WELCOMECenterfield

ElementaryKindergarten

2015-2016Contact information

E-mail: ashley.haselton@oldham.kyschools.us

Phone: 241-1772 ext. 126Website: mrshaselton.weebly.com

Meet Your Teacher…..I am from Greenville, South Carolina, but moved to Oldham County in 1998. I graduated from Oldham County High School and have seen a lot of changes over the years.

I graduated from University of Louisville with a Bachelors in Business Administration, Marketing and 3 years later, completed my Masters in Elementary Education.

Me and my family live in LaGrange on a farm with pigs, chickens and our 2 dogs!  My husband teaches Agriculture at Oldham county High school and my son, Barkley attends little Colonel Daycare!

We love to travel, garden, ride our Razor and be outside!

I am a huge Louisville Cardinal fan!  

Goals and

Guidelines for Success

Classroom GoalsThe goals we have for our kindergarteners are to…

Create a happy and safe environment that ensures the learning of all students

•Students will be able to read grade level text (DRA 4) independently and for a sustained amount of time.

•Students will be able to identify, write, and produce the sounds for all letters

•Students will be able to add and subtract within 10.

•Students will be able to orally count to 100 and write numbers to 20.

 

Classroom Goals

 

Develop independent thinkers and problem solvers who can be successful in an ever changing world

•Students will be able to communicate ideas and facts through conversation and writing, using complete sentences.

Classroom Goals

Build a strong classroom community where students can interact and build relationships with peers and adults

•Students will be able to greet friends and adults with a handshake and eye contact.

•Students will be able to express feelings in a respectable way and resolve conflicts with a win-win mentality.

Guidelines for SuccessIn order for our students to be successful, we expect them to exhibit the 7 Habits:

•Habit 1: Be proactive

•Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

•Habit 3: Put first things first

•Habit 4: Think win-win

•Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then be understood

•Habit 6: Synergize

•Habit 7: Sharpen the saw

Classroom RulesStudents will take ownership in their class community by exhibiting “The Big 3”:

Be kind and polite

•Listen while the speaker is talking

•Raise your hand and wait to speak

Stop, think, and act

•Be safe, be honest

•Follow directions quickly

Use your gifts for good

•Respect others, respect yourself, respect the school

Procedures and

Basic Information!

Take-Home Folder

• Take-Home Folders travel with your child to and from school every day.

• Any notes, transportation changes, lunch money, etc. should be sent to me inside the Take-Home Folder.

Empty the folder every evening with your student!

TransportationIf a change, you must notify the

school by sending in a note describing the transportation change in your child’s Take-Home Folder.

Notes must include the date, child’s name.

Students must keep the bag tags on their Kindergarten bag all year.

Tuesday Folders• A white folder from the office

containing important information from the school.

• This folder must be emptied, signed, and returned to school the next day.

All papers/forms should be sent back in Take home folder, this

folder should be EMPTY when it is returned!

Lost folders cost $1 to replace.

Weekly Planner

Pluses and Deltas

Plus (+) is a positive from our day

Delta ( ) is something we want to improve upon

• Students will complete a plus and delta almost every day. It will be located on the back of the weekly planner sheet.

• We will scaffold this reflective process by working on our plus and delta as a class (thinking about how we are doing as a whole).

• When students are ready, they will begin reflecting on their day as an individual- we hope to begin this by mid September.

Pluses and Deltas

Plus (+) is a positive from our day

Delta ( ) is something we want to improve upon

• This is a great way for students to set goals for themselves.

• We encourage you to have conversations about the plus and deltas. Celebrate in their successes and help encourage them as they work to improve in certain areas.

Homework•Homework looks different nightly and throughout the year! Some assignments will be an oral conversation and some will involve paper and pencil.

•Please record the book your child read on the weekly planner.

•Students are also expected to practice some of their word wall flashcards. •If a specific activity states to return it on a date, please be sure to complete it and return it that day so your student can be successful in class that day!

Family Journals

• At the end of every week, our class will reflect on all the fun things that we did and learned and they write their own personal entry in their journal.

• I ask that you please respond to the entry on the next page and send it back in their take home folder the following Monday.

Reading Folder Soon, children will bring home the book being

read in their reading group.

•There will be 1 book in the folder.

•Have student read you their book. Put it back in the folder. Return it the next day.

•It should change every few days!

•Please listen to them read this nightly and praise their hard work.

Breakfast • We ask that students get here as close to 7:20

as possible if they are buying breakfast at school. This gives them time to eat and take care of morning routines.

• Please communicate with your child if they are supposed to be eating breakfast at school.

• Breakfast prices Student "Smart Start" Breakfast: $1.10

Teachers are not allowed to pass out food or candy to students.

Snack time!

• Children are expected to bring in ONE HEALTHY snack each day. Suggestions: pretzelsapple or orange slices, celery sticks, raisins, etc. No candy or junk food is allowed.

• Snacks should be easy to open and eat, as well as require little cleanup.

• Please pack your students snack separately so they do not confuse it with lunch.

• We are a peanut free classroom, so please do not send any snacks with peanuts!

• Please bring a water bottles to our class daily. Water bottles will be sent home each day to be washed and refilled with fresh water (no juice, flavored water, soda, etc....water only).

Lunch 11:38-12:06

•Visitors are welcome! If you would like to join your child for lunch, please meet our class in front of the cafeteria doors.

•There is a special table for guests to sit at with their student and 1 friend.

•When lunch is over, please say goodbye in the cafeteria to keep distractions to a minimum.

•Please write your child’s lunch number on all payments for the cafeteria.

•Due to the increasing number of students with food allergies we ask that children only bring in food that is meant for their own personal consumption.

Classroom LeadersWe are all LEADERS in our community!

Once a month,

students will be new

leaders within the classroom!

Leader of the WeekEveryone is a LEADER! Each child will get a turn to

be our weekly “Leader of the Week”. This special activity builds community in our classroom and

lets each child share about themselves.

When it is your students week, you will get a bag with a letter in it describing what you need to do. All activities must be completed and returned on

Monday so that sharing can take place during your week.

Birthdays

• We celebrate birthdays & half birthdays in our class with a fun song and I ask parents to write about the day their child was born in our birthday journal.

• Remember, we do not hand out food or candy…small toys, stickers, erasers, pencils, etc. are great alternatives to handout.

• If all children in our class will not be invited to a party, we are not allowed to pass out invitations, school policy.

ToysChildren may NOT bring toys to our

classroom. Games and equipment are provided for

recess.

Toys can become a distraction and have the potential to become

lost/broken. If a child forgets this rule and brings in a toy, I will hold the toy for the day and return it

upon dismissal.

Mystery Readers

• We will have Mystery Readers join our class every Friday. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc are invited!

• The children really enjoy having guest readers and look forward to solving the mystery of who will visit next!

• Please sign up and I will send home more information at the beginning of the week you signed up for!

CURRICULUM

Our “Big Rocks”

Tree Time- The 7 Habits

Calendar

Students learn the days of the week and months of the year.

We also talk about the number of days of school, patterns and

the weather!

Workshop

We use the workshop structure for most all lessons and content delivery throughout the school day.

A typical workshop looks like…-Mini-lesson (10-15 minutes)

-Work time (20- 30 minutes)

-Share & or Reflection (10-15 minutes)

We know that students learn best by “doing” and the workshop structure fosters a great environment for inquiry and practice with new learning.

Math Workshop• During Math Workshop students will have time

to work with manipulatives, work in groups, individually and a wide variety of techniques to learn math! The goal is for students to transfer their knowledge to complete a task independently!

By the end of Kindergarten, students should be able to:

• Identify numbers 1- 20

• Count to 100

• Add and subtract with numbers 1 -10

• Have a strong numbers sense with numbers 1 -10 (be able to make and recognize that number in a variety of ways).

Reading Workshop

• We have English Language County, State and National Standards that are implemented in Oldham County.

• The goal of these is for all students to be college and career ready. They are being implemented from a K-12 approach.

• These new standards have some social studies and science embedded in them to allow students to get a cross curriculum education and prepare them for college and a career.

Reading Group• Students are grouped with others that have

similar needs. We learn strategies to decode words, comprehend and read fluently. Individual student needs are supported and encouraged small group setting.

• Groups change throughout the year based on the students progress and independent reading level.

• It is the most important part of our day.

Phonics Dance

• The phonics dance is when the students learn the sounds of each individual letter.

• The students sing the song and do motions to help them remember the sounds that each individual letter makes.

Wildcat Words• Students have 100 Wildcat (sight) Words that they will

work on this year.

• We will introduce a 3-4 words a week that students will need to be able to recall how to read and write from memory. Based on your students learning needs, they will have a specific list they are focusing on.

• These 100 words make up over 90% of our printed language AND are unable to be sounded out… they are VERY important for your student to be a successful reader!

MORE information to come on these next week when we begin sending them home! Look for a

bag and word book next week!

Related Arts

•PE

•Technology

•Music

•Art

•Drama

Writing

• Students will learn not only handwriting, but the craft of writing!

• They will create narrative, informational and opinion pieces through the year.

• Most writing will start with pictures at this age, and by the end of the year, they will be able to create a book with pictures and words to match!

• Please encourage your child to draw pictures and orally tell you their stories about their pictures.

Deer pair ants,

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Handwriting

• We use Handwriting Without Tears to teach letter and number formation.

• A sheet is at your desk tonight with the formation and wording that we use at school! Please keep this and help your students create good habits in handwriting!

• Songs, chalkboard, tracing, shaving cream, and sand are also part of our handwriting routine!

Science

• The students will be engaged in inquiry based learning events. They will learn to think as scientists and engineers through these units of study:

• Weather and the study of the sun’s effect on the Earth.

• Living things such as humans, animals and plants are connected to the Earth and rely on it for their needs.

• Forces such as pushes and pulls affect motion.

Social Studies

Students will be focused on :

• how to be a good citizen at school by following the rules and learning the 7 Habits.

•writing their address, learning about their community and using maps to learn about where they live.

•becoming more familiar with their own culture as well as the culture of others.

• learning about the Native Americans, the first Thanksgiving and Patriotic Symbols.

Recess

• We will go outside to enjoy the fresh air and exercise each day (weather pending).

• If it is above 32, please be sure you dress them appropriately.

• I encourage them to socialize and make new friends. Recess is always fun!

Thanks for coming!

Please be sure to fill out the form

provided and turn it in before leaving tonight.Have a great

night!