Parent Orientation Night
Kindergarten Teachers:
Cynde Perry
Christy Borgialli
Cassie Miller
Tracey Corder
Pikeville Elementary School
Is……..
A safe, secure, exciting place
where students can learn and…
• Explore new things
• Ask questions
• Problem solve
• Learn from their mistakes
• Build on their successes
• Assume responsibility
• Meet new friends
• Have fun learning!
Classroom Goals
• To feel safe and secure while at school
• To have the freedom to explore and
achieve their personal best
• To instill the love of learning that will
continue throughout life
Conscious Discipline
• Pikeville Elementary Kindergarten has taken on a
common discipline
• Researched based to help teachers model
appropriate behaviors and to encourage children
to be self-aware of their bodies, brains, and
emotions.
Classroom Rules
Listen While Your Teacher Is Talking
Be Ready To Learn
•* Listen
•* Follow Directions
•* Do Your Best
Show Respect
• * Keep Hands and Feet
To Yourself
• * Ask Permission
• * Put Materials Away
• * Be Polite
Get Along, Be Fair
•* Take Turns
•* Share Materials
•* Follow Game Rules
Stay Safe
•* Use Things Carefully
•* Take Care of Things
•* Walk Indoors
Make Smart Choices
• Consequences to Bad Choices:
1- Warning
2- 5 minutes time out
3- 10 minutes time out
4- Call to parent, visit office
Constant bad choices, defiance, refusal
to comply– immediate removal from
classroom, possible paddling or
suspension
Morning Routine
• When the children arrive at school in
the morning, they will be expected to
independently:
– Put personal belongings in their cubbies
– Turn lunch money ,homework, book orders,
notes from home to folder basket
– Be ready to start learning
– Students go the rooms at 7:45 and morning
work begins
– Students will be marked tardy after 8:00am.
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(3 tardies equal 1 unexcused absence)
Kindergarten Curriculum
Expectations
As set forth by Tennessee
Department of Education, Bledsoe
County Schools, and Pikeville
Elementary
Listening and Speaking
• Daily activities will help with the practice
of listening and speaking skills through
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Routines and procedures
Directions
Oral language
Small & large group discussions
Reading
• Students will read often by
participating in…
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Independent Reading
Small group reading
Shared reading
Guided reading activities and large group reading
Workshops
• New sight words will be sent home in your
child’s folder each week—make some flash
cards and review the often
• Children will begin reading and writing CVC
words by Christmas
• Children should be reading independently
by March
Comprehension
• Understanding the meaning of a story is
one of the most important parts of the
reading process.
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Summarizing
Identifying the main idea
Sequencing
Reading for details
Making predictions
Drawing conclusions
Writing
• Students will write by participating in…
– Write fron the Beginning Journals-personal
stories
– Drawing Pictures with details
– Shared Writing
– Creating Concept and Predicable Sentence
Books
– Interactive Writing
– Writer’s Workshop
Handwriting
• Our handwriting skills will be practiced
through daily activities
– Routine practice will help with letter formation
of both uppercase and lowercase letter as well
as numbers
– Proper use for either form will be discussed
and modeled
– At home, please encourage a proper pencil grip
and correct letter formation.
Math
• Math Program
– Program is designed to spiral concepts
• Most concepts are expected to be mastered by the
end of Kindergarten.
• Must be able to apply the concepts learned to
everyday use
Math Content Areas
• Math Concepts
– Writing numbers with
correct formation
– Establishing routines
– Tally Marks
– Understanding the
Calendar
– Counting (by ones, twos,
fives, and tens
– Math games
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Money
Telling time to the hour
Adding and Subtracting
Measurement
• Non-standard and
standard
– Random number
recognition
– Patterns
– Shapes
– Greater than/less than
Science
• Concepts in Science
– Force and motion
– Plans and conducts
simple investigations
– Needs of living and
non-living things
– Changes in weather and
seasons
– Makes accurate
measurement with nonstandard units
– Butterfly life cycle
Social Studies
• Concepts in
Social Studies
-How do I get what I
need/want?
-Who Am I?
-How do I get along
with others?
-Where Am I?
*School and
classroom rules
School Specials
• Students also have experiences in…
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Computer activities
Gym
Library
Health
Field Trips
• We are only allowed 1 field trip– we
will let you know where and when we
will be going—probably end of year
Ways for Parents to
Participate:
• Art projects with the children
• Volunteering for class celebrations or field
trips
• Individual classroom options (workshop
help, reading with children, etc.)
• Help the teacher at home, by cutting,
preparing books/projects, etc.
• Contact your child’s teacher about days
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and times to volunteer
Miscellaneous
• Birthday Party
• Room Parents
• PTO
– If new to the building,
we encourage you go to
PTA meetings.
• Allergies in the class
• Snacks are to be
brought for the class
according to the snack
calendar
• Newsletter
• Homework
Snacks- a calendar will be sent home each month
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Please note your day/s to send snack each month. If you cannot send
snack, please let me know in advance.
Remember if you don’t send in the snack we won’t have anything
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Provide snack and drink for all students (20 students)
Send prepackaged snacks only.
Send no cakes or cupcakes (unless it is for birthday)
Send plastic spoons when necessary.
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Preferred snacks: animal crackers, all varieties of snack
crackers, yogurt cups, fruit cups, pudding cups, Jello cups,
pretzels, and other healthy snacks
Acceptable snacks: cookies, chips, Little Debbie cakes, popcorn
Unacceptable snacks: homemade snacks, sodas,
Parents are asked to send in a box of 5 oz dixie cups
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and a pack of napkins
We have a small fridge in our rooms for drinks to be
kept cold
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Please Remember!
• We are a team!!
• If you have a question or concerntalk to your child’s teacher 1st!
• Call, email, or send us a note
• Volunteer when you can
• Take time to talk with your child
about what they are learning
• Encourage your child to do their best
We are not trying to alarm you but…
Kindergarten is no longer a playtime
or naptime.
It is an important start to your
child’s education and there are many
skills that are required to be taught
and mastered in Kindergarten.
Please help make this a great year
for your child, yourself, and your
child’s teacher!