Welcome to Mrs. Crocker & Mrs. Shannon’s

Kindergarten Class

Website- http://www.johnston.k12.nc.us

Daily Schedule• Schedule • 8:15-8:45 Arrival-Focus Stations• 8:45- 10:00 Math • 10:00 – 10:30 Social Studies/Science • 10:30 – 11:15 Enhancements

Monday - Art Tuesday - Music

Wednesday - PE (wear sneakers) Thursday - Media

Friday – Tech • 11:25 – 11:55 Lunch• 12:00 – 1:45 Language• 1:45- -2:15 Continue Social Studies & Science• 2:15- 2:45 Recess• 2:30 - 2:45 Snack• 3:00 – 3:30 Rest/ Remediation/ Acceleration • *There could be a few changes but lunchtime and pull-outs• will never change

Morning & After Care

• Early Morning and After School Child Care is provided at school

• Before School 6:35 - 8:30 am After School 3:40 – 6:00 pm

• Monthly Cost Before School $91.00

After School $117.00 Both $188 ($10 Registration Fee)

Drop in Service $10.00 a session

Example: car riders left pass 4:00

• If your child arrives after 8:45 he/she must go to the office to get a tardy note before entering class and YOU MUST go into the office to sign your child in. After September 18, all students are expected to walk into the building independently without parents.

• NEW POLICY – If your child is Tardy or checked out early more than 4 times with out a doctors note, they will not be recognized for perfect attendance at the end of the year!

Arrival: 8:15- 8:45

Breakfast

All students have an opportunity to eat breakfast. If they choose to do this, there is a cost and they need to go directly from the bus or car rider drop-off line. Once they come into the room they can not get breakfast.

• Lunch will be at 11:25

• Feel free to join us for lunch anytime.

• Student lunch is $2.20 a day ($11.00 weekly)

You may apply for free or reduced lunch

Low balance note- if they have no money on their

account vegetable tray will be given

• If you send money to school place it in pouch at the front of the notebook or pay on line at www.payforit.net

• Students will swipe their lunch cards when getting a lunch- Balances less than 6.00 will get a connect Ed call at home

Wednesday Thursday Friday

Lunch

Breakfast Grits w/ Sausage Lunch Spaghetti & Meat Sauce or Fish Sticks Baby Carrots w/ Dip Tossed Garden Salad Fresh Grapes WG Roll

Breakfast Egg & Cheese Biscuit Lunch Beef Dippers or Chicken & Pastry Sweet Potato Souffle Green Beans Strawberry Cup WG Roll

Breakfast Chicken Biscuit Lunch Brightleaf Hotdog w/ Chili or Chili Cheeseburger Baked Seasoned Fries Homemade Baked Beans Fresh Fruit

Fast food from outside vendors is NOT permitted. Children should bring prepared lunch boxes from home to eat at lunch. Parents who visit their children for lunch should not bring lunch in a fast food bag. According to federal guidelines, students CANNOT be offered fast food lunch in the cafeteria. GKE can be charged a fine of $5,000 if an inspector sees a student with a fast food bag for lunch.

Pull-Out Schedule Monday Art 10:30 – 11:15

Tuesday Music 10:30 – 11:15 Wednesday PE (wear sneakers) 10:30 – 11:15 Thursday Media 10:30 – 11:15 Friday Technology 10:30 – 11:15

Rest Time

• Please send two towels for your child to use for rest time.

• We will stop rest time after the first semester. (late Jan.)

Snack

Time 2:45

• You will need to provide a nutritious snack for your child. Please limited their snack to one item with juice or water. Make sure to place it into a bag and label it snack. They get really confused and take snack to lunch. I will have a special place for Snacks in the room. This will help also!

No candy, Dole fruit cups, soft drinks please!

Money Pouch• The money pouch

will stay in their notebook. Please use this pouch to send money to school.

• Please use the slip inside to record what the money is for.

Notebooks• Important papers• Parent Correspondence• Monkey Sheet

Must be signed daily

• Discipline Note • Homework- check Friday• Reading book and log

100 books by April 30th gets an award during classroom awards day

• Quarterly Assessments

Notebooks Continued

• Pull out schedule• ABC Explanation• Breakfast & Lunch Menu• Sight Words• Color & Number Words• Number Poems• Class Birthdays• Homework Folder• Reading Folder

Tuesday FoldersEvery Tuesday student’s work will be sent home in a 2 pocket folder along with any other information that needs to go home from the classroom and the office.

Please remove and keep their work.

Sign the folder on the correct date and return it to school on Wednesday.

Unsigned folders will cause a student to loose

morning stations.

Classroom Playground Hallways Cafeteria Assemblies Restroom Buses

At the end of the day if students are on a green or better, they will color their monkey their corresponding color.

If however they are below green you will get a note explaining their behavior that caused the change!

After receiving 25 green monkeys they will take home a monkey plate to eat on! Please return plate to be used again.

Class Room Rules

A Rainbow of Great Behavior

Each day, students will start in the middle section of our behavior clip chart on green. Good choices will allow students to move up the chart. Poor choices will result in students moving down on the clip chart. Moving into the orange zone means the teacher will decide on the appropriate consequence based on the action and the individual student need. After this consequence, we believe that students will be ready to learn again. A note will be sent home or a phone call will be made directly to the parent if the student moves down into the red zone.

Once the sticker chart has been filled, the student will be able to choose a reward from the individual teacher’s choices.

Students will color their agenda daily so that parents can track their child’s behavior each day. Please be sure to initial/sign your child’s agenda daily!

Protocol for misbehaving

• Three warnings before moving their pin( notebook not being signed looses morning stations-will we forgive 3 times)

• Note is sent home to parents with details of the child’s behavior and must be signed.

• If a student gets 3 lower colors than green, the student will call their parent in the presence of the teacher to report his/her inappropriate behavior.

• If behavior problems continue a conference is set up with parent and child to work on correcting the behavior.

• If the behavior continues, the student will be taken to the Office and they receive a discipline note. (last resort)

AbsencesWhen your child is absent you must send a note explaining the absence on the day they return to school.

Any student absent 4 or more days within a 9 week attendance period or 16 days per year could result in automatic retention.

If you are going on a trip you can get preapproval for absences but this will still be counted as an absence.

Break Time!!!!!!! Tooty Ta

Immunizations• Any student not in

compliance with state physical and immunization laws within 30 calendar days of enrolling will result in suspension until the student is in compliance.

Extra Clothing• Please bring your

child a set of clothing in a zip-lock bag for emergencies. When the season changes or your child grows we will need to change this clothing.

• Items: under clothing, shirt, socks, pants, shoes

Book Orders• Pass out forms• Sent home about 1 time a month• Please complete your order and

return it to school along with payment. When we order books we get books for our classroom and you build a library at home for reading.

• If you show your child reading is important and you have materials for them to practice at anytime, they too will develop a reading habit.

• If you wish to make if a gift I can send it home secretly!

Box Tops

We collect Box Tops for Education in our classroom.

For each box top we receive, our classroom gets ten

cents. It really adds up, so please send them in.

When you child has sent 50 in they will get a trip to

the treasure box!

Volunteer Spot• http://www.volunteerspot.com/

We will learn together• Teacher schedules activities and invites volunteers• They Signup Online or On the Go• Volunteers / Parents choose a spot

and sign up with a click of a mouse• Volunteer Spot sends email

confirmations & reminders• Please list the best email address to use- It is difficult to go on an add additional emails • I'm using Remind to send text messages about 

important class information. To sign up for Crocker's Monkeys notifications, please visit  https://www.remind.com/join/crockersm 

You can text  (980) 208-1342 and type @crockersm in the comment box

Gold Medal Award

Write 1st & last name Know Birthday Know Phone # Know Address Write numbers to 100 Count to 100+ Read number words to 20 Read color words Recite days of the week Read days of the week Recite months of the year Read months of the

year Recite Seasons Read Seasons Complete simple graph Tie shoes Write all upper & lower case letters Sight Word list A-F Write 3 sentences Reading on a level 12 100% on Math Assessment 100% on Mclass

Celebrations

We will celebrate Halloween , Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and the End of the Year, with a party.

In addition, if you would like to send a snack for your child’s birthday, please feel free to

do so. Please let me know a couple of days in advance.

If for some reason you don’t want your child

to participate in celebrations speak with me individually.

Volunteers

I would love to invite you into our room anytime to volunteer. All parents that wish to do so will need to complete a volunteer 2 application that must be approved by the office. Please let me know if you plan to come so I can have some things planned for you.

To attend a field trip, you must be a level 2 volunteer!

APPLY NOW

Report Cards

Students will get Report Cards 4 times and a Progress Report 3 times this school year.

There will be mandatory Parent Conference

scheduled by the end of October and if needed in March. You may also call

anytime for a conference.

Report Card

Wish Tree• Dry Erase Markers- pencil size• Gifts for the Treasure Box• Card Stock Paper white and

colored• Bright Colored paper• Individually wrapped candy• plastic cups, forks and spoons• paper plates and napkins• Cannon Printer Ink 240 and 241• Index Cards• Coloring books• Baby Wipes• Zip Freezer bags-All sizes• Broom

Departure Time• Car riders 3:40

• Your child will be called by name. Display in your card stock sign showing their name in the windshield.

• School personal will bring your child to the front and supervise them until all have been picked up.

• Bus and Day Care riders 3:50

Please make all transportation/attendance arrangements with your child prior to leaving home in the morning. NO CHANGES IN TRANSPORTATION WILL BE PERMITTED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE PARENT. A PHONE CALL ASKING FOR A CHANGE WILL NOT BE PERMITTED SINCE WE CANNOT IDENTIFY PARENTS/GUARDIANS OVER THE PHONE.

Carpool ends at 4:00 each day. Students who are not picked up on time will be sent to GKE After School Program at 4:10. Parents will be expected pay a $10 drop in fee for the child care services.

VII. Bus Rules Riding the school bus is a privilege. Students must follow the directives of the school bus driver and the rules and regulations of school bus safety, as well as the rules of the Johnston County Code of Conduct while at the school bus stop, in the school bus parking lot, or while riding on a bus. Violation of these rules may result in temporary or permanent suspension from the privilege of school transportation services, and may also result in suspension from school.  After a student receives a warning from the driver and parent notification by an administrator, the consequences are as follows: Warning:Counsel with student; parent notification1st Offense: Counsel with student; parent notification and maximum 3 days off the bus.2nd Offense: Maximum of 5 days off the bus3rd Offense: Maximum of 10 days off the bus.4th Offense: Minimum of 10 days off the bus and student may be suspended from the bus for the remainder of the school year.

Medication

• No medication will be given without authorization from a physician and it will be administered in the office.

PTA

• Please join our PTA. The PTA does a lot for our students and staff. Each membership costs $5.00.

• Ask other family members: grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc….

• We are hold a competition in our classroom. The students that gets the most people to join will have dinner with Ms. Shannon and myself!

• Dead line is September 26th.• I need a volunteer to be our Class Parent

Representative

PTA Unit Meetings for 2015-16 (START at 6:30 pm) 

September 17 December 10 March 10 May 5

Report Card Progress Report Dates

Progress Reports Report CardsFirst Quarter September 23( not K) November 2Second Quarter December 2 January 28Third Quarter February 22 April 11Fourth Quarter May 5Last Day of School

School Picture DatesFall Individual Pictures September 23 ( Nov. 4 make-day)Glass/Group Picture April 7th

Spring Pictures April 7th

Fifth Grade Group Photo January 12

Important Dates

Student’s Job

 

My Job (Teacher) Parent’s Job    

Go to bed on timeGet ready for schoolHelp other childrenPlay fairThink firstBe respectful in classRead every dayTry your bestHelp at school and at homeWash their hands Respect othersFollow rules and directionsAsk questionsListenLearnDo their homework

Read to usTake care of usKeep us safeGive us homeworkMake learning funEncourage the children to learnHelp us do workHave patienceBe preparedListen to studentsRespect studentsCommunicate to parentsHelp us to learn 

Provide food and shelterTeach rules and good behaviorPrepare children for the school and the bus Help with homeworkRead books to childrenEarn money at workProvide a loving homeEncourage childrenShow interest in the school dayGive children hugs and kissesListen to childrenHelp and volunteer 

Teacher Evaluation ProcessStandard 6

We are a team- You/Me/Your ChildWe work together and ALL do our partIf it appears to me that your child is not getting support at home, me and the social worker will make a visit to your home to determine what we can do to fix this.I know I do my part and as the contract states everyone else will need to also!Other responsibilities: National Board Mentor, First Year Teacher Mentor, Committee Member

Test

• Now I am going to see how well you remember.

• Are you ready?

• Questions?????