A.M. & P.M. Kindergarten A.M. & P.M. Kindergarten Back to School Night Back to School Night

Mrs. Wagner & Ms. HamiltonMrs. Wagner & Ms. Hamilton

Little bit about Ms. Little bit about Ms. HamiltonHamiltonCouncil Rock and Penn State GraduateTaught First Grade for 2 years down in VALoves reading on the beach, football and

cooking

Taught Kindergarten for 14 years (6 at Hillcrest)

All my children attended Richboro Elementary School

I love to be outside and work in my garden

Little bit about Mrs. WagnerLittle bit about Mrs. Wagner

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Homework will be given out on Monday and due back on Friday,

unless we have off. There is a homework book that will go home

and the children will be expected to complete it with a little help. If they need too much help let us know.

Kid WritingKid WritingKid Writing is when the kids write

sentences to go with a picture. It focuses on letter formation and phonics in the

context of writing.

Please sign up if you would like to help. You do need to be trained and Mrs.

Berkowitz will train you. It is a quick hour of training!

CentersCenters

Centers are used after the kids are done kid writing.

We play school games on the computer.

We practice writing our letters, numbers, and

sentences.

Here we write sight words.

Math in KindergartenMath in KindergartenFirst Quarter:-Position/location-Sorting/Attributes-Measurement

Second Quarter:-Patterns-Comparing numbers to 10

Third Quarter:-Numbers (teens & hundreds chart)-Addition and Subtraction

Forth Quarter:-Making Numbers-Geometry-Graphs

Literacy in KindergartenLiteracy in Kindergarten

Phonemic Awareness:

•Rhyme- supplying a rhyming word

•Beginning sounds

•Phoneme Blending & Segmenting (cat) c/a/t

•Familiarity with Print

•Identifying Capital and Lower Case Letters

•Recognizing Sight Words (sent home sight words & also

on website)

•Letter-Sound Association

•Writing their first and last name correctly

Portfolio Share & Field Trip

Apple Day CelebrationApple Day Celebration

On September 23rd we will celebrate Johnny Appleseed and do some fun activities with

apples as our theme! We need 5 volunteers, so please sign up if you would like to help.

We will provide the activities!

4th Grade Buddies4th Grade Buddies

We get to meet and enjoy doing fun

activities with our upper grade friends!

8th Grade Volunteers

8th Graders from Richboro Middle School come to our class 4 times throughout the year and help us

complete a project and it teaches the 8th graders about volunteering.

BirthdaysBirthdaysIn our classrooms every birthday is very special. If you would like to celebrate a birthday or summer birthday please let me know. We will celebrate all summer birthdays at the end of the school year!

You are more then welcome to bring in a non-edible treat (pencils, stickers, erasers..etc.) for your child and the class.

Please do not send in birthday invitations to be handed out, it is a school policy.

Turkey in DisguiseTurkey in Disguise

Around thanksgiving we will send home a turkey and you and your child can

have fun disguising them as something else. Students

will share when they return back to school!

Halloween Halloween

On Halloween we all dress up in our

costumes and parade around the school!

100100thth Day! Day!On the 100th day of

school, we plan a day full of fun activities

that involve the number 100!

We would love to have 5 volunteers come on that day!

This will be sometime in February depending on snow

days

PRETZEL SALES! You can now pre-pay for our Thursday pretzel sales starting September 11th

We again are offering a PRE-PAY program for our THURSDAY

Here is how it works: Send in the amount due, (check the scale on the link provided on the home page) in an envelope marked with your child’s name and the name of the homeroom teacher (50 cents per pretzel for all of the Thursdays from September 12 through June 6, 2014. (30 pretzels $18)

Important Dates:

Apple Day: Monday, September 19th , 11:00-11:30

Picture Day: September 23rd

Halloween Parade: Friday, October 31st

American Education Week: Date to be announced

100th Day: Date to be announced

Mother's Day Tea: Friday, May 8th , 11-11:30pm

Portfolio Share: Tuesday, June 11th, 10:45-11:30pm 

Please know that everyone is welcome unless it says that 5 parent helpers are all we need. This

should help with taking days off for work. Thanks!

Richboro School Association (RSA)