Kindergarten Stallions Open House Slideshow

1. Kindergarten Stallions
The Life at
SMES

2. School Times
8:20 – 8:40 Breakfast
8:30 Doors open and students enter
8:40 Instructional time starts (students
should be in the classroom before 8:40)
2:45 School ends
2:45-2:55 Car riders, parkers, bus riders,
walkers/bikers will be dismissed
*Any student arriving after the bell, their parent will need to park & escort
them to the front office for their tardy pass. Please arrive on time!*

3. Volunteers
Volunteer Coordinator: Kristie
Newsome, School Secretary
• Please apply today if you have not
already.
• Must register every year
• Volunteers cannot go into the
classroom or on field trips without
being an approved volunteer
through district

4. Birthdays
Birthdays are special days for all
students. All birthdays will be recognized
by the front office by:
*Collecting a birthday present
*Special birthday song
*August Birthdays will be celebrated
tomorrow in the cafeteria!
*Parents may not send a treat,
cupcakes, balloons, or party favors as
this impedes on instructional time for all
students.
*If you intend to pass out birthday
invitations at school, you must include
the entire class. If you don’t want to
invite the whole class, you must pass out
invitations on your own, outside of
school.

5. Our
Students
Come First
Full
STEAM
Ahead!

6. Design Principles
Decisions will be made with the students in
mind.
Our learners will have voice and choice.
Failing Forward: building perseverance and
grit are key to learning.
Relationships within our school community
are pivotal to our students’ success.

7. Famous Failures
Famous Failures
Click Here!

8. STEAM
Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics
“The game is changing. It
isn’t just about math
and science anymore.
It’s about creativity,
imagination, and above
all, innovation.”
-Business Week
Through authentic
learning units students
will integrate content
to solve real world
problems.

9. LATI Classroom
Learner-Active Technology Infused
Click here to see a LATIC in action at a Pasco County School
• Students will be involved in Learner Active Technology
Infused Classrooms (LATIC)
• Through this learning approach, students are developing
the 21st Century Skills that are needed for tomorrow’s
world.
• Technology will enhance the content, not deliver the
content.
• In addition to the core curriculum, our STEAM program
incorporates project and problem based learning,
allowing our students to apply their knowledge and gain
experience with these skills.
• We focus on increasing academic rigor, fostering
engagement and increasing student responsibility for
learning.

10. Ten Principles
Learner-Active Technology Infused
❖ Learning from a Felt
Need
❖ Student Responsibility
for Learning
❖ Working Well
Collaboratively
❖ High Social Capital
❖ High Academic Standards
❖ Technology Infusion
❖ Global Citizenship
❖ Individual Learning Path
❖ Connected Learning
❖ Focus on Higher-Order,
Open-Ended Problem
Solving

11. Kindergarten
Unit A ALU 1
Throughout this
Authentic Learning
Unit students will learn
school and classroom
expectations, how to
be a good friend, all
about themselves and
their friends, and how
to find their way
successfully through
their day.

12. Sanders Stallions are SHARP

13. 7 Habits of Healthy Kids
These principles
help to foster the
responsibility,
vision, respect,
teamwork,
balance and
leadership skills
needed for
success.