Winn Holt ElementaryAugust 19, 2012

Meet the Teacher

• This is my 10th year of teaching at Winn Holt. I have taught Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten during the past 19 years.

• I graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Education. I have also received a Degree in Early Childhood Education when I was teaching in Florida.

• I grew up in Central Illinois and currently live in Lawrenceville with my husband John, and my sons, Jeffrey and David. We also have a cat named Alex.

Kindergarten Focus

Create a learning environment based upon the workshop model where students receive individualized instruction in a small group setting.

E- Exceeds Expectations

S- Satisfactory ****

N- Needs Improvement

U- Unsatisfactory

-building number concepts (identify, build, addition, subtraction)

-comparing sizes (measurement), quantities of numbers, recognizing shapes, colors and similarities/differences.

-manipulating materials that give meaning to terms such as smaller, larger, more, less, equal to as well as positional words

-creating and extending patterns using shapes and objects.

-estimating, collecting data and building graphs.

-telling time by hour and half hour, organizing daily schedules and telling time of day.

-identifying coins and their amounts.

*Math Calendar

-Learning that oral telling of stories can be written.

-Drawing pictures to illustrate their stories.

-Learning to write their name correctly, using capital letter for the first letter and lower case letters for the rest of the name.

-Using phonetic “inventive” spelling, sight words and environmental print in stories.

-Sentences start with a capital letter, followed by lower case letters and end with punctuation with spaces between words.

-Authors have a focus and recognize their audience.

-Writing a story with a beginning, middle and end.

-Building vocabulary and new interests through media

-Demonstrate concepts of print (front and back of book, cover, title, left to right page sequence, left/right; top/bottom when reading, different between letter, word, sentence and pictures )

-Identifying letter by name (uppercase, lower case and sound) in random order.

-Recognizing that words are made up a series of sounds.

-recognize rhyming patterns and sounds.

-identifying beginning, middle and ending sounds.

-Blends sounds to form a words.

-predicts what will happen in a story based upon illustrations or title.

-identifies beginning, middle and end.

-summarizes a story.

-participates in discussion about text and supports responses with information from text.

-makes connections with text (self, author, world, media)

Word Study

•We will have a new poem each week. With the poem we will be working on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and other skills each week.

•Each week a list of words will be sent home for you and your child to practice. The poem will be included as well.

•Please review the reading words for the week daily. We will have a reading test each Friday.

• By the end of the school year we will cover 100 words!

-Observable Properties (five senses, sort and classify objects

by their physical attributes)

-Comparing Plants and Animals

-Force and Motion

-Gravity

-Day and Night Sky

-Rocks and Soil

-Living and Nonliving Things

-Where We Live

-Observing Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

President’s Day, Memorial Day

-Personal Finance (people must make choices)

-Our Nation (symbols)

-High expectations for students.-praise!!!!-warnings and consequences.-positive reinforcement

-Champion students will:-Be Ready-Be Responsible-Be Respectful

-Behavior Chart

-All Kindergarten students will receive the same packet.

-Focuses on Math and Language Arts concepts.

-Homework timeline: Monday-Thursday. Due on Friday.

-Please do a little each day, they have had a long day.

Nightly Reading

-Please read with your child every night and discuss what they read. This will help build their vocabulary and understanding of what they read.

Assessments

•Daily work

•GKIDs

•Report Cards each nine weeks

Daily Folders

•Behavior Chart

•Parent Communication

•Homework

•Additional Resources

•Classwork

Please return your child’s black homework binder each day and initial their behavior chart each night.

A few more things…

Field trips:

-Yellow River Game Ranch-Geoff Johnson-Our Community tour-High Tech, High Touch

Website:www.holt.ga.gce.schoolinsites.com

Click: >school staff

>Debbie Swofford

Snack: We will have snack from 10:15-10:35. Please send a healthy snack and water.

Lunch:You are welcome to come eat with your child! 12:40-1:10

Recess: 2:00-2:20

-Connections (PE, Science, Health, Art Music, and Writing)

-Morning Arrival: 7:45-8:15-Dismissal: 2:45-3:15-Weekly Newsletter-Volunteers

We have several special projects this year for your child. -Vocabulary Parade (Spring)

-Our Community Museum (December 14th)

-Symbols of the U.S.A. Museum (May 17th)

Thank You…for taking the time to attend Open

House!

I look forward to working with you and your child this year. It is going to be a

wonderful year filled with exciting learning activities!