and stick together.
Robert Fulghum
• Thanks for coming 
Kindergarten…
Here we come!