WELCOME Please sign in and pick up your child’s packet! Thanks !

1. WELCOME Please sign in and pick up your child’s packet! Thanks!

2. Kindergarten Goals • Learn to read to at least a level D(see books at your table) • Learn 100 sight words (or more  ) • Learn to write own stories • Learn to count to 100 or higher • Learn beginning math concepts of patterns, cardinal and ordinal numbers, one to one correspondence

3. Please Help!!! • We need your help. It is difficult for us to be constantly tying shoes. Please, please, please practice with your child at home!!!! This is not a skill we work on in the classroom but it is vital for your child to know how to tie his/her own shoes.

4. Eagle Time • Eagle Time is to work on previously taught skills and review • If your child does not reach the expected goals they will be pulled for intervention during the school day by either the teacher or the interventionist. • We feel it takes a village to raise a child and each one of us are invested in your children. In order to meet the needs of each individual child, we will be rotating rooms beginning in October. This will help us focus on the needs of each child. • Eagle Time/ intervention is from 9:50-10:20.

5. Eagle Time Centers • Word work • Writing • Read to self • Listening • Technology • Art/ fine motor skills/ puzzles • Math Skills

6. TEKS Resource System • District wide scope and sequence • This will insure vertical alignment throughout the school district and grades

7. Kindergarten Schedule • We are learning routines right now but hope to be on the regular schedule next week. • 7:55-8:00 Put things away, get ready for the day • 8:00-8:20 Announcements, Pledge, lunch count • 8:20-8:45 Journals, Calendar • 8:45-9:20 Language Arts • 9:20-9:40 Recess/Restroom • 9:50-10:20 Eagle Time • 10:20-11:00 Language Arts • 11:00-11:30 Meador/Parker/Lewter Lunch • 11:10-11:40 Hernandez/Wesbrooks Lunch • 11:40-12:05 Restroom/Recess • 12:05-1:00 Math • 1:00-1:30 Science/Social Studies • 1:30-1:45 Pack up/Restrooms • 1:50-2:50 PE/Music~ Conference Time • 2:50-3:00 Wrap up the day

8. Safety First • Doors will lock at 8:05. • If you come in after that, Ring the buzzer and talk into the speaker • Lunch- make sure you wear your nametag while you are in the building • When you leave the building make sure you leave your nametag in the office so we know you have checked out. • Please go out the front doors. • It’s all about keeping our kids safe.

9. Important things to know… • We eat lunch at 11:00 or 11:10 • Water bottles can be sent to school but they must have a Pop Top and only have WATER inside them! • Send jackets – we will be playing outside! • Please send any money in a sealed envelope with name and purpose in the behavior folder

10. In the morning… • If you arrive to school before 7:50am, students must sit quietly in the music room. • A student is considered tardy after 8:00 • Please stay in your car and we will bring your child to you. In the afternoon….. • After 3:10 • Pick students up at the office.

11. Library • Children can check out books each week. Please make sure to send them back on your class Library day! • Library Time: Varies by classroom Computer Lab • We will be going to the computer once a week –Times to be determined

12. P.E. • If your child doesn’t wear tennis shoes to school, make sure they have a pair to change into for PE. • Make sure that girls wear shorts under skirts. • If your child needs to sit out at P.E., please send a note and we will get it to Mrs. Hampton.

13. Lunch • If you drop a lunch off for your child make sure it is here by 10:50. • On Fridays, if you have sent the consent form back to the teacher, your child will be allowed to purchase extra snack. (ice cream) Your child must have money in his/her lunch account. • You are more than welcome to come eat with your child at the parent tables.  However, your child’s friends are not allowed to eat with you. Also, if you are late more than 5 mins, we will have to get your child a tray in the lunch line due to lack of time to eat. • When you leave make sure you go out the front doors. • You can not go out to the playground with you child. Also, for safety reasons, please do not park outside the playground and watch your child play.

14. Tuesday and Behavior Folders • Tuesday Folders-Go home every Tuesday; please return on Wednesday. • Behavior folder (purple folder) Your child will color the date box with the color they ended on. If they are on Green, they had a great day. If they are on red, orange, or yellow I will send a note with what happened. Please initial these each night and bring back every day.

15. Red Reading Folders • Folders will go home on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. • Please have your child read their book at least 2x. • They will keep the same book for the entire week. • We do this to work on fluency and comprehension. • Extension Activities: write about what they read • We will begin this in October

16. Sight words • We will be learning over 100 sight words this year. The more words your child can (almost) instantly recognize, the more time their brain spends on making meaning in a text not just decoding words. Please practice these with your child daily. You can find them in our weekly newsletter and in his/her putple folder.

17. Coming Up… • We will start guided reading groups in October. • We are working very hard now to establish routines and work quietly so that guided reading will be possible. • This will help support their reading at home.

18. Why guided reading is important: • The goal is to support your child and help them learn to read with out frustrating them. • They will be able to move up levels when they are ready and will move in and out of groups. • We work on fluency, phrasing, inflection and reading for meaning (comprehension).

19. Conferences • We will have a conference with each parent starting in October. • If you would like to schedule a conference before then, our conference time is from 1:50-2:50 Monday, Thursday, and Friday or after school if needed. • You can call or email.

20. Report Card This year your child will have a numerical grade on their report card. You may access the grade book at any time to see what your child’s grade is. The report card grade will be an average for each subject but in the grade book you can see the specific grade for each assessment.

21. Temperature • Due to budget cuts our A/C will not go any lower than 72. Please dress with that in mind (but girls are not allowed to wear spaghetti strap shirts  ) • Heater-Will not get any warmer than 68 degrees. Dress in layers!

22. Birthdays • You are welcome to bring a treat for your child’s birthday (if you want to). We will have the treats at 1:15. Please drop them off in the office by 12:00. Please no cake that needs to be cut. Cookies or individual treats are best!

23. BYOT

24. BYOT • Be looking for a note from your teacher. • This a new area for Kinder and we may have some kinks to work out as we grow! What we mean by NON gaming devices - The device can be an internet‐ready cell phone, tablet, laptop, or eReader. How ever if you don’t have a device (or do not want to send it with your kindergartener  it is completely ok.) We have IPADS, computers, and a SMART board in the room to use.

25. Wish List • Books • Devices (Smart Phones) • Legos • Board Games

26. Check out our website • Go to www.canyonisd.net • Campus – Crestview • Campus Staff or Kindergarten– • Follow us on Twitter! @CVKinder (to receive updates via text; text “follow CVKinder” to 40404)

27. Orientation Packets If you want to review the information again you can visit our website and I will have it posted there. www.canyonisd.net

28. Thanks for coming! We are looking forward to a great year.