Welcome to Kindergarten Curriculum Night!

1. Welcome to Kindergarten Curriculum Night!

2. Your Kindergarten Teachers • Mrs. Scheffler • Mrs. Bautista • Mrs. Armentrout • Mrs. Miller • Mrs. Veen

3. Curriculum • Reading Streets- Adopted Reading series • Math - Engage New York • STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

4. Reading Program • Reading Streets • infuses both science and social studies within fiction and non fiction stories • 75 minutes of literacy based centers • incorporate technology with computers, I PADS, Smart Board • include phonics, writing, and reading activities • Daily small group reading instruction

5. Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills DIBELS • Brief, but powerful, measures of the critical skills that underlie early reading success • K-3 Benchmark assessments are given three times per year • Results are used as indicators for students being on track to learn to read

6. Benchmarks

7. Other Assessments • Quarterly Assessments- Letter Recognition, sounds recognition, decoding words, rhyming, and name writing • Weekly Phonics/Spelling Tests-Begins Nov. Most students have letters and sounds mastered by early December • DRA’s- Level 4/6 by the end of the year.

8. What parents can do at home! • Play rhyming and segmenting games together • Have your child practice saying the names of lowercase and uppercase letters quickly • Have your child practice saying the sounds of letters quickly • Read, Read, Read! • Be a model and read to your child • Read with your child • Listen to your child read and encourage them to use their reading strategies when they get stuck • Have your child retell what he/she just read • Practice sight word lists sent home by teacher

9. Weekly Homework • Initial homework daily • Please leave homework in your plastic bag • Family Times Book • RAZ Accounts • Reading Strategies • Using your reading finger • Taking a picture walk • Story retell • If they get stuck helping with the sounds of the letters, not giving the whole word. • Math homework comes home on Mon. and Thurs. nights but if your child is struggling with a certain skill you may receive homework on other nights as well.

10. Math Curriculum Map

11. Drop off & Pick-up • Gate opens at 8:30am. • Dismissal 3:30pm • Blue line is for drop off only. • Bus gate is for bus riders only. • Park in the parking lot if you need to get out of your vehicle at any time. • All visitors must sign into the office to gain access to any other part of the campus.

12. Thank you for coming! Questions? Please visit our Kindergarten Website. http://dvusd.org/sh-kindergarten