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A.M. & P.M. Kindergarten Back to School Night Mrs. Wagner & Ms. Hamilton. Little bit about Ms. Hamilton . Council Rock and Penn State Graduate Taught First Grade for 2 years down in VA Loves reading on the beach, football and cooking Taught Kindergarten for 14 years ( 6 at Hillcrest)
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A.M. & P.M. Kindergarten Back to School Night Mrs. Wagner & Ms. Hamilton
Little bit about Ms. Hamilton • Council Rock and Penn State Graduate • Taught First Grade for 2 years down in VA • Loves reading on the beach, football and cooking • Taught Kindergarten for 14 years (6 at Hillcrest) • All my children attended Richboro Elementary School • I love to be outside and work in my garden Little bit about Mrs. Wagner
Homework will be given out on Monday and due back on Friday, unless we have off. There is a homework book that will go home and the children will be expected to complete it with a little help. If they need too much help let us know.
Kid Writing Kid Writing is when the kids write sentences to go with a picture. It focuses on letter formation and phonics in the context of writing. Please sign up if you would like to help. You do need to be trained and Mrs. Berkowitz will train you. It is a quick hour of training!
Centers Centers are used after the kids are done kid writing. We play school games on the computer. We practice writing our letters, numbers, and sentences. Here we write sight words.
Math in Kindergarten • First Quarter: • Position/location • Sorting/Attributes • Measurement • Second Quarter: • Patterns • Comparing numbers to 10 • Third Quarter: • -Numbers (teens & hundreds chart) • -Addition and Subtraction • Forth Quarter: • -Making Numbers • -Geometry • -Graphs
Literacy in Kindergarten • Phonemic Awareness: • Rhyme- supplying a rhyming word • Beginning sounds • Phoneme Blending & Segmenting (cat) c/a/t • Familiarity with Print • Identifying Capital and Lower Case Letters • Recognizing Sight Words (sent home sight words & also on website) • Letter-Sound Association • Writing their first and last name correctly
Apple Day Celebration On September 23rd we will celebrate Johnny Appleseed and do some fun activities with apples as our theme! We need 5 volunteers, so please sign up if you would like to help. We will provide the activities!
4th Grade Buddies We get to meet and enjoy doing fun activities with our upper grade friends!
8th Grade Volunteers 8th Graders from Richboro Middle School come to our class 4 times throughout the year and help us complete a project and it teaches the 8th graders about volunteering.
Birthdays In our classrooms every birthday is very special. If you would like to celebrate a birthday or summer birthday please let me know. We will celebrate all summer birthdays at the end of the school year! You are more then welcome to bring in a non-edible treat (pencils, stickers, erasers..etc.) for your child and the class. Please do not send in birthday invitations to be handed out, it is a school policy.
Turkey in Disguise Around thanksgiving we will send home a turkey and you and your child can have fun disguising them as something else. Students will share when they return back to school!
Halloween On Halloween we all dress up in our costumes and parade around the school!
100th Day! On the 100th day of school, we plan a day full of fun activities that involve the number 100! We would love to have 5 volunteers come on that day! This will be sometime in February depending on snow days
PRETZEL SALES! You can now pre-pay for our Thursday pretzel sales starting September 11th We again are offering a PRE-PAY program for our THURSDAY Here is how it works: Send in the amount due, (check the scale on the link provided on the home page) in an envelope marked with your child’s name and the name of the homeroom teacher (50 cents per pretzel for all of the Thursdays from September 12 through June 6, 2014. (30 pretzels $18)
Important Dates: Apple Day: Monday, September 19th , 11:00-11:30 Picture Day: September 23rd Halloween Parade: Friday, October 31st American Education Week: Date to be announced 100th Day: Date to be announced Mother's Day Tea: Friday, May 8th , 11-11:30pm Portfolio Share: Tuesday, June 11th, 10:45-11:30pm Please know that everyone is welcome unless it says that 5 parent helpers are all we need. This should help with taking days off for work. Thanks!