Welcome to

Kindergarten!
Presented by the
SPS Kindergarten Team
August 2016

Welcome!
Welcome! We would like to take the opportunity
to share information about kindergarten
standards and what the year holds for you as
the parent of a kindergarten student. We hope
you will find this helpful as we start the year
together. You are always free to contact your
childs teacher with further questions.
The SPS Kindergarten Teachers

Kindergarten
Learning Goals
Our kindergarten learning goals for each nine
week grading period contain the Tennessee
standards we will be teaching for each subject
area. Our learning goals follow the curriculum
guides set by Rutherford County schools.
Today you will receive the 1st nine weeks learning
goals. We will include the learning goals for the
2nd-4th nine weeks in the report cards.

Assessments
Assessments are an important part of your childs education
as they give us information about your childs academic
growth throughout the year.
One assessment we use is called EASY CBM.
This is a universal screener and progress monitoring tool
supported by Rutherford County to identify students who
may need further instructional support through RTI in the
areas of early literacy and numeracy. If a student does
qualify for additional support through RTI, parents will be
notified.
Another assessment we administer are our Power Standard
Assessments. These are administered each nine week
grading period and cover the focus standards throughout the
year.

EASY CBM
Easy CBM is administered three times a year.
Below are the skills assessed:
Fall

Winter

Spring

Literacy

Numeracy

Literacy

Numeracy

Literacy

Numeracy

Letter
Naming

Oral Counting

Letter Naming

Oral Counting

Letter
Naming

Oral Counting

Number
Identification

Letter Sounds

Number
Identification

Letter
Sounds

Phoneme
Segmentation
Word Reading
Fluency

Quantity
Discrimination
Missing
Number

Letter
Sounds
Phoneme
Segmentation

Word Reading
Fluency

Number
Identification
Quantity
Discrimination
Missing
Number

Power Standards
* K.OA. 2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and
add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings
to represent the problem.
*K.OA.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that
makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using
objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or
equation.
*K.OA. 5 Fluently add and subtract within 5
*NBT1. Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into
ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or
drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a
drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these
numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

ELA Power Standards

RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic
features of print.
RF.K.2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and
sounds (phonemes).
A. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
B. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
C. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken
words.
D. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds
(phonemes) in three phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or
CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or
/x/.)
E. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, onesyllable words to make new words.

Mid Progress Reports

Mid progress reports will be sent home with each
student at the mid point in each grading period.
This will list the standards for reading/language,
writing and math for the nine week grading
period. As this is a mid progress report, many of
the standards are still being taught in the
classroom.
These should be signed by a parent or legal
guardian and returned to school the next day.

Mid
Progress
Reports

Standards Based
Report Card
Rutherford County uses a standards based report
card in Kindergarten. Report cards will be issued
4 times throughout the school year.
During each grading period we are looking at
specific standards that we have been teaching
and learning in class. This means that not every
standard will be marked in the report card during
every grading period.

Standards Based Report Card

Standards Based Report Card

Grading Rubric

Mid Progress Reports and the kindergarten report

card use a grading rubric based on the following scale:
4- Exceeding the grade level standard. Producing
quality work consistently.
3- Meeting grade level standard and producing quality
work.
2- Progressing toward the standard. Producing grade
level required work with teacher direction and
assistance.
1- Beginning to develop the standard. Not yet able to
produce the required grade level work.
** A score of 1 or 2 is acceptable at the beginning of
the school year. It takes time to learn

Monthly Reading Log

The reading log will be kept in the student agendas. Please initial each
night read with your child. Our hope this that provides good quality time
spent reading to your child, with your child and having your child read to
you.

Thankyou!
Thankyou for coming today! We hope you found this
information useful.
Please complete the Exit Ticket and leave it on the
table.