Dear
Kindergarten Parents,
I
would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your child to the new
school year at Roberts Elementary! In
order to have the most productive year possible, please take time to
familiarize yourself with the items below.
I am
so excited about working with you and your children and am looking forward to a
successful and fun year.
1.
Conduct
Your
children and I will be spending the first several days in our classroom getting
to know one another, setting up procedures, and (most importantly) building
community. I will let you know about my
behavior plan/expectations during the next couple week. Your children will be helping me develop many
of these expectations as a class and I know that they’ll be sharing with you
what they come up with!
2.
School Papers
Please
check your child’s backpack daily.
Occasionally you will find assignments that your child didn’t complete
in class. Please make sure that the work
is finished at home. Encourage your
child to be neat and to do his or her best work on all tasks. If an activity comes home not complete,
PLEASE always look over it with your child and ask him or her to tell you all
about it.
3.
Birthdays
Parents
may send cookies/cupcakes on the morning of a child’s birthday. Please do not send cakes or cupcake-cakes. Birthday invitations may be sent home from
school only if each child in the class is invited. We don’t want any hurt feelings.
4.
Student of the
Week
Throughout the year, each
child will be featured as the student of the week. Your child will be asked to bring
photographs, etc. to share with their class.
You will receive more information one week prior to your child’s turn.
5.
Silent Reading/Quiet
Time
A
short rest time is included in our daily schedule. Children are not required to sleep, but must
rest quietly. Please remind your child
to keep toys and stuffed animals at home.
Please, however, do send a bath
towel (not a
blanket) for your child to rest on.
6.
Lockers and Backpacks
Each
child will have their own locker. They
will be able to keep their backpack, lunch box (if they bring their lunch), a
bath towel for quiet rest and reading time (please no blankets, pillows or
toys), and an extra change of clothes.
Please put the extra change of clothes in a Ziploc bag with your child’s
name on it. Your child’s backpack
should be large enough to hold their Tuesday folder, but also able to fit
in the locker. No rolling backpacks please.
7.
Snack Time
We have
a snack time daily. Please be sure to
send a small and healthy snack to school each morning.
Have your child take out his/her snack and place it in the snack box inside the classroom.
Snacks should be packed separately from your child’s lunch and have your child’s name clearly written on it.
Have your child take out his/her snack and place it in the snack box inside the classroom.
Snacks should be packed separately from your child’s lunch and have your child’s name clearly written on it.
8.
Lunchtime
You
are encouraged to send or purchase a healthy lunch for your child each
day. Lunch money should be kept in your
child’s backpack until we eat lunch each day from 10:43-11:13. On the
first day you may want to consider sending a lunch. Your child may be
unfamiliar with cafeteria food.
You are welcome to come join your child and eat with them in the cafeteria; however, HISD policy states that you must sign in at the front office first for a visitor’s pass and then meet us in the cafeteria. At the end of lunch please say good bye to your child in the cafeteria.
You are welcome to come join your child and eat with them in the cafeteria; however, HISD policy states that you must sign in at the front office first for a visitor’s pass and then meet us in the cafeteria. At the end of lunch please say good bye to your child in the cafeteria.
9.
Extra Clothing
Please
send an extra change of clothing to be left in your child’s locker at all times
for emergencies, this can include accidents, food spills or getting dirty on
the playground. Please put clothing in a
Ziploc bag, labeled with your child’s name, and change out as needed.
10.
Tardies/Absences
Please
make sure that your child is in their classroom ON TIME each morning (8:00
am). Students who arrive after morning
announcements have begun will be asked to go to the front office for a tardy
slip or admit to class. Students who are
absent are required to bring a note from their parent and turn it in to the
office on their day of return.
11.
Arrival
As stated
before, school begins at 8:00 am.
Beginning on the second day of school, we will be lining up outside
under the covered area (next to the playground) at 7:45 am. For your child’s safety, please do not arrive
before 7:45; there is no one on duty before that time and children not are not
allowed to gather in the hallways. There
will be four lines under the covered area.
One of the lines will be for the Kindergarten students. Students will need to get into the
appropriate line and stay there until the bell rings, when all lines will go
into the school. Please make sure that
your child does not play on the playground at this time.
Mornings
can be hectic and announcements start promptly at 8:00 am. Please allow your
child to come inside the classroom on his/her own and put their things away. If you have questions please send me an
email and I will promptly reply. Tardy slips will be given to students
who arrive after 8:00am.
12.
Dismissal
Kindergarteners
dismiss at 3:10 on School Street. We will exit as a class each day out of the
school doors (leading to the playground).
We will then walk down the sidewalk to School Street, where we will wait
for cars in the pick-up line. If you are
walking up to get your child, please meet us when we get out to the dismissal
area at the end of the sidewalk by School Street (please do not wait on the steps or on the sidewalk as there is a LOT
of student traffic). It may be
confusing at first, but you’ll get it after the first few days. J
Please
remember to fill out your carpool number and place it in your window for pick
up.
The website is www.watermanswatch.com you will find valuable information when logging on to the class website. Please take a moment each week to browse. I will also update you when I make a new post.
14.
Food allergies
It is very
important to notify me if your child has an allergy or specific health
problems.
15.
Writing
portfolio
Your child will
be improving his/her writing skills this school year and will accumulate many
writing samples throughout the year.
Please send a 1inch clear view binder to school
so that we may store all your child’s writing.
Please let me know if you have a question about what the binder should
look like.
16.
VIPS/Volunteering
and Field Trips
Thank you
for all of your help!
Wendy
Wendy
