October In-service Kindergarten

Class BusinessThank you to our chairs and committee volunteers!!

• Participation: Andrea Yue

• Art Trek/AAYF: Philip Tiu & Eileen Yun

• Memory Book Committee: Yen May Lou, Lyn Sung, Ozum

Sanalan

• Photographers: Timmie Goldstein & Ksenia Smirnova

• Scholastic Book Orders: Ksenia Smirnova

• Hospitality: Jane Kim, Charissa Tiu, Ritu Chachra, Lyn

Sung

Please contact our chairs if you can assist...many hands make light work!

Please sign-up….

❖Attendance sheet for our in-service

❖Help list and Classroom Donation sign ups

A few things…❖PEF Membership

❖Memory Books

❖RAZ Kids https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

❖Informational letter to parents to go home on 10/13

Looking Forward

• Oct. 12 Make-Up Picture Day

• Oct. 13 Spirit Day

• Oct. 21 Designer Bag Bingo

• Oct. 23-25 Book Fair in MPR

• Oct. 29 PEF Pier to Pier Walk

• Oct. 31 Halloween Activities

• Oct. 27 School wide disaster drill

• Nov. 9 Minimum Day (Cornerstone only)

• Nov. 10 No School: Veteran’s Day Observed

• Nov. 14 K In-service at 5-6 PM

• Nov. 20 Fun Run 11:30-12:15

• Nov. 21 K Native American Day- *sign ups

• Nov. 22 Minimum Day 8:30 – 12:00

• Nov. 23-24 Thanksgiving Holiday: no school

• Nov. 28-30 Minimum Days- Parent Teacher Conferences (Sign up in Nov.)

Halloween

• Come to school dressed in costume

• Class Photos first

• Halloween Activities

• K parade (TBD on time of parade)

• Parents welcome, we will perform for you!

• Safe shoes, no weapons, masks during

parade only!

Reminders & Routines

❖Homework folders & check in procedure

❖TP1- Please arrive on time at 8:10 (don’t forget to

sign in at the gate)

❖If your child is going home with someone other

than you, or not attending Kids’ Corner please

inform Teacher/Kids Corner

❖Friday folders will go home each Friday and

should be returned on Mondays. Most items sent

home are 1 per family. Instructions found in

Parent Notebook.

Reminders & Routines

❖You should be signing in every time you are on

campus both in office and on schedule in

classroom.

❖Keep track of your service hours and turn in

monthly!

Thank you for being on time for your shifts!

❖Enrichment: most classes do not start until 1:30

on Mondays, so you are responsible for

childcare from 1:10-1:30

❖Reflections entries (due 10/16)

Reminders & Routines

Thank you for saying “Goodbye”

at the Kindergarten gate

No siblings on the yard before school

Wipes for Kindergarten children only

Playground Safety• Be involved on the playground! Please move around your

coverage area. All injuries must be reported to teacher!

• Complete incident forms- inform the teacher right after recess on the day of the incident!

• Head injuries MUST be taken to the office!

• Follow your duty listed on pocket card:

• TP 1 AM Set Up- take equipment out of shed

• TP 1 Recess Swings/Jungle Gym

• TP 2 Recess Game Day supervision of games on lower yard

• TP 3 Lunch Swings/Jungle Gym

• Students are not permitted to play unsupervised tag games, fighting games, or pretend weapons

• Consequences:

• New area of play for the rest of the day

• Listening chair/time out- Ask me about my behavior note home

• Hitting or other physical attacks are an automatic visit to our Principal-NOT ALLOWED!

Safety Concerns

For those families who wait for older siblings in

front of the school, we ask that you continue to

enforce the school’s rules. There should be no

wrestling, chasing, play fighting, etc. We also ask

that your children not play in the bushes, pick

flowers, etc. Please be mindful that school is still in

session.

If you plan to have snack after school, please

be conscious of students with allergies and eat in

appropriate areas. Our campus is a shared space

and we need to keep it safe for all students.

Safety Concerns:

❖Children must sit on bench until an adult escorts them to their car.

❖Children may not stand behind a car to load their own backpacks.

❖Adults should not walk children through or across parking lot, but use

sidewalks.

❖Do not take your child from dismissal line or area without notifying the

teaching parent who is in charge of your child’s safety.

❖Adult should always be at the front of the line when walking to curb or to any

other place on campus. DO NOT allow a child to be the first one to lead a

class. If worried about losing a child, assign a responsible child to be the

caboose for your line. Instruct them not to let anyone get behind them in the

line.

❖When picking up your child please show your child’s name card, and be

patient while the teaching parents attempt to load all of the children safely.

❖Please pull all the way down the curb, do not stop near your child for

convenience sake. We will walk you child to your car, but we need to get as

many cars lined up on our curb as possible.

❖Please drive safely through the parking lot.

Small Group

Management Procedures

For Teaching Parents

The following procedures will allow you to maintain positive control of

small groups. The same procedures may be used with larger groups of

children. It is important to be knowledgeable about these procedures,

implement them when appropriate, and be consistent!

Before the lesson:

1. Read the directions for the small group activity. If you do not

understand the activity, ask the teacher before you start working with the

children.

2. Make sure you know where you will be working and ensure that all

supplies you need are at your area. You may need to double-check the

materials in the baggie. There have been times when we are short of some

of the supplies.

3. Think about where you will have children sit. Some children will be

more successful if they are next to you. This may be because they need

some extra help, are shy, or need to be separated from someone else in the

group.

During:1.. Make sure that you have the attention of all of the children before

starting. Keep eye contact and make sure they can all hear you. Anticipate

and prevent distractions.

2. Show the example or the materials and explain the procedure for doing

the activity. Check for understanding, e.g. ask individual children to tell

you and the group what they are to do first, second, next, etc. Different

children can provide the answer to each of those questions. This keeps

them all thinking and paying attention to each other.

3. Provide positive feedback to those children that listened well and are

following directions. Here are some examples of things you can say: I like

the way you are working. You’re getting it! Sue is working quietly. You put a

lot of work into this. Super. I like the way John has settled down. Everyone is

working so hard. Much better. Terrific!

During:• 4. Be aware that our activities are often designed to have children really think.

Children need to learn to be positive contributors to the lesson. Interacting with each other in conversation or actions about the lesson is an important skill to learn. This behavior needs to be recognized by you. At the same time, make sure that one child does not dominate the discussion.

• 5. Children need to learn that being disruptive is not appropriate behavior during a lesson or classroom activity. Children being disruptive should be asked to stop, always reviewing what is acceptable. If the child continues, please inform the teacher right away.

• 6. It is vital that all children are listening and engaged. Watch and be aware of students that are losing interest and adapt lesson.

After:1. Please keep your group occupied while other groups are working.

You can have them read quiety, practice rhyming skills, counting aloud, count items, reading sight words etc. You can also ask them more questions about the skill or activity and encourage more language and a deeper understanding.

2. Please make sure you have gathered all of the materials, game pieces etc. and put all materials away-Thank you!

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”

Walt Disney

Growth Mindset

• Things to say to children who struggle:

• Keep trying. Can you think of another way

to do this?

• What do you think you are missing?

• Try to do your best work, work you are

proud of.

• Is this your very best work?

• Where can you find some help for this?

Success Tickets

Kindergarten Expectations

• Homework- Print & read cover sheet

for important info! Return whole

homework packet stapled on Friday

• Homework Folders- Be Responsible

• Edlio- cornerstone.pvpusd.net

• What’s Happening- Please check

Weekly Activities• Monday- PE

• Tuesday- Literacy Rotations– Visual & Performing Arts (Winter/Spring)

• Wednesday- P.E.F. Music with Mrs. White room 21

4th Grade Reading Buddies (2X per month)

Literacy Rotations

• Thursday- Science Rotations

Literacy Rotations

• Friday- LTC-return books, Literature bags

Literacy Rotations

• Encourage children to do their best and to correct their mistakes

• Keep children on task

• If finished early, extend the activity

• Going very well so far- thanks to you!

• Possible Groupings:

– Color groups

– Apples/Bananas

All groupings are flexible and will change during the school year

Language ArtsReading, Writing, & Oral Language Skills

• K sight words- colored word lists sent home Master Reader of sight words

• Tracking words: one to one correspondence, can use reading finger (book bag)

• Reading Instruction: Individualized by group or student. Phonics instruction: Beginning, ending sounds, first short vowel

• Oral Language: Star of the Week, Poem/Song of the month

• Writer’s Workshop (start sometime in late Jan.)

Math/MIF• Daily Calendar

• Sorting

• Numbers 0-20 (Naming, Counting and Printing)

• Less, More and Same Number

• Order by size, length or weight

• Counting -- rote

– 1 to 1 correspondence

– # identification

• Size and Position

Writing

• Upper and lower case letter

formation

• Correct grip & posture for

pencil / crayon

• Dictation-highlighter/post-it/copy

• “Kindergarten” spelling- phonetic

• Be brave with your words

• “Dictionary” spelling

Cornerstone Class of 2018My son's Cornerstone class met yesterday to take a senior photo together for the high school yearbooks. Just for a

moment, it was like we were back in time to those golden days of Cornerstone Elementary School! You and your

child are just starting your journey...enjoy all of it!