Welcome to Kindergarten!

1. Welcome to Kindergarten! Kerry Bock, Mary Fontana, Michelle Keso, Jeanette Rosenfield & Scott Wilson

2. Positive Behavioral Intervention System (PBIS) Lomas has 3 rules… • Be safe! • Be respectful! • Be responsible!

3. School Wide Behavior Plan What color is your day? The Rainbow Behavior System at Lomas

4. Lomas is implementing the rainbow behavior chart system. There are seven different colors a student can move their clothespin to throughout the day, either up or down. This way, students have an opportunity to turn any negative behavior around and vice versa. All students start on green or Ready to Learn at the beginning of each day.

5. The Lomas Rainbow System

6. Once a student is on the highest level pink or Above and Beyond the student goes to the office to receive a “bling” to add to their clothespin. Once the student earns ten “blings” they will be recognized on morning announcements. Their clothespin will be retired and placed on the Lomas Bling Board in the main hallway.

7. Harcourt Reading Series • Proficient reading strategies • Phonics • Vocabulary • Grammar • Comprehension • High frequency words • Literary Elements • Literature Response

8. What This Looks Like • Morning Message • Shared literature • Phonics • Vocabulary • Reading –focus skill • Small group work-flexible grouping • Independent work • Ashlock strategies

9. DIBELS Next • District test used based out of Oregon • One indicator used to determine if a child is going to struggle with reading. • Done 3 times a year. • Letter Id 55 Per Minute • First sound fluency 30 Per Minute • Phoneme Segmentation 40 Per Minute • Nonsense Words 28 Per Minute

10. Math • Investigations • Additional Support From… • Scott Foresman • Addison Wesley • Other Sources

11. MathConcepts Covered Counting and Cardinality  Know number names and the count sequence.  Count to tell the number of objects.  Compare numbers. Operations and Algebraic Thinking  Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. Number and Operations in Base Ten  Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value. Measurement and Data  Describe and compare measurable attributes.  Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category. Geometry  Identify and describe shapes.  Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes

12. Writing and Handwriting Writer’s Workshop • Meaningful • Student Chosen Topics • Developmental Process • Start with Pictures and Labels • Emphasis is on Content • Student ides most important • Ongoing • D’Nealian style Print

13. Science, Social Studies and Health Science, Social Studies and Health are integrated with Language Arts, Math, and Reading.

14. Technology • Integrate technology in everyday teaching in all subject areas. • Each classroom contains 5 laptops, a mounted projector, a document camera, and a SMARTBoard. • Dream box -Math • Goal – For your child’s learning to be enhanced by technology in order to prepare them effectively for our technologically advanced world. • Each child must memorize their 6 digit student number and password in order to log onto the computer. (This is also their library checkout number).

15. Skills to Work On at Home… • Tying Shoes, (taking on and off) • Zipping and Buttoning Clothes • Hygiene • Washing Hands and Blowing Nose • Writing and Telling First and Last Name • Knowing Address and Phone Number • Knowing Parents’ Names

16. Report Cards and Assessments • A report card will go home in January and May. • We will conference with parents after the first and third quarters.

17. We Need Volunteers! We desperately need volunteers this year! If you can help at all please let your child’s teacher know! We need help in several areas! Classroom Volunteers - (Regular and Sporadic) Art Masterpiece From-Home Volunteers

18. Closing Thank you for coming! Questions? Have a great evening!