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...
August 3 - 7
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Welcome to Kindergarten
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Rules and Procedures
August 10 - 14
• Smart Start Week 1: How is everyone special?
• Phonemic Awareness: Sentence Segmentation &
Identify Rhyme
• Letter Recognition: A-H
• High Frequency Word: I
• Oral Vocab.: names
• Grammar/Writing: Shared writing
• Envision Math: Topic 1.1 & 1.2 - Numbers 0-5
• Science: Describe Matter
• Social Studies: Taking Turns
August 17 - 21
• Smart Start Week 2: Who is in your family?
• Phonemic Awareness: Sentence Segmentation &
Identify Rhyme
• Letter Recognition: Ii - Rr
• High Frequency Word: can
• Oral Vocab.: numbers
• Grammar/Writing: Shared writing
• Envision Math: Topic 1.3 1.7 - Numbers 0-5
• Science: Describe Matter
• Social Studies: Work, Then Play
August 24 - 28
• Smart Start Week 3: What can you do?
• Phonemic Awareness: Recognize Rhyme &
Identify and Blend Rhyme
• Letter Recognition: Ss - Zz
• High Frequency Word: Review I & can
• Oral Vocab.: Days of the Week
• Grammar/Writing: Shared writing
• Envision Math: Topic 1.8 - 1.10 - Numbers 0-5
• Science: Describe Matter - Liquids
• Social Studies: Week 1 Personal Direction
August 31 - September 4
•Unit 1 Week 1: How can we get along with new friends?
•Phonemic Awareness: Sentence Segmentation
•Letter Recognition: Mm /m/
•High Frequency Word: the
•Oral Vocab.: friend, problem, grasped, escaped, rescue
•Grammar/Writing: Nouns
•Envision Math: Topic 2.1 – 2.4
•Science: Matter: Liquids
•Social Studies: Maps & Globes
September 8 - 11
•Wonders Reading: How do baby animals move?
•Phonemic Awareness: Recognize Rhyme, Phoneme isolation, identification blending
•Letter Recognition: Aa/a/
•High Frequency Word: we
•Vocabulary: adventure, movement, exhausted, exciting, arrived
•Oral Language: Family Words
•Grammar/Writing: Nouns
•Envision Math: Topic 2 Review & Topic 3.1 - 3.3
•Science: Putting Matter Together
•Social Studies: What’s your address?
September 14 - 18
•Wonders Reading: How can your senses help you learn?
•Phonemic Awareness: Onset & Rime, Blending, phoneme isolation, categorization
•Letter Recognition: Ss/s/
•High Frequency Word: see
•Oral Language: senses, explore, feast, kneads, finished
•Grammar/Writing: Verbs
•Envision Math: 3.4 - 3.8
•Science: Our Science Senses
•Social Studies: Wants and Needs
September 21 - 25
Wonders: How do tools help us explore?
Phonemic Awareness: Alliteration, phoneme isolation, blending, categorization
Letter Recognition: Pp /p/
High Frequency Word: a
Oral Vocab.: tools, discover, fetch, rumble, defeated
Grammar/Writing: Verbs
Envision Math: Topic 3 Review and Topic 4.1
Science: Living and Nonliving Things
Social Studies: Food & Clothing
September 28 - October 2
•Wonders Reading: What shapes do you see around you?
•Phonemic Awareness: Onset and Rime Blending Phoneme isolation, blending, categorization
•Letter Recognition: Tt /t/
•High Frequency Word: like
•Oral Vocab.: materials, nature, world, decoration, games
•Grammar/Writing: Verbs
•Envision Math: Topic 4.2 – 4.5 Review & Assess
•Science: Living and Nonliving Things
•Social Studies: Survival Skills
WONDERS SIGHT WORDS
REPORT CARD SKILLS
Quarter 1
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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Identifies front cover
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Identifies back cover
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Identifies title page
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Names 4 uppercase letters in random order M, A,S, P
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Names 4 lowercase letters in random order m, a, s, p
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Read sight words: I, can, the, we, see, a (5 out of 6)
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Identify letter sounds: Mm, Aa (short and long), Ss, Pp
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Write the letter sounds: Mm, Aa (short and long), Ss, Pp
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Writes first name correctly
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Writes uppercase letters: M, A, S, P letters (reversals accepted)
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Writes lowercase letters: m, a , s, p (reversals accepted)
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Use Nouns
Quarter 1
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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Count numbers backward from 10
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Represent and Write numbers for a set of objects from 0 to 10
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Recognize and analyze a pattern using concrete materials
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Count objects to 10, say the number names in the standard order, using one-to-one correspondence
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.)
9:15 – 10:15 – ELA
10:20 – 11:15 - MAPS (Music, Art, P.E.)
11:20 - 12:20 ELA
12:40 - 1:10 - Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 - Math
2:15 - 2:55 - Recess/Snack
3:00 - 3:45 - RTI
3:45 –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.
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
Sondra Brooks-Whitfield brookswhitfieldsm@scsk12.org
Shalunda Commodore commdores@scsk12.org
Roneshia Drake drakerd@scsk12.org
Christin Driver drivercm@scsk12.org
Stacy Eisenbraun eisenbrauns@scsk12.org
Sarah Faught faughtsg@scsk12.org
Davaries Horton hortondd@scsk12.org
Susan Niewiemski gustafsonsr@scsk12.org
STUDENT CALENDAR/SCHOOL INFORMATION
2026 - 2027
Contact Us
9800 Macon Rd, Cordova, TN 38016, USA
(901) 416-2625
Macon-Hall Elementary School
