Kindergarten Information
School Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays 7:40 a.m. – 2:30p.m.
Wednesday (Early Release) 7:40 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Specials: Your child will have Music, P.E and Art on a rotating basis.
Please check the “kindergarten Website for specifics. The P.E. teacher would appreciate it if your child would wear tennis shoes on these days.
Library: book checkout will be done on a daily basis beginning in the first few weeks of school.
More information will come home after school starts.
Lunch: We will eat lunch at 11:00am. Your child may bring a lunch from home or purchase a lunch at school. Each child will receive a lunch account number and parents may add money to the account at any time.
Snacks: We will have snack time in the afternoon. Please have your child bring a healthy snack on a daily basis. Ex: gold fish, pretzels,
Birthdays: Please see our Health Options "birthday menu" on our Tarver Website!
Parent Volunteers: We love having parents help in our classrooms! If you are interested in volunteering, please let your interest be known!
Conferences and Report Cards: Conferences are scheduled in the Fall and Spring. However, if you have immediate concerns, please feel free to e-mail me at any time. Report Cards will go home in January and in June.
Testing: We will have 3 “assessment” days. These tests are designed to see where your child is at academically and what he/she will need to work on. If there are concerns in particular areas, we, (the kindergarten teachers), will contact you. Areas we will be testing are: Language Arts and Math skills. We will also have an option to participate in MAPS testing which a computer generated test that will occur 2 times during the school year.
Hot Weather: The first few weeks of school may be very warm. I encourage the children to bring a water bottle (with their name on it) on hot days. We, also, have a drinking fountain in the classroom which children are welcome to use. Please do not send juice or sports drinks, as they might spill and cause a sticky mess.
Orange Tiger Folders: Your child will have a folder that will go back and forth from home to school each day. Please look through your child’s folder each night as this is our way of sending notes home and homework assignments. In about a month, we will also be adding a GUIDED reading book in the back of the folder. Your child will practice reading this to you and you will sign the log and return the book inside the folder.
GREEN! Please check the Tarver website and my Kindergarten Website on a weekly basis for our “Weekly News and happenings! We are SOCIAL!!! Check us out on Facebook and twitter!
Notes: Please………….if your child’s schedule should change, send me note or email
If your child is going home with a friend or a different person (Grandma or Aunt), etc. We need to be contacted. This will save a lot of time and miscommunication. Also, they are not allowed to go home with anyone that is not on your “contact” list in the office, so please update this list if need be.
PLEASE label all backpacks, coats, jackets as we all shop at the same stores and children can get very confused and full of anxiety
when they can’t find their things.
*Your child deserves the best – we want this school year to be a great one, and with parents and teachers working together, it will be!
GOOOOOO TIGERS!!!
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