Mrs. Cherry's Berries Kindergarten Class Information Night

1. Parent Information Night September 13, 2018 Welcome To Mrs. Cherry's Berries Kindergarten Class

2. Born in the Philippines Moved to US at age 2 Lived in Houston, Texas at age 7 Graduated from U of H Lived in Austin, Texas ‘02-’08 Moved to Hattiesburg, MS for 1 year Returned to Houston, TX in ’09 Married with 2 children (Wesley 18, Amelie 13) 22nd year of teaching (Kindergarten and First Grade) Meet the teacher Mrs. Emily Cherry

3. My Family!

4. Just Playing By Anita Wadley

8. Curriculum TEKS- http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148

9. Report Card Expectations1st 9 weeks ELA • Skill: Print Awareness • • Identify upper and lower-case letters • • Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence between a spoken word and a printed word in text • Skill: Comprehension • • Retell or act out important events in stories • Skill: Composition • • Write one’s own name • Skill: Word Study • • Form upper- and lower- case letters legibly using the basic conventions of print (left-to-right and top-to-bottom) • • Use phonological knowledge to match sounds to letters

10. Report Card Expectations1st 9 weeks Math • Skill: Numerical Representations and Relationships • • Read, write and represent numbers from 0 to at least 5 with and without objects and pictures. • • Generate a set using concrete and pictorial models that represents a number that is more than, less than, and equal to a given number up to 5  • Use comparative language to describe two numbers up to 5 presented as written numerals  • Compose and decompose numbers up to 5 with objects and pictures. • Skill: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning • • Identify two-dimensional shapes • • Classify and sort regular and irregular two-dimensional shapes

11. Report Card Expectations1st 9 weeks Science & Social Studies SCIENCE Skill: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning • Communicate observations about simple descriptive investigations•Record and organize data and observations using pictures, numbers, and words• Collect information using tools and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms -Collect data and make observations using simple equipment -Asks questions about the natural world • Skill: Force, Motion, Energy • Use the senses to explore different forms of energy such as light, heat, and sound  • kill: Matter and Energy • • Observe and record properties of objects SOCIAL STUDIES • Skill: History, Government, and Citizenship • • Identify rules and explain how authority figures make and enforce them • explain the reasons for national patriotic holidays such as Presidents' Day, Veterans Day, and Independence Day • Skill: Economics & Social Technology • Explain the difference between needs and wants

12. Daily Schedule 8:10-8:20 Announcements/ Morning Work 8:20-8:30 Morning Meeting (Social Skills) 8:30-9:00 Morning Message/ Daily News / Writing 9:00-9:30 Shared Reading & Phonics 9:30-10:30 Guided Reading & Literacy Centers & Intervention 10:30-11:00 Social Studies 11:00-12:00 Recess & Lunch 12:00-12:15 Math Everyday Counts Calendar 12:15-1:45 Math- Math Stations 1:45-2:30 Science 2:15-2:30 Snack & Pack up 2:30-3:15 Outclass (Library, 2 Art, Music, PE, Fitness, Science Lab,) 3:15-3:25 Dismissal

13. Reading Workshop • Shared reading - using big books to teach conventions of reading and skills that good readers use. We make good guesses together regarding new vocabulary and word meanings. • Use poems and songs to teach phonetic language patterns in a fun and meaningful way. Other phonics work is included during this time as well. • Interactive Read Alouds – teacher stops within stories to question students and for them to make predictions.

14. Guided Reading Program • We will be using leveled books to teach students in small groups. • Look for these books to come home sometime at the end of October/ beginning of November. • Please sign Literacy Contract. Your child may not bring home books until I have this contract. • Practice reading daily (with, by, and to)

15. Station Time! • This is an independent work time for students. • I will see work done at this time, but I may or may not correct it. • Ask your child about station work when you see it, and take this opportunity to discuss what they are learning in class. • If you feel they are capable of better work (handwriting, pictures, etc), please discuss this with them.

16. Writer’s Workshop • Our goal is to help students become independent writers. • Encourage your student to try spelling words by themselves using the sounds they hear. • Let them know that it is ok if everything is not spelled perfectly. • Reading like a Writer – using authors as models for good writing.

17. Math • Fort Bend math text for K-5 students called Envision • Occasionally you will receive part of the workbook at home to help inform you about our current topics • EveryDay Counts (EDC) Calendar • Partner Games/ Investigations/ Marcy Cook Math • Keep a calendar at home • Count everyday

18. Science/Social Studies • We will be centering much of our instruction around different themes. • Many of these themes will be seasonal or go along with holidays.

19. Report Card Grades for Academics S-meets the standard expectation N-needs assistance meeting expectation Report Card Grades for Behavior E- Excellent S- Satisfactory N- Needs Improvement U-Unsatisfactory Homework Homework is optional. I will send an occasional assignment. Poem notebooks During the spring monthly homework Your child should read every evening for around 15 minutes, independently or with you. They should also practice reading their guided reading book when they have it at home. Report Card Grades and Homework

20. Lunch • Lunch 11:30-12:00 • Students may buy milk using student ID / Lunch # • Lunch can be paid in advance • Lunch $2.25 • Breakfast $1.25

21. Lunch Time Help • Help your child learn his/her lunch number. • Make sure your child knows what is his/her lunch and what is snack. Please pack them separately and label them. • When eating lunch with your child – Please send your child back to their class table when we call for 5 minutes of silence and clean-up. Please exit the cafeteria at that time. Also, please do not follow your child’s class down the hall. It may cause disruptive behavior in our line. • Please do not tell your child you are coming to have lunch with them if you are not sure or can’t be there. It’s better to have a surprise than a disappointment. Also, please be on time. If you are bringing your child a lunch and you are not there, they will have to go in the lunch line due to the limited lunch time.

22. Snack • Please send your child’s snack in a labeled baggie each morning- separate from their lunch boxes. • Please provide a healthy peanut free snack from the approved snack list. • It is also helpful to send a water bottle with your child since we do not have a water fountain in our room. • Please do not send your child juice or any other flavored drink for snack time.

23. ID Numbers • Please help your child to memorize their ID number. • Used for: • Lunch • Computer Log-In • Library

24. Tuesday Folders • This folder will come home with your student every Tuesday with important notices from school • I will occasionally send folders home when I receive important notices that can not wait • Please make sure you return the Tuesday folder on Wednesday or at the latest by next Tuesday

25. Daily Folders • Communication • Notes (Place in the plastic pouch) • Money should be in an envelope labeled with student’s name and reason (place in the plastic pouch) • Behavior • Please initial daily • Checked daily

26. Listen and Follow Directions Be Kind Keep Your Hands and Feet to Yourself Try Your Very Best Consequences 1st Occurrence-Warning 2nd-4th Occurence-5 minutes time out, a note in their daily folder 5th + Occurrence-Parents will be notified by phone Classroom Rules

27. Building Independence • It’s important for children to help out and feel needed. • Identify opportunities for them to be independent at home and school. • Forget perfection and praise for their efforts. • Hold them to be accountable and responsible (carry own things, check outclass schedule, showing folders, etc.) • Giving them independence will boost their confidence.

28. Building Resiliency • It’s hard to see children unhappy, but we want to develop kids who believe they are capable of solving problems! • Allow students to make an “oops” and understand the consequences. • Kids are capable of handling it and learning from it! • Students can learn that all “oops” are about learning :)

29. Positive Reinforcement • Treasure Box • Stamps • Stickers • Table points • Compliment Parties- Puzzle Day Party, Board Game Day, Reading Camp Out, etc. • Class Dojo • (We will not be using all of these at the same time but will rotate them throughout the year) • Morning Meetings

30. How to Problem Solve • When problem solving, help students learn how to look at the what, the why, and the how. • First, listen to what happened. • Why do you think that happened or why do you think they have that rule or why do you think she did that? • How can you handle it differently next time? How can I make a better choice next time? • Brainstorm some solutions if they can’t come up with an idea! • Send them off and say, “Let me know how it goes”

31. Contacting the teacher • By phone at (281)634-5244 - During school hours it will go to my voice mail • By email- emily.cherry@fortbendisd.com • By sending a note with your child in their daily folder • Scheduling conferences- I am available most days after school at 4:00 or occasionally during my planning time at 2:30-3:15

32. Finding Information • My Webpage - https://www.fortbendisd.com/Domain/9618 • PTA web page - http://www.cornerstonepta.org • Cornerstone webpage - https://www.fortbendisd.com/cse • FBISD home page - https://www.fortbendisd.com/Page/1 • Family Access- http://www.fortbendisd.com/family-access

33. Schoology • Follow these steps to get connected: • STEP 1: • Skyward Family Access • In order for the district to create your Schoology account, you must FIRST have a Skyward Family Access account. If you do not have a Family Access account, contact your child's campus. If you are a Fort Bend ISD employee and your current Family Access account is your Fort Bend ISD email, you will need to change it to a personal email address, as Schoology will not allow you to have the same login for parent access as you have as an employee in the district. • STEP 2: • Schoology • To log in to Schoology, navigate to app.schoology.com. Click on the Forgot Password link. Enter your Skyward Family Access email address and select Send My Login Info. Open the Forgot Password email sent to you from Schoology. You will then be able to reset your password to your personal preference and login to Schoology. 

34. Outclasses • 2Arts/Music/P.E./Fitness/Library/Science Lab • P.E. and Fitness are every 7 days-Please make sure your child wears appropriate running shoes. • Library is on every 7th days-Please make sure your child returns book in baggie so they can check out a new book. • An outclass schedule will be sent home electronically every month-we are the orange group. It always goes order in Art-M, Fitness, Library, Art-A, Music, P.E., Science.

35. House Keeping • Slip on shoes/ Velcro shoes • Extra pair of clothes in their back packs • Keep toys at home • Criminal History Check • When you come to visit make sure you sign-in at the office 1stand wear the visitor tag. • Try to be at school everyday and on time. • Girls need to wear shorts under skirts. • Dismissal changes must be in writing the morning of the change or earlier. • Parent Conference Sign up will be sent soon through sign up genius. • Texas Readers Club • Early pick up must be on or before 2:45 pm

36. Other Important Things: • Please send your child an extra change of clothes in a baggie labeled with their name. • Birthdays – Cupcakes every 2nd and 4th Friday • PTO goodie bags • Invitations may be passed out by teacher at end of day – as long as they are for entire class.

37. Book Orders • Book orders come home around once a month. • Please only order online • www.scholastic.com/readingclub • Class code: G8GZQ • Great way to order books on your child’s reading level & earn points for our classroom to get free books!

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