Welcome to
Curriculum Night 2012
Your children are the high school graduates of
2025
The First Few Weeks…
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Functioning in a classroom setting
Adjustment to school routines
Understanding of “school language”
Emphasis on listening and following
directions
Environment
• Lifeskills: Emphasis on friendship,
responsibility, respect, initiative, and
problem solving
• Focus on Positive behavior
• Value of self/others
• Positive self image promotes learning
Development of the
Whole Child
All children start kindergarten with a variety
of experiences.
• Previous formal educational
• Large group setting
• Listening and following directions
Our focus is to develop the WHOLE child.
Which begins with…
… Emotional and Social
Development
Kindergarten is the foundation of your child’s learning
experience. They learn how to …
• be a student.
• be a part of a classroom community.
• share and get along.
Academic Development
Every child has their own learning style. We
offer a variety of methods to accommodate all of
the different learning styles.
•Audio
•Visual
•Physical
•Kinesthetic
Fine and Gross
Motor Skills
• Fine motor: Through writing,
coloring, cutting, etc. (pencil grip)
• Gross motor: PE and recess
Curriculum
• Opening: Attendance, calendar, tally,
number line, counting, place value,
patterns, weather graph, tooth graph,
poems, rhymes, flash cards with numbers
and words.
Curriculum
• Reading: (Harcourt) Morning Message, Phonemic
Awareness, Sharing Literature, Early Literacy Skills &
Application, Reading Groups, Daily Journals. Whole
group and small group differentiated instruction.
• Math: Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley,
Investigations and Cognitive Guided Instruction.
Begins with manipulatives and progresses to pencil and
paper activities along.
Curriculum
• Centers: Students participate in a variety of centers
during the week. Centers are self managed and based upon
objectives taught earlier in the day or week for
reinforcement.
• Writing Activities: Individual and class books, sight word
book, journals, dictation, story starters, spelling, and
nursery rhymes.
• Integrated Units: Peter Pockets Parsons (shapes), Lines,
Lines, Lines (animal families), Indians, Nutrition, America
The Beautiful!, Oceans, Zoos (animal habitats, wild/tame,
herbivorous/carnivorous/omnivorous), Plants, Farms, and
Community Helpers.
Specials
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Music (45 min. once a week)
P.E. (45 min. once a week)
Library (45 min. once a week)
Computer Lab (30 min. once a week)
Art (45 min. once a week)
Behavior Plan
Reinforce positive behavior…
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Star Jar
Challenger Cheers
Miss Manners
School store
Challenging behavior…
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Think walking
Lifeskill Timeout
If necessary phone calls home and/or office referrals
Special Services
• Speech/Language
• Resource
• Both are available to every child. We will
contact if it is necessary.
• SEI – Structured English Immersion
Testing
• Reading Readiness Language Test
• DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early
Literacy Skills) state mandated reading test
– Given three times a year, fall, winter and spring
• Cognitive Guided Instruction (CGI)
• Continual assessments of curriculum skills
Progress Reports
• Conferences: Fall and Spring
• Report Cards: January and May
Homework
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3-4 times a week
It should take 10-15 minutes
Reinforces skills
Teaches children responsibility and
accountability
Absences
• Please make sure to call and report
absences to the office first.
• Absence line 480-541-3801
• Request homework
Keeping Us Informed
• Make sure your emergency and contact
information is current.
• To ensure your child’s safety please keep us
informed of any changes regarding dismissal.
• Changes need to be in writing.
• We can only release your child to people listed on
their emergency card.
Birthdays
• Invitations
– NO birthday invitations at school
– This is a district policy, Please do not ask me to
do so! Thanks 
• Goodies
– There are no edible treats.
– May bring pencils, erasers, stickers to pass out
at the END of the day.
– Donate a book to the library
Nutrition
• Snacks
– Small and healthy
– Consumed within 5 minutes
– Water ONLY
• Lunches
– Can pay ahead and online
– Lunch money in pencil pouch
– Checks- write student’s & teachers name
Important “Stuff”
• “Things Kids Say”
• Star Student
– May bring in items to share during their week
• Events
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Thanksgiving Feast
Nutrition Party
Friendship Party
Field Trips
– End of Year Celebration
Parent Volunteers
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Classroom
Event Parents
Art Masterpiece
Parent Readers
– Sign ups will be sent home the month before.
Enjoy Mr. Fallgatter’s
presentation in the
Library! Beginning at
6:10