WELCOME TO
Kindergarten
Mrs. Chiarella
K-206
DAILY ROUTINES
 Attendance/lateness
 Breakfast
 Home
Folders
 Proper Dress
 Life Skills
 Communication with school
 Curriculum
 Birthdays/Holidays
ATTENDANCE/LATENESS
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School begins at 8:15 AM.
If your child is absent, please call the nurse’s office
and send a note to school upon their return.
If you would like your child’s work sent to the office
or to be picked up for a sibling, please let me know
in the morning so I can prepare the work.
BREAKFAST
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Hot breakfast is provided in the cafeteria at 7:45 AM.
Breakfast is served in the classroom each
morning.
Breakfast includes:
milk
cereal
juice
fruit
muffin
bagel with cream cheese
HOME FOLDER/PLANNER
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is very important to check your child’s home
folder (yellow) every night.
 The folders often have important information
and notes from school.
 Periodically, red Testing Folders will be sent
home. Please review the tests, sign the parent
sheet and return contents to school the next
day.
PROPER DRESS & LIFE SKILLS
 Please
check the weather forecast to make
sure that you child is dressed
appropriately. Especially in the cold
weather, they will need winter jackets,
scarves, and gloves.
 The children should know how to zipper
their jackets and tie their shoes.
CLASS RULES & P.A.W.S.
Students are expected to follow class rules,
(raising their hand, staying in their seat, being
respectful of one another)
 P.A.W.S. is a behavior incentive program
designed to acknowledge positive behavior. The
students are responsible for keeping their paws
and turning them in for different school wide
behavior incentives.
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COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
HOME AND SCHOOL
Notes in folders if your student is absent, going
home with someone not on their emergency card,
or leaving early for an appointment.
 Phone (718) 324-1924
 Email [email protected]
 P.S. 19 website – www.ps19.us
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Click on Mrs. Chiarella
Curriculum
 Homework
 Upcoming events
 Benchmarks
 Word lists
 At home activities
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PARTNERSHIP
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Parents and Teachers
Please work with your child at home by reading to
and with him/her.
 Review math facts
 Review homework
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CURRICULUM
ELA (90 Minute Literacy Block)
 Reading/Writing Workshop
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Teacher’s College Literacy Program
 Fundations (phonics based program)
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Phonemic awareness
 Phonics/ word study
 High frequency word study
 Reading fluency
 Vocabulary
 Comprehension strategies
 Handwriting
 Spelling
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MATH
Go Math – We will study the following topics this year:
Chapter 1 – Represent, Count, and Write Numbers 0 to 5
Chapter 2 – Compare Numbers to 5
Chapter 3 – Represent, Count, and Write Numbers 6 to 9
Chapter 4 – Represent and Compare Numbers to 10
Chapter 5 – Addition
Chapter 6 – Subtraction
Chapter 7 – Represent, Count and Write 11 to 19
Chapter 8 – Represent, Count, and Write 20 and Beyond
Chapter 9 – Identify and Describe Two-Dimensional Shapes
Chapter 10 – Identify and Describe Three-Dimensional Shapes
Chapter 11 – Measurement
Chapter 12 – Classify and Sort Data
End-of-the-Year- Planner – Getting Ready for Grade 1
SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE
Social Studies
Myself and Others
My School Community
Family
Neighborhoods
 Science
Plants and Trees
Properties of Matter
Animals
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READING LOGS
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Your child should be reading every night.
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Please record the books you read on the Reading log
and return it to school each day.
At Home Reading
Books
Leveled Books
Alphabet Books
Decodable Books
Serial Books (characters)
High-Frequency Word Books
Nursery Rhymes
Poetry Books
Read Aloud Books
Song Books
Raz Kids
READING LEVELS
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Benchmarks
September
November
January
March
June
Kindergarten
Emergent
Story Books
Shared
Reading
Emergent
Story Books
Shared
Reading
A/B (with
book intro)
B/C (with
book intro)
Kindergarten
1=Early
Emergent
2=A/B (with
book intro)
3=C (with book
intro)
4=D/E
1=B or below
2=C (with
book intro)
3=D/E
4=F or above
READING STRATEGIES:
READ every night- books ON your child’s level
 POINT under each word
 Use pictures
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WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN BE ASSESSED
ON?
Work will be graded using rubrics
 Conference Notes
 Goals
 Letter recognition/sounds
 Concepts of Print
 Phonological Awareness
 Sight Word List
 Running Records
 Performance Assessment in ELA
 Go Math Unit Assessments
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HOMEWORK
Homework Notebook
 Word Work Notebook
 Reading Response
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(Children are to respond weekly to a book they have read)
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Poetry
SPECIALS
Monday – Computers with Mrs. Hughes
Tuesday – Science with Mrs. Cooney
Wednesday – Gym with Mr. Yarusso
Thursday – Art with Mrs. Paolino
Science with Mrs. Cooney
Friday – Computers with Mrs. Hughes
BIRTHDAYS/HOLIDAYS
Birthdays are celebrated at school. Please let us
know ahead of time so we can arrangements.
 Holiday celebrations are coordinated with our
writing celebrations.
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Field Trips
We will be going on field trips during the New York
State Tests in March and May.
QUESTIONS