Mrs. Niero's Kindergarten Class Google Drive

Mrs. Niero's Kindergarten Class Google Drive

 

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Kindergarten Nyack Google Drive

Kindergarten Nyack Google Classroom

Google Classroom

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Welcome to Kindergarten

Welcome to Mrs. Niero's Kindergarten Class  2019-2020!   We are excited to spend this year with your children learning new things and making new friends!  At Valley Cottage Elementary School... in a world where you can be anything, be kind!   Contact info:  mniero@nyackschools.org

Niero and Passanisi's Story

Look for "Niero and Passanissi's Story" in your child's folder each Monday.  Homework and other important information for the week will be outlined in "Niero and Passanissi's Story".  Homework will usually be given Monday-Thursday.  It will be a review of current content.  If your child is having difficulty, please let me know. 

English Language Arts

In Kindergarten, we begin the Rowland Reading Superkids Program. It is a fun but rigorous program for teaching children to read and write. There are 2 levels.  In the first level "Meet the Superkids", children enter the world of the Superkids and learn to identify and write 13 upper and lower case letters, associate each letter with one sound, and blend these sounds to decode and encode dozens of words.  Each Student Book focuses on one letter-sound.  The pages develop phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, vocabulary, and other skills. This program is used district wide in grades K - 1.  We have seen much success with this program. 
We will also be working on developing writing process skills and the different genres of text, concentrating on fiction and non-fiction (informational).   

We are Valley Cottage STARS!

Our students participate in the STAR Behavior Plan at Valley Cottage Elementary School.  This incentive is school wide and the children will be working hard to earn stars for Staying Safe, Taking Responsibility, Academic Effort, and Respecting Self and Others.  It is very exciting for our students as they all strive to be Valley Cottage Stars!!! As the children earn a certain amount of stars, they get to pick a reward and they are recognized with a certificate from our principal, Mrs. Addison-Harris. 
We stress that "character" is what you do and how you behave when no one is looking.  Our theme in class is to "be a hero" for someone else!