Procedures & Schedules
WAYS TO HELP YOUR CHILD BE A HAPPY, HEALTHY LEARNER!
1. Go over your child’s papers daily and talk about school. This shows your child that learning is important. You are the most important person in your child’s life; they want to please you!
2. Clean out your child’s backpack and folder every day.
3. Provide a clean, organized spot for completing homework. Use the toolbox provided.
4. Set a reasonable bedtime. Kindergarten is tough work and your child will be exhausted.
5. Limit gaming on school nights and encourage them to play outside!
6. Read to your child.
7. Encourage activities that involve being creative such as cutting and pasting, playing with playdoh, painting, drawing, reading and writing. This helps develop fine motor control!
8. Encourage your child to be on his/her best behavior. I expect your child to be respectful, patient, and kind. Children learn best in this environment.
9. Encourage your child to eat breakfast daily. A good start to the day is important!
10. Communicate with me about your child and your concerns. Your child is my priority. I want what is best for them and I want to support you in any way that I can.
Homework Folder
Alphabet Linking Chart
Homework Toolbox
Rainbow Sight Word Box (THE PENCIL BOX YOU PURCHASED)
Activity Schedule 1:15-2:00 p.m.
Day One…Music Day Five…Art
Day Two…PE Day Six…Guidance
Day Three…Library Day Seven…Library
Day Four…PE Day Eight…PE
Schedule
Behavior
Illness/Attendance
Transportation
Clothes
Lunch
Breakfast
Classroom Snack
Medication
PTA sign-up sheet/room parent
Birthday Celebrations
Communication
I look forward to a wonderful year with your child!
Kelly Hartberger
WAYS TO HELP YOUR CHILD BE A HAPPY, HEALTHY LEARNER!
1. Go over your child’s papers daily and talk about school. This shows your child that learning is important. You are the most important person in your child’s life; they want to please you!
2. Clean out your child’s backpack and folder every day.
3. Provide a clean, organized spot for completing homework. Use the toolbox provided.
4. Set a reasonable bedtime. Kindergarten is tough work and your child will be exhausted.
5. Limit gaming on school nights and encourage them to play outside!
6. Read to your child.
7. Encourage activities that involve being creative such as cutting and pasting, playing with playdoh, painting, drawing, reading and writing. This helps develop fine motor control!
8. Encourage your child to be on his/her best behavior. I expect your child to be respectful, patient, and kind. Children learn best in this environment.
9. Encourage your child to eat breakfast daily. A good start to the day is important!
10. Communicate with me about your child and your concerns. Your child is my priority. I want what is best for them and I want to support you in any way that I can.
Homework Folder
- Please check your child’s folder daily. In the right side pocket you will find the homework sheet and homework that needs to be returned. You will also find any communication that must be returned. On the left side you will find checked papers or information that is to be kept at home.
- Please send any communication inside the right pocket of this folder.
- PLEASE REMOVE PAPERS FROM THE “LEFT AT HOME” SIDE NIGHTLY!
Alphabet Linking Chart
- The alphabet chart we use every day to chant the letter, picture, and sound of the alphabet is located in the back pocket of your child’s homework folder. Please keep this sheet in the back of your child’s homework folder, behind the clear plastic. This will keep the page clean.
- You can play games with this page as well. Call out a letter or sound and have your child cover the letter/picture with a counter, piece of cereal, or a piece of small candy. Sing the alphabet song as he/she points to the letter. Anything to practice is great!
Homework Toolbox
- The homework toolbox is filled with supplies needed to complete homework.
- This toolbox is to be kept at home. *Please do not leave the box inside book bags!
- Use the crayons and pencils to do homework. Please do NOT use markers or pens.
Rainbow Sight Word Box (THE PENCIL BOX YOU PURCHASED)
- I will send baggies of sight words home every 3 to 4 weeks. When the baggie comes home, please put it inside your child’s sight word box for studying at home.
Activity Schedule 1:15-2:00 p.m.
Day One…Music Day Five…Art
Day Two…PE Day Six…Guidance
Day Three…Library Day Seven…Library
Day Four…PE Day Eight…PE
Schedule
- 7:30 doors open
- 7:45 enter classroom
- 7:50 tardy (Minute of Silence/Pledge)
- 8:00 reading
- 10:00 recess
- 10:25 math
- 11:05 lunch
- 11:40 math
- 12:05 rest
- 12:30 snack/unit (science or social studies)
- 1:15 activity
- 2:18 p.m. dismissal (Kindergarten loads last)
- recess in kindergarten will be playing the classroom and/or playing outside on equipment for a total of 20-30 minutes a day
Behavior
- I expect boys and girls to be obedient, respectful, kind, and helpful. Children have the opportunity to earn stickers, candy, small toys, and gold coins for buying treasure.
- For inappropriate behaviors, natural consequences and/or time outs will be used.
- I will send a note home if I need help in managing your child’s behavior.
- I encourage you to talk to your child about his/her day. Your child does not need to have gotten a coin or sticker in order to have a good day. I want to help build your child’s intrinsic desire to do ones best!
Illness/Attendance
- A record is kept daily of attendance, tardies, and early dismissals, so please call or send an email if your child will be out. Send a written excuse upon your child’s return to school.
Transportation
- Car riders- Parents need to wait inside your car in the parking lot until buses leave then drive up to pick up your child.
- Walkers are escorted across the road. If someone is walking your child home, they will wait outside the side entrance nearest the gym.
- Important: We must have any transportation changes in writing. Call if you forget NO LATER THAN 1:30 PM
Clothes
- Please dress your child in tennis shoes daily. If your child wants to wear boots, sandals, or dress shoes, he/she must bring tennis shoes and be able to change and tie them before recess or gym.
- Kids must be able to change themselves. You will need to replace the soiled clothes the next day.
Lunch
- Decide choices at home and make sure your child knows what he or she is doing (packing or buying lunch).
- Lunch $2.60 (includes milk), breakfast $1.25 (includes milk), milk 40 cents
- Submit forms for free/reduced lunch to the office. You must pay for your child’s breakfast and/or lunch until you are approved.
- Prepaid Lunch Account: I encourage you to load money onto your child’s account. As a kindergartner, it is a challenge to go through the lunch line. It will be much easier for your child to simply punch his/her ID number in and then go.
- Your child must learn his/her ID number as quickly as possible. He/she must enter this number when purchasing any item from the cafeteria.
- Please do NOT put your child’s lunch or snack money in his/her homework folder. I may not get through checking folders until my planning period at 1:15.
- If you pack your child’s lunch, please make sure your child has a balanced lunch and a drink. She/he can purchase just milk from the cafeteria.
- Parents can come for lunch starting the 2nd week. Please do NOT bring fast food lunches! Please check in at the office and get a visitor’s pass before coming to the entrance of the cafeteria.
- Lunchroom Snacks: Your child can purchase additional snacks such as chips, crackers, cakes, and ice cream in the lunchroom for additional costs that range from 50 cents to $1.00. If you do not want your child to purchase snacks at lunch, please let the cafeteria manager know.
Breakfast
- Note that car riders who eat breakfast should be dropped off no later than 7:40 if your child is eating breakfast.
Classroom Snack
- We will have snack each afternoon. You need to send a snack such as a piece of fruit, granola bar, crackers, fruit chews, cereal, Little Debbie cake/cookie, chips, or string cheese every day. Please do not send any snack that requires a spoon!
- DO NOT PUT IT INSIDE YOUR CHILD’S LUNCH BOX! IT GETS VERY CONFUSING FOR YOUR CHILD AND THE TEACHER!
- Snack time will be @12:30 each day.
Medication
- The school nurse, Mrs. Dowell, gives medicine. The policy is written in the handbook. You must have the original Rx bottle/sign med. form in office.
PTA sign-up sheet/room parent
- $5.00 dues to join
- Please sign up to volunteer.
Birthday Celebrations
- If you want to send a snack to celebrate your child’s birthday, please let me know a day in advance. Please remember that it is just a snack, not a party. A cupcake, cookie, or brownie is perfect for such a celebration. When contacted, I will let you know the number of students in the class.
- If you are planning a party outside school I cannot provide class contact information to you, so if you send invitations to be passed out, there must be an invitation for all students.
Communication
- You may contact me by letter/note inside your child’s homework folder.
- You may email me at [email protected]
- You may call the school and leave a message on my phone. I check messages several times a day.
- I do my best to return calls in the afternoon. Please keep in mind that my planning time is during your child’s activity time (1:15-2:00). This is usually the first time I have to respond to notes, calls, or emails. If you call after school hours, it is likely that I won’t hear your call until the following morning. I suggest you email me after school hours; I check them nightly.
- Salem City School policy states teachers have 24 hours to respond to any form of communication from parents/guardians.
I look forward to a wonderful year with your child!
Kelly Hartberger