Welcome to CLECC Open House!

1. Welcome to CLECC Open House! Mrs. Olinger’s Class

2. Mrs. Olinger • I’ve been teaching 18 years, 9 have been at CLECC – Kindergarten is my favorite grade. • My husband and I have been married 27 years. We have 4 children and one grandson. • I have my masters in Reading and ESL. • I’m certified to teach K-6, English & Social Studies 7- 8, & Reading and ESL K-12.

3. CLECC Vision Statement • The Vision of the Cedar Lane Early Childhood Center is to provide a child-centered, developmentally appropriate environment which promotes the social/emotional, academic, physical, and technological success of diverse young learners.

4. Mission • The mission of the Cedar Lane Early Childhood Center is to create life-long learners by providing standards based curriculum through differentiated instruction. All children will be taught with a safe and nurturing environment designed to reach our diverse student population.

5. PHILOSOPHY/GOAL • To provide all children a developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, child centered education involving both families and community.

6. Instructional Focus • All children at CLECC will become fluent in letter and sound identification and apply these skills to segment and blend words to become independent beginning readers and writers as measured by internal and external measures.

7. Student Friendly Slogan Reading is Power • Creating • Leaders • Educating • Caring • Children

8. Reading Benchmarks • 9/10 concepts of print • Identifies all capital and lowercase letters • Identifies commonly used letter sounds • Reads 40-70 sight words • Segments beginning, middle, and ending sounds • Blends sounds in presented words • Identifies character and setting • Creates rhyme • Orally answers open ended questions about text

9. Writing Benchmarks • Writes left to right, top to bottom and uses spacing • Uses beginning, middle and ending sounds in writing • Uses sight words in writing • Uses capitalization and ending punctuation • Writes to provide an opinion, give information and to inform • Writes 3 to 5 sentences about the same topic

10. Math Benchmarks • Counts to 100 • 1:1 correspondence to 25 • Identifies and writes numerals 0 to 20 • Makes combinations up to 10 • Fluently adds up to 5 • Fluently subtracts down from 5 • Identifies 2D and 3D shapes

11. Reading Curriculum Conducted in LFS format through units of study • Reading Readiness • Story Elements • Informative Texts • Story Elements 2 • Author’s Purpose • Research • Author’s Study

12. Writing • Kid Writing

13. Math • TERC hands on activities

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

15. Social Studies

16. Specials • PE, Music, Art and Library

17. Specials teacher Mrs. Francis - Art, Coach Hensley - PE, Mrs. Marsh - Music

18. Fun Extras

19. Fun extras continued

20. Field Trips this year • Colemans Farm – October • Fire house – Thursday in October • Historic Houses of Odessa – December • Bowling – January/February • DuPont Theatre – Spring • Coverdale Farm – April/May • Lums Pond – End of the year

21. Homework • Homework will be sent home on Monday then returned on Friday. • See example on CLECC website. • www.clecc.org • Read to your child and once they can read have them read to you. • Photocopied books will be sent home as a part of homework with a book response after our conferences in November.

22. Snack • Please be sure that your child’s snack is clearly marked. Write “snack” on a brown paper bag or separate bag. • Please include a bottle of water or container of water. • Snack item and snack is meant to be a light snack, not another meal.

23. It is sure to be a great year!