Meet the Teachers Davis Dolphins 4s & 5s Amanda Davis
[email protected] Instructional Aide: Nicole Boyd Borchardt
Bears 3s & 4s Penny Borchardt plborchardt@prosper- isd.net
Instructional Aide: Kym Burrow
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Our Pre-K OWL Curriculum The OWL curriculum is designed to Open
the World of Learning and to prepare students for Kindergarten. The
curriculum is designed to develop early literacy skills in the
context of rich content in areas of Math, Science, and Social
Studies. The Texas Pre-K Guidelines are directly aligned to the
Kindergarten TEKS every week with extra support in differentiation
and monitoring.
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What are we going to learn in Pre-K? OWL Curriculum Units New
Friends My Family Our Community Life on the Farm From Jungle to
desert Earth and Sky Shadows and Reflections Make it Move!
Objectives in OWL Letter of the Week Writing Journal Science
Journal Pumpkins Holidays Patterns Numbers Sight Words Vowels
Measurement Simple Addition Simple Subtraction
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How are we going to learn? We have a variety of online support
for our OWL curriculum designed to support each subject across the
curriculum. The online support consists of short videos, matching
games, putting a story together, and vocabulary interactive
lessons. Starfall Website helps support letter recognition and
early reading. Flipcharts are used and created to follow our
curriculum and built for student independent use. Daily Five
Reading: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Work on Writing,
Listen to Reading. Energizers and a variety of music is used to
engage students in learning.
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How are we going to assess learning? CIRCLE Testing is a state
test that will be done beginning, middle, and end of the year. It
is amazing to see such growth that happens over a year! Informal
Testing such as letter, shape, number recognition are also done
throughout the year to see where each student needs extra
support.
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How we are going to learn and work together? REACH Expectations
Respect Encourage Appreciate Honor Class REACH Posters of what it
looks like in each classroom. Each student signed it. Positive
Reinforcement Reward Systems: Points in the classroom and stickers
on the calendar Behavior Issues
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Attendance: It is very important that your attend school
everyday. In the case of an absence you must call the school and
provide a note. Arrival School starts at 8:00 They will wait in the
cafeteria until their teacher gets them at 7:50. If you would like
your child to eat breakfast, please make sure they arrive between
7:30 7:50. Dismissal Dismissal at 3:00 The school policy will not
allow us to release your child to go home with anyone that is not
on your transportation list. Any changes in transportation must be
received before 2:00pm.
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Lunch and Snack Pre- K Lunch time: 10:30 am. Parents are
welcome to come eat lunch with their children If you child is
buying a hot lunch or a drink, you can either send money in your
childs folder or go on-line and put money in your childs account.
www.mynutrikids.com We will be taking donations for community snack
or bulk snack items for snack every afternoon. Every child has the
option to bring his/her own snack every day if they choose. Snacks
must be water only and healthy such as pretzels, goldfish crackers,
fruit, etc.
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Playground and Rest Time Playground: Please send your student
in closed toe shoes, shorts under skirts, and appropriate outerwear
for our outside recess times. Rest Time: You may send your student
with a small blanket or small stuffed animal. It is to be kept in
their backpack until rest time and then put back after rest time.
Cloth nap mats will be sent home every two weeks to be cleaned. We
will clean the plastic nap mats at the school.
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Daily Folders and Parent Communication Your child will be
responsible to bring home a daily folder to be checked by you each
evening and returned to school every day. This folder is to be used
as one form of communication between you and your childs teacher.
Please clean out the folder every week. Your childs folder will
include a Monthly Calendar this calendar will be labeled with
important events and the learning objective for the week. Weekly
Newsletters are sent home on Thursdays that address upcoming events
and learning objectives in each subject for the week. Feel free to
contact us via email or phone call, we are here to help and love
your parent support!
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Your student is special! Star of the Week: Every child will
have an opportunity to be the Star of the Week during the year.
Class Celebrations: We will have class parties during the year
which include a Winter Party, Valentines, and an End of School Year
Party. Student Birthday Celebrations We can no longer celebrate
birthday parties with cookies or cupcakes. Your childs teacher will
do something special to celebrate their special day. We are also
not allowed to pass out invitations during the school day, please
see the online directory for student addresses.
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Pre-K Daily Schedule 2012-2013 7:50-8:00 Unpack 8:00-8:20 Math
Centers 8:20-8:45 Circle Time 8:45-9:05 Recess 9:05-10:30 Language
Arts Centers and Daily Five 10:30-11:00 Lunch 11:00-11:20 Recess
11:20-11:50 Science/Social Studies 11:50-12:20 Gym 12:20-1:00 Quiet
Time 1:00-2:00 Math 2:10-2:30 Recess 2:20-2:45 Closure and
Dismissal