Curriculum Night

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I'm sorry we missed you.

Welcome to Room Thirty-One

Curriculum Night
2007-2008
Agenda
“Thoughts at the Bottom of the Beanstalk”
Getting to Know Mrs. Kurkinen
Review of Procedures
Philosophy of Kindergarten Education
Love and Logic Management Philosophy
Natural and Logical Consequences
Discipline Plan
What We Do and What We’ll Learn
State Benchmarks
Assessments
Exceptional Students
Curriculum and Its Application
Daily Schedule
Volunteering
Fall Conferences


I am…
Ecstatic to be teaching kindergarten at Ainsworth Elementary.
A part of Ainsworth’s Curriculum Committee.
Always seeking new ways to reach my students.
Hoping you will contact me with any comments or concerns.


I have…
Taught kindergarten - fourth grade.
Lived to two orphanages.
Taught in seven countries.
Studied Applied Linguistics, and International Literacy.
Authored three curriculum units.

Contact Information
Write a note
Email: mkurkine@pps.k12.or.us
Post comments on class blog:
Kurkinenkingerdarten.blogspot.com
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Kindergarten Procedures
Home Folders
Transportation
No toys at school
Homework and Literacy Notebooks
Lunch / Snack
Birthdays and Parties
End of the Day

Kindergarten Philosophy
All students are respected and competent.
Students take responsibility for their learning, their possessions and their actions.
The facilitation of learning is modeled, shared and individualized in order to allow each child to reach their full potential.
Assessments are used for instruction, not as a product.
Kindergarten fosters a love a learning that will last throughout a child’s educational career.

Management Philosophy
Love and Logic; Faye and Faye
Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood
Give choices
Empathy with Consequences
Natural vs Logical consequences
Management vs Discipline
School Policy
One warning
Time out
Sent to another room
Sent the the office
Think Sheet
Signed by parents and returned

What We Do All Day
We learn to be citizens of a community.
We learn to take responsibility.
We learn to try.
We learn how to learn.
We learn reading, writing and arithmetic too!


State Benchmarks
Literacy
Children will read at a level 4 DRA
Children will be able to read and write twenty of the high frequency words on sight.
Children will be able to count, sort, define and infer mathematically.
Assessments
Concepts of print
Letter name and sound
Reading Level
High frequency words
Rhyming
Blending
Unset
Whole
Spelling
Holistic piece

Mathematics
Route counting (1,2,5,10)
One to one correspondence
Numbers written and read
Estimates
One’s Addition/ Subtraction
Shapes
Function:
Calendar
Clock
Graph

Exceptional Students: Special Education &TAG

Curriculum:
Literacy
Reading Street
Kid Writing
REACH
Curriculum
Literacy
Reading Street
Whole Group
Leveled Reading Groups
Kid Writing
Record Keeping
Response Sheets
REACH
Workstations

Mathematics:
Everyday Counts:
Calendar
Arithmetic
Patterning
Graphing
Investigations:
Work Centers
Engineering
Applications

Daily Schedule
8:05 Path to Learning
8:10 Shared Literacy
8: 35 Individualized Kinetic Mathematics
9:10 Snack/Break
9:20 Modeled and Shared Mathematics
9:40 Individual Writing
10:00 Modeled and Shared Writing
10:30 Choice Modeled Reading
10:40 Lunch Recess
11:45 KinderLiteracy Groups
11:55 Kinder Flexible Reading Groups
12:15 Modeled Literacy
12:30 Writing Workstations
1:00 Snack/ break
1:15 Writing Workstations
1:45 Thematic Work/ Choice Centers
2:10 End of day Procedure


Tuesdays
12:30 Library

Thursdays
8:10 P.E.
8:40 Music

Fridays
12:20 - 12:45 Kinder Sing
12:45 -1:30 Family Friday
1:35 - 1:50 Reading Buddies


Help at Home:
Responsibility
Chores
Personal objects
Newsletters read and discussed
Library checkout on themes
Read to daily
Ask them to read everyday print
Names on all possessions.
Shoe tying
Invite classmates over
Keep sick children home when sick
All meds accounted for in office (cough drops included)

Volunteering:
Workstations and Centers
Reading Individually
Lunch/ Recess
Field Trips
Copying / cutting
Laminating
Filing
After-school organizing
Scholastic Orders

Parent-Teacher Conferences
November 19th & 20th
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School policy restricts any rescheduling outside set dates