Kindergarten
Back to School
Night
Mrs. Stanley
Introduction
 Mom
of 12th grader, Andrew
 Have taught Kindergarten for 27 years, all here
in Jenks
 Received my Bachelor of Science in Elementary
and Early Childhood Education from
Northeastern State University in Tahlequah
 Earned my Masters in Reading from NSU –
Broken Arrow
 Hold a Reading Specialist’s Certificate
Housekeeping Items
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Send snack every day, ask your child what they want and
how much they need. Try to make it a healthy snack.
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Also, on the lunch menu, our day for CiCi’s pizza is Friday.
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Toys are not to be brought from home unless there is a
specific homework assignment or their assigned show
and tell time.
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Please label all items brought to school:, backpacks,
lunchboxes, jackets, containers, etc.
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Your child has a new tag on their backpack with their ID#
and usual mode of transportation home. Please leave it
attached to their backpack.
 We
go outside everyday (twice) unless
the temperature/heat index is above
100 or the wind child is below 32 or it is
raining/snowing.
 Make sure your child is wearing
appropriate clothing for being active
(especially shoes) and considering the
weather. Don’t forget to have the right
kind as the extra set!
 Label all jackets, scarves and hats!
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Daily Folders go home everyday and should be returned
the following day.
Keep them in your child’s backpack so they don’t get
forgotten.
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My newsletter will be sent home on the last Thursday of
each month. Curriculum objectives, Trojans of the Week,
birthdays and other announcements will be on there. This
is also available on my webpage.
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We have Library once a week. We will start soon and
book checkout will start 2 weeks after that.
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Report cards go home at the end of every nine weeks. A
district progress report will go home middle of September
and at the mid point for each report card. A copy of the
report card will be on my webpage.
DROP-OFF AND PICK-UP PROCEDURES
MORNING DROP-OFF PROCEDURES
 Classroom
doors open at 8:30 am. Class
begins at 8:50am.
 Parents may park in designated parking
spaces (not along the curbs) and walk
children to the classroom before 8:50
 Or parents may stay in the traffic lane.
Please stay in your car. An adult will assist
your child getting out of the car.
PICK-UP PROCEDURES
 If
you need to change the way your child
will be going home, please contact the
office by 3:00. (918)299-4415 ext 5513
 You need to pick up your child between
3:30 and 3:45. If students are not picked
up by 3:45, students are sent to building
C and a parent is contacted.
 Please stay in the designated pick up
lane. Stay in your car, stay in the lane. Be
patient. The adult will assist your child
getting into the car.
PARKING LOTS/DRIVEWAYS
 During
drop-off and pick-up times, there
is a lot of traffic in our parking lots. The
procedures we have put in place are
designed to move traffic efficiently and
safely.
 Be aware of children
 Be patient
 Be respectful to staff & other parents
 DRIVE SLOWLY
 Do
not park in spaces designated as
“Handicapped Parking” if you do not have a
visible handicapped parking permit
 Please stay in the two inner lanes to pick up your
child. The third lane is for thru traffic.
 We will not escort your child to the vehicle in the
thru traffic lane for safety reasons.
 If your child has a sibling in Building F, D or E
please, pull up in the 2nd lane.
 There is no picking up of children in front of
building C
 If walking up to take a student, ALWAYS tell the
adult in charge.
School Safety is our FIRST
• Safe Schools Committee at
Priority!
every school site
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• LobbyGuard
Campus Police
• Commercial two-way radio
School Emergency Response
system for Administrators and
Team (SERT)
duty staff
Video Surveillance systems
• If you see something, hear
covering areas inside/outside all
something, SAY SOMETHING
student buildings and parking
• Anti-bullying programs
areas
incorporated into the
Random drug/explosive K-9
curriculum at all grade levels
sweeps at all school sites
• Emergency Procedure Guide
Anonymous email, text or 1-800
endorsed by all emergency
number to report any school
response agencies that could
threat or concern
respond to JPS
School Safety Training and
• District Emergency Operations
Compliance Officer
and Continuity of Services Plans
Things to Continue to Work
on at Home
 Self
Help Skills
 Bathroom Skills
 Buttoning, Snapping, Zipping, Tying Shoes
 Personal Needs – Blowing nose, cutting food,
using utensils, opening food packages,
opening/closing backpacks
 Although they are allowed to go to the
restroom when they need to, sometimes they
have to wait for an appropriate time in order
to not miss instruction.
Things to Continue to Work on
at Home
 Responsibility
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Skills
Cleaning up completely after activity
Responding the first time to the name used
at school
Attentive listening – looking at the speaker
Sitting for short periods of time focusing on
a specific task
Following Directions the first time asked
Knowing first and last name
Communication
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Communication will primarily be through emails. If
you do not check your email regularly, please let me
know so that I can send a hard copy of information.
If you are unable to receive attachments, they will
be on my web page, my Facebook page or I can
send a hard copy. Sometimes I can resend as a pdf
also.
There are also text reminders. If you are interested in
receiving a text reminder from me about upcoming
events (collaboration, special activities, etc) follow
the directions on the next slide.
Reminders will also be sent by email.
Birthdays
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Birthdays are celebrated on their day. When it falls on a
weekend or holiday I will make arrangements with you for
a preferred day.
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A special store bought snack may be sent but it is not
necessary. If you do, I prefer something small and
individually prepared (small cookie, small cupcake, etc.)
All the same decorations, same flavor, etc.
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Treat bags or other goodies are not appropriate for the
classroom. Invitations to private parties may be given in
person to the whole class or all boys/girls. If only some
children are to be invited, the invitation must be mailed.
Please sign up on the class directory sheet.
Trojans of the Week
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Each child will have an opportunity to be spotlighted for a
week, chosen at random.
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The Trojan will be given a poster to fill out, highlighting
themselves. They will also get to bring a favorite book and
a show and tell during that week.
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The monthly Trojans are announced in the newsletter and
a reminder and the poster are sent home in Daily Folders
the week before they are the Trojan.
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This will start September 14th.
District wide Collaboration
Days
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2014-2015 COLLABORATION DAYS:
September 24th, October 29th, December 3rd,
January 28th, February 25th, March 31st
Buses will run approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes
later on these dates.
Please be out at your bus stop 1 hour and 45
minutes later than normal.
 School
start time will be 10:40
Website
 www.jenksps.org
 Click
on East Elementary
 Click on Staff Pages
 Find my name
 My classroom management plan, daily
schedule, newsletters and other information will
be posted.
 Curriculum
information is available on my page
as well as the East Elementary page.
Classroom Management Plan
Key Phrases:
“Take care of you”
“Listening ears”
“1-2-3 eyes on me”
“Hands and Feet to
yourself”
“Criss-Cross Applesauce”
“Give me a 5”
Expectations:
Follow directions the first
time.
Wait your turn.
Listen or wait while someone
else is speaking.
Soft voices inside, no voices
in the hall.
Keep hands, feet and
objects to yourself.
Respect others, no mean
words or teasing.
Respect property, yours and
others.
Parent Expectations for
Kindergarten Year
 Communication
with classroom teacher
 Read newsletters and other school
informational flyers
 Become familiar with student policy book
 Attendance and prompt arrival. School
starts at 8:50
 Complete homework activities each
week
 Read 20 minutes each day to your child
Typical Kindergarten Schedule
 Morning Routine
 90 minutes of Literacy
(large group,
small groups and centers)
 60 minutes of Math (whole group and
centers)
 SSR
 Movement Activities
 Science/Social Studies
 Writing
 Centers
 Dramatic
Play, Blocks, Sensory Table,
Playdough, Puzzles, Manipulatives,
Computers
Daily Schedule
Time
8:30-8:50
Activity
8:50-9:10
Opening and story
9:10-10:10
Literacy center rotations
Daily 5
10:15-10:40
Clean up
Calendar, story, Literacy review
Transition to playground (lunch)
10:40-11:05
11:05-11:15
Recess building A
11:15-11:35
Student’s lunch
11:35-12:20
Transition to class, restroom, whole class games/review and chapter
book
12:20-12:30
12:30-1:00
1:00-1:45
1:45-1:55
1:55-2:20
2:20-2:30
2:30-3:20
3:20-3:30
Movement
Students enter classroom (after walk)
Restroom and put materials away
May do tub toys, drawing journals or morning work
2nd quarter – writing journals
Transition to Café, wash hands in “C”, lunch line
Social Studies/Handwriting/Writing
Free Centers
Clean up
Snack and Recess
Restroom break
Math/Science
End of day group, prepare for dismissal
Ms. Rodrigues takes Parent pick up and Daycare
Mrs. Stanley takes bus riders
Report Card
Adaptive Skills
GP1
GP2
GP3
GP4
Mathematics
Completes tasks during small group work
Counts objects using one to one correspondence, 1- 20
Interacts with peers in small group work
Counts orally from 1-100 by ones and tens
Communicates with peers in small group work
Identifies and names numerals 0-20
Participates in large group activities, listening & responding appropriately
Writes numerals 0-20
Completes tasks independently
Constructs, identifies, names sets of objects from 0- 20
Performs classroom routines without frustration
Recognizes relationships between two sets
Demonstrates respect for school rules
Recognizes relationships between tens and ones
Demonstrates respect for the ideas, feelings, and property of others
Adds and subtracts using manipulatives within 10
GP1
Reading/Language Arts
GP2
GP3
GP4
Decomposes numbers less than or equal to 10
Follows simple two-step oral directions
Manipulates a variety of numbers to make 10
Speaks audibly and expresses thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Fluently adds and subtracts within 5
Uses comprehension strategies i.e., telling what is happening in a picture,
retelling a familiar text
Describes and compares measurable attributes
Composes books
Classifies objects & counts the number of objects in each category
Produces simple rhyming pairs
Identifies and explains simple synonyms and antonyms
Identifies and uses initial consonant sounds
Marking Periods
X
X
Days Absent
X
Days Tardy
Identifies and uses ending consonant sounds
X
X
1
2
3
4
Analyzes, compares, creates, and composes shapes
Social Studies
GP1
GP2
X
X
GP3
GP4
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
States personal information: name, birthdate, telephone number
Participates in discussions of self, community, and geography
Recognizes and names upper case letters
Science
Recognizes and names lower case letters
Understands and uses science & engineering practices
Uses appropriate handwriting to trace, copy and generate letters
Communicates understanding of concepts and content
X
X
Technology
Prints first name
Prints last name
X
Uses various technologies appropriately
Recognizes eight basic color words
X
Communicates understanding of concepts and content
Recognizes and reads first and last name in print
X
3 – Consistently Successful
Is consistent & independent in demonstrating skill & understanding in the standard
2 – Progressing
Shows developing understanding in the standard; is not yet consistent & independent
1 – Area of Concern
Seldom/rarely demonstrates skill & understanding in the standard
X – Not Evaluated at this Time
*- Indicates Modified Work
Recognizes environmental print
Recognizes high frequency words
Identifies parts of a book (front and back cover, title, title page, and author)
Holds book correctly (right side up), indicates where to begin and follows words
on the page (front to back, top to bottom, left to right)
Counts syllables in words
Recognizes the same sounds in different words
Reading/Language Arts
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Components will be listed on website and report card
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Please review letter names and sounds with your children.
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We are beginning to work with letter sounds, a review for some
and sight words begin next week. A total of 40 sight words plus
color words and number words.
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The items learned/reviewed each month will be in my
newsletter.
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We will also be learning the components of comprehension with
non fiction text and handwriting will be learned with an in class
workbook.
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In addition to Fountas & Pinnell and Comprehension Toolkit, we
will use Secret Stories, Sight Words, Whole Language, and
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness to reinforce reading.
Math
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The most important thing you can work on for math is
counting to 100. Forward, backward, by twos and fives
and tens.
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Other concepts covered include: addition/subtraction,
sets and measurement, .
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All math concepts that are covered each month are in
my newsletter.
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We will be using our classroom Chromebooks for online
math games. I will email you their password to use at
home.
Other Curricular Areas
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Science: Exploring Forces & Motion, Exploring Plants &
Animals and Exploring My Weather
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Spanish: Video presentations of vocabulary (family,
calendar, colors)
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Social Studies: Citizenship, My Country, Map and Globe
skills, Time by the year and Stories of the Past.
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Handwriting: Zaner Bloser (ball and stick)
Homework
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Homework will be sent home relating to a unit of study in
math or reading.
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Homework is to be returned by the following week.
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Even if the activity is not a written one, put your child’s
name on the paper and send it back with them. This
prepares them for the responsibility of doing and returning
homework.
Other papers
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Every morning we write a “morning message”. While
writing this letter we are learning letters, sounds, words
and sentence structure. There is also punctuation and
letter writing. We count and compare for a quick math
review and write addition and subtraction sentences. The
children take turns circling things they know.
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Each child will get a chance, on a rotation basis, to bring
it home.
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Use this at home for review and a chance to connect
with your child about what they are learning.
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Papers done independently during centers will be
checked by me, stamped and sent home. The stamp
means that I have looked at it and had your child make
corrections if necessary. If I stamp it, I’m happy with the
product.
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At the end of each nine weeks I will send home a baggie
of books we have made in class. We work on these
books, practice reading them and share them each other
and with reading buddies. Please keep them as review at
home.
Cooking
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will cook occasionally in our classroom.
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is single serve cooking, so that your child only
touches what they make and eat.
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sometimes need parent help for the activity so
watch for emails asking for help with the activity
or possibly to send the supplies.
School Counselors
 Several
groups are available to your child and
include: Divorce or loss , friendship making and
social skills group. Your child may also have
individual sessions with the counselor as
needed.
 Group sessions are held once a week for
approximately 25 minutes. Groups will be
arranged so that the children will lose a
minimal amount of classroom instruction.
 Sign up on referral form or contact counselors
directly
Contact Information
 Laura
Niemann, K/1st, 918.299-4415 X
5002 laura.niemann@jenksps.org
 Holly Enzbrenner, 1st/2nd 918.299.4415 X
5218 holly.enzbrenner@jenksps.org
 Patty Johnson, 2nd/3rd, 918.299.4415 X
5035 patricia.johnson@jenksps.org
 Lauren Alvarez, 3rd/4th, 918.299.4415 X
5520 lauren.alvarez@jenksps.org
 Conferences
will be October 5th to the
14th. There will be evening times on the
13th and day times on the 14th. Watch for
an email with a link to SignUp Genius to
find a good time for you.
Questions
Thank you for
coming!!