Palm Lakes Elementary

Classroom Connections - Kindergarten

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Welcome to my Kindergarten Class. Please feel free to contact me after 2:00 p.m. at 305-823-6970. You can schedule an appointment to see me Monday – Friday before 8:15 a.m. and after 2:00 p.m.

Ms. Soto

Homework

I will distribute a weekly homework packet every Monday. Please complete assigned homework daily and return the completed packet on Friday.

Materials / Materiales

Please make sure your child has the following each and every day:
2 sharpened pencils
Eraser
Glue Stick
Scissors
Folder
Crayons

  Subjects
  Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
Spanish (3 days a week)
Art
Music
P.E.
  Absences
 

Whenever your child is absent from school please send a note within 3 days explaining why they were absent when they return to school. If a note is not received the absence will automatically be considered unexcused.

  Classroom Rules
 
  • Seat in your seat
  • Raise your hand to ask a question
  • Complete homework
  • Be in class on time
  • Keep your hands to yourself
  • Follow directions
  • No Running
  Behavior System
 

If a student is meeting behavioral expectations (following class rules), the student will receive positive feedback. Positive feedback may include verbal praise, happy notes, treats, happy calls, special privileges and activities.


If a student is not meeting behavioral expectations (not following class rules), the student will be given a reminder and be expected to correct the behavior. If the behavior continues, these consequences may occur:

  • verbal warning
  • loss of reward for that day
  • loss of play time
  • in class time out
  • note sent home
  • teacher/parent conference
  Cool Books for Kids
  A House is a House For Me Hoberman, M.
Are You My Mother? Eastman, P.D.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Martin, Bill, Jr.
Cat in the Hat Seuss, Dr.
Charlie Needs a Cloak dePaola, Tomie
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Martin, Bill, Jr.
Chicken Soup with Rice Sendak, Maurice
Clifford the Big Red Dog series Bridwell, Norman
Color Zoo Ehlert, Lois
Curious George series Rey, H.A.
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? Carle, Eric
Do You Want to Be My Friend? Carle, Eric
Drummer Hoff Emberley, Ed
Eating the Alphabet Ehlert, Lois
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Raffi
Foot Book Seuss, Dr.
Gingerbread Boy Galdone, Paul
Go Away, Big Green Monster Emberley, Ed
Go, Dog, Go Eastman, P.D.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears various authors
Good Dog, Carl Day, Alexandra
Goodnight Moon Brown, Margaret Wise
Great Big Enormous Turnip Tolstoy, Alexei
Green Eggs and Ham Seuss, Dr.
Guess How Much I Love You various authors
Happy Birthday, Moon Asch, Frank
Hop on Pop Seuss, Dr.
House That Jack Built various authors
Humphrey's Bear Wahl, Jan
I Like Me Carlstrom, Nancy
I Love You, Mouse Graham, John
If You Give a Mouse a CookieIf You Give a Moose a MuffinIf You Give a Pig a Pancake Numeroff, Laura
Is Your Mama a Llama? Guarino, Deborah
Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox Maccarone, Grace
Jamberry Degen, Bruce
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? Carlstrom, Nancy
Jump, Frog, Jump Kalan, Robert
Little Cloud Carle, Eric
Little Red Hen Galdone, Paul
Little Red Riding Hood various authors
Marianna May and Nursey dePaola, Tomie
May I Bring a Friend? de Regniers, Beatrice
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten Slate,
Mitten, The Brett, Jan
Mouse Paint/Mouse Count Walsh, Edward
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? Seuss, Dr.
Mr. Grumpy's Outing Burningham, John
My Five Senses Aliki
Napping House Wood, Audrey
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Seuss, Dr.
Old Black Fly Aylesworth, Jim
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Seuss, Dr.
Pat the Bunny Kunhardt, Dorothy
Peter's Chair Keats, Ezra Jack
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Martin, Bill, Jr.
Rain Makes Applesauce Scheer, J. & M. Bileck
Random House Book of Mother Goose Lobel, Arnold
Rosie's Walk Hutchins, Pat
Runaway Bunny Brown, Margaret Wise
Seven Blind Mice Young, Ed
Seven Little Rabbits Becker, John
Sheep in a Jeep Shaw, Nancy
Silly Sally Wood, Audrey
Snowy Day Keats, Ezra Jack
Sun Up, Sun Down Gibbons, Gail
Teeny Tiny Woman Zemach, Margot
Three Little Pigs various authors
Too Much Noise McGovern, Ann
Very Busy Spider Carle, Eric
Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle, Eric
What Do You Do with a Kangaroo? Mayer, Mercer
When I Was Little: Memoirs of a 4 Year Old Curtis, Jamie Lee
Where the Wild Things Are Sendak, Maurice
Where's Spot? Hill, Eric
Whose Mouse are You? Kraus, Robert
  Cool Websites for Kids
  www.funbrain.com
www.starfall.com
http://pbskids.org/
http://www.crayola.com
http://www.microsoft.com/kids/default.asp
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com
  Scholastic Book Club
  I will be sending home Scholastic book club order forms each month this year. Scholastic book club offers a variety of paperbacks, hardbacks and listening cassettes at affordable prices.
If you are interested in ordering books just fill out the form on the back of the newsletter and make out a check payable to Scholastic Book Club or send cash and send it in by the due date. The books you order will arrive within approximately 2-3 weeks.
Remember it is important to read, read, read!!!