Welcome to Kindergarten in room C-8 at CP Smith! I have been busy preparing for your arrival and look forward to meeting many of you at our Kindergarten Orientation this Thursday evening (August 24th) from 6:00-7:00PM. This is an opportunity for you to meet the Kindergarten teachers, learn a little bit more about our year ahead and get a sneak peak into the classrooms. Childcare will be provided. Below you will find a little bit more information about the start of the year.
Kindergarten will begin with half-days from Wednesday, August 30th to Friday, September 1st. Dismissal will be at 11:30 (you are welcome and encouraged to re-enter school and have lunch with your child after dismissal). Full school days will begin after the Labor Day Weekend on Tuesday September 5th.
In preparation of the year:
• Please send in an extra pair of clothes, including underwear and socks. Accidents will happen in Kindergarten, but that is easily fixed. These clothes will be kept in your child's cubby.
• Children should have sneakers everyday for P.E. (Tuesday and Thursday) and outdoor play daily. If you prefer, you can send in sneakers with your child to change into prior to PE and outdoor play.
• Each child will have a hook in the classroom for backpacks and coats as well as a cubby for additional belongings.
• Snack will be provided by the school. If you are nervous about your child eating the provided snacks, you may send them in with a snack as well.
• School provides lunch for free to all students. Children will be offered an entree, with peanut butter and jelly or deli meat sandwiches as an alternative.
• Please label everything that your child brings to school, including clothing! We will do our best to keep everything together, however that will be increasingly tricky as the cold weather settles in.
• Toys are not allowed at school as they can not only be a distraction but oftentimes get misplaced or broken throughout the day.
• During drop-off and pick-up, please try to establish a consistent routine with your child to help ease the transition each day.
Please check into this blog regularly for more information and feel free to comment! I will post updates on the happenings of our classroom Monday-Thursday and occasionally on Friday.
Below is a draft of our schedule (subject to some tweaks but specials Art/Music/PE/Library/Guidance will stay the same). Know that this is also the schedule that we are working towards by the end of Kindergarten and our focus the first half of the school year will be on building a community and learning to work together - there will be lots of time to play, explore and wonder! We have several social studies and science units that we will work on throughout the year and will be built into our reader's and writer's workshop times.
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