The Nicklin Learning Center Staff is committed to providing our students with a safe, nurturing, and child-centered environment. We pledge to educate the whole child by promoting high expectations, ownership of learning, social skills and growth.
Each day selected children help with announcements, leading the recitation of the Nicklin Pledge: "I am a reader, a writer, a great kindergartner. I speak, I listen, to gather information. I am a doer, a thinker, a great problem solver! I laugh, I play, I do my best each day! I am a great Nicklin learner."
Nicklin Learning Center Goals
Our Reading goals are that all students:
- Identify upper and lower case letters and their sounds.
- Read and identify 40 high frequency words.
- Count the syllables in words.
- Use illustrations and words to predict the outcome of a story.
- Recognize predicatable story patterns.
- Identyfy rhyming words.
- Understand the characteristics of a book.
- Predict, sequence, compare, and answer questions related to a orally read text.
- Identfy the main idea, characters, and setting of a story.
- Can use phonics to sound out words.
- Retell a simple story.
- Compare simiar stories.
Our Math goals are that all students:
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize and write numbers 0-20.
- Demonstrate ability to count orally to 100 by 1's and 10's.
- Demonstrate ability to count objects to 20
- Identify 8 basic colors.
- Identify two and three dimensional shapes.
- Gathers, communicates, and sorts data using a table or graph.
- Compares and orders numbers.
- Visually recognizes sets up to 10 without counting. (domino/dice patterns, groups of 10)
- Compare, measure, and order objects by length and weight.
- Separates a set of objects into equal groups.
- Demonstrates positions of objects that are above, below, under, beside, between, left, and right.
Our Writing goals are that all students:
- Demonstrate ability to print all uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Demonstrate ability to print numbers 1-20.
- Write the child's name independently.
- Write from the top to the bottom of the page and from left to right.
- Begin to write independently.
- Draw, dictate, and write a narrative piece.
- Draw, dictate, and write an informative piece.
- Draw, dictate, and write an opinion piece.
Our Parent goals are that all parents:
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Attend Open House
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Attend Parent Teacher Conferences.
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Read to their children and meet the Family Reading Goal of 30 books per month goal a minimum of 7 out of 9 times.
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Participate in at least one Family Literacy Night or family event sponsored by the school.
Our Teacher goals are that all teachers: