Welcome to Greenbriar East Elementary School!  We cannot express how excited we are to have your child as a part of our classroom.  We are entering our first year of full day Kindergarten.  The full day program promises to be both fulfilling and successful as we prepare your child to be lifelong learners and self sufficient citizens.  Our goal is to provide an education, which is adaptable to each child's needs, interests, and level of development. Children's social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth is enhanced through a variety of learning and explorative activities that meet individual and group needs.

 A Day in the Life of a Kindergartener

Morning Routines – check in, hang up backpacks and coats, turn in papers, do morning work, read books and watch GBE news
Morning Meeting/Circle Time – Morning Message, greeting, community building activity, read daily news, review days schedule
Language Arts – Reading and Writing in the whole group, small group and individual setting
Literacy Work Stations – students rotate through different instructional stations
Lunch- students eat lunch in the cafeteria
Specials – students attend Music two times a week for 30 minutes

• students attend P.E. two times a week for 30 minutes
• students attend Art once a week for 60 minutes
• students will visit the Computer Lab at least twice a month
• students may visit the Library throughout the week for book check-out and will go as a class to the library at least twice a month
• Guidance Counselors will visit our classroom once a month for 30 minutes

Quiet Time – students choose a quiet activity; i.e. drawing, reading a book, or listening to a story for 15 minutes a day
Math – in both whole group and small group instruction students will participate in calendar, weather, count the days of school, sort, look for shapes and patterns, identify coins and build number concepts
Outside Play – students exercise and play outside on our playground
Snack – students enjoy snack Tuesday- Friday
Science/Social Studies – some of our themes include Families, Pumpkins, Seasons, Our Five Senses, and Community Helpers
Choice Time/Creative Play – students choose activities where they can play freely; i.e. blocks, kitchen, painting, drama, or sand/water table
Clean-Up – students pack up backpacks and clean up their classroom.

 Our Year at a Glance

Language Arts

• Integrated reading and writing throughout all subject areas; including teacher directed activities and student directed activities
• Students will participate in shared reading and writing activities
• Students will learn decoding skills and build vocabulary

Waterford Computers

• Students will use the Waterford Computer program to encourage letter identification, phonemic awareness and other language arts skills

Math

• Calendar
• Sorting/Classifying
• Shapes
• Colors
• Patterns
• Number Concepts
• Telling time to the Hour
• Measurement
• Coin identification

Science

• Pumpkins
• Seasonal Changes
• Squirrels
• Our Five Senses
• Magnets
• Sink or Float
• Ants
• Earth Day

Social Studies

• Families
• Community Building
• Community Helpers
• Biographies (i.e. Johnny Appleseed, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther King, Jr.)