Welcome to Oak Creek Kindergarten! Tonight’s Speakers: Carlo Grasso - Principal Sonia Tucci & Jenny Tompkins – Co-PTA Presidents Amy McNeill & Laura Hall.

Welcome to Welcome to Oak Creek Kindergarten!Oak Creek Kindergarten!

Welcome to Welcome to Oak Creek Kindergarten!Oak Creek Kindergarten!

Tonight’s Speakers:

Carlo Grasso - Principal Sonia Tucci & Jenny Tompkins – Co-PTA

Presidents Amy McNeill & Laura Hall - CDC Representatives

K Teachers: Taylor Brooks Krystal Chen Amanda Geddes Maureen Renden

Welcome to Oak Creek!

Carlo Grasso Principal

Help support our school!

Join PTA!

Co-Presidents

Sonia TucciJenny Tompkins

On-Campus Day Care

Amy McNeill & Laura HallChild Development Center

(C.D.C.)

(949) 551-3275

What does Kindergarten look like?

• 3 hours of instructional time

• 100 minutes devoted to literacy each day

• Other curricular areas include: math, social studies, science, health, art, physical education and music.

• Maximum number of students in a class is 33 (during overlap portion of the day)

• Motivating, exciting, nurturing, loving, challenging environment

EL/SEI Kindergarten Class

• New addition to Oak Creek• Allows for newcomer English Learners to

attend their home school while receiving ELD support.

• Curriculum and Standards are the same as mainstream kindergarten.

• Daily instruction and support in English vocabulary, grammar, speaking, reading, writing and listening.

Subject to change for 2012-2013 school year

2011-2012 Schedule*This schedule is subject to change for the 2012-2013

school year based on enrollment and classroom space available.

• Each class is currently divided into 2 sessions that overlap in the middle.

Early Birds: 8-11:30Late Owls: 10:15-1:45

Sample Daily ScheduleTime Activity

8:00-8:05am Welcome Early Birds

8:10-9:20am Language Arts Instruction

9:20-9:55am Math

9:55-10:15am Snack

10:15-10:20am

Welcome Late Owls

10:20-10:50am

Calendar Time

10:50-11:30am

Health/ Science/ Social Studies Instruction

11:30am Early Bird Dismissal

11:30-12:00pm

Late Owl Snack

12:00-12:30pm

Math

12:30-1:45pm Language Arts Instruction

1:45pm Late Owl Dismissal

Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?

• All students who will be five years old before November 2nd are welcome!

School Year Dates

2012-2013 Nov. 2

2013-2014 Oct. 2

2014-2015 Sept. 2

Just a few helpful hints!

School Readiness Program

A great resource in our district regarding School Readiness

http://schoolreadiness.iusd.org

(949) 936-5870

Common Core Standards

http://www.commoncore.org/IUSD Kindergarten is implementing

the Common Core Standards in our instruction and that will be reflected in the Common Core progress reports three times a year (Dec., Mar., June).

Speech• Jessica Hopkins – Speech Pathologist• Developmentally Appropriate Speech

Sounds Sheet

We are looking forward to meeting you!

• Open House: Thursday, May 24th at 7:15pm

• Kindergarten Assessments: August 28 & 29

• First Day of School: Thursday, September 6th

(plan to stay for the morning)

Questions