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KP Kindergarten Back to School Night
Daily Schedule
Opening – KPTVMorning Meeting
Literacy Block (writing and reading-90 minutes)Recess and Lunch
Specials (Art-Music-P.E.) 1:20-1:55Transition and read-to-self
Math BlockScience/Social studies
Dismissal
Kindergarten CurriculumReading Language Arts
\ Apply grade-level appropriate print concepts, phonological awareness skills, phonics/word analysis skills, and word recognition to read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
\ Read emergent-reader literary texts with purpose and understanding. Read emergent-reader informational texts with purpose and understanding.
\ Write opinions, informative/explanatory text, and narratives by experimenting with beginning writing processes and traits. Listen and speak effectively to share thoughts, ideas, and grade-level appropriate topics and texts.
\ Acquire appropriate vocabulary and demonstrate command of grade-level conventions to use language effectively.
• Kindergarten CurriculumMath
Geometry (shapes, position words)Measurement and data (graphing, non-standard units of measurement)
Counting and cardinality (number sense)Operations and algebraic thinking (addition/subtraction)
Operations in base ten (10 and some more)
Science\ Identify and describe attributes of weather conditions using senses and tools to
collect observational data.
\ Identify and describe weather patterns over time and weather’s impact on human’s daily activities.
\ Describe and compare how plants and animals grow and survive through a life cycle.
\ Classify plants and animals based on external features and explain how external features are used to survive in an environment.
\ Identify, describe and compare adaptations of plants and animals in an environment.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Social Studies
\ Identify and describe roles, rights, and responsibilities fulfilled by contributing members of societies.
\ Identify and describe people, symbols, and practices associated with the United States of America.
\ Identify, sort, and classify characteristics of people to determine how people meet similar needs.
\ Identify and organize geographic characteristics to tell one place from another and describe how people change or adapt to the environment.
\ Describe how goods are made and acquired.
\ Compare daily life and objects of today and long ago.
Kindergarten Curriculum
We are an arts integration school. Our curriculum is aligned with the arts in a meaningful way. Lessons include:
\ Tableau - forming a still picture with your body. Forming letters with our body is an example of this art form.
\ Math and Visual Arts - using artwork to identify geometric shapes
\ Poetry and Music – using rhythm to develop phonemic awareness
Arts Integration
Important Weblinks
\ Kensington Parkwood ES Home pagehttp://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/parkwoodes/
\ Kensington Parkwood ES Kindergarten pagehttp://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/parkwoodes/classroom/kindergarten/
\ Add money to your student’s lunch accounthttps://www.myschoolbucks.com/ver2/login/getmain?requestAction=home
\ Report your child’s [email protected]
Homework is posted the first week of the month on the KP website. Please do two or more activities a week. All homework is returned at the end of the month in your child’s folder. The purpose of homework is for practice and extension of learning.
Homework will begin in the month of October.
Homework
-If your child is going home differently than his/her normal routine, please put a note in your child’s folder. Do NOT email same-day changes. Please call the main office instead.
-Students are expected to arrive between 9:10 and 9:20. Upon arrival, students should line up outside of their classroom. Students arriving after 9:25 are considered late and must go to the office for a pass.
Arrival and Dismissal
Student Absences
Parents are asked to telephone the school prior to 9:15 a.m. when a child is absent for any reason. We have an answering machine, so you can leave your child's name, teacher, and the reason for the absence. You can also send an email to [email protected]. The child
must bring a note from home upon his/her return.
School Hours
• First Day of school is September 5, 2017.• School Hours 9:25 a.m.-3:50 p.m.• Teacher Hours 8:45-4:15 pm• Students Enter the Building 9:10 a.m.• Morning Announcements 9:25 a.m. • Instruction begins 9:30 am (Tardy Bell rings)
• Early Dismissal 1:20 p.m.• Delayed Opening 11:25 a.m. • The late bell rings at 9:25. Students arriving to school after this bell rings must
report to the office and order lunch and get a pass.• School Dismissal begins at 3:50 p.m. – Kindergarten will dismiss at 3:45.
Conferences & Room Parents
\ Conferences are held in the month of November. Each teacher will send out a signup genius link in order for you to be able to choose a 15 minute time slot for the conference.
\ For each class there are 1-2 room parents. Room parents support the teacher and organize other parents/guardians to plan events for the class throughout the school year. There are two parties during the year, Halloween and Valentine’s Day. If you are interested, please email your child’s teacher.
\ On your child’s birthday, she/he will be on KPTV and will receive a birthday pencil and wear a birthday crown. You are more than welcome to send in a non-food treat. It will be passed out at the end of the day. Examples: pencils, stickers, bouncy balls, silly bands, etc. Goodie bags are not needed.
\ Please let KP know if your child has food allergies. The Cafeteria has a “peanut and nut free” table.
Birthdays
Food Allergies