Welcome to Kindergarten
So glad you are here.
Find some papers on your child’s desk:
1. Fill out a reading goal for your child.
2. Check the student information form to
make sure the details are accurate.
3. PLEASE turn these two forms in tonight. In
the Green Basket up front!
Class Goals
1. To develop a supportive, safe, friendly classroom
community so we can all enjoy learning together.
2. To develop within each student a sense of
independence and responsibility about school, so
they are ready to enter first grade.
3. To create a strong academic and social
foundation for each student on which their future
teachers can build.
4. To have fun!
Agenda
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Curriculum
Common Core
Reading
Writing
Math
Social Studies
Science
Classroom
Management
 Field
Trips
 Homework
 School
Conferences and
Report Cards
 Homework
 Volunteering
 Walk-Athon
 Parent Checklist
Common Core
 Shift
from state grade level expectations
to nation-wide expectations
 Goal is to prepare all students to enter
college
 Narrower range of topics that explore
deeper into the subject
 Washington's 1st year of implementation
A bit about me
 First
year at Cascade Ridge
 Half-day Kindergarten
 Graduated from University of Puget Sound
 Masters in Human Development. Pacific
Oaks College. Emphasis Reading
 My favorites: Spending time with my
husband and two boys, watching my
children play sports, dancing, reading,
mornings, and the sun!
Parent Communications
• E-mail – reentsr@issaquah.wednet.edu
• Weekly news letter –via e-mail on Friday
• Notes to teacher – daily folder
• Office Phone Mail 425-837-5500
• Website –
http://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/eleme
ntary
or go to school website and click on
websites and Mrs. Reents
Our Day
8:25 Welcome and morning routines
Schedule, sing the rules, Star Students, caring rocks
8:30 Reading workshop
9:15 Specialist-Music (Mon), P.E.(Thurs)
9:45 snack and read aloud
10:00 Recess
10:15 Calendar and Math
11:00 Pack-up and Dismissal
Wednesday.
10:15 Science and Social Studies
10:40 Specialist-Library
11:15 Dismissal
What reading looks like…
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Daily activities in small and large groups
Focus on reading strategies
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Comprehension
Fluency
Accuracy
Vocabulary
Sounds and letters (Phonics and phonemic
awareness)
Whole group
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Poetry, rhyme, singing, read aloud
Reading Curriculum
Read aloud.
Shared reading (read with teacher).
Guided reading (small group).
Independent reading. (read to self)
 Making Meaning - comprehension lessons focused on retelling,
schema/making connections, visualizing, wondering/questioning, inferring
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Fountas and Pinnell Phonics Lessons - Early literacy, phonological awareness,
letter knowledge, letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency
words, word meaning, word structure, word solving.
 Book boxes at student reading level
Comprehension, word recognition, accuracy, vocabulary, fluency
 Guided reading groups - teaching kids at their reading level with
books in our book rooms
 Independent reading - book boxes filled with good fit books, books
at a child's independent reading level.
 Reading Notebooks. Poetry, Songs, Chants, Word Work.
 Read at home daily - good fit books and parents reading to children
Writing
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are authors.
Narrative
Persuasive
How to….
Letter formation
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Top to bottom, left to right. That’s the way we like to
write.
Practice letter formation
Pencil grip
Math
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is Everyday Math
Numbers
Operations and computation
Estimation
Equations
Graphs
Measurement
Geometry
Shapes and patterns
Math: Daily Routines
 Calendar
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time
Number of the day
Job chart
Monthly calendar
Weather observation
Number of days in school
Survey question
Communication Skills
 Star
of the week
 Sharing time
 Turn and talk
 Listening skills
 Problem solving
Social Studies
 Kindergarten
is a year of change
 Cooperation. Working and playing well
with others. Class meetings and how to
get along lessons.
 Respecting differences.
 Learning about others cultures and
holidays.
Science and Health
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and animals
What they need to survive
How they meet their needs
Relationship between needs and where they
live
 Physical
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science
Liquids and Solids
Technology
 Computers
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Listening centers
 Issaquah
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and Cascade Ridge websites
www.issaquah.wednet.edu/schools/cascaderidge
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in class
website
Math practice. Everyday Math.
Reading practice. Raz Kids
Passwords for some sites are not ready. Coming
soon.
Classroom Expectations
 Keep
your hands and feet to yourself
 Raise your hands when you want to talk
 Listen to your teacher while she's talking
 If you use it put it back, put it back.
 Care about yourself, other people, and
your school.
District and Classroom
Assessment
 Reading.
September, November, March,
May
 Writing. Pre and post, three times a year.
 Math. Baseline, mid-year, end-of-year.
 PEP testing is October. CoGAT.
Report Cards
 Report
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Cards
On-line in Family access.
No paper copies this year.
End of November, March, June
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Conferences.
Wed., December 3 and Thurs., December 4
Day-off for kids.
Just parents and teacher at conferences.
Conference sign-ups will be on-line.
Homework
 Reading
at home with your child for 15
minutes.
 Read library books that they check out.
 Use my website to access math and other
reading practice.
 Use my weekly newsletter to re-enforce
classroom learning.
Volunteering
 Art
Docent
 Box Top Classroom Rep
 Party Coordinator
 Caring Through Sharing
 Room Coordinator
 Science Helper
 Yearbook Photographer
Walk-Athon
 Friday,
October 3. 4:00-6:30.
 Fundraiser for Cascade Ridge
 Hawaiian theme…all kids get a t-shirt.
 Silent Auction
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Teacher Experience. October 15. Have fun
with your teacher. Invite one friend to play
games and have a treat. One student from
each class will win the auction bid!
Parent Checklist
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Turn in the 2 stapled papers on your child’s desk…in the
green basket:
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Reading goal and social goal for your child.
Student up-date form
Take home:
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Birthday crown (some of you already did this at
Kindergarten orientation night).
Star Poster
Curriculum sheets in your child’s cubby.
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Math book
Info on CoGat testing
Sign-up for volunteering
Sign-up for t-shirt size for your child