Mary G. Clarkson

2013-14Kindergarten Orientation

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Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS)

Provide consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn

Robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers

Fully prepare students so U.S. will be positioned to compete in the global economy

English Language Arts and Literacy

Reading Standards for Literature

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Foundational Skills Writing

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What Your Child Will Be Working On:

Naming upper and lower case letters, matching those letters with their sounds, and printing them

Comparing the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories

Retelling familiar stories and talking about stories Using a combination of drawing, dictating and

writing to describe an event, including his or her reaction to what happened

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Representing and comparing whole numbers

Describing shapes and space

Mathematics CCLS Critical Areas in Kindergarten

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Count to 100 by ones and tens Count forward beginning from a given number (instead of 1) Write numbers from 0 to 20 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and

subtract within 10 Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 (5=2+3) Fluently add and subtract within 5 Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles,

rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders. and spheres) Analyze and compare shapes; model and draw shapes

What Your Child Will Be Working On:

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Language and Word StudyReading WorkshopWriting Workshop

Literacy Collaborative Comprehensive Instructional

Framework

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Language and Word Study Interactive Read Aloud Interactive Writing Modeled/Shared Reading Modeled/Shared Writing Handwriting Language/Word Play Letter/Word Study Minilessons

Literacy Collaborative Language and Word Study

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Reading Workshop Guided Reading

Writing Workshop Guided Writing Interactive Writing Independent Writing

Literacy Collaborative

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Science

PlantsAnimalsOur EarthOur Home

Weather / SkyMatterHow Things Move

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Social Studies Our Home Our Community Community

Workers Holidays Citizenship Character

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Talk to your children Oral language development Vocabulary development Ask them about their day

Read to your children Model how reading should sound Talk about the story, pictures, and characters Share –A-Book

Success in school Parent/Teacher Workshops

Classroom Jamboree

Parent / Teacher Conferences Join the PTA Check your child’s backpack every day Home/school correspondence

Quality time Increase children’s background knowledge through experiences and reading to them Support and supervise homework Participate in after-school activities with your child Let your child know you listen to them Visit the Bay Shore Brightwaters Library Educational websites: see attached

Home/School Connection

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Personal and Family Health Safety and Injury PreventionNutrition and Physical ActivityTobacco and Your Body

Health Smart

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Bay Shore Wellness Policy

The establishment of universal nutrition standards for food available to students on school property is necessary for the following reasons:

To minimize negative contributions to students’ health

To maximize students’ learning potential

To protect children from potential food allergens and food-related illness

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