Welcome to Brisas
Kindergarten Curriculum Night
July 30, 2015
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Meet the Principals
Assistant Principal Dino Katsiris
Principal Christie Winkelmann
Behavior Management
• Rules are consistent throughout the school
and classrooms:
• Be Respectful
• Be Responsible
• Be Safe
These follow a PBIS model where ALL teachers
and staff adhere to the same rules. *Chart,
details in packet.
Meet the Teachers
Mrs. Asta
Mrs. Pancratz
Mrs. Foster
Mrs. Yoshioka
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 480-541-2000
• 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
Reading
English Language Arts (ELA)
• 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
• Picture books and Informational texts
• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy
Skills. . . DIBELS (K-3 placement)
Curriculum Night
Parent Survey
QR Code
Please scan this QR code to access
our school survey about tonight. It is
a quick 3 question survey. If you do
not have a QR reader on your phone,
it will be web link will be sent out
from the office. Thank you for your
input.
Writing
English Language Arts (ELA) increased emphasis
• D’Nealian Handwriting
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Writing Workshop
Journal Writing
Inventive Spelling
Writing Rubrics
Informative, opinion and narrative
Math
Math Common Core:
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Counting and Cardinality
Know number names and count sequences
Count to tell the number of objects
Compare numbers
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and
understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value
Geometry
Identify and describe shapes
Analyze, compare, create and compose shapes
Measurement and Data
Describe and compare measurable attributes
Classify objects in categories
**Dreambox …Home/School
Science/Social Studies
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Plants/Insects
Animals Habitats and Life cycles
Earth/Space
Five Senses/Healthy Habits
Seasons/Weather
United States/Holidays
Community
Special Classes
Students will have five special classes each week,
most taught by special area teachers.
*PE
Art
Music
Library
Computer Lab (taught by classroom teacher)
* On P.E. days please make sure your child wears tennis
shoes and dresses appropriately. If they do not dress
appropriately they will have to sit out of P.E.
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.
• Packets are posted on Wednesday or Fridays
(depending on classroom)
• Small paper books will be sent each week in
the homework folder.
• Access homework: http://www.kyrene.org/bri
Progress Reports
• Progress Reports-2x a year in
January & May
• A mini progress report is sent home
in March
• Conferences
*Parent-Student-Teacher Conference
in October
*Group Portfolio Conference in March
“Popsicle Night”
Field Trips
• Permission Slips
• Desert Breeze Park Walking (Trees/Leaves,
Fire/Police stations, Train, Water Day,
picnics, etc.) 2 day notice
• Bus field trips (fall and spring)
• Field Trip Volunteers
• Tax Credit donations: indicate
“Kindergarten”
Learning Field Trips
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 assist students
• Hot Lunch $2.50
Adults $3.00
• Milk $.50, Juice $.35 are available for sack lunches
• Breakfast also available for purchase.
• On-line purchases available, encouraged
• Cash/Check can be sent in with your student in a
baggie/envelope. Please write your child’s name on it.
Stay Connected!
Newsletters will be posted on each teachers home page.
School/Class website: http://sw.kyrene.org
Individual teachers contacted from their homepage
** Phone numbers this year…
School Phone: (480) 541-2000
Classrooms: (480) 541-21__ ___
(ends w/room number)
And Always Remember…
• 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 
Meet the Teacher
• Parents please hand in the following
tonight (now or come back after other
presentations) :
• “Tag” on how your child will get home
• “White” ½ sheet emergency card
• Take a packet with your name by the door
• Take a family picture for use in class 
Thanks for coming 
Welcome to a great year
in Kindergarten!