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Meet the Teacher

Transitional Kindergarten

Wendy Lundeen

August 9, 2023

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Wendy Lundeen

  • 12 years in TK, 17th overall
  • Multiple Subject Credential
  • Reading Specialist Credential
  • CA Site Supervisor Child Development Permit
  • M.S. Reading, M.Ed. Early Childhood Education, Ed.D. Organizational Change and Leadership
  • National Board Certified Teacher

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Ms Kamina

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  • 4th year in TK
  • campus monitor beginning in 2018 before working in TK
  • two boys

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Arrival/Dismissal

  • Arrive at 7:45 at Primary Playground
  • Students will line up on their classroom number on blacktop.
  • Dismissal at 1:21 (Minimum Day 12:00)
    • Students will be walked out by teacher
    • Each class will line up in front of gate (next to the school office)
    • Students to be released to adult one by one

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Lunches/Snacks

  • Healthy snack at morning recess (9:15)
  • Lunch from home
  • Lunch from cafeteria
    • Free for all students
    • Vegetarian option (let teacher know if any allergies)

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Classroom/School Expectations

  • Positive reinforcement of desired behaviors
  • Verbal/nonverbal reminders of classroom rules
  • Redirection to a new activity
  • Refocus forms
  • Minor Infraction Form
  • Office/Major Infraction

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Classroom/School Expectations

  • PBIS
    • Respectful
    • Open-Minded
    • Ambitious
    • Responsible

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Rose School Expectations

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Google Classroom

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  • Class Code: scv3hu4
  • Schedule, Family Tips Videos
  • Other announcements/assignments

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Parent/Teacher Communication

  • Weekly communication/information from the office will go home on Wednesdays in our Communication folders (please have your child return their folder by Tuesday)
  • Monthly Calendars
  • Newsletters
  • ParentSquare and Google Classroom
  • Email- wlundeen@musd.org

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Homework

  • Goes home the first Wednesday of the month
  • Due last Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted
  • Please work with your child to complete the work
  • Allows your child to show what he/she knows
  • Homework will begin in September
  • Homework is optional

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Homework (cont.)

  • Read for at least 10-15 minutes every night (record on your reading log)
  • Activity Calendar activities
  • Monthly family project

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Language Arts

  • Ready to Advance Benchmark, UFLI
  • Learning without Tears
    • Kick Start Kindergarten
    • A to Z for Mat Man and Me
  • Major concepts:
    • Letter and sound recognition
    • Letter writing/formation
    • Decoding
    • High frequency words
    • Writing
    • Phonemic awareness
      • Rhyming
      • Same and different sounds

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Math

  • Everyday Math
  • Major concepts:
    • Number recognition/formation
    • Number sense (understanding what numbers mean)
    • Addition/subtraction
    • Patterning
    • Sorting
    • Shapes

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Social Studies/Science/Art

  • Mystery Science
  • Science is Elementary
  • Scholastic My Big World
  • Social Studies-community
  • Science-inquiry-based, follow the scientific method
  • Art-integrated with the other curriculum, focus on some famous works of art

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Student Portfolios

Students will:

  • add to their portfolios throughout the year
  • incorporate various learning domains
  • use their portfolios during student-led conferences in January

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Project Based Learning�(PBL)

  • Inquiry based learning
  • Integrates subject areas
  • Past projects have included:
    • Would a penguin make a good pet?
    • Plants

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Genius Project

  • Inquiry based learning
  • Integrates subject areas
  • Students pick their topic for research
  • Students pick how they will share their learning

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Scholastic Book Orders

  • Sent home every month
  • This is not required
  • Purchased online- flyers will be sent home monthly
  • Each order earns points which can be used to buy books for the classroom

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Things to Bring

  • A regular/standard sized backpack (no backpacks on wheels)
  • A filled water bottle
  • A family picture
  • Snack/lunch

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***Please label all of your child’s belongings

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Field Trips

  • Parents need to be vaccinated, have a negative TB test, fingerprinted through our H.R. department and filled out form in office.
  • It takes time! At least a month.

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Other Things

  • Star of the Week posters- One student per week will get a poster to complete at home and bring back to share with the class.
  • Sharing Can- each child will get a turn to bring something in and share, help your child write three clues to read to the class.

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Other things (cont.)

  • Birthdays- no food or cupcakes
    • Your child will receive a birthday book from me
    • You may send in your child’s favorite book and we will read it to the class (and it will then be returned)
    • You can donate a book to the class
    • You can have your child bring in goody bags, pencils, etc to share (no food items please)
    • We will sing Happy Birthday to your child
    • Birthday Compliments- we will go around the circle and each child will give a compliment to the birthday child

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What you can do:

  1. Read everyday with your child
  2. Ask him/her about the characters, setting, what happened, his/her favorite part
  3. Sit with your child while he/she is doing his/her homework
  4. Ask your child to talk about his/her day at school.

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Please note

  • Your child needs to come in school appropriate attire including sneakers or tennis shoes
  • Please label your child’s clothes with his/her name
  • Please have a change of clothes in your child’s backpack or you may leave in your child’s cubby at school
  • Please have your child come to school on time

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Questions???

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Please email me or send a ParentSquare Message