Beginner's Night - Parent Presentation
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Welcome to Beginner’s Night! Helping your child become a Bobcat!
Transcript of Beginner's Night - Parent Presentation
Welcome to Beginner’s Night!
Helping your child become a Bobcat!
Berewick Basic Facts
Opened in 2009 – 4
years and growing!
725 students
Diverse community
Pre-K to 5th grade
Demographics:
50% African American
20 % Hispanic
20% White
10% Other
56% Free/Reduced
Lunch
Variety of student clubs:
Student Council
Robotics
2nd grade book club
Dance club
Girls on the Run
Volleyball
Basketball
Technology
Safety Patrol
Random Acts of
Kindness
Our Accomplishments
Lowe’s Grant recipient to build outside classrooms and
friendship gardens
Safety Grant recipient – held 1st annual Safety Fair
Feb. 2013
Resident guest artist worked with 4th grade students –
Native American Beading
Dance assembly to celebrate African American dance
styles.
Quarterly Reading Celebrations; 1st Annual Reading
Parade
Highlight student writing – Studentreasures Publishing
Why Choose Berewick?
Student centered culture
Focused on improvement and growth Teacher’s College partnership to support Balanced
Literacy
RtI – Response to Instruction
Working with district leaders in Math Investigations
MAP testing, Reading 3-D (2013-2014) and Common Assessments to drive instruction
Teachers work as Professional Learning Communities
Plan, discuss student data, and determine student needs
Utilize Data Wise model – cyclical data process to identify areas of weakness to strategically plan for improvement
Talent Development, Exceptional Children, and English Language Learner push-in model
Daily Schedule…
8:00-3:00: Instructional Day (7 hours)
2 hours of Literacy: Shared Reading, Writing, Word
Work, and Independent Reading.
2 hours of math (Investigations and workshop)
45 min. of Science/Social Studies
45 min. of Specials: Art, P.E.
Music, Media, Computer
30 min. of Lunch; 30 min. of Physical Activity
3 Basic Rules
Be a learner.
Be safe.
Be respectful.
Ready to Read!
Before starting Kindergarten in August:
Write their name
Identify capital and lowercase letters
Can read some sounds
Learning to Read
First we learn Letter I.D. Next we learn the
sounds
Learning to Read…
Then we’ll use the
sounds we’ve learned to
blend .
c a n
Over the course of the year we
will be learning many new sight
words. Sight words are words
your child will recognize
immediately, without having to
sound them out.
C A N
Leveled Readers…
Leveled readers are books designed to match a child to the reading level that suits their ability.
Each classroom has 2 hours of literacy per day, where students are receiving instruction in Balanced Literacy: Reading, Writing, Shared Reading, and Word Work.
No matter where your child starts, we will meet them where they are, and go on from there.
Leveled Readers…
Leveled Reader: C is where kindergarten students
are expected to be by the end of the year.
This type of text has 1-2 sentences per page. The
pages will have a lot of sight words, and then some
words they will need to decode.
Stages of Writing…
Scribbling Marks on paper represent an
idea.
Stages of Writing…
Letter-like
symbols
Identifiable picture and letters are
imitated.
Stages of Writing…
Strings of
letters
Writes some letters, but not
matching most sounds.
Stages of Writing…
Beginning
Sounds
Uses the beginning sound to
represent a word. Writes left to
right and often reverses letters.
Stages of Writing…
Consonants
represent
words
Include beginning and ending
sounds and some vowels. Uses
sight words correctly.
Stages of Writing…
Initial, Middle,
and Final
Sounds
Writes more than one sentence
with spaces between words.
“Readable” writing.
Stages of Writing…
Transitional Writing is “readable”. Uses
phonetic spelling for unfamiliar
words. Uses capitals and
periods correctly.
Young Mathematicians!
Before starting Kindergarten in August it would be
helpful for your child to know the following:
Identify and write the numbers 1-10
Count from 1-10
Colors
Basic Shapes (square, triangle, circle, rectangle)
Math Summed Up…
Our math framework includes five main categories:
Number Sense
Patterns, Relationships, & Functions
Geometry, & Measurement
Data Analysis
Numerical & Algebraic Operations
Number Sense…
It’s more then just counting!
Number relationships
Ordering numbers
Count accurately from any starting point
Counting backwards
End of Year Expectation: Count, Write & Recognize 1-30
Count backwards from 10
Ordinal numbers 1-10 (First, Second, Third, etc…)
Patterns, Relationships, & Functions…
Patterns are something we see in everyday life, and
they help kindergarteners understand the underlying
structure of things.
Patterns also help us make predictions about what
will come next.
Student Patterns…
AB pattern, where the student
has identified the UNIT in the
pattern (the part of the pattern
that repeats).
AABB pattern, the top portion
was completed as a class, the
bottom independently.
Geometry & Measurement…
Shape, size , attributes. We are
not only learning about shapes,
but how shapes make up other
shapes, and objects in our
world.
Measuring and describing in
non-standard units. Here we
used snap cubes to measure
ourselves!
Data Analysis
For data analysis, we complete
class, and individual graphs.
We also use the calendar
throughout the year, and track
the weather.
We also take many
surveys, and create our own to
collect data on our peers.
Numerical & Algebraic Operations…
Students will be able to
use various operations
to solve problems.
We add and subtract in
traditional, and non-
traditional ways.
Staggered Entry
Days 1-3 (Aug. 26 – 28, 2013)
Students come to school based on last name
Assessments given
Student tour building, learn school-wide procedures
Day 4 (Aug. 29, 2013)
Class assignments and rosters are developed based on
data
No kindergarten students attend school
Parents notified by teacher phone call of their placement
for the following day
Day 5 (Aug. 30, 2013)
All students report!
Any Questions?
