Welcome to Kindergarten Kindergarten Curriculum Reading Writing daily

Welcome to Kindergarten

Kindergarten Curriculum • Reading & Writing (daily 2. 5 hours) – – – – • Math (daily 1 hour) – – – • • • Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Recipe for Reading Letters, sounds, blending and reading words Phonemic awareness & phonics progression Color, number, & sight words Reading strategies Comprehension & vocabulary Writing Workshop Math Investigations Series Hands- on / “real world” math Calendar, daily data, story problems Building number sense & fluency Using pictures, manipulatives, & words to solve problems and explain thinking. Science & Social Studies (daily 30 min. ) Lunch (daily 25 min. ) 11: 35 -12: 00 Snack (daily 15 min. while working on reading) P. E. (daily 30 min. ) Recess (daily 15 min. weather permitting or indoor recess) Art & Music (weekly 30 min. ) STEAM Lab & Computer (bi-weekly for 30 min. ) Guidance (once a month) Rest Time (daily for the 1 st 9 wks only– 30 min. )- Please send a towel in your child’s backpack

• • • Binders The HERO. Binder is a 3 -ring binder that houses everything students and parents need to keep up -to-date with what is going on at school. This is a tool for parent-teacher communication. Please take time to go through it each night with your child. Below is a list of items in the binder. Binders will contain: →Money and Important Notes Pouch • • • Please send all money, notes, etc, in this zipper pouch, so I can be sure to get it first thing in the morning. The zipper pouch is the only thing I check each morning for notes. Please place all money (cash, change, or checks) in a sealed envelope or Ziploc baggy. Please include your child’s name, lunch #, teacher’s name and what the money is for on a sealed envelope inside the zipper pouch. →Calendar - Please check & initial each day. ****Please note**** My. School. Bucks https: //www. myschoolbucks. com/ver 2/getmain? request. Action=home is the best way to pay for things related, so we are not touching money. Parents can make donations to CVES, pay lunch account, yearbook, online for field trips, PTO items, donation, library, etc. school

Binders • Binders will contain as follows: →School Notes • • The school notes pocket will have weekly newsletters, lunch menus, fundraiser information, flyers from the office, etc… Please empty this folder daily. →Newsletters • • • The newsletter will be e-mailed and/or sent home in your child’s Binder on Fridays or Monday’s. The newsletter will inform you about upcoming events and activities that your child will be participating in at school. These will also keep you informed about what your child is learning in school. →Work • • • Your child’s work will be sent home weekly. Please look over the work with your child and check the folder for any work related comments. The work is yours to keep! Enjoy!

Binders Continued… • Binders will contain: →Homework • August Homework – Practice writing child’s name, learning the teacher’s name(mrs. Mrs. Schmidt) schoool name(Creek View), how to sign into our Google Classroom, lunch #, Car #, Bus #, etc… Practice the charts in the binder for colors, shapes, letters, sounds, counting to 100. • Reading at home. Read to your child each night and sign the reading log. Your child can begin listening to and reading stories on Raz Kids. website is www. raz-kids. com This is a paid site that we use in class. Your child can access it for free from my login. dbrown 15 and I will send home their password/icon by next week. • A monthly calendar with math activities will be included. • A handwriting sheet will be included later for your child to practice writing his/her name using an expo marker on a sheet protector, so it can be erased and repeated.

Classroom Rules 1. Listen 2. Show respect 3. Use personal space 4. Raise your hand 5. Use the right voice 6. Walk 7. Do your best

Attendance • • • It is important to have your child at school each day and for them to arrive on time. I believe that success in kindergarten is strongly related to attendance. Please try to plan vacations and appointments around school if possible. If possible, parents/guardians should email excuses for absences. CVES parents/guardians can email the school excuses for absences to the following email address: parent. cves@acsboe. org Please send me a text on the remind app or an copy the email letting to me know you sent an excuse to the office. The office must receive your excuse within 3 days, so please try to send an excuse the day your child is out or the day she/he returns. I’ve also included some paper excuses in the back of your child’s FISH binder in case you do not have access to email. Administration will make contact after 3 unexcused absences and excessive tardies. Remember that the tardy bell rings at 7: 45 and if a child comes in the classroom after that time he or she will be counted tardy. Buses usually arrive at school between 7: 00 -7: 30. Car Rider drop off begins at 7: 00. Children must be in the classroom before 7: 45. It is a good practice to arrive by 7: 30, so they can get unpacked and ready to learn.

Breakfast Your child may eat breakfast at school beginning at 7: 00 am. . At this time…. . Due to Covid-19, breakfast will be brought to the hallway/classroom to eat. Breakfast will consist of a “grab and go” type food & milk. If your child rides a bus, she/he will go directly to the lunchroom and pick up breakfast. If your child is a car rider, please arrive in time to go get breakfast. I would suggest arriving no later than 7: 30 if they are eating breakfast at school. I want him/her to have ample time to eat.

Lunch • • • Our lunchtime is from 12: 10 -12: 35 each day. Visitors are not allowed at this time. Your child will be issued a 5 -digit lunch number. Some days we may eat in the lunchroom and some days we will eat in our classrooms, (But this may change) Lunch is $2. 75 per day and breakfast is $1. 25 per day for students. Lunch checks need to be labeled with your child’s 5 -digit lunch number so that it will be credited to your child’s account. Please do not include any other money with lunch checks. We cannot charge to lunch accounts, notes and phone calls are made to remind negative balances must be paid and will carry over until account is replenished. Lunch can also be paid online at myschoolbucks. com You will need to get your child’s ID Number from me before you can use this tool. It may be a different number than your child’s lunch number that they learn to enter at lunch. Right now, we will not be entering lunch numbers, but rather the CNP ladies will do that for the children due to not being able to touch the lunch keypad due to covid. Free and Reduced Lunch Forms will only be available online and must be completed at the beginning of each year. https: //paypams. com/Online. App. aspx

Checks must be printed with your name and address. No starter/counter checks please. Please write a phone number on your check. On the for line _____ write child’s name, purpose of the check(ex. lunch money) and lunch number, teacher’s name.

Daily Snack • Please send a healthy snack and a refillable water bottle with your child’s name from home each day. Please help explain to your child how to open certain snacks before coming to school. We eat our snack during our reading time of the day. We have a “working” snack. • A simple snack such as goldfish, crackers, fresh fruit, etc. • • Please no candy or cokes! Please help your child learn how to open and close his/her water bottle correctly before school begins. Please, put your child’s snack in a Ziplock bag or Brown paper bag—just something other than their lunch box. They may get confused which one is their lunch and which one is their snack.

Medicine • Medicine – All medication must be brought to the school office by an adult. The adult will be required to fill out a short medication form. Students are not allowed to keep medicine in their book bags. This includes cough drops. • Allergies- Please alert me of any food or seasonal allergies that your child may have. • Sickness- If your child has been sick please make sure they are fever, vomit and / or diarrhea free for 24 hrs. before they return to school. • Please keep your phone number updated with the Office and your child’s teacher.

Transportation ***** IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO BE CONSISTENT ***** • I will need to know before the first day of school how your child will be going home each afternoon. • • • Your child will be given a transportation tag to wear on his or her book bag. Please make sure that anything you send to school with your child fits inside their backpack. If you plan to change your child’s transportation for any reason, I must have a parent note so that I can send it to the office to be approved. I cannot send a child home a different way without a note. This is for your child’s safety. Changes cannot be made at the last minute (to eliminate confusion and allow time to adjust child's dismissal) and phone calls and faxes are not accepted due to student safety. parent. cves@acsboe. org is an email address where you can send a change of transportation to the office. Please try to send these changes in before lunch. It would be a great practice to copy me on that email, just so I’m aware.

Transportation Continued…. . Weather Occurrences – Bus Transportation remains in place, CVES After School Care Students become Car Riders, Other daycares should pickup but if not, students become car riders unless notified otherwise. We understand emergencies arise.

Change of Clothes Your child will need a complete change of clothes for school. (shirt, pants/shorts, socks, underwear) • Label ALL articles of clothing with your child’s name. • Place clothes a the Ziploc bag or plastic bag of some type. These will remain at school in their tub. Make sure clothes are appropriate for the current season. • • All children must wear tennis shoes to school for P. E. (Please double knot laces / No Crocs or Flip Flops) Velcro shoes are great! If your child’s shoes have laces, please loop a rubber band or hair band around the lace to prevent coming untied. • Girls should wear shorts under skirts & dresses.

Rest time Each child should bring a towel or blanket for rest time. We will rest for 30 minutes each day for the first nine weeks of school. **Please put your child’s name on their rest towel.

Donations If you would like to make a donation to our classroom you might want to consider: • Gift cards for classroom items (Amazon, Target, Walmart • Checking the weekly newsletter for items we need in our classroom throughout the year.

Do you want to know what is going on at CVES?

How to Contact Me: • Email me at julie. Schmidt@acsboe. org • My cell # is 251 -786 -1580, please leave your name and your child’s name. • Send a note in your child’s Binder/zipper pouch ● Call the office and leave a message 205 -685 -6100. Please allow me 24 hours to get back with you.

Google Classroom Login Information came in your child’s mailed packet. Please go ahead and try to login to google classroom. I will be sending more information regaurding our Google Classroom.

Mrs. Schmidt & family……

Creek View Elementary Virtual Tour About Our School / Virtual Tour

Parents & Guardians, Thank you for taking the time to read through this powerpoint. We usually have a face to face meeting with just parents, but this year we are meeting you with your child on Wednesday or Friday. I hope the powerpoint has given you some information that will help you feel more at ease about your child coming to school during this time. Things are changing daily, so I will update you as information becomes available. Please make a lists of any questions you might have and email me or call me. We are all in this together! Thank you, Julie Schmidt julie. schmidt@acsboe. org