Kindergarten Orientation

Windermere SchoolMay 29, 2015

Orientation Objectives

After today, we hope you will have a better understanding of…

o Importance of the Home-School Connection

o Kindergarten Routines and Procedures

o Supporting Your Child at Home

o Special Features of Windermere School

David Welch

Home-School Connection YOU are your child’s first teacher We will work together as a team to help

your child develop socially and academically

Open lines of communication are needed Take an active role in your child’s education

o Talk to your child about his/her dayo Look for papers that come homeo Ensure your child completes his/her homework

Cate HattDeb Hurlburt

Kindergarten Procedures

Day care arrangements

Buses

Supplieso Sneakerso Large backpacko Daily snack and

drink

School money

Food free birthdays

Homework

Supporting Your Child’s Literacy Development at

Home Read with your child for 20 minutes every day

Talk to your child about what is happening in the pictures and in the story

Have your child chime in when there are rhyming or repeated phrases

Read from a broad selection of bookso Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, poetryo Wordless books

Read with expression

Amanda Ducharme

Literacy Activities

Amanda Ducharme

Make your child’s name Make the alphabet and

sing it Sort letters Match uppercase and

lowercase letters Games

o Closest to A (or Z)o What’s the Missing

Letter?

Fun with Magnetic Letters

Literacy Activities

Amanda Ducharme

Rhyming wordso Discriminationo Production

Blending sounds

Fun with SoundsPhonological skills lay an important foundation for success in reading

Supporting Your Child’s Math Development at Home Have your child:

o Count or sort a collection of objectso Notice patterns in our everyday worldo Use decks of cards or games with dice to

create fun activities that involve numbers

Integrate mathematics into your family’s time together:o Sort silverwareo Match pairs of sockso Order pans by sizeo Find the largest/smallest flower

Lisa Schumacher

Numeracy Activities

Lisa Schumacher

School Readiness Video www.ellingtonschools.org

Go to Links

Drop down to School Readiness Council

Click on Video

David Welch

Health Information

Physical Form

Immunizations

Health InformationAllergiesMedication

Call School for Illness

Donna Smith

Special Features of Windermere

PBIS

Arrival & Dismissal Procedures

School Messenger

Support Services

Jennifer Bordieri

Closing Remarks

Meet and Greeto August 25th

First Day of Schoolo August 26th

Curriculum Nighto September 10th

Q & AThank you for coming!

We are looking forward to a great 2015-2016 school year!