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Kindergarten Curriculum Night September 20, 2017

Kindergarten Curriculum Night September 21, 2016 Welcome and Introductions………………Carole Carr Covey Habits…………………Kindergarten Team Reading Benchmarks…………… Rachel Sine Writing Benchmarks…………… Christine Diaz Math Benchmarks…………… Sam Boatwright Additional Information…………… Anna Brown “Who Wants to be a Leader”……Traci Totherow, Carly Ferrell, Addison Tyler Plus/Delta…………………Christine Diaz and Rachel Sine

Welcome and Introductions

Covey Habits • Habit 1: Be Proactive Stop, think, and make a good choice. • Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Set a goal and work to achieve it.

Covey Habits • Habit 3: Put First Things First Do the most important things first. Work before you play. • Habit 4: Think Win-Win Do what’s best for you and your friend. Share. Compromise.

Covey Habits • Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Listen to your friends and care about what they’re saying. • Habit 6: Synergize Work together

Covey Habits • Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw Have fun and take care of yourself. • Habit 8: Find Your Voice Do what you were meant to do.

Reading Benchmarks • 26 letters and sounds (Capital and Lowercase) by end of 2 nd Quarter • 16 print concepts by end of the year • Leveled Reader “D” by the end of the year • Sight words

Reading Benchmarks

Reading Levels A. B. Combs administers the m. Class literacy assessment as a part of the formative assessment process in Wake County. Although, these assessments are used by your child’s teacher to inform his or her instruction, they are not administered by your child’s teacher.

Writing Benchmarks • Beginning of the year

Writing Benchmarks • Middle of the year

Writing Benchmarks • End of the year

Math Benchmarks • Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s • Fluently add and subtract within 5 • Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones • Identify and describe shapes (circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, trapezoids, hexagons, cones, cylinders, cubes, spheres) • Identify shapes as two-dimensional or threedimensional • Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes

Additional Information

Forms to be Turned in • Locator Card: important information • Technology Form: – MUST be completed – If you deny, your child will not be able to participate in any online learning initiatives

Field Trips • In order to chaperone a field trip, you must have clearance from Wake County. • We have 3 field trips planned for this year: • Farmer Ganyard at Upchurch Farm. October 16 th • Schoolwide Movie Field Trip- December • Laurel Hills Park – March 22 nd, 23 rd, 27 th *More information will be forthcoming!

Find us on social media! • The A. B. Combs Magnet Elementary facebook page link is www. facebook. com/Combs. Gators.

“Who wants to be a Leader? ”

Plus/Delta