Curriculum Night

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Welcome to Room Thirty-One

Curriculum Night
2008-2009

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
What We Do and What We’ll Learn
State Benchmarks
Assessments
Exceptional Students
Curriculum and its Application
Daily Schedule
Volunteering
Fall Conferences



Your Child’s Teacher
Taught kindergarten - fourth grade.
Lived to two orphanages.
Taught in seven countries.
Studied applied linguistics, international literacy and curriculum development.
Authored three curriculum units.

Parent Communication
Home Folder
Email: mkurkine@pps.k12.or.us
Kurkinenkingerdarten.blogspot.com
BigTent Calendar
Occasional Newsletter

Kindergarten Procedures
Home Folders
Transportation
No toys at school
Daily Reading
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 how to learn.
We learn to try.
We learn reading, writing and arithmetic too!

State Benchmarks
Children will read at a level 4 DRA
Children will be able to write five complete sentences, with punctuation.
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

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
Teacher refers students to be assessed as needed.

Curriculum
Literacy
Reading Street
Whole Group
Leveled Reading Groups
Kid Writing
Individual autographical samples
REACH
Workstations Record Keeping
Response Sheets
Mathematics
Everyday Counts
Calendar
Arithmetic
Patterning
Graphing
Investigations
Work Centers
Engineering
Application

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 Modeled and Shared Writing
10:00 Individual Writing
10:30 Choice Modeled Reading
10:40 Lunch
11:05 Recess
11:25 Kindergarten Science Groups
11:55 Silent Reading
12:00 Writing Workstations/ Reading Groups
1:00 Snack/ break
1:15 Thematic Work
1:45 Shared Reading
2:10 End of day Procedure


Tuesdays
8:10 Music
8:35 P.E.

Wednesday
8:45 Library

Fridays
12:20 - 12:45 Kinder Sing
12:45 -1:30 Family Friday
1:45- 2:10 Reading Buddies



Help at Home
Responsibility
Chores
Personal objects
Communication read and discussed
Library checkout on themes
Read 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
Volunteering
Workstations and Centers
Reading Individually
Lunch/ Recess
Field Trips
Celebrations
Copying / cutting
Laminating
Filing
After-school organizing
Scholastic Orders

Parent-Teacher Conferences
November 20, 24, 25

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