001[Music] hello madison community my name is hilary o'brien and i am going into my seventh year as principal of madison campbell view elementary campbell view is home to approximately 600 students in grades kindergarten through fourth grade we have five kindergarten classrooms and the ratio is 26 students to one teacher and we also have two kindergarten aides that support the teachers throughout the day we offer free all-day kindergarten and we are a uniform school in 2018 kim will be received the prestigious a school of excellence award from the arizona education foundation for our excellence in school culture and academic achievement camel view signature program is scheme science technology engineering the arts and mathematics and our vision is in an ever-changing world we can lead we can learn and we can inspire our school vision is embedded
002into everything that we do every day at camel view camelview has a strong sense of community and school spirit is of great importance at our school each quarter we have a large spirit assembly where we come together to celebrate being a cub we have a pto that does a variety of family oriented events which include bingo and movie night and they also host a variety of school fundraisers throughout the year we encourage our parents to become very involved at campbell view and we love our volunteers hi parents my name is elaine glassman and i teach kindergarten at madison campbell view today i'm going to walk you through the curriculum that we use at camelview and then also give you a little glimpse into the day and the year in the life of the camel view
003kindergartner for our curriculum that we use at madison campbell view we have spalding for phonics and for spalding we teach students all of the sounds that a phonogram or a letter makes so instead of just teaching them that a says ah we're teaching them that a says a o this is a program that teaches them both how to form and write the letters as well as know the sounds for reading comprehension we use wonders and wonders has an essential question for each week as well as comprehension skills for math we use my math and it's also a common core curriculum that follows number sense students are analyzing 2d and 3d shapes they are learning how to add and subtract they are learning how to analyze data using my math for science we use inspire science
004that has engaging science lessons for students and we also are steam school so we do a lot of steam projects with students and for writing we use thinking maps so we're teaching kids how to use different maps like circle maps and tree maps to organize their thoughts and write from their map so now i'm going to walk you through the day in the life of a kindergartner at camelview when students come in they start the morning with phonics and that is our spalding program that we teach after spalding we go into reading comprehension so we are focusing on a reading comprehension skills students are applying it in text after reading comprehension we have a little morning recess to have a wiggle break after recess we come back for a rated guided reading guided study and
005this is a time where we group students based on skills that they need during this time students might stay with their homeroom teacher or travel around to one of our four other classrooms we have five kindergarten teachers total so we split the kids up and students are working on enrichment during this time or they might be working on remedial skills extra practice that they might need and they might meet in a small group with a teacher or a whole group with a teacher and then teachers differentiate in these groups based on the needs of the students on what skill we're working on after we do reading guided study we have writing and during our writing time we will use thinking maps and we will be writing complete sentences to a topic after reading we get
006to go to lunch and then we go to recess when we come back from lunch and recess we move into math and we do number of the day so we're teaching a number of the day every day of school we teach students how to break apart the number add the number together show the number using tens and ones show it in an addition sentence maybe a subtraction sentence so first we do number of the day then we move into our math skill that we're working on after we do math students go to special areas so they will go to art music pe or coding mr mckinley after they come back from their special area time we move into our snack time which is our favorite time of the day students will bring in snacks to
007share with the class or they might bring their own snacks so we have a little snack break then we will do our math guided study which is going to be the same as a reading guided study in the morning where students are switching class based on what they need and then at the very end of the day is our steam or our science time so that is a little walkthrough in the typical day of a camel v kindergartner hello families of future cubs my name is justine labuda and i am the administrative teacher on assignment here at madison camelview this is my third year as an administrator and prior to i was a fourth grade language arts teacher madison campbell view has much to offer in terms of providing a an environment where students social
008emotional and physical well-being is not only met but is exceeded madison campbell view offers a rich pbis or positive behavioral intervention system we regularly reinforce and use the acronym c u b s being courteous understanding our responsibilities being safe and staying organized as a pillar for the success of our students extrinsic and intrinsic behaviors both on campus and at home this system is reinforced through posters located in every area of the school you can expect to hear all staff members reinforcing positive behavior with phrases such as thank you for being courteous to your classmate by helping to pick up their books we have found that by providing five positive statements for every one redirection as paramount in the success of our camel view cubs in keeping in alignment with the mata madison school district we
009have adopted a new sel or social and emotional curriculum entitled i'm it to provide daily and engaging and dynamic lessons for students to support their well-being these lessons are taught at the beginning of each day and tap into themes such as healthy choices self-regulation kindness conflict resolution growth mindset and resiliency just to name a few madison campbell view is a place where students know they are supported cared for and loved as soon as they step onto campus and as they transition home we look forward to providing a dynamic learning environment for your future cup i also wanted to share with you some things that we do here at campbell view for our kindergarteners to help with their social emotional health and well-being we do a lot of mindfulness in our classrooms we teach students how
010to be mindful of each other mindful of their bodies mindful when they need something and when they need a break we teach them how to have brain breaks both with whole class and if they need their own brain break we do a lot of breathing and we teach students how to inhale and exhale and take some time to catch their breath or notice their breath if they're in the moment and need to calm down we do have calm down corners in each of our kindergarten classrooms and these are stocked with lots of things that can help us regulate our bodies and get back to joining the whole group class we have glitter bottles that students can shake and watch the glitter fall we have little things that they can play with if they need a
011little break to step away and then come back we have a lot of flexible seating in our kindergarten classrooms some teachers have things like yoga balls wobble stools cushions little things that you can put on the bottom of the straps of the chairs to shake your legs we've got all kinds of stuff in our kindergarten classrooms for them to use we also use lots of kagan structures for cooperative learning to get them interacting with each other hi my name is mr mckinley and i am the computer science coding robotics and engineering teacher here at madison camelview it is my pleasure to teach the kindergarten to fourth grade students how to work collaboratively critically and creatively we use computational thinking which means we look at small problems in small chunks look at patterns filter out the
012distractions and write the steps to solve the problem using the computer and other comp computing devices in the coding room we use code.org curriculum to study computer science concepts and practice our developing coding skills we also use wonder workshops dot and dash robots and code and go robots to supplement our developing skills our older students in second third and fourth grade have the opportunity to work with scratch 3.0 and use microbits little bits and lego we do robotic kits we use our comp computer skills to engineer solutions to solve design challenges in the classroom i'm excited and i can't wait to work with your students here at campbell view at camel view we have a maker space room to extend steam opportunities with challenges and projects that are hands-on and engaging from art and music
013to pe and the media center we offer 11 steam focused clubs that include advanced coding robotics and our energy club that focuses on going green throughout the year we have steam events that include steam career day where our where we have a variety of professionals showcase how their careers incorporates the elements of steam we end the year with a huge steam celebration a spotlight celebration where students have the opportunity to showcase their special projects campbell view focuses on providing each child with an engaging learning environment and prioritizes quality instruction so that teachers may provide extraordinary learning for all when you walk into a classroom at camel view you will see kids sitting in small groups utilizing the skills of communication and collaboration through a high degree of student engagement throughout the year teachers focus on
014goal setting for each individual child so that the parent teacher and child have a partnership in the learning process students become involved in their learning and learning strategies that will help them to become successful lifelong learners leadership community and growth mindset are other priority areas at camelview when walking around our school you will notice university flags hanging next to each teacher's classroom the teachers utilize their adopted university and embed college facts into their lessons our goal is to expose and teach our students about the different opportunities that universities have to offer when students leave camel view they will have both a growth mindset and will have developed grit so that they are prepared to have the absolute best middle school [Music] experience [Music] you