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Welcome to Back to School and Title I Night. Kindergarten Cradlerock Elementary School 2014-2015. 1. Prior Care. IN WHAT CATEGORY IS MY CHILD’S PRIOR CARE CONSIDERED? PUBLIC PRE-KINDERGARTEN Cradlerock Elementary Guilford Elementary Atholton Elementary Talbott Springs Elementary
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Welcome to Back to School and Title I Night Kindergarten Cradlerock Elementary School 2014-2015 1
Prior Care IN WHAT CATEGORY IS MY CHILD’S PRIOR CARE CONSIDERED? PUBLIC PRE-KINDERGARTEN • Cradlerock Elementary Guilford Elementary • Atholton Elementary Talbott Springs Elementary • Deep Run Elementary Bellows Springs Elementary • any Baltimore County/City Public School CHILD CARE CENTER • Cradlerock Children’s Center Children’s Learning Center at HCY Journeys At Owen Brow • Child Time Learning Center Columbia Academy • Bright Beginnings The Goddard School • Lornwood Child Development Center Kindercare • NON PUBLIC NURSERY SCHOOL • Oakland Mills Nursery School The Learning Cottage Montessori Schools • Liberty Baptist Preschool Bet Yeladim Preschool • East Columbia Preschool Emmanuel United Methodist Preschool • HEAD START • Dasher Green Head Start Ellicott City Head Start • Harriet Tubman Head Start First Presbyterian Head Start HOME/INFORMAL CARE • At home with mom, grandmother/father, aunt; in care of relative • FAMILY CHILD CARE • In licensed Family Child Care with 6-8 or fewer children
PBIS at Cradlerock At Cradlerock Elementary School students will be: • Respectful • On Task • Cooperative • Kind
Day in the Life of a Kindergartener • 8:03-8:15 Arrival, Breakfast • 8:15-8:30 Calendar Math • 8:30-10:05 Language Arts • 10:05-11:05 Recess, Lunch • 11:05-11:35 Content • 11:35-12:35 Related Arts • 12:35-12:50 Take 15 • 12:50-1:35 Math • 1:35-2:40 Centers/Snack • 2:40-2:45 Pack Up, Dismissal
Arrival & Dismissal • School begins at 8:15 • Students may enter the building at 8:03 • Dismissal is at 2:45
Connecting School & Home • Daily Folders with Calendars • Progress Reports, Report Cards • Conferences
Volunteers • Classroom Volunteers start Oct. 6 • Please fill out the volunteer sheet if you’re able to help out in the classroom.
Field Trips Space is limited but we appreciate your willingness to chaperone! • If a parent/guardian would like to chaperone, they must check the chaperone box on their child’s permission form, provide contact information, and return the form to the child’s teacher. • Permission forms may be turned in before payment.
Field Trips • Chaperones will be selected based on the order in which the forms are received. Parents/guardians who have not attended a previous field trip will take priority. • Parents/guardians who are not selected will be placed on a waiting list. If you volunteer to chaperone, you will be notified whether you are selected or not.
Language Arts • Treasures • School-wide reading and writing program • Balanced program emphasizes letter/sound relationship & sight word recognition • Develops deep comprehension of varied texts (poetry, nonfiction, short articles, fables and more • Math • Common Core State Standards • Curriculum emphasizes the development of number relations, computation, and problem solving through use of hands on materials
Daily Five • Children become better readers and develop a love for reading by having time to actually read and write. • A way of organizing language arts instruction so that every student is engaged in meaningful literacy tasks. • Students receive explicit whole group instruction and then are given independent practice time to read and write independently while the teacher provides focused instruction to individuals and small groups.
Snack • Snack is brought from home. • Please limit the snacks to: Fresh fruit, fruit snacks, dry cereal, goldfish, pretzels, or crackers. • Please pack the snacks separate from lunch. Snack should be packed in a disposable bag, not a lunch box. • No peanuts or peanut products • No LIQUIDS Please
Homework We will start homework in October. Math homework Refer to the math calendar in the homework journal. Do at least 2 activities each week and initial the calendar. Language Arts: Work on 2 poems each week. Complete selected activities from the back of the poems. Return homework journals quarterly.
Questions: Thank you for coming tonight!