Ms. Danhi 2012

Julia's first day in Ms. Danhi's class, and little brother, Reed, dreams of his.
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Ms. Danhi and her students' parents use this page to help each other make the most of their 2012/13 Kindergarten class at Sagamore Hills Elementary School.

Email parents and Ms. Danhi using the class email list.

Please use the "Edit" tab at the top and the "[edit]" links to the right of each section heading. Every little bit helps!

Volunteer

"It has been really great to get to know all of the kids a bit. Each one of them has left such a fun impression and they are all so cute!" Audrey

Students so enjoy parents volunteering in their classroom, and so does Ms. Danhi!

Sign up online. Email to discuss.

Subject	Duration	Time	Day
AR Testing	2 hours	8:30-10:30	Any Day
Math Club	1 hour	Any Time	Any Day
Computer Club	1 hour	Any Time	Any Day
Mad Scientists	1 hour	1:00-2:00	Friday
Kid Cooking	1 hour	1:00-2:00	Friday
Thursday Folders	1 hour	Anytime Before 1:30	Thursday

AR Testing

2 hours, 8:30-10:30, Any Day
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At a computer in the classroom or library, help each student take a five multiple choice question test, to confirm they've read (or been read) an Accellerated Reader (AR) book.

Math Club

1 hour, Any Time, Any Day
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Assist students with fun math exercises appropriate for various levels. Volunteers may get math exercises from:

• Ms. Danhi
• Ms. Miller (Discovery teacher)
• Themselves with Ms. Danhi's assistance

Computer Club

1 hour, Any Time, Any Day
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Assist students with fun computing exercises. Class will be divided into two groups of about 10, based on computing proficiency, to use the computer lab for about 30 minutes.

The goal is to increase computing exposure/experience/literacy. Computing exercises are up for development by the volunteer and Ms Danhi. Some ideas:

• Type… anything!
• General introduction: terms, techniques (mousing, clicking, dragging, enter/delete/esc, shift/capslock)
• Add more here…

Kids Cooking/Mad Scientists

1 hour, 1:00-2:00, Friday
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Kids Cooking can rotate with Mad Scientist every other week. Fridays 1-2 pm with 1-2 parents needed.

Mad Scientist

Parent and teacher led science experiment with the goal of introducing and engaging young children's interest in science.

• Science supplies available in Sagamore Science Lab with assistance of Ms. Danhi or Ms. Lambert.
• Parents come up with science experiment or can ask teachers for ideas.
• Leading parent will need to coordinate selected experiment with teachers to obtain supplies in advance.

Kids Cooking

Students have an opportunity to cook and enjoy a treat while learning about nutrition, math (addition, fractions), cooperation, etc.

• Volunteers needed to lead cooking and other parents can contribute ingredients and supplies.
• It may be helpful for the leading parent to send group email enlisting volunteers to send in ingredients and supplies.

From Audrey, 2012-10-09:

We could rotate this with the cooking and do one every other week. Parents would volunteer to do a science experiment or instruction (age appropriate of course) for the class. I learned that we are able to use the materials from the science lab for class projects and things like this. We just need to let Ms. Danhi or Ms. Lambert know and we can get the supplies. I am going to volunteer to help organize the lab. It has a ton of stuff there to have some fun with!

Another take:

Vol to develop a science experiment with the kids. Materials can be obtained in the school science lab with coordination with teacher and/or Ms. Lambert. Experiment should be approved by teacher in advance.

Thursday Folders

1 hour, Anytime Before 1:00, Thursday
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Stuff student folders with provided communications from around the school.

At home

In addition to class assigned homework, consider the following at home activities.

See also: kindergarten resources.

Accelerated Reader (AR)

Accelerated Reader (AR) books can be read any time (by students or by parents to students).

AR tests can be taken at any school computer, such as before or after school in the library or classroom. From a school computer:

1. "Renesiance Learning" from the desktop
2. "Accelerated Reader" or "Reading Test" [Fixme: I forget]
3. "Student ID" is their 7-digit DeKalb Country student ID (used for lunch)
4. "Password" is the student's birthday as MMYY (December 30, 2006 = 1206)

This activity is in addition to participation facilitated by volunteer AR testing in the classroom.

Reflections

Reflections

In Class

Growing Caterpillar Reading Tracker

A caterpillar on the wall of the classroom will grow throughout year as students read (or are read) books. Any book read by or to a student can count (Accelerated Reader (AR), at home favorites, those read in class, etc.).

Students, parents, and/or Ms. Danhi, write on one paper circle caterpillar segment [where do we get them?] for each book read:

• Title
• Author
• Rating by Student [format (up/down, 1-5, their own words, etc.)?]

If a paper circle caterpillar segment isn't available, a read book's information should be added to the student's Reading Record [or Reading Log?] [Should it stay in thier folder?] [Did October's have pumpkins to color?], to be later copied to a paper circle caterpillar segment.

Finally, paper circle caterpillar segments, each with information on a book read by or to a student, are placed on the wall to make the caterpillar grow. Exciting!

References: [1], [2], [3], [4]

Book Buddies

Book Buddies is [Not sure…] with Ms. Jasper's 3rd grade class. ([5])

Ideas

Thinking out loud about other ways to help our class.

Writing

Mentioned by Ms. Weirick's class:

3- Kid Writing Volunteers: Around 9am every day, the kids will be practicing their writing. A big help to Ms. Weirick would be for an adult to come by around 9am to help with this. The kids will have drawn a picture. The adult then encourages the child to write a sentence that explains the drawing. Of course, the adult may end up writing some words or all of the sentence, but it's great writing practice for the kids.

Sign up here: http://sagamorevolunteers.pleasebringit.com/public/eZcWtlOo5fg

Classroom Assistant

Be a "second teacher" and help students during class.

Mystery Reader

Surprise the class and read the kids a story! If you don't want to bring your own book(s), Ms. Danhi can provide.

Homework Packets

Each Monday, a packet with the week's homework is sent home, to be returned finished by the student on Friday. Assist Ms. Danhi by making copies.

Roster

Student	Parents	On Mailing List?
Aidan	Erin & Rachel	✓
Alex	Audrey & James	✓
Arelis
Benjamin
Camilo	Juan & Sarepta	✓
Celine	Jociellia & Terion	✓
Cristal
Ella	Michelle & Murray	✓
Elliott
Jaaden
Javier
Julia	Dave & Jeanie	✓
Kirubel	Dinkensh	✓
Madelis
Maya
Michaeel
Noelia
Paulina	Guang & Haixia	✓
Sophia	Rebecca	✓
Shayanne	Craig & Scott	✓
Vincent	Lidia & John	✓

The room parent is Michelle Shevlin; michelle.shevlin@yahoo.com; 678-237-7218.