Welcome to Kindergarten
"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack"
Rudyard Kipling
Our Mission
The mission of Macon-Hall is to provide a high performing learning environment that prepares students to become college and career ready.
Our Vision
At Macon Hall our vision is to cultivate a student-centered, culturally inclusive environment in which learners gain the academic confidence and technological proficiency needed for a continuum of success. This will be obtained by a collaborative effort that includes appropriate internal and external communication among administrators, teachers, parents, and all other stakeholders. The aforementioned will work together in an effective manner to promote academic excellence, character development, and social responsibility.
MSCS KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM
KINDERGARTEN SUPPLY LIST
WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT...
January 6 - 9
•Wonders Reading: How do living things change as they grow?
•Phonemic Awareness: onset and rime blending, phoneme isolation, blending
•Letter Recognition: Ee short /e/
•High Frequency Word: are
•Vocabulary: develop, amazing, content, enormous, imagine
•Oral Language: Inflectional endings (ed)
•Grammar/Writing: Pronouns
•Envision Math: Addition and Subtraction
•Science: Plants and Animal Needs
•Social Studies: When’s your birthday?
January 12 - 16
•Wonders Reading: What kind of things grow on a farm?
•Phonemic Awareness: Recognize Rhyme, Phoneme isolation, blending, addition
•Letter Recognition: Ff /f/, Rr /r/
•High Frequency Word: He & With
•Oral Language: Fresh, Delicious, Beneath, Raise, Special
•Vocab. Strategy: Context Clues
•Grammar/Writing: Pronouns
•Eureka Math: Topic 8 Decomposing numbers 6-8
•Science: Plants & Animals: Places Plants Grow
•Social Studies: Holidays Fall on All Days of the Week
January 20 - 23
•Wonders Reading: How are the seasons different?
•Phonemic Awareness: Recognize Rhyme, Phoneme isolation, blending, segmentation
•Letter Recognition: Bb /b/, Ll /l/
•High Frequency Word: is & little
•Oral Language: weather, seasons. Migrate, active, spot
•Vocab. Strategy: Weather words
•Grammar/Writing: Nouns
•Envision Math: Decompose 8-10
•Science: Places Plants Grow
•Social Studies: A Busy Schedule
January 26 - 30
•Wonders Reading: What happens in different kinds of weather?
•Phonemic Awareness: Recognize Rhyme, Phoneme isolation, blending, segmentation
•Letter Recognition: Kk /k/, Ck /k/
•High Frequency Word: she & was
•Oral Language: predict, temperature, drought, clever, storm
•Vocab. Strategy: Weather words
•Grammar/Writing: Nouns
•Envision Math: Topic 9
•Science: Plants and Animals
•Social Studies: Our Flags
February 2 - 6
•Wonders Reading: How can you stay safe in bad weather?
•Phonemic Awareness: Recognize Rhyme, Phoneme Isolation, Blending, Segmentation
•Letter Recognition: Ll blends bl, cl, sl, fl
•High Frequency Word: she & was
•Oral Language: safe, prepare, notice, celebration, enough
•Grammar/Writing: Nouns
•Envision Math: 9.5 – 9.7
•Science: Places Animals Live
•Social Studies: Follow the Leader
February 9 - 13
•Wonders Reading: Review
•Phonemic Awareness: Review
•Letter Recognition: Review
•High Frequency Word: Review
•Oral Language: Review
•Grammar/Writing: Review
•Envision Math: 10.1 – 10.3
•Science: Places Animals Live
•Social Studies: Our President
February 17 - 20
•Wonders Reading: How are animals alike and different?
•Phonemic Awareness: Onset & Rime Blending
•Letter Recognition: Uu/u/
•High Frequency Word: for & have
•Oral Language: appearance, behavior, exercise, wander, plenty
•Grammar/Writing: Verbs
•Envision Math: 10.4 – 10.6
•Science: Places Animals Live
•Social Studies: Need for Speed
February 23 - 27
•Wonders Reading: How do you take care of different kinds of pets?
•Phonemic Awareness: Recognize and generate rhyme
•Letter Recognition: Gg /g/ & Ww /w/
•High Frequency Word: of & they
•Oral Language: responsibility, train, depend, compared, social
•Grammar/Writing: Verbs
•Envision Math: 10.7, Topic 10 review & Begin Topic 11.1 – 11.3
•Science: Plants and Animals and their Parents
•Social Studies: Where have you seen me?
March 2 - 6
•Wonders Reading: Where do animals live?
•Phonemic Awareness: Onset & Rime; Segmentation
•Letter Recognition: Xx /ks/ & Vv /v/
•High Frequency Word: said & want
•Oral Language: habitat, wild, complain, join, stubborn
•Grammar/Writing: Verbs
•Envision Math: Topic 11.4 - 11.5
•Science: Plants & Animals
•Social Studies: Places Around the World
March 9 - 13
•Wonders Reading: What can help you get from here to there?
•Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, blending, substitution
•Letter Recognition: Jj /j/ & Qq /qu/
•High Frequency Word: here & me
•Oral Language: transportation, vehicle, journey, fierce, wide
•Grammar/Writing: Prepositions
•Envision Math: Topic 11 review
•Science: Protecting our Earth
•Social Studies: When’s your birthday?
WONDERS SIGHT WORDS
REPORT CARD SKILLS
Quarter 3
Reading Skills
Please keep in mind, every child learns at a different pace. Therefore, our goal is for your child to master these skills by the end of the school year.
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Identify story elements: author/illustrator
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Name 10 uppercase letters in random order
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Name 10 lowercase letters in random order
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Reads sight words (10 out of 12)
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Identify beginning sounds
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Identify letter sounds (Tt, Ii, Nn, Cc, Oo, Dd)
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Write the letter for each sound (Tt, Ii, Nn, Cc, Oo, Dd)
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Write first and last name correctly
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Correctly form uppercase letters: (T, I, N, C, O, D)
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Correctly forms lower case letters: (t, i, n, c, o, d)
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Draw/dictate/write to give information or explain
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Recognize sentence structure: capitalization and punctuation
Quarter 3
Math Skills
Please keep in mind, every child learns at a different pace. Therefore, our goal is for your child to master these skills by the end of the school year.
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Topic 1-Numbers 0 to 5
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Topic 2-Compare Numbers 0-5
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Topic 3- Numbers 6-10
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Topic 4-Compare Numbers 0-10
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Classify and Count Data
TENNESSEE READING 360
Cracking the Code
Katie Garner
How the Secret Stories® Method Works
An Approach to Teaching Reading that Kids Want to Learn
Secret Stories® is a brain based approach to traditional phonics instruction that accelerates learner access to the reading and writing code. Secret Stories® provides the logical explanations for letter sound behavior that learners brains crave. These logical explanations are shared in the form of “secret” stories, which are the secret reasons WHY letters make all of the crazy sounds that they do when they get together in words. The “Secrets” work seamlessly with any reading series or phonics program, fitting snugly between the teaching of reading and writing.
SECRET STORIES
KATIE GARNER
Reading 360 & Secret Stories
Reading 360° is a comprehensive approach that will provide optional grants and resources to help more
Tennessee students develop strong phonics-based reading
skills by supporting districts, teachers, and families. MSCS teachers attended summer training for Reading 360 and we are excited to implement this reading supplemental into our classroom.
3rd GRADE COMMITTMENT
KINDERGARTEN SCHEDULE
DAILY SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to change.
9:00 – 9:15 - Arrival/Breakfast (Breakfast in the cafeteria will begin at 8:45 a.m. daily. Please drop off your child in the back parking lot car line.)
9:25 – 10:25 – ELA
10:30 – 11:25 - MAPS (Music, Art, P.E.)
11:30 - 12:30 ELA
12:40 - 1:10 - Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 - Math
2:15 - 3:00 - RTI
3:00 - 3:40 - Recess
3:40 –4:00 – Science/Social Studies
4:00 - Prepare for Dismissal
LUNCH MENU
CLICK ON LINK BELOW
Make sure you change the menu to lunch in the upper, left corner, in red.
DISMISSAL
For more detailed dismissal information, click on the picture below for how your child goes home.
BUS RIDER, CAR RIDER, FRONT DOOR/BACK DOOR WALKER, DAYCARE/YCARE
CARLINE MAP
FOR DROP OFF AND PICK UP
Drop off is at 8:45 a.m. if your child will be eating breakfast. If your child will not eat breakfast, then drop off is 8:55 a.m. daily. Car line pick up time begins at 4:00 p.m. the first few weeks. Please be patient the first few weeks of school as we will dismiss over 1100 students daily.
Please email your teacher if you need a copy.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
TEACHER EMAIL
Just a Click Away
Lakisha Becton bectonl1@scsk12.org
Sondra Brooks-Whitfield brookswhitfieldsm@scsk12.org
Christin Driver drivercm@scsk12.org
Stacy Eisenbraun eisenbrauns@scsk12.org
Sarah Faught faughtsg@scsk12.org
Susan Niewiemski gustafsonsr@scsk12.org
Lindsay Pennington penningtonl@scsk12.org
Wendy Rook rookw@scsk12.org
Clentonian Woods woodsc4@scsk12.org
STUDENT CALENDAR/SCHOOL INFORMATION
2025 - 2026
Contact Us
9800 Macon Rd, Cordova, TN 38016, USA
(901) 416-2625
Macon-Hall Elementary School
