WELCOME!

1. Things To Do Agenda Greeting and Instructions Mrs. Snyder meets with students on the rug while parents work on the items to the left quietly at the tables. Children return to the tables to color while Mrs. Snyder meets with the parents • Find your child’s name and sit in that seat • Fill out the yellow card and return it to the green tote tray on the table • Fill in the information requested in the purple folder on your table (volunteer sign-up, transportation info, e-mail) • Make 3 name tags for your child • Choose a bee or two from the blue tote tray (donations) return the bee to school along with your donation • Look over the handout while you wait WELCOME!

2. Kindergarten Back To School

3. Language Arts • Literature and Writing • Lunch • Math • Specials • Snack • Social Studies/ Science • Application Centers • Dismissal Schedule

4. Library: Tuesday • Art: Tuesday, Friday • PE: Monday, Wednesday • Music: Monday, Thursday Specials Schedule

5. Literary Text • Informational Text • Foundational Skills • Writing • Language • Speaking and Listening Kindergarten Language Arts

6. Literary Informational Retell two events or pieces of information Use before, during and after reading strategies Recall the details Identify the topic Describe the illustrations Identify unfamiliar words • Oral retelling of a literary text • Apply before, during and after reading strategies • Identify the role of the author and illustrator • Respond to questions about the text Examples of Common Core Essential Skills/Knowledge

7. Foundational Skills Writing Write a narrative, factual, and persuasive piece Produce writing that is legible Contribute to a shared writing Demonstrate an understanding of beginning, middle and end • Concepts of Print (word, letter, space, top, bottom) • Identify and Name upper and lower case letters • Identify initial sound in a word • Blend and segment word parts • Identify final sounds in a word Examples of Common Core Essential Skills/Knowledge

8. Language Speaking and Listening Participate in group activities Understand basic rules Participate in conversations with adults and peers Demonstrate active listening strategies Answer questions Use prior knowledge Convey ideas effectively Ask questions to clarify meaning • Oral communication • Write letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds • Write legibly • Demonstrate questioning skills • Demonstrate knowledge of nouns, verbs when speaking and writing Examples of Common Core Essential Skills/Knowledge

9. Running Record Levels 1-8 (They need not only to be able to decode words but they also need to show the appropriate characteristics of that level reader as noted on the early reading continuum.) • Four Writing Samples • Letter Recognition • Initial Sounds • Segmenting/Blending Words • Writing Picture Names • High Frequency Words • Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words • Word Reading LA Assessments

10. Geometry • Measurement and Data • Counting and Cardinality • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Number and Operations in Base Ten Kindergarten Math

11. Geometry Measurement and Data Describe attributes of objects Classify objects into categories Compare two objects as to weight and length • Sort Objects • Identify and Describe 2D and 3D shapes Examples of Common Core Essential Skills/Knowledge

12. Counting and Cardinality Operations and Algebraic Thinking Represent addition and subtraction with objects Read and solve addition and subtraction problems Compose and decompose numbers Illustrate and/or write a number sentence for a word problem • Count to 100 by ones and tens • Write numbers from 0 to 20 • Count to answer “How Many?” Examples of Common Core Essential Skills/Knowledge

13. Numbers and Operations in Base Ten Assessments Math Facts (addition and subtraction) Counting and number identification Writing numbers 0 -20 Identify and name 2D and 3D shapes Measure and Compare Word problems (addition and subtraction) More, Less, Same Etc. • Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value Examples of Common Core Essential Skills/Knowledge

14. Experience Science • Social Studies Alive! Me and My World • Exploring Where and Why • Let’s Find Out Science and Social Studies

15. Science Social Studies Political Science People of the Nation and World Geography Economics History • Matter and Heat • Magnets • The Earth • Alive Units of Study

16. I will listen to the teacher. • I will be kind. • I will raise my hand. • I will share and take turns. • I will use a quiet inside voice. Classroom Rules

17. Rewards Consequences Verbal warning Verbal warning Time-out Parent notification/conference Conference with principal • Verbal praise • Positive notes sent home • Stickers or stamps • smiles Rewards and Consequences

18. If you need to contact me: judy.snyder@fcps.org 240-236-1892 • If you have additional questions: Please write your question on an index card, include you e-mail address. I will respond to your question via email as soon as possible. Additional Information

19. Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain but there in the sand pile in elementary school. These are the things I learned: All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten

20. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. By Robert Fulghum