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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

A Day in the Life of Your Kindergartener

at TECC

Morning Greeters

Mrs. Fernandez, Mrs. Lopez, Mrs. Sammak, Mrs. Sherlock and Mrs. Joynt greet the children in the morning as they arrive by car or get off the bus.

Breakfast

• Breakfast is offered but optional and is served in the cafeteria by Ms. Jen.

• Mrs. Zarzycki will supervise students while they are eating breakfast.

Lunch• Ms. Theresa and Ms. Jane are

with the children for 30 minutes during lunch time.

• The children eat with their class.

• Children can pack or buy their lunch.

• They can also buy milk.• Each child will have a lunch

account with a PIN number. An adult will enter the PIN number until the children learn the process.

• You may send in cash for lunch in an envelope marked with the child’s name or you may use PayPams online.

Snacks

• Students may bring a healthy snack to school each day.

• Please see the healthy guidelines

• Students will eat while working.

• Please pack only water for snack, juice can be saved for lunch

Morning Responsibilites

• Children are responsible for:–Backpack and

folder–Lunch box–Coat

Common Core Standards

• What are they?• They were created by Council of Chief State

School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center), teachers, parents, community leaders, researchers, and experts. Common Core matches up with college and work expectations, incorporates rigorous content, higher order thinking skills, previous state standards, and ensures that students will be ready to compete in the global world.

Common Core Standards

• Why?• To clearly communicate to everyone

(teachers, parents, and students) what the standards are for success. Teachers will know exactly what students should learn and provide benchmarks to achieve success.

• Most states have adopted Common Core to make a more unified system of standards.

• For more information: http://www.corestandards.org

LFS and Learning Maps

• LFS- Learning Focused Strategies• Framework for developing units of

learning based on the Common Core Standards

• Focuses planning and instruction on what we want students to KNOW, UNDERSTAND, and be able to DO at the end of each unit

LFS and Learning Maps• Includes…• Common Core Standards• Expectations for Know,

Understand, Do• Unit Essential Question• Lesson Essential

Questions• Vocabulary

• Uses…• Provides outline or unit

overview for teachers, students and parents

• Prominently displayed in classroom as guide

• Our unit “Road Map”

RTI—Response To Intervention

• Students tested three times per year (beginning, middle, end)• DIBELS Next (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy

Skills)• Phonemic Awareness: Hearing and using sounds in

spoken words• Alphabetic Principle: Knowing the sounds of the letters

and • sounding out written words

• A child’s score on a subtest tells us whether the child is likely to be “on track” for learning to read, or whether that child may need extra help in learning important reading skills.

• Parents will receive a letter after each testing cycle indicating whether additional support is needed.

BenchmarksBenchmarks • 26/26 Uppercase letters• 26/26 Lowercase letters• 26 letter sounds• 9/10 concepts of print• 40-70 sight words (minimum)• Write 3-5 sentences

• 1:1 to 25• Recognizes Numerals to 20• Rote counts to 100 by 1’s and 10’s• Basic Addition and Subtraction to 5• Makes combinations of 10  Your child’s progress will be shared with you during conferences in November and

February.

Working Together

• Large Group

• Small Group

• Individual

Curriculum… What We Learn

Reading• Shared Reading• Guided Reading• Read Aloud

Curriculum… What We Learn

Writing• Journal Writing/

Kidwriting• Handwriting

Without Tears (HWT)

Curriculum…What We Learn

Math• Number ID• Counting to 100• Shapes• Measuring• Graphing• Geometry• Adding &

Subtracting

Curriculum…What We Learn

Science • Push, Pull, Go• Trees• Wood and Paper

Curriculum…What We Learn

Social Studies• Social Skills

– Following directions– Getting along with

others• Our Neighborhood

Related Arts Team

Left to Right:• Spanish- Senora Lopez• Art –Mrs. Gloyd • Technology- Mrs. Burkley• Music- Mrs. Fernandez• Physical Education- Mrs. Gallucci

Library

• Each class will visit the library once a week with their teacher to check out books.

• Our Reading Specialist, Mrs. Zarzycki, helps keep the library in order.

Recess• We believe students learn best

with frequent movement breaks, which will be done throughout the day.

• Recess will be indoor or outdoor depending on weather

• Children should wear closed toe shoes for safety when on the playground

• Children should dress appropriately for the weather. We will go outside unless the temperature is below 32 degrees.

Field Trips• Previous Field

trips–Coleman’s Tree

Farm –Fire House–DuPont Theatre–Brandywine Zoo

Guidance with Mrs. Sherlock

• Monthly classroom lessons include but not limited to, School Bus Safety, How to be a Good Friend,, and Problem Solving

• Small group sessions• Parenting classes• Referral to outside agency

Dismissal

• Parent Pick-up– Parents must sign

their children out in the cafeteria. Please bring identification.

• Aftercare/Daycare• Bus riders

– Teachers walk children to buses.

Title I Information

• Review of 2014-2015 Parent Involvement Policy*

• Review of Parent, Student, School Compact*

• Planning for 2016-2017 school year – Contact Mrs. Joynt if you are interested in joining the committee.

*available in the front office for you to take home

Parental RightsAs a parent of a student at TECC you have the right to know the

professional qualifications of the classroom teachers who instruct your child. Specifically, you have the right to ask for the following information about each of your child’s classroom teachers.

• Whether the teacher has met all Delaware licensing and certification requirements for the grades and subjects he or she teaches.

• Whether the teacher is teaching under an emergency or other provisional certificate because of special circumstances.

• The teacher’s major, whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and, if so, the subject of the degrees, and

• Whether any paraprofessionals provide services to your child and, if they do, their qualifications.

• If you would like to receive any of this information, please contact Mrs. Joynt by emailing carolyn.joynt@appo.k12.de.us

PTO• Please support us!• The PTO plan and host:

– Fun family nights throughout the year– Birthday books for each child in the school– Book Fairs- Harvest Night

**We need new officers: President or 2 Co-Presidents, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer

We also need volunteers to chair and help run the Book Fair and our Fundraisers.

See Mrs. Joynt if you are interested.

Questions, comments?