Kindergarten Roundup Information

Kindergarten Roundup Information

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Kindergarten Roundup will take place on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Starting kindergarten is one of the biggest days in a child's life. That's why we've put together this short video to let you and your little one meet our outstanding team of kindergarten teachers and peek into their classrooms. Take the short journey with us by clicking on the video below.

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Menominee Elementary School's Kindergarten Roundup Video

 

Transcript for Video

Kimmy Burnam, Menominee Elementary School Kindergarten Teacher

“Read this number sentence with me, 5 - 3 = blank. Ok how many are we going to pull down? Five, all five of them.”

Burnam: “My name is Kimmy Burnam I teach at Menominee Elementary in Plymouth.”

Burnam: “It's definitely a unique experience for families even if it’s not the first child just sending their babies in to kindergarten, so we try to make it as welcoming as possible. We have a lot of parent communication - extremely strong throughout the year, but especially at the beginning of the year… utilizing different media platforms to show pictures in what we are doing so that they feel like part of the classroom even when they are not there.

Burnam: “The expectations in kindergarten has really increased over the years and a lot of people say it is what 1st grade used to be. There is a lot of reading, we are trying to get them set up for the path to become successful readers, and their letters and sounds and I mean we work on that all year - so it is a lot more than just playing and coloring.”

Kennedy Flosenzier, Menominee Elementary Kindergarten Student

“I like to be in kindergarten because our teacher is really nice and I love to do math.”

Julie Good, Menominee Elementary School Kindergarten Teacher

“I am Julie Good, and I teach kindergarten at Menominee Elementary and this is my 28th year teaching and I have taught kindergarten for 25 years.”

Good: “My kindergarten team and I work together several times a week, we have planning time together, we collaborate on our units. We try to find deficits that maybe kids need extra practice on. It really is kind of unique to Plymouth because they do set aside certain times for us to have collaboration and having that team building is important so that we can meet all the needs of all the students.”

Burnam: “I feel like it’s pretty different here compared to were I was before and I mean you’ve got the one-on-one technology that makes a big difference.”

Good: “And honestly I think all through, K through 12, Plymouth has so much to offer, technology being really important, and many other areas. When students come through and they do roundup and we try to select students that could use a little extra prep before coming in if they haven't had preschool so that's a bonus also to get to know the school and understand how we use the cafeteria, how we go through the line, lunch line and just some of those things we just think wow they're just going to eat lunch but they don’t really understand the procedure and how to do it.”

Sydney Gochenour, Menominee Elementary School Kindergarten Teacher

“My name is Sydney Gochenour I teach kindergarten here at Menominee. I love that I get to spend each day with the kids, they bring so much joy and energy into the classroom. I would do anything for these kids as they are my own. Our kindergarten team we works together all the time, we are a strong team. I coming in, as my second year a teacher, working with this veteran teacher who has been here for years has been a fabulous role model, and I’ve learned so much from her.”

Burnam: “We are all just all very minded we have the same goals for ourselves and for our students and we all create the same type of environment for the students. Our favorite time is Tuesday’s when we get to plan with each other and plan the whole week and just share all of our resources. I have never had that before.”

Good: “We just really want to help kids learn.”

Miguel Marquez, Menominee Elementary Kindergarten Student

“I like to be kind.”