Kindergarten
Nuts and Bolts
School Supplies
Please bring school
supplies to Meet the Teacher so we
can organize materials before children arrive on the first day.
Family Connection Meetings (20 minutes each)
Please bring…
·
Your child
·
Your questions
·
A verbal description of your child’s background, interests,
and any pertinent information you would like us to know
·
Introducing Me booklet (if you have it)
·
School Supplies (it not dropped off yet)
Let us know if you need a translator.
First
Day
Feel free to drop off
your child and walk with your child to classroom to take some quick pictures.
We recommend saying, “Goodbye,” at this time, when the children are all sitting
at the carpet waving goodbye to you.
Drop
Off/ Pick Up
We
meet outside the main front doors every morning at 8:25. We walk out at 3:07 (in the beginning) and 3:10 normally,
with dismissal at 3:15 for school,
in the afternoons and will gather on these walls also. When facing the school,
you will see Mrs. Ross and Montgomery's class gathering on the left. If
tardy, please sign your child in at the office.
Getting Home Information
Please communicate with your
child and with us how your child will be getting home daily,
e.g., parent pickup/walker, busser, or Boys’ and Girls’ Club. It is helpful to
label this information with your child’s name on the inside of his or her
backpack. Please include the bus route
number, if busser. If your child has an older sibling whom she/he will need
to connect with at the end of the day, this is also helpful information to know!
Parent
- Teacher Conferences
·
September (Family Connection Meetings)
·
October
and March
*Sign
up with our office staff or online.
Meals
and Snacks
When
planning for these,
1) Please
watch for classroom allergy alerts, and
2) Consider
the culture we are establishing of forming healthy habits.
Breakfast
Please contact your teacher if you would like your
child to be eating breakfast at school.
Lunchtime
Daily, 11:15
Home
or school lunch (If we see no lunch in backpack, we will send child in line for
school lunch.)
School
Lunch Payment:
·
Pre-paying
online on
CVE website*
·
Money:
In baggie with student’s first and last name
·
Check:
labeled with student’s first and last name
Snack
- Daily Snack:
- AM Snack,
Lunch, PM Snack (if needed – could be leftovers from lunch)
- Examples: crackers,
graham crackers, fruit, veggies, cheese sticks
- Water only for
snacks
- DRY food for
morning snack
- Non-examples: chips and
cookies
- No fruit cups
or yogurts that may spill on the carpet
- No juice or
milk for snack (for lunch ok)
- Allergies of
our class (nuts)
It
is very helpful to keep lunch and snack(s) SEPARATE, so children know what is
snack and what is for lunch.
Birthdays
·
A way to celebrate each other!
·
We are promoting healthy habits, so healthy treats
please.
o
Option of trinket bags, stickers, fun pencils
·
·
Please let us know they are coming ahead of time.
Thursday
Folders
·
Check
the take home folders each Thursday and send it back to school the following
day. We will try to hold communication until Thursday.
Early
Release on Fridays
1:15 school
dismissal every Friday; Kindergarten walks
out ~1:10
Volunteers
We
love volunteers! Around Fall
Conference Time, we will have signups for volunteers. You will need to pick up
and fill out a volunteer packet, along with a copy of your driver’s license at
the office. Think about what you want to bring to the classroom: focus on
helping with teacher tasks, working with students as with whole class or with
small groups, and any expertise/ interests you have (art, experiences to share
that our students would enjoy learning about, etc.).
Specialists
·
P.E.
·
Music
·
Library: children will be checking out 1
book a week. This will promote responsible habit of returning weekly. Families
are responsible for missing books, and will be noticed of overdue books.
Recess
Daily outside recess
Clothing –
We get dirty and wet
at school, as we play outside and do messy projects at times (art/ sensory
centers). Please sent extra clothes with your child!
Homework
We believe in integrating learning into daily life,
and will share ideas of how to organically support your child’s learning
through experiences outside of school. Also, a top priority is to read to,
with, and then listen to your child read!
Allergies
Please contact your
child’s teacher if your child has allergies and let us know what kind and their
severity (life-threatening or not).
Medications
All medications must
be given to school office.
Contact –
Please email your child’s teacher, from your preferred email
address(es) for classroom communication and add your child’s name into the
email.
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