Welcome To Northampton

Our phone number is (832) 484-5550.

DAILY ROUTINE

• Morning Activities at tables• Calendar Activities • Lang./Phonemic Awareness/Word Wall• Literacy Work Stations-Small Group

Reading Time • Lunch @ 11:06-11:36 • Math-Whole/Small Group• P.E./Music 12:45-1:30• Recess @ 1:30• Restroom Breaks/Snack Time @2:00p.m.• Science/Social Studies

Some Curriculum ExpectationsLanguage/Reading

•Students will be able to recognize/match letter and letter sounds.

•Students will be able to read sight words and successfully read a Level C by the end of the year.

•Students will be able to write simple sentences/stories using sight words and inventive/temporary spelling.Math

•Student will be able to recognize and name numbers to 30, count sets to 20, rote count to 100 by1’s, 5’s, & 10’s, make patterns, graphs, compare.

•Students will be introduced to addition, subtraction, fractions, time and measurement.

Special Activities• P.E. is 12:45-1:30p.m. Monday, Tuesday and

Fridays. • Every other Tuesday the students will go to P.E.

from 8:30-10:00a.m. The teachers are in Professional Learning Communities at this time.

• We have music on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12:45-1:30 with Mrs. Bross.

• Library is at 12:25p.m. on Fridays with Mrs. Blackmon.

• Computer class is scheduled for Tuesdays at 1:30-2:45p.m. We will be using laptops in our room.

Behavior Chart•Pink Outstanding! Students who reach the pink level will be rewarded for their positive choices by decorating their clip and take a happy note home!

•Purple Great Choice! Students who continue to make positive choices move up to the purple level and are one step closer to Outstanding classroom behavior.

•Blue Good Choice! Students who make positive choices will receive recognition as they move up the chart.

•Green Ready to Learn! Everyone starts the day “Ready to Learn”! Students will can “clip up” or “clip down” throughout the day depending on their behavior choices.

• Yellow Slow Down! Students who receive a warning will move to yellow. This serves as a reminder to students to think about the choices they make.

•Orange Think About It! Students who continue to make poor choices, will move to orange. This will result in a consequence determined by the teacher. (Examples: removal from group, time out, miss 5 min. recess, etc.)

•Red Parent Contact… Students who move to red will miss some recess and complete a “Behavior Reflection” to be signed by parents.

Principal’s Proud Club

In order to be eligible for this award:

• A student may not get more than 2 yellow cards in a weeks time.

•They cannot have red, yellow, orange clip changes.

•4 tardy occurrences and/or early dismissals will automatically eliminate a student.

•After Winter Break it will change to 1 yellow clip in a week.

Parent Connection is our Online Grade System

*Go to our Northampton Website and click the link on the left side to access Parent Connection.

**Read Instructions prior to creating your account.

***You will need your students Klein ID #, Date of Birth, Social Security #, and Lunch Number to create the account

•Grading Guidelines for Kindergarten

•E+= Advanced

•E=Exceeding Expectations

•S+= Meets expectations

•S=approaching Expectations

•N=Below Expectations (experiencing some difficulties)

•U= Experiencing difficulties

•There will be at least one grade taken in each subject area per week. Grades will be based on pencil /paper tasks, teacher observation, and one on one conferencing with the teacher.

Readers For Home

• READING PRACTICE• Each week your child will bring home a paper book that we have

read at school. Your child should be able to tell you what the book is about and "read" it to you even if they aren't looking at the words.

• Please take the time to practice these books each week and revisit them often.

• You can model reading by pointing to the words and discussing how the pictures help readers gather information about the book.

• Keep the books in a gallon Ziploc bag for easy storage.

Things That Need to be Returned

•Daily Folders need to be returned each day . On Wednesday a parent signature is needed next to the conduct grade.

•Homework Notebooks (red notebook) need to be completed and returned by Fridays.

•Library Books are due no later than Friday morning.

•Book Bags and Response Journals will begin by the second 9 weeks and will go home on Thursdays and need to be returned by the following Thursday.

Pam Sangl

•psangl@kleinisd.net E-mail is the easiest way to contact me.

•http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/psangl/home.htm is my web page address.

•I will do my best to send a weekly Newsletter via e-mail and post it under the newsletters section on my web page.

•**Parent Conference Day is Monday, November 6th. Please sign up next to a time. If you aren’t able to come, write your name and number down on the phone conference sheet and I will call you to talk about your child’s progress.

If your child is going to be absent, please call the attendance office at 832-484-5505 that morning. Send in a doctor’s note and/or parent letter when they return. A child may earn a Perfect Attendance certificate if they have been at school everyday during a nine weeks period. If a student has four or more tardies and/or early dismissals in a nine week period, their conduct grade will be lowered with the exception of having a doctor’s note. Therefore, they will be not be in the running for the Golden Horseshoe Award or the Principal’s Proud Club for that nine week period. Also, a student will be asked to serve detention on the eighth tardy. Please help your child to arrive on time to school.

•Star Of The Week posters/PowerPoint's when assigned will need to be turned in on Mondays.•Your student needs to complete all of their homework each week. •When class work or tests have poor grades please go over them with your child.•Send a note to school in the morning if there is going to be a change in their transportation. If I do not get a note,email or a message over the speaker by the end of the day they will go home the regular way.•Make sure you have a plan set up for rainy days. (backdoor walkers)•Inform your child’s teacher of any major changes that may affect your child’s behavior at school.

Ways To Have A Successful Year

Pam Sangl