WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!

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WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!

• Mrs. Carney
• Room 106

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• How to get in contact with
• Mrs. Carney?
• Marble notebook best way to contact me
• Email address LCarney_at_havsd.net
• Manoa School phone number [phone]
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  extension 6000
• Voice mail L. Carney [phone] ext. 6406

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Sign Up

• Volunteer Schedule
• January centers, kidwriting, word rings
• E-Alerts
• sign up
• www.haverford.k12.pa.us/manoa
• Scholastic Book Club
• www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
• class activation code GP3PV

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Kindergarten ProceduresTransportation

• Drop off- Main Office
• Bus Rider
• Walker/Pick up
• AM Dismissal- 1125
• PM Dismissal- 325
• After Care
• Please send a note into school if there
• is a dismissal change

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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

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Snacks

• Nut Egg 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, thats fine.
• Snacks are not shared
• Food allergies or specific diets- please let me
  know.
• Please see the SAFE FOOD LIST

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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

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Notesplace all notes inside your childs
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

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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 Fridays
• What the children are learning
• Announcements/News
• Field Trips
• Homework- usually due the following Thursday
• Place homework in marble notebook

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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.

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Singapore Math Math in Focus

• Numeration
• Operations and Computation
• Geometry
• Data
• Measurement
• Patterns

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Social Studies/Science

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

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Kid Writing

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

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Handwriting Without Tears

• Formation of letters and numbers
• capital letters
• lowercase letters
• numbers
• www.hwtears.com

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Responsive Classroom

• Rules
• Positive Reinforcement
• Circle Meeting
• Community Learners
• Hopes Dreams
• Star of the week
• Traffic light

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Report Cards Kindergarten
Assessmentsreport cards-December, March, June
AIMSweb-Letters and Phonics Report card
skill- homework
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Conferences

• December March
• Please sign up for
• conferences

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• Bloom where you are
• -Joel Olsteen