Kindergarten

Parents- Please start looking inside your green folder.

Blazing a Trail at the Ranch

Vineyard Ranch Elementary16818 Huebner Rd.

San Antonio, TX 78258Phone:210-356-7200

Fax:210-408-5515School Hours: 7:30-2:30

Incoming Kinder Registration

Early Registration will take place Monday April 13 through June 5th.

Registration Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00-1:30

Registration will resume on Tuesday, August 4th at 8:00 a.m.

A Kinder DayMorning Routine- Announcements, Attendance, & Lunch Count: 20 Minutes

Language Arts Block: 120 MinutesShared ReadingPhonemic AwarenessGuided Reading (Small Groups)Interactive Writing & Writer’s Workshop Daily 5 (Literacy Work Stations)

Math: 90 MinutesCalendar, Problem Solving, Investigations, and Work Stations

Social Studies/Science: 60 Minutes

Teacher Planning: 50 Minutes- Students attend Music, PE, etc.

Lunch: 30 Minutes

Recess: 15 Minutes

Preparing your Child for Kindergarten

o Social and Behavioral Expectations

o Motor Skills

Take a moment and lookat the checklists in the orange/green booklet

Speaking, Reading, and Writing

Expectations

Take a moment and lookat the checklists in the orange/green booklet

MathExpectations

Take a moment and lookat the checklists in the orange/green booklet

Language Arts:

Building BlocksThe six building blocks are:

1. Desire to Learn to Read & Write 2. Language Concepts 3. Print Concepts 4. Phonemic Awareness 5. Interesting Words (environmental print, names, popcorn words)

6. Letters and Sounds

Math Investigationso Mathematical Thinking in Kindergarten

o Patterns, Trains and Hopscotch Paths

o Collecting, Counting, and Measuring

o Counting Ourselves, and Others

o Making Shapes and Building Blocks

o How Many In All?

Social StudiesCitizenship and EconomicsCommunity Helpers and Authority Figures, Basic Human Needs

Cultures, Customs and TraditionsCustoms and Traditions, Holidays, Chronological order

Historical ConceptsHistorical Figures and Presidents, National holidays

My Place in the WorldMaps and Globes, Pledge of Allegiance, Flags

Scienceo Plants and Plant Growth

o Animals and Their Needs

o Rocks, Soil, and Water

o Five Senses

o Seasons and Weather

o Taking Care of the Earth

o Science Labs

SPECIALS*PE-Tabitha Hollman & Dawn Carroll*Music- Heather Elizondo & Deborah Ebel*STEAMM-Eileen Brzozowski (Science, technology, engineering, art, math, and mind/logic exercises)

Your child will rotate between these three classes during our specials time.

Leader In MeVineyard Ranch is a

Leader In Me School. This

program promotes self management

and character development skills incorporating The 7

Habits of Happy Kids.

Vineyard Ranch Dual Language Bilingual

Specialist

Valerie Steinbarth

If you did not attend the information meetings held on February 10th or April 1,st another

meeting will be held at Stone Oak Elementary on April 16th from 6:00-7:30 in both languages.

You may also contact Valeria Steinbarth at (210)356-7241 or via email vstein@neisd.net

Attendance

• Regular school attendance is essential for a student to make the most of his/her education. Texas law does not require children of Pre-Kinder and Kindergarten age to be enrolled in school. However, if a parent chooses to enroll a child in Pre-Kinder or Kindergarten, the child is under the compulsory attendance law. This section of the law requires any Pre-Kinder or Kindergarten student who is enrolled in a public school to attend school each day for the entire period the program of instruction is provided.

How to prepare your child for

Kindergarten:• Practice writing & identifying their own

name in print• Practice writing and identifying

capital/lower case letters/sounds (both in & out of order)

• Practice writing and identifying numbers 1-20 (both in & out of order)

• Improve listening comprehension skills by reading to your child nightly. Ask your child questions about the books you read together.

Remember: You are the first teacher in your child’s life, so make the most of

it!

Incoming Kinder Parents- Please mark your calendar to attend our Meet The Teacher Thursday, August 20st from

2:00-2:45 p.m.

Thanks for coming!!

Feel free to ask us questions you may have now or later!