Curriculum Night

Pre-First and Kindergarten

Staff

• Paige Stober - ½ time Kindergarten

• Dianna Whitley – Pre-1st• Carole Alexander – Pre 1st

• Cindy Dale – Pre 1st • Roseanne Malkowicz –Pre 1st & Inclusion

• Kathryn Mason – full time Kindergarten• Vicki Taylor – full time Kindergarten

Specialists-Pre 1st and Kindergarten

Library – Alycen Creigh

Music – Angie Davenport

Physical Education - Kelly SipesBring a pair of clean tennis shoes to leave at school and wear appropriate clothing on days your child has PE.

Business• Drop off and pick-up is in the front lobby. Children wait for

the bell (8:25 am) to walk to their class.• If student is tardy, sign them in at office first• If picking up student early, please go to the office• Call the office if student will be absent• Please have your child dress appropriately for the weather.

• Lunch is $2.50 Milk is .50 – Can be prepaid by check (large amounts are okay) made out to

Dieringer School District. Check is given to your child’s teacher in an envelope with child’s name and what money is for. Connie will stamp their hand if there is no money in their account.

– You can also pay on-line by going to the Dieringer Website

• Notes for pick-up not by e-mail• Names on EVERYTHING - coat, sweater, lunch box, mitts,

etc.

It takes 1000 hours of “lap-time” for young children to have the readiness skills in place to learn to read.

--National Institute for Children’s Health and Development

“Lap time” means one-on-one interaction between a parent or caregiver and a child where meaningful language

interactions take place. Types of "lap-time” activities include: talking,

singing, rhyming, chanting and, of course reading.

If we begin at birth, children who receive 1/2 hour a day of lap-time will have the developmental skills they need to read

when they come to kindergarten.

If we wait until they are two to three years old, it will take an hour a day of lap-time to prepare children with the

readiness skills they need to read.If we wait until they are four years old, it will take two hours a day of lap-time to prepare children with the readiness skills

they need to read.If we wait until they are five years old and entering

kindergarten, it will take three hours a day of lap-time to catch these children up with their peers in order

to be ready to read.

Assessments

• Texas Inventory• Book and Print Awareness• Phonemic Awareness• Graphophonemic Awareness

•Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

•Initial Sound Fluency•Letter Naming Fluency•Phoneme Segmentation•Nonsense Word Fluency

ReadingReading Street -Adopted 2008

Oral LanguageAmazing Words/Curriculum Connectors

Question of the Week

Shared Reading

Word WorkPhonological Awareness

Alphabet Knowledge

Sight Words

Language Arts

“The chief culprit behind the reading achievement gap is a language gap. A state of WORD POVERTY exists in our nation.”

“Children who are identified as struggling readers in first grade have about 15,000fewer words in their vocabulary.” -Connie Juel and Isabelle Beck

Handwriting

Zaner-Bloser adopted 2006

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Common Core Math Standards

We have aligned our math to the newly adopted Washington State Common Core Math Standards.

http://www.k12.wa.us/CoreStandards/Mathematics/default.aspx

Computer Lab

Correctly use: Mouse

Keyboard

Microphone

Headphones

Name parts of computer components:

MonitorKeyboardMouseCD-Rom drivePrinter

Use curriculum related educational software

Science Unit•Five Senses

•Seasons

•Embryology (optional)

• Plant and Animal Parts

•Wood and Paper (optional)

• Observing The Sun and Moon

• Habitats

If I Could…..I would teach each child to be positive, to

smile to love and be loved.

I would teach each child to take time to observe some miracle of nature-the song of a bird, the beauty of a snowflake, the orange glow of the

winter sunsetI would teach each child to feel warmly about the peers for whom the task of learning does not

come easily.I would teach child that it is o.k. to show their

feelings by laughing, crying or talking with someone they care about.

Every day I would have each child feel special, and through my actions, each one would know

how much I really care.Unknown

Childhood Should be a Journey

Not a race………..