Back to School Schedule for T/K and Kindergarten
(note the times are different then Back to School for 1 - 6 grades!)
If you are in my class, I will be taking a picture of you and your student at this meeting for a class project we will do on the first day of school.
Monday, August 12th - TK and Kindergarten Orientation
9:00-9:15- Parents and students in the MPR with PTA.
9:15-9:30 - parents and students go to the classroom with the teacher
9:30-10:00 - students on the yard with yard supervisors - parents in the classroom with the teacher
10:00 yard supervisors send students back into the classroom to meet up with their grown-up and teacher dismisses all to walk back thru the MPR if they need to sign up for anything else or just go home.
Kindergarten Information Mrs. Spencer – Room 1
Common Core State Standards ~
We are teaching the Common Core State Standards. The early release Wednesday’s schedule allows for us to work together by grade level to plan our lessons implementing the Common Core State Standards. Below are two web sites that are good resources for parents to better understand the Common Core State Standards.
Parent Handbook for Common Core State Standards
http://www.smmusd.org/edservices/commoncore/pdf/CCSParentHandbook.pdf
Parent Roadmap for Kindergarten
http://www.cgcs.org/cms/lib/DC00001581/Centricity/Domain/36/Updated%20ParentGuide_ELA_K.pdf
SUPER BEE
Each day, a child will be chosen to take home Super Bee. Super Bee goes home in a special bag with a journal in it or another activity. Follow the instructions in the bag and return it to school the next day.
Attendance Procedures
If your child is absent for any reason, please call James Foster Elementary School attendance line at 661-294-5355. You may use this number 24-hours a day. Please note that an excused absence can only be for illness, doctor or dental visit, funeral for immediate family, exclusion for health reasons or religious holiday. If we do not have verification by a phone call or note, your child will be marked unexcused. According to the California Education Code, we need verification of all absences. Three unexcused absences are considered truancy according to the state of California.
DROP-OFF AND PICK-UP
Morning drop-off ~
Please say good-bye to your child at the gate and let them walk in by themselves. Once they are on the playground, they may not go out the gate. Remember to park on the street if you are walking your student to the yard.
NO STUDENT DROP- OFF FROM YOUR CAR BY THE “K” GATE!
After School Pick-up ~
Valet ~
If you are picking up your child through the valet, please make a sign for the front passenger window with your child’s name and their teacher’s name. YOUR CHILD MUST BE ABLE TO GET IN AND BUCKLE UP BY THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO USE VALET. STUDENTS MUST ENTER THE CAR ON THE CURB SIDE. PARENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GET OUT OF THEIR VEHICLES TO ASSIST THEIR CHILD.
Walkers ~
Please park on the street and walk to the kindergarten yard gate. We will dismiss walkers from the gate.
BIRTHDAYS
We enjoy sharing special days in class. However, in support of a healthy life style, we are no longer allowing any birthday snacks. Instead, we encourage students to donate a book to the class library in honor of their birthday. Please put your child’s picture inside the front cover and write donated by ____ and the date. You may want to be a Royal Reader when presenting the book to the class. We can celebrate summer birthdays anytime you like. Please let me know when you want to celebrate a birthday, so I can make sure our calendar is clear.
BACKPACKS
I encourage children to bring backpacks to class each day. This is my way of making sure that papers get home and are not lost on the sidewalk. A standard size folder should be able to fit inside the backpack. Please check your child’s backpack daily for class work and notices. Rolling backpacks take up a great deal of our crowded classroom space, so we are not allowing them. Please include in your child’s backpack an extra change of underwear, pants, shirt and socks in case they are needed during the day. I realize that children may be going somewhere other than home after school and may need to bring toys or extra clothes to class. These things must stay in the backpacks and not brought out for children to play with in class - No toys at school!
HOMEWORK
Homework is designed to help your child be successful in school. It needs to be supervised by an adult. Read the KLIPS (parent info letter) and initial on the side column after doing homework each night. It will include activities, reading, and math skills. It is also important that storybook reading be a part of each child’s nightly routine. Please record nightly reading on the READ sheet. Keep the READ sheet in your student’s homework folder. This is part of your student’s homework grade and I will check it weekly.
NAME WRITING PRACTICE
Please have your child practice writing their name. Remember to use a capital for the first letter and lower case for the rest of the letters.
BOOK BAGS
I will start the Super Bee book bag on the first day of school. Please read the story or do the activity and send back the book bag the next school day so others may enjoy it also.
FALCON FOLDER
Falcon folders will go home on Tuesdays. Inside you will find correspondence from the office and/or PTA. Other flyers may also be included. Please check folders and return on Wednesday. The Falcon News is posted on the school website and will not be in the Falcon folder.
SUPER STAR
Each week a child will have the honor of being Super Star. This is a time for your child to create a poster all about them, bring in some of his/her treasures to share and for us to get to know each child. You will also have the opportunity to be a Royal Reader (see below). A note will be sent home at least one week prior to your child’s week explaining what your child needs to bring in.
ROYAL READERS
One of the most important goals of Kindergarten is to promote the love of books. An effective way to do this is to show the children that adults also enjoy books. I am going to ask adults from our community, our school, and our classroom families to take time to read to our class sometime during the year. I will take your picture to display on our Royal Reader wall. You may bring one of your favorite childhood books or one your child enjoys now. This becomes a favorite time of the day for everyone.
BOOK ORDERS
Each month, I will send out book orders for you to order books. They are wonderful, age-appropriate selections, at good prices. I will let you know when the orders are due. Please make your check out to Scholastic Reading Club. You may write one check even if you order from more than one flyer. You may also order online. There are more books to choose from and you will have access to various age/grade levels. Watch for the class code when the orders go home.
SHARING
Sharing is part of our oral language program. Your child will be assigned a day to share. They will share on the same day the entire year. Look in your child’s homework folder for their share day. The sharing assignments will be listed on the “Kindergarten Klips.” Sharing is part of the homework grade and the listening and speaking grade.
RAINY DAY
On rainy days please bring children to the MPR instead of the playground before school starts. At the end of the day, students will be walked out as usual.
I look forward to working together as a team to help your child meet their potential. Parent conferences will be the week of November 18th - 22nd, to discuss your child’s first report card, strengths and to plan a strategy for your child’s success. I can be reached at school daily between 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM @ 294-5355.
Email:
[email protected]
web site:
http://dspencerkindergarten.weebly.com
Sincerely,
Mrs. Spencer
Room 1 KINDERGARTEN SCHEDULE
8:00 – 8:05 ~ attendance
8:05 – 8:30 ~ journal writing
8:30 – 9:00 ~ rug time / flag / calendar / story/
9:00 – 10:00 ~ language arts centers
(four rotations)
10:00 - 10:20 ~ recess
10:20 - 11:00 ~ math
11:00 - 11:15 ~ share
11:15 – 12:00 ~ lunch
12:00 - 12:45 ~ social studies / science
12:30 - 1:00 ~ ELD & Listening and Speaking
1:00 - 1:30 ~ P.E.
1:30 - 1:55 ~ music / art
1:55 - 1:59 ~ pack up
1:59 ~ dismissal
*Every Wednesday, students will be dismissed at 1:34 PM.
(note the times are different then Back to School for 1 - 6 grades!)
If you are in my class, I will be taking a picture of you and your student at this meeting for a class project we will do on the first day of school.
Monday, August 12th - TK and Kindergarten Orientation
9:00-9:15- Parents and students in the MPR with PTA.
9:15-9:30 - parents and students go to the classroom with the teacher
9:30-10:00 - students on the yard with yard supervisors - parents in the classroom with the teacher
10:00 yard supervisors send students back into the classroom to meet up with their grown-up and teacher dismisses all to walk back thru the MPR if they need to sign up for anything else or just go home.
Kindergarten Information Mrs. Spencer – Room 1
Common Core State Standards ~
We are teaching the Common Core State Standards. The early release Wednesday’s schedule allows for us to work together by grade level to plan our lessons implementing the Common Core State Standards. Below are two web sites that are good resources for parents to better understand the Common Core State Standards.
Parent Handbook for Common Core State Standards
http://www.smmusd.org/edservices/commoncore/pdf/CCSParentHandbook.pdf
Parent Roadmap for Kindergarten
http://www.cgcs.org/cms/lib/DC00001581/Centricity/Domain/36/Updated%20ParentGuide_ELA_K.pdf
SUPER BEE
Each day, a child will be chosen to take home Super Bee. Super Bee goes home in a special bag with a journal in it or another activity. Follow the instructions in the bag and return it to school the next day.
Attendance Procedures
If your child is absent for any reason, please call James Foster Elementary School attendance line at 661-294-5355. You may use this number 24-hours a day. Please note that an excused absence can only be for illness, doctor or dental visit, funeral for immediate family, exclusion for health reasons or religious holiday. If we do not have verification by a phone call or note, your child will be marked unexcused. According to the California Education Code, we need verification of all absences. Three unexcused absences are considered truancy according to the state of California.
DROP-OFF AND PICK-UP
Morning drop-off ~
Please say good-bye to your child at the gate and let them walk in by themselves. Once they are on the playground, they may not go out the gate. Remember to park on the street if you are walking your student to the yard.
NO STUDENT DROP- OFF FROM YOUR CAR BY THE “K” GATE!
After School Pick-up ~
Valet ~
If you are picking up your child through the valet, please make a sign for the front passenger window with your child’s name and their teacher’s name. YOUR CHILD MUST BE ABLE TO GET IN AND BUCKLE UP BY THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO USE VALET. STUDENTS MUST ENTER THE CAR ON THE CURB SIDE. PARENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GET OUT OF THEIR VEHICLES TO ASSIST THEIR CHILD.
Walkers ~
Please park on the street and walk to the kindergarten yard gate. We will dismiss walkers from the gate.
BIRTHDAYS
We enjoy sharing special days in class. However, in support of a healthy life style, we are no longer allowing any birthday snacks. Instead, we encourage students to donate a book to the class library in honor of their birthday. Please put your child’s picture inside the front cover and write donated by ____ and the date. You may want to be a Royal Reader when presenting the book to the class. We can celebrate summer birthdays anytime you like. Please let me know when you want to celebrate a birthday, so I can make sure our calendar is clear.
BACKPACKS
I encourage children to bring backpacks to class each day. This is my way of making sure that papers get home and are not lost on the sidewalk. A standard size folder should be able to fit inside the backpack. Please check your child’s backpack daily for class work and notices. Rolling backpacks take up a great deal of our crowded classroom space, so we are not allowing them. Please include in your child’s backpack an extra change of underwear, pants, shirt and socks in case they are needed during the day. I realize that children may be going somewhere other than home after school and may need to bring toys or extra clothes to class. These things must stay in the backpacks and not brought out for children to play with in class - No toys at school!
HOMEWORK
Homework is designed to help your child be successful in school. It needs to be supervised by an adult. Read the KLIPS (parent info letter) and initial on the side column after doing homework each night. It will include activities, reading, and math skills. It is also important that storybook reading be a part of each child’s nightly routine. Please record nightly reading on the READ sheet. Keep the READ sheet in your student’s homework folder. This is part of your student’s homework grade and I will check it weekly.
NAME WRITING PRACTICE
Please have your child practice writing their name. Remember to use a capital for the first letter and lower case for the rest of the letters.
BOOK BAGS
I will start the Super Bee book bag on the first day of school. Please read the story or do the activity and send back the book bag the next school day so others may enjoy it also.
FALCON FOLDER
Falcon folders will go home on Tuesdays. Inside you will find correspondence from the office and/or PTA. Other flyers may also be included. Please check folders and return on Wednesday. The Falcon News is posted on the school website and will not be in the Falcon folder.
SUPER STAR
Each week a child will have the honor of being Super Star. This is a time for your child to create a poster all about them, bring in some of his/her treasures to share and for us to get to know each child. You will also have the opportunity to be a Royal Reader (see below). A note will be sent home at least one week prior to your child’s week explaining what your child needs to bring in.
ROYAL READERS
One of the most important goals of Kindergarten is to promote the love of books. An effective way to do this is to show the children that adults also enjoy books. I am going to ask adults from our community, our school, and our classroom families to take time to read to our class sometime during the year. I will take your picture to display on our Royal Reader wall. You may bring one of your favorite childhood books or one your child enjoys now. This becomes a favorite time of the day for everyone.
BOOK ORDERS
Each month, I will send out book orders for you to order books. They are wonderful, age-appropriate selections, at good prices. I will let you know when the orders are due. Please make your check out to Scholastic Reading Club. You may write one check even if you order from more than one flyer. You may also order online. There are more books to choose from and you will have access to various age/grade levels. Watch for the class code when the orders go home.
SHARING
Sharing is part of our oral language program. Your child will be assigned a day to share. They will share on the same day the entire year. Look in your child’s homework folder for their share day. The sharing assignments will be listed on the “Kindergarten Klips.” Sharing is part of the homework grade and the listening and speaking grade.
RAINY DAY
On rainy days please bring children to the MPR instead of the playground before school starts. At the end of the day, students will be walked out as usual.
I look forward to working together as a team to help your child meet their potential. Parent conferences will be the week of November 18th - 22nd, to discuss your child’s first report card, strengths and to plan a strategy for your child’s success. I can be reached at school daily between 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM @ 294-5355.
Email:
[email protected]
web site:
http://dspencerkindergarten.weebly.com
Sincerely,
Mrs. Spencer
Room 1 KINDERGARTEN SCHEDULE
8:00 – 8:05 ~ attendance
8:05 – 8:30 ~ journal writing
8:30 – 9:00 ~ rug time / flag / calendar / story/
9:00 – 10:00 ~ language arts centers
(four rotations)
10:00 - 10:20 ~ recess
10:20 - 11:00 ~ math
11:00 - 11:15 ~ share
11:15 – 12:00 ~ lunch
12:00 - 12:45 ~ social studies / science
12:30 - 1:00 ~ ELD & Listening and Speaking
1:00 - 1:30 ~ P.E.
1:30 - 1:55 ~ music / art
1:55 - 1:59 ~ pack up
1:59 ~ dismissal
*Every Wednesday, students will be dismissed at 1:34 PM.