Welcome to K-3Back to School Night
Qiuyu Julie LiRong Zhao
[email protected]@xmu.edu.cn
(858) 800-5700
Build a solid foundation in oral language proficiency by focusing on students’ communicative skills and vocabulary building, character recognition and character writing
Develop early literacy awareness
Kindergarten Mission
The Common Core State Standards are a clear set of shared goals and expectations for the knowledge and skills students need in English language arts and mathematics at each grade level to ultimately be prepared to graduate college and career ready.
Common Core State Standards
Fewer, clearer, and higher
Aligned with college and work expectations
Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills
Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards
Internationally benchmarked, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society
Based on evidence and researchhttp://www.corestandards.org
Criteria for the Standards
Decompose numbers to 10 in more than one way
For any number from 1 to 9 find the number that makes 10
Fluently add and subtract within 5 Compose and decompose numbers
from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes
What is new to Kindergarten:
2012-2013 2013-2015
SortingNumber sense 1-20Comparing numbers (more and fewer)AdditionSubtractionGeometryMeasurementPatternsGraphing
Sorting, classifying, counting and categorizing dataNumbers 1-100Comparing and ordering numbers 0-10Understanding addition and subtractionComposing and decomposing numbers 1-19 MeasurementIdentifying, describing, analyzing, comparing and composing shapes
Math Curriculum
Know how to count by 10’s and 1’s to 100 Count to tell the numbers of objects Compare numbers and sets of items Understand that addition is putting together
and subtraction is taking from. Be able to do so within 10
Be able to decompose numbers in multiple ways
Be able to fluently add and subtract numbers within 5
Math expectations
Be able to compose and decompose numbers from 11-19 into tens ones and some further ones by using objects and/or drawings
Math expectations (cont’d)
www.sumdog.com www.extramath.com www.starfall.com www.morestarfall.com www.abcya.com www.abcmouse.com http://colaborativelearning.pbworks.com/w/
page/31904645/Kindergarten%20Math www.tvokids.com www.coolmath.com
Free websites that support math learning
Color and good citizenship School (people, places at school, school activities) Family (pet, home routines, family, family activities) Chinese New Year Community 1: home, places in the community, map
and global skills Community 2: Transportation, different places in the
community Community 3: People in my community State and Country: US and California Symbols My World
Chinese: Social Studies
Trees-Part 1 (basic needs of living things) Trees-Part 2 (shapes and sized) Trees-Part 3 (tree as resources, tree
throughout the season, food from trees) Food (health and nutrition) Wood and Paper Animals (different categories)
Chinese: Science
Moon Festival Halloween (emotion, sized and shapes) Thanksgiving Winter Holiday (favorite gift, present hunt) Chinese New Year Valentine’s day My birthday (calendar)
Chinese: Holidays
36 characters for mastery
一二三四五六七八九十上下左右大中小多少日月火山天木水火土明早口手心耳目足
24 high-frequency characters (Bonus)
的在有是年和不会要个这家来我对他们她小学也说中文好你
Chinese characters
Read with your child each night for 15 minutes. Complete daily math and English homework. Use Raz-kids online learning 20 mins./ week Check your child’s backpack daily. Bring homework folder back to school everyday. Homework send out Monday, due Friday Talk about topics (social studies/science) covered at
school
http://www.raz-kids.comUser name: jlifPassword: no password
What do parents do at home:
Read and write 37 characters Recognize 24 bonus characters Be able to count from 1-100 Be able to express oneself in Chinese:
classroom language, social courtesy and needs, personal needs, likes or dislike, describing objects (quantity, colors, shapes, etc.)
Science and social studies vocabularies and expressions
Chinese expectation
Lakeshore Learning (Mission Valley/San Marcos)
Whoo’s Smart Education Store (Mira Mesa)
Extra assignments?
www.chinasprout.com
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chinese-writer/id374152537?mt=8 Chinese Writerhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ilearn-chinese-characters/id349253256?mt=8iLearn Chinese Litehttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id404717865?mt=8LoveChinese (小宝宝学中文)http://popupchinese.com/chinese/writingPopup Chinese: Chinese Padhttp://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id448235468?mt=8趣味识写中文https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-tracer-learn-chinese/id430413408?mt=8Word Tracer http://itunes.apple.com/es/app/id451040570?mt=8
Chinese Materials and apps:
Expectation: Follow rules Respect others Being able to focus for 10-15 minutes Behavior chart
Rewards: Individual Rug Whole class Teacher v.s. students
Behavior expectation and rewards
Help in the classroom (teaching material prep.; math small group; English small group in room 8; etc.)
Field trip to the San Diego Zoo in April Room parent: coordinate with PTA and
classroom Volunteer application form + TB test
Parent Volunteers
Prize box: dollar gift items, party gift items, stickers, used toys
Thank you
Donation Needed
Dates: Nov. 17-21 When: 1 pm—3 pm, 20 mins. each session Where: K3, Room 3 What: discuss your child’s progress in our
immersion program
Please sign up before you leave. Thank you!
Looking ahead: 1st Parent-Teacher Conference
Thank you and let’s work together to maximize your child’s potentials!
[email protected]@xmu.edu.cn
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