Welcome to
Curriculum Night!
Mrs. LaBore’s
Kindergarten Class
Welcome to Kindergarten!
 We will meet in the
morning starting at 8:00
and class ends at 10:40.
 Please note am
Kindergarten schedule and
Early Release scheduleDismissal at 11:00 and no
kindergarten bus.
 Attendance is important!
 Request for Excused
Absence
Our Goals
 To give your child the academic and
social skills he/she needs to progress
to first grade.
 To provide a supportive and fun
classroom environment.
 To help your child make new friends
and discover new interests.
Routines
 Arriving
 Students can arrive at 7:40. There
is no earlier supervision except at
breakfast that is served at 7:30.
 Please have your child line up at the
sign outside the unit doors to the
courtyard.
 For students riding the bus use
older siblings, neighbors or buddy
to get your child to the right line up
place. Practicing also helps.
Routines
 Going Home
 I will escort students to the
kindergarten bus.
 If you are picking up your child you may
meet them at the unit doors or along
the wall perpendicular to the bus lane.
 An adult needs to meet a kindergartner
off the bus.
 Please provide a note if your child is
going home a different way.
More Routines
 Bathrooms—
 Bathroom “Field Trip”
 Look for the Flowers
 Bathroom Buddy
 Practicing helps too
 Supply of clothes in backpack
 Folder
 Communication between school & home
please check daily. Students will get
a sticker for bringing their folder to
school.
More Routines
 Seaview Handbook
 Please review and sign
 Behavior Matrix
 Snack
 Please provide daily a healthy snack
for your child
 Birthday Treats New District Policynon-food treats only-pencils, stickers or
bookmarks.
First Day Jitters
Suggestions
Plenty of Sleep
Brain Power Breakfast
Visit the School
Provide a comfort item—picture of
the family
 Assure them of the schedule
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Food Policy
 New Federal Mandated Guidelines
for food in schools
 District Policy-No Birthday Food
Treats
• Daily Snacks
• Peanut Free Classroom
 Three times involving food
Common Core Standards
 Common Core are Standards that 43
states have adopted
 Standards for what students need to
know kindergarten through 12th
Grade
 Standards are not a curriculum
 Visit online at
http://www.corestandards.org/
Tentative Schedule
· 7:50 Students enter classroom
· 8:00 Kindergarten begins-- Morning
Meeting
· 8:20 to 9:30 Mon. Literacy Block—Reading,
Writing, Phonics and Phonemic Awareness
and Math Tues. and Wed. Reading Groups,
Thurs. Writing Workshop & Math and Fri.
Math Stations
· 9:20 to 9:40 Snack and Story
· 9:40 Recess
· 9:55 to 10:25 Mon. Library, Tues. Music,
Wed. Math, Thus. PE Fri. Science/Social
Studies
· 10:30 Pack Up and Review our day
· 10:40 Dismissal
Components of our
Morning Meeting
 Greeting—each person is greeted every
morning.
 Sharing—students are given the
opportunity to share a poster and book as
Star Student.
 Calendar Activities—promoting
cooperation.
 Announcements—daily message to let
students know what will be happening and
to practice literacy skills.
Reading Program
 Shared Reading
 Reading Groups at
students’ level
 Read Aloud
 Quiet Reading
 Literature for Writing
Reading Skills
 Pre-Reading Skills
 Phonics—Letter Sound Recognition
 Phonemic Awareness—Ability to hear
sounds in words
 Focus on Decoding Strategies
 Learning Sight Words
 Comprehension—Reading for Meaning
Decoding Strategies
 Look at the picture
 Look at the beginning letters and get your
mouth ready
 Look at the ending letters
 Is it like any other words you know
 Take a running start
 Skip the word and come back to it
 Think about the story and does it make sense
 Does it sound right
 Break the word into chunks –look for little
words in big words
 Substitute a word that makes sense
Reading
 Read Alouds— modeling how to
use the different
comprehension skills
 “Discussing, sharing, writing,
and recording our understanding
and/or thinking of a story
 Working on the different
comprehension strategies
Comprehension Strategies
 Making Connections-text to self (using our
schema), text to text, and text to world
 Questioning
 Visualizing
 Determining Importance
 Inferring
 Synthesizing Information
 Monitoring For Meaning
Writing Program
 Structured Writing—
Journal Writing
 Capitalization & Punctuation
 Spelling of Sight Words
 Writer’s Workshop—
 Writing like Authors
 Dictation & Best Guess Spelling
 Publishing and Sharing
Types of Writing
 Narrative-Tells a story
 Informational-Gives information
or “How To”
 Opinion-Gives an opinion or
persuades-”My favorite book is…”
Phonics & Phonemic
Awareness Skills
 Letter-sound recognition
 Blending and Segmenting Words
 Rhyming
 Spelling Patterns
 Making Words
Math
Math program spirals the different math strands
in the curriculum rather than in isolation.
 Number Sense—Counting to 31 & Beginning
Adding and Subtracting Math Facts to 10
 Comparing, ordering and grouping numbers
 Patterns
 Geometry
 Graphing
 Problem Solving Strategies
Weekly homework and remembering pages
 New online math resource IXL
Science
 Foss Science
Silt, Sand and
Pebbles
 Science Notebooks
 Predictions,
Observations &
Diagrams
Social Studies
 Communities
-rules, jobs, roles of
community members
 Geography
-making maps
 Learning about Diversity
 Learning about people
Health
 Emergencies and Safety
 Friendships
 Environment
Classroom Community
 Our classroom is a community. In our
community, we have rules to help us get
along with each other.
 Our class rules are:
 Respect yourself
 Respect others
 Respect property
Homework
 Kindergartners should be read to or
read 15 to 20 minutes a night five times
a week.
 Letter Activities will be home sent
about once a week.
 Nightly math homework will be sent
home Mondays and Wednesdays.
 Check your child’s folder for homework.
Resources At Home
 Online resources your child can use
at home
 RAZ Kids
 IXL
 ABCya!
Parent Help in the
Classroom
 Parent help is needed during Reading Centers and
Math Centers. If you are able to volunteer in the
classroom please sign the volunteer form and the
days and time you are available.
 We will have one or two local field trips during the
year.
 Classroom special activities or Art Projects.
 Please fill out a Volunteer form if you are able to
sign up to help.
 Remember a photograph of your child for our
Star Bulletin Board.
Communication
 Folder goes home nightly with homework,
corrected work, information from
teachers, office & PTA
 Every other week Newsletters
(Distribution list-our school goal is to send
most communications via email)
 Please review email/contact information
 Please email with questions:
laborek@edmonds.wednet.edu I check
email daily! 
 Class website
http://teacher.edmonds.wednet.edu/seaview/knarruhnlabore/index.php
Let’s Have a Great Year!