2. Blazing a Trail at the
Ranch
Vineyard Ranch Elementary
16818 Huebner Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78258
Phone:210-356-7200
Fax:210-408-5515
School Hours: 7:30-2:30
3. Incoming Kinder Registration
Early Registration will take place Monday April
13 through June 5th
.
Registration Hours:
Monday-Friday 8:00-1:30
Registration will resume on Tuesday, August 4th
at 8:00 a.m.
4. A Kinder DayMorning Routine- Announcements, Attendance, & Lunch Count: 20 Minutes
Language Arts Block: 120 Minutes
Shared Reading
Phonemic Awareness
Guided Reading (Small Groups)
Interactive Writing & Writer’s Workshop
Daily 5 (Literacy Work Stations)
Math: 90 Minutes
Calendar, Problem Solving, Investigations, and Work Stations
Social Studies/Science: 60 Minutes
Teacher Planning: 50 Minutes- Students attend Music, PE, etc.
Lunch: 30 Minutes
Recess: 15 Minutes
5. Preparing your Child
for Kindergarten
o Social and Behavioral
Expectations
o Motor Skills
Take a moment and look
at the checklists in the
orange/green booklet
8. Language Arts:
Building Blocks
The six building blocks are:
1. Desire to Learn to Read & Write
2. Language Concepts
3. Print Concepts
4. Phonemic Awareness
5. Interesting Words (environmental print, names, popcorn words)
6. Letters and Sounds
9. Math Investigations
o Mathematical Thinking in Kindergarten
o Patterns, Trains and Hopscotch Paths
o Collecting, Counting, and Measuring
o Counting Ourselves, and Others
o Making Shapes and Building Blocks
o How Many In All?
10. Social Studies
Citizenship and Economics
Community Helpers and Authority Figures, Basic Human Needs
Cultures, Customs and Traditions
Customs and Traditions, Holidays, Chronological order
Historical Concepts
Historical Figures and Presidents, National holidays
My Place in the World
Maps and Globes, Pledge of Allegiance, Flags
11. Science
o Plants and Plant Growth
o Animals and Their Needs
o Rocks, Soil, and Water
o Five Senses
o Seasons and Weather
o Taking Care of the Earth
o Science Labs
12. SPECIALS
*PE -Tabitha Hollman & Dawn Carroll
*Music- Heather Elizondo & Deborah Ebel
*STEAMM-Eileen Brzozowski
(Science, technology, engineering, art,
math, and mind/logic exercises)
Your child will rotate between these three
classes during our specials time.
13. Leader In Me
Vineyard Ranch is a
Leader In Me School.
This program promotes
self management and
character development
skills incorporating The 7
Habits of Happy Kids.
14. Vineyard Ranch Dual
Language Bilingual
Specialist
Valerie
Steinbarth
If you did not attend the information meetings
held on February 10th
or April 1,st
another meeting
will be held at Stone Oak Elementary on April 16th
from 6:00-7:30 in both languages. You may also
contact Valeria Steinbarth at (210)356-7241 or via
email vstein@neisd.net
15. Attendance
• Regular school attendance is essential for a
student to make the most of his/her education.
Texas law does not require children of Pre-
Kinder and Kindergarten age to be enrolled in
school. However, if a parent chooses to enroll a
child in Pre-Kinder or Kindergarten, the child is
under the compulsory attendance law. This
section of the law requires any Pre-Kinder or
Kindergarten student who is enrolled in a public
school to attend school each day for the entire
period the program of instruction is provided.
16. How to prepare your child
for
Kindergarten:
• Practice writing & identifying their own name in print
• Practice writing and identifying capital/lower case
letters/sounds (both in & out of order)
• Practice writing and identifying numbers 1-20 (both in
& out of order)
• Improve listening comprehension skills by reading to
your child nightly. Ask your child questions about the
books you read together.
Remember: You are the first teacher
in your child’s life, so make the most of it!
