Welcome to Back to School Night! Janney Elementary

Welcome to Back to School Night!
Janney Elementary
We are the Dynamic Ducks!
Meet the teachers
• Ms. Logan Kapinus
• Logan.Kapinus@dc.gov
• Ms. Kelly Trussell
• Kelly.Trussell@dc.gov
Important Websites:
• Janney Elementary School
• www.janneyschool.org
• Our class website:
• http://teacherweb.com/DC/janney
/Kapinus/apt1.aspx
Kindergarten Curriculum
• The kindergarten curriculum is designed to
develop the following skills in each subject area
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English/Language Arts (ELA)
Readers Workshops
Writers Workshop
Phonics/Word Study
Math Workshop
Social Studies
Science
Kindergarten Curriculum
English/ Language Arts (ELA)
• Reader’s Workshop (RW)
• RW is a program that teaches children to become
independent readers by having them read books on a
level that is ‘just right’.
• Beginning in late fall, students choose books according
to their interests and reading level. Through practice
reading independently, with partners, with the teacher
and in small groups, students develop their reading
skills.
Kindergarten Curriculum
English/ Language Arts (ELA)
• Reader’s Workshop cont (RW)
• RW helps develop phonemic awareness, learning to
recognize letters and corresponding sounds, increase
their vocabulary base, identify sight and rhyming words
and write their first and last names.
• We practice using language that helps us explain our
thoughts when reading, share information about our
texts and insights into the story.
Kindergarten Curriculum
English/ Language Arts (ELA)
• Independent Reading (IR or S.Q.U.I.R.T)
• IR is private reading time during which students practice strategies
and behaviors.
• From the beginning of the year (until late fall) they practice
storytelling skills using culturally diverse Emergent Storybooks.
• If they may not be able to read books word for word the students
are given strategies to start the reading process and are
encouraged to approximate reading by using illustrations and
learned reading behaviors.
• Even when they are reading we are are working on strategies to
dig deeper into the text and gain insight for deeper meaning and
understanding.
Kindergarten Curriculum
English/ Language Arts (ELA)
• What are emergent storytelling books?
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Caps for Sale by Slobodkina
Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey
Owen by Kevin Henkes
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Bigmama’s by Donald Crews
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
Kindergarten Curriculum
English/ Language Arts (ELA)
• Interactive Read Aloud: Using Emergent Storybooks
• Children make predictions and connect texts to personal
experiences.
• Explore reading different types of texts such as Poetry, NonFiction, Fiction and Song Books.
• Teachers model desired skills and strategies that students
will practice during partner talk. Students learn to re-tell a
story, as well as to orally answer questions about characters,
setting and events. (First, Next, Last- I like __ bc__)
Kindergarten Curriculum
Writers Workshop
• Writers Workshop (WW)
• Is a program that teaches children to become
independent lifelong writers.
• Students learn to observe and tell stories about their
lives and the world around them.
• During WW students draft, revise, edit, illustrate and
publish narrative, opinion, and expository texts.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Writers Workshop
• Interactive Writing- Teacher and students ‘share the pen’ as
they compose and write texts in a variety of genres.
• Reinforces phonemic awareness and increases exposure to
high frequency words taught during phonics and word study
lessons.
• Independent Writing- Students write stories from their life,
as well as experiment with different genres of writing.
Students learn to manage their writing by deciding when
they are finished and to reflect on it by choosing pieces they
will publish.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Phonics/Word Study
• Teachers provide instruction on principles related to
the use of letters, sounds and words. (Process on
writing chart)
• Introduction of ‘Words We Know By Heart’
Kindergarten Curriculum
Math
• Math curriculum focuses on two critical area as defined
by the Common Core Standards: developing and
understanding of number sense by representing,
relating, and operating on whole numbers, and
describing shapes and space.
• Students will be instructed on how to use language that
helps explain their thoughts when looking at a math
problem, share information about their plan to solve
and insights into how we check our work.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Math
• How we solve problems in Math:
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1) Think
2) Plan
3) Solve
4) Check
5) Explain
Kindergarten Curriculum
Math
• Math Year at a Glance:
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Counting & Sorting- Explaination and Resoning
Breaking apart numbers- Different ways to show our numbers
Geometry
Counting higher- 1-100 (1s, 2s, 5s, 10s)
Making Ten (Using tools like 10 Frames)
Measurement
Place Value
Add/Subtract to 10 (Equations)
Kindergarten Curriculum
Homework
• Not expected in Kindergarten. A tool to encourage thinking,
practice and deeper understanding of what we do in class.
• Starting next Tuesday 9-24-13 (Take Home Tuesday) you will
be receiving a packet of homework activites that you have a
week to work together on- if you choose to do so! Return
back to school the following Tuesday (Red Folder).
• Building blocks for future success. The process of homework
is our foundation to start a successful career in school.
Kindergarten
Field Trips!
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October - Cox Farms
November- Building Museum
December- Seasons of Light/Nutcracker
January- Whole Foods
February- Postal Museum / Lincoln’s Cottege
March- College Park Aviation
April- Childrens Museum
May- tbd.
Kindergarten Rocks!
• THANK YOU!
• Few reminders: Please visit the cafeteria (after this
session) to hear about what the Kindergartners are
learining this year in:
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Science
Social Studies
Performing Arts
Media
Music
Library