to
Ashford Elementary School
Kindergarten Orientation
Administration
Mrs. Valarie Sikes
Principal
Mr. Christopher Walker
Asst. Principal
Kindergarten Team
Breakfast
Breakfast
All students can eat a free
breakfast each morning.
Breakfast is served each
morning from 7:15 until 7:45.
Please make sure that your
child arrives for school early
enough to eat breakfast.
Kindergarten student eat their
breakfast in the cafeteria.
Students are to wait for their
teacher to come and take
them to the classroom after
eating breakfast.
Lunch
Lunch
Students may eat the school lunch or
bring a lunch from home. If your child is
eating the school lunch please make sure
that your child has the necessary money
on their account.
Paying for lunch:
Students may bring their lunch money,
parents may pay in person, or you can pay
online.
If the student does not have money on
his/her account, the student is given an
alternative lunch.
Kindergarten
Daily Schedule
Kindergarten
Sample Daily Schedule
Morning Meeting and Procedures
Reading Literacy Block
Success Time
Specials Classes
Lunch
Math
Recess
Science or Social Studies
Dismissal
Reading Literacy Block
Guided Reading Group
Guided reading instruction is at the
heart of our comprehensive literacy
program. Guided reading occurs when a
teacher meets with a small, flexible
group of students with a common
reading goal. During guided reading,
your child has the opportunity to
develop reading strategies in order to
read increasingly difficult stories
independently.
A guided reading level indicates the
degree of difficulty of a text and is
based on a number of factors which
include: story length, vocabulary, use
of illustrations, and sentence
structure. Your child’s guided reading
level is considered an "instructional"
level. This level is your child’s ability
to read certain texts with adult
guidance.
Literacy Workstations
The purpose of Literacy
Workstations is to keep children
engaged and on task while the
teacher is pulling students for
small group reading instruction.
Workstations also reinforce
literacy skills (letter/sound
knowledge, phonemic awareness,
vocabulary, and word study.)
During workstation time
students make choices, work at
their own pace, learn to work
independently or with a partner,
work hands on with literacy
materials, and overall feel
successful.
Math Block
Kindergarten Math
Math in kindergarten will be
hands on - working from
concrete experiences, to
pictorial, to the abstract as
students gain a greater
understanding. Concepts are
addressed in a large group
setting through calendar
activities, direct lessons,
everyday routines, graphing,
sorting, counting rhymes, etc.
in relation to the theme or
literature being studied,
independent and small group
work at centers and tubs, and
one on one skills practice.
Specials
Art Class
Music Class
Physical Education
Library
Science/Math
Lab
Parent
Communication
Parent and Teacher Communication
Daily Folder
Every teacher should send home a Daily Folder.
The purpose of this is to improve parent/
teacher communication. Inside this folder is
student work, flyers and information from the
school and teachers and a conduct and work
habits chart.
Wednesday Folders will be sent home every
Wednesday, it is a school wide system, all
parents know to look for the folder daily.
Parents review the folder, keep the contents
and then send the folder back signed. At the
end of a nine weeks teachers keep the paper
as a record of behavior and also use it
determine what should be marked on the
behavior section of the report card.
Parent/Teacher
Conferences can be
scheduled with your
child’s classroom
teacher.
Classroom Behavior
Classroom Behavior
Kindergarten Teachers use a chart system to
manage behavior in the classroom.
First Offense -- Warning
Second Offense – card turned – privilege taken
away
Third Offense – card turned – note in Daily
Folder
Fourth Offense – card turned – Referral/Office
It is very important that you talk with your
child about classroom behavior to prevent lost
instruction time each day.
Classroom Supplies
Kindergarten Supply List
1 pkg Construction Assorted Paper (50
ct)
1 pkg Manila Paper (50 ct)
3 boxes Crayola Crayons
3 bottles Elmers Glue
1 pkg Broad Color Markers
1 pair 5” Blunt Scissors
36 each Yellow Pencils
1 pkg Baby Wipes
1 box Sandwich Bags
1 box Gallon Bags
1 each Blue and Red Plastic Folder
6 each Glue Sticks
2 each Pink Erasers
1 each Marble Comp w/story lines
2 boxes Kleenex Tissue
Please label all supplies with your child’s
name with a sharpie marker.
Transportation
How do I get home?
Please keep your
child’s teacher
informed about the
way your child will be
getting home from
school. Make sure on
contact information is
kept up to date.
Parents must send a
note in order for the
child to be sent home
another way.
Walker
Day Care
Please be on time to
pick up your child
from school.
Bus Rider
Testing
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test
The Iowa Test, also referred to as the ITBS, was
developed in the1930s by the University of Iowa,
which still administers the test and evaluates the
results. While the Iowa Test is used by schools in
other states, it is most popular in its home state.
The Iowa Test covers a wide range of subjects which
vary depending on the grade level of the students.
More subjects are covered in older grades and topics
vary as well. Areas examined by the Iowa Test include
Science, Mathematics, Language, Vocabulary, Reading
Comprehension, Problem Solving, Maps and Diagrams
and more.
Iowa Testing is unique because it is specifically meant
to not only evaluate current knowledge, but to identify
areas that should be reinforced or that have not been
covered in a child's education. The results of the
ITBS test can help teachers, schools and parents to
identify areas of focus for the rest of the school
year.
One of the tools for measuring a student’s ability
to enter the gifted program is the Naglieri
Nonverbal Ability Test®* (NNAT®*) published by
Harcourt Assessment, Inc. The NNAT®* is a
culture-fair, nonverbal measure of reasoning and
problem solving abilities. This test does
not require English language skills or mathematics,
instead consisting of problems that use
a complex set of geometric shapes and designs. It
is a 38 question test with four types of
questions: Pattern Completion, Analogy, Serial
Reasoning and Spatial Visualization. The
number of questions in each test area on the
NNAT®* exam varies by test level:
Field Trips
Field Trips
Kindergarten students take
two field trips each year.
Fall Field Trip
Dewberry Farms
Spring Field Trip
Children’s Museum
IStation
WHAT IS iSTATION?
Istation is the leading provider of fully integrated
computer-based assessments and intervention reading
programs. Istation automatically places students into
a highly animated and engaging intervention program
based on the results from their highly interactive and
animated computer adaptive assessments (known as
ISIP, Istation’s Indicators of Progress). The
company’s intervention products are standards and
research-based and are targeted at students in all
grade levels who are at-risk of failure and in need of
intervention. An entire class can be assessed in
approximately 30 minutes – putting hundreds of
valuable teaching hours back into the classroom.
Readiness Skills
Listening Skills
* Follows 1-step & 2-step directions
Reading Readiness
* Listens well to read aloud stories
Alphabet
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Recites the alphabet
Identifies uppercase & lowercase letters
Matches uppercase letters to lowercase letters
Identifies the sounds each letter makes
Writing
* Recognizes and writes letters in first name
Fine Motor Skills
* Zips and Snaps pants, Lace and tie shoes
* Grasps crayon and pencil correctly
* Good scissor skills
Math
* Sort by colors
* Counts to 20
* Identifies 4 shapes: circle, square, triangle, and
rectangle
Creative Arts
* Identifies 10 colors: red, yellow, blue, green,
orange, purple, black, white, brown, pink
Dual Language