Welcome to Evergreen’s Kindergarten Family Fun Night! Monday, May 4, 2015

1. Welcome to Evergreen’s Kindergarten Family Fun Night! Monday, May 4, 2015 Welcome to Evergreen’s Kindergarten Family Night!

2. Meet the Staff Mr. Michael Matteo-principal mmatteo@gatewayk12.org Mrs. Amanda Galloway-kindergarten teacher agalloway@gatewayk12.org Ms. Carla Moio-kindergarten teacher cmoio@gatewayk12.org Ms. Stephanie Forga-kindergarten teacher sforga@gatewayk12.org

3. Our Helper Staff Dr. Montaire Taylor-Guidance mtaylor@gatewayk12.org Mrs. Jennifer Hayes-Title I Reading jhayes@gatewayk12.org Ms. Janine Hribal-Speech jhribal@gatewayk12.org Mrs. Kim Ireland-Learning Support kireland@gatewayk12.org Ms. Jacki Corr-Learning Support jcorr@gatewayk12.org

4. Readiness Skills • Cognitive Readiness • Recognizes name, follows directions, enjoys stories, recognizes some upper and lower case letters. • Emotional Readiness • Demonstrates self-control, is able to wait for help, excited about school and ready to learn. • Physical Readiness • Independently takes care of personal, can use scissors, glue, etc. prints name legibly. • Social Readiness • Respects personal space, follows rules, willing to cooperate, tries to solve problems on own and can separate easily from caregiver.

5. Super Kids • Language Arts Curriculum • 12 Kids that they meet in kindergarten that go on adventures the second half of kindergarten and in first grade. • Teaches students to • Recognize and write capital and lowercase letters • Phonemic Awareness • Letter sounds • Sounding out words (CVC and more) • Syllables • Beginning and ending sounds in words • Sound (Inventive) Spelling • Writing • Handwriting • Sentence basics (capital letters and punctuation marks)

6. Math • Envision Math • Number sense • Number writing • Addition and subtraction • 2D and 3D shapes • Measurement

7. Badging • Our new grading system (replaces 4’s, 3’s, 2’s and 1’s) • 20 Language Arts (ABC’s, letter recognition, phonemic awareness, phonics and writing) • 19 Math (counting, number identification and writing, shapes, patterns) • 11 Personal Skills (buttoning, tying, zipping, address, phone number, birthday) • Celebration Cheer when they earn.

8. What Can I Do To Help My Child? Practice these skills to make your child's transition to kindergarten a successful one! • Self Help Skills • -Button buttons, zip zippers, tie shoes • -Open food containers • -Wash hands • Use scissors, pencils, crayons, glue stick • Recognize and write name • Recognize and write some capital letters • Sit and listen to a short story • Count to 20 • Recognize numbers to 10 • Basic colors and shapes • Play games with them • Have them complete simple chores at home

9. What Can I Do To Help My Child? • In your child’s “goodie” bag… • Kindergarten Readiness Skills Sheet (that I just went over) • Sounds Chart for kindergarten • Activity Pack-gives ideas for games or fun activities that will prepare your child for kindergarten. • Line Tracing-to prepare your child for writing letters correctly • Capital and Lowercase Letter Tracing • Number Tracing • Ice Cream Paper that your child can practice writing name/letters/numbers. • Capital and Lowercase Letter Flashcards • Number Flashcards • Pencil, crayons and whiteboard marker

10. Fun Websites for Kids • www.starfall.com • www.speakaboos.com • www.Abcya.com • Abcmouse.com-email Mrs. Galloway for username and password • Teach Your Monster to Read app-email Mrs. Galloway for username and password • My PlayHome School- apple itunes.

11. Important Dates to Remember… • Thursday, May 9-Assessment Day-If you do not have a time please contact office. • Thursday, August 22-Kindergarten Orientation • Friday, August 23-First Day of Kindergarten