WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!

1. WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN! Mrs. Carney Room 106

2. How to get in contact with • Mrs. Carney? • Marble notebook:best way to contact me • Email address:LCarney@havsd.net • Manoa School phone number: (610) 853-5900 extension 6000 • Voice mail L. Carney: (610) 853-5900 ext. 6406

3. Sign Up • Volunteer Schedule • E-Alerts • sign up • www.haverford.k12.pa.us/manoa • Scholastic Book Club • www.scholastic.com/bookclubs • class activation code: GP3PV

4. Kindergarten Procedures:Transportation • Bus Rider • Walker/Pick up • AM Dismissal- 11:25 • PM Dismissal- 3:26 • After Care- Trinity or Brookline *Please send a note into school if there is a dismissal change

5. Supplies 1 school bag- first and last name, address, phone number and dismissal tag 1 marble notebook- first and last name *Please keep the rubber band on the notebook

6. Snacks • Nut-Free Environment • Please send in a small snack-one item and a drink • Healthy snack- fruit, vegetables, crackers • Water- no milk or fruit juices please • If your child would like to bring a water bottle, that’s fine. • Snacks are not shared • Food allergies or specific diets- please let me know.

7. Birthday Parties • Your child may celebrate his/her birthday in the classroom. • You may send in prepared goodie bags (no food please) • Read a special story • Play a game • Summer birthdays will be celebrated at the end of the year • Please send in a note- one week before

8. Notesplace all notes inside your child’s marble notebook under the rubber band • Absent notes • send in the yellow absent form when he/she returns to school. • Change of dismissal • Communication • Daily • Responding to notes/questions

9. Homework and News • Check the class website • www.haverford.k12.pa.us/manoa • click on “eFaculty” • click on “Carney, Mrs. Lindsay” • click on “Homework and News” • Newsletters-usually posted on Friday’s • What the children are learning • Announcements/News • Field Trips • Homework-usually due the following Thursday • Place homework in marble notebook

10. Curriculum • Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Program • Big Books • Strategies for reading- left to right, front/back of book, sight words, using pictures, identify characters, alphabet letters and sounds, plus patterns in words.

11. Everyday Math • Numeration • Operations and Computation • Geometry • Data • Measurement • Patterns

12. Social Studies/Science Social Studies *Combined with Language Arts Science *Engaged in active construction of ideas *The Senses *Living things and the environment

13. Kid Writing • Writing letters to match sounds and words • Describe their illustration • We need parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, ANY grown-up

14. Handwriting Without Tears • Formation of letters and numbers • capital letters • lowercase letters • numbers • www.hwtears.com

15. Responsive Classroom • Rules • Positive Reinforcement • Circle Meeting • Community Learners • Hopes & Dreams • Traffic Light

16. Report Cards &Kindergarten AssessmentsStandard based report cards-December, April, June AIMSweb-Letters and Phonics* Report card skill- homework

17. Conferences • December & April *Please sign up for conferences

18. “All the seeds of today, Are the flowers of tomorrow.”