Welcome to Cashell Elementary School

1. Welcome to Cashell Elementary School Kindergarten BTSN 2012-2013

2. Agenda • Meet the Staff • Arrival and Dismissal Procedures • Lunch • School Supplies • Birthdays • Health Information • Volunteer Opportunities • Curriculum Overview • Report Cards/conference • Teacher Contact • Odds and Ends

3. Meet the Staff • Principal: • Mrs. Maureen Stamoulis • Kindergarten Teachers: • Mrs. Christine Homon • Mrs. Andrea Siska

4. Arrival Procedures • School begins at 8:50 a.m. Children will line up by class outside their classroom between 8:30 and 8:40. (Breakfast is served at 8:20.) • Safety patrol and adult supervision begins at 8:20 a.m. • Students arriving after 8:50 a.m. will be marked tardy. They should check into the office before coming to the classroom. Please give the late slip to the teacher. • Please do not enter the classrooms before 8:50 a.m.

5. Dismissal Procedures • Dismissal begins at 3:05 p.m. • Safety patrols will walk bus riders to their busses. • Car riders and walkers will be dismissed through the outside kindergarten doors. Caretakers should wait outside this door for their child. • Bar-T children will be picked up by a teacher from the classroom during the first weeks of school.

6. Leaving School • If your child will be leaving school any other way than the usual departure method we must have a note from you. • If it’s an emergency situation, call the office. • If your child is going home with another student in the class or school, both students must have a note. • Students will not be allowed to accompany friends on a different bus without your written permission. • You must sign your child out in the office if he/she leaves school early.

7. Lunch • Kindergarten lunch/recess hours are 11:40 pm.- 12:40 p.m. Children may buy or bring a healthy lunch. • Kindergarten students buying lunch will be offered a regular or alternate lunch choice. • Lunch costs $2.50 and will be paid through the school debit system - SNAP.

8. School Supplies • Your child will need to bring a backpack, assignment book, and folder to school each day. Completed work papers and notices will be brought home in this folder so it’s important to check and remove the contents each night. • These supplies will be helpful to have for home use: • Crayons • Glue • Pencils • Scissors • Additional classroom supply lists will be given out by individual teachers.

9. Birthdays • Students’ birthdays will be recognized by a birthday pencil and a certificate given by the school office and teacher.

10. Health Information • Student medications and medical notes must be given to the school nurse. Teachers cannot administer medicine to students. This also includes applying sunscreen. • If your child is sick, please keep him/her at home.

11. Volunteer Opportunities • Classroom volunteer • Room parents • Field trip chaperone • Teachers will communicate additional volunteer opportunities for individual classes. • Make sure to sign in the office and get a visitor’s badge.

12. EICElementary Integrated Curriculum 2.0MCPS

13. Upgraded Existing MCPS Curriculum • develops students’ critical and creative thinking skills • develops essential academic skills • devotes more learning time to subjects such as the arts, information literacy, science, social studies, and physical education • blends these subject areas with the core content areas of reading, writing, and math

14. What do students need to know?

15. Reading/Language Arts • Concepts about print • Phonemic awareness • Alphabetic principles/phonics • Oral language development • Word recognition/vocabulary • Comprehension process

16. Writing Writing Workshop • Ideas and Development (narratives, opinions, biographies) • Organization • Conventions • Word Choice • Voice

17. Mathematics • Counting and Cardinality • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Number and Operations in Base Ten • Measurement and Data • Geometry

18. Science • Attributes of Weather Conditions • Weather Patterns • Life Cycles • External Features Used for Survival • Adaptations in Environments

19. Social Studies • Community Symbols • Needs and Wants • Physical and Natural Features • Human-made Features • Economics • Customs, Traditions, Culture

20. How will we know that they have learned it?

21. Montgomery County Public Schools Assessment Program (MCPS AP) • Reading • Kindergarten Performance Tasks • Math • Ongoing Teacher observation

22. What will we do when they haven’t learned it?

23. Re-teach • Flexible grouping • Para-educator support • Practice, practice, practice!

24. What will we do when they already know it?

25. Students working at their instructional reading level • Higher order thinking skills in math • Computer enrichment activities (reading, writing, and math)

26. Report Cards/conferences • Kindergarten conferences are scheduled once a year. If you would like a conference at any other time during the year, please send a note to the teacher. • Kindergarten report cards are sent home twice a year. The first one is in February and then again in June.

27. Teacher Contact Information • Send a note. • Call the school. • Send any notes to the teacher or other school information via the folder. • If the note is extra important, pin it to your child.

28. Odds and Ends • Make sure all your child’s belongings are labeled with his/her name. • Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather, specials and outdoor recess play. • Please place all money and corresponding forms for projects, field trips, etc. in an envelope with your child’s name, the teacher’s name and the activity written clearly on the envelope.

29. Too much information??? • You may find any information presented tonight on the Cashell Elementary school web site under kindergarten. • WWW.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/cashelles • animalschool - raising small souls - YouTube