Transcript Swim into Kindergarten!

Classroom Handbook
Miss Lehky’s Class 2012-13
Arrival
• Students may start arriving in the building at 8:45 am for walking
club/breakfast, and are permitted in the classrooms at 9:00am.
They are expected to be in our classroom ready to start by 9:15
• If you are driving your child to school, please let them exit the car
and enter the school independently. I know this may be difficult for
the parents, but walking them into the school makes it harder for
the student to say goodbye. I promise, we’ll take good care of your
child!
• Attendance and punctuality are important, so please make sure
that your child arrives to school on time. If your child arrives to
school late, he/she will need to report to the office.
• If your child will be absent, please call the attendance line at 330273-8130
Dismissal
• School is dismissed at 3:25pm. Fifth grade helpers will
come to our classroom to help students to their bus or waiting area.
Please put a tag on your child’s bookbag indicating full name, address to
be dropped off at, and phone number where caretaker can be reached at.
• If you have an older child, please don’t ask them to come to the room for
the first few weeks. I need to know exactly where each student is until
they are comfortable with the routine.
• Please send an email or note in if you will be picking up your child or if
someone different will be picking up your child. For the safety of all
students, no exceptions to this requirement will be made, so please don’t
have your child “Tell Miss Lehky you will be a car-rider today”.
• If you need to pick up your child early, please go to the office. The office
will call to send your child down to you. We appreciate your cooperation
with this to avoid any disruptions to our classroom.
• If you are picking up your child in a car, please do not pull your car up to
the building until you are directed to do so. You will need to leave room
for the buses, as bus riders are dismissed first, then cars are directed to
pull up.
Lunch
• Students have the opportunity to purchase the daily
meal, peanut butter & jelly, toasted cheese or a cheese
pizza for $2.50, just milk for $.50 or other extras
• Each child must have a lunch money bag to keep your
child’s lunch menu and lunch selection sheet. Please
keep this in your child’s bookbag throughout the year.
• Please keep your child’s lunch order form in their lunch
money bag. Please circle your child’s lunch choices for
the week and keep it in their lunch money bag.
• You also have the opportunity to pack a lunch for your
child, but please remember that refrigeration or
microwaves are not available for students.
Specials
• Our specials schedule is as follows:
– Mondays: Art and Library
– Tuesdays: Art
– Wednesday: Music and Gym
– Thursday: Computer lab
– Friday: Music and gym
– White soled gym shoes are to be kept at school
– Art shirts are to be kept at school
Read Write Rest
• In the afternoon, we will be having a 20
minute period called “Read Write Rest”.
During this time, the students will have the
option to sit quietly to read, write quietly, or
put their head down on their desk. This time
is to help the students regain energy to be
successful during our afternoon activities.
Snack
• In the afternoon, we will also have a short snack
time. If you would like your child to have a snack
during this time, please send a snack in with
them (no peanut products please). Please be
sure that your child is able to differentiate their
snack from their lunch.
• I will be providing snack during
the first week of school.
Discipline
• We use a card system to help students monitor their behavior.
• Students start their day with a green card.
• If a child fails to follow classroom rules, their card will be flipped to blue as
a reminder.
• Second offense, the card will be flipped to yellow and the child will have to
sit out 5 minutes of recess.
• Third offense, the card will be flipped to red and the child will miss all of
recess.
• If the behavior is extreme, it may result in flipping cards straight to red.
• We want to reward good behavior!!! If a students stays on green for the
day, they will receive a stick. 5 sticks = picking out of the treasure chest
• Each child will have a calendar to keep in their home folder. At the end of
each day, each child will color their day. If your child has a yellow or red
day, please initial that you have seen it. PLEASE keep this calendar in your
child’s home folder everyday!
• For any repeated behaviors, I will contact you to discuss it further.
What to wear
• Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately
according to our school handbook.
• Please do not allow your child to wear flip flops or
clogs without a back strap. Our playground has
woodchips which may give your child a splinter
through their flip flop or shoes have been known to fly
off on the playground. Students wearing inappropriate
shoes will not be permitted on the outdoor equipment
• Please be sure that your child is dressed for the
weather. We will be going outside as much as possible
for recess.
• Students are required to keep white soled shoes at
school for gym class
Supplies
• Please label your child’s bookbag!
• Please be sure to label: folders, notebook, headset and
pencil pouch. All other supplies will be used as community
supplies.
• In addition to the supply list, our classroom also requires:
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Art shirt (Dad’s old T-shirts work great!)
3 ring binder
1 box of gallon sized Ziploc bags
Additional supplies may be asked for throughout the year.
If you ordered through PTO, additional supplies are needed (not
included)
Communication
• I am always wanting to communicate with parents, so please feel
free to contact me at any time! I may also contact you to share
good news as well as to discuss any issues that may arise in the
classroom.
• If you need to contact me, the best way to contact me is via email.
This is the best way for me to get back to you promptly. If you need
to speak to me, please email me with a phone number that you
would like to be reached at and I will contact you at my earliest
convenience. You can always send a note in your child’s bookbag,
but please understand that I may not have time to reply to you on
the same day.
• Please be sure to fill out a contact information sheet and return it
to school so that I can have the proper information to contact you.
Homework
• Homework is not just busy work; its an opportunity for you to help
your child reinforce and practice the skills we are working on in the
classroom. Please be sure to help your child with his/her homework
so that you can ensure your child is not practicing the incorrect
skills.
• All homework will be sent home on Mondays and due back to
school by Fridays.
• Homework will include Reading assignments, and a Math Links
assignment. For this assignment, you will need to complete the
activity in your Math Links book and complete the sheet that is sent
home with the homework packet.
• Homework accounts for 10% of your child’s grade. Completed
homework will be worth 2 points in reading, writing and math. If
homework is 1-2 days late or not fully completed, you will receive a
1.5
Classroom Website
• Our classroom website is a
great place for you to find updated information.
• To access our webpage, go to www.bcoh.org, then click
on Crestview, teacher sites and finally Miss Lehky
• Instead of sending home a weekly newsletter, there is a
section of our webpage titled “Weekly News” in which
weekly information and updates will be posted. I will
also send it out via email. If you are unable to access
our weekly news via the website, please notify me and
I will send a paper copy home.
Progress Book
• At fall conferences, you will get a username
and password to login to Progress Book.
• You will be able to login anytime to access
your child’s grades and progress
Report Cards
• Report Cards will be sent home 4 times a year.
• Your child’s grades will be based on:
– 70% Test Grades
– 20% Classwork
– 10% Homework
• Report Cards tell you what your child is doing in each
expected skill.
• The grading marks are:
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E Exceeds Expectations
M Meets Expectations
P Making Progress
I Insufficient Progress
Conferences
• Conferences are held twice a year
• Fall Conferences are open to all parents.
Please sign up for a time during our Open
House
• Spring Conferences will be on an as-needed
basis. I will contact you if I would like to
schedule a conference
• You may always request a conference at any
time you feel you need one.
Star Student
• After the first few weeks of school, we will begin “star
students”. If you child is the star student of the week,
it is their week to shine.
• On Monday, we ask that your child bring in a poster
that displays your child’s favorite items, family pictures,
baby pictures, etc. These posters will be hung in the
hallway to share and will be returned home throughout
the year.
• Tuesday-Friday your child can bring in 1 item to share
with the class (their favorite toy, book, trophy, favorite
snack to share with the class, etc).
Birthdays
• We love to celebrate Birthdays
in Kindergarten!!!
• For your child’s birthday, he/she will get to wear a
birthday crown and get a special birthday treat
from Mr. Haft.
• We would welcome any birthday treat you would
like to send in for the class during snack time.
Please notify me ahead of time if you plan on
sending in a birthday treat. Cupcakes can be
very messy, so please consider an alternate snack
such as cookies, a healthy snack or other treat.
Parties
• We will have 3 holiday parties throughout
the year: Halloween, Christmas and
Valentine’s Day. These are parent organized and run. A
signup sheet for parent volunteers will be at Open House.
Parties will occur on the actual holiday, or if the day falls on
a weekend our party will be held on the Friday before.
• We will also have various other special days in
Kindergarten, such a fall and spring field trip, 100th day of
school, pajama party, Polar Express Day, Alphabet Day that
may require additional parent volunteers/supplies.
Information on these events will be sent home prior to the
event.
Parent Volunteers
• We welcome parent volunteers in our classroom!
• We have various different ways that you could
volunteer in our class, such as helping with
parties, assistance with centers, etc. There are
also opportunities to help even if you are not able
to come into the classroom. Please be sure to fill
out and return your volunteer
sheet as well as sign up for class
parties during Open House.
Things we work on
• We will be working on MANY different skills throughout the year.
• Reading
– Recognize all uppercase and lower case letters and produce proper letter
sounds
– Recognize color words and sight words
– Reads word families
– Reads words fluently in context
– Retell stories
– Identifies characters and setting in a story
• Writing
– Writes first and last name
– Prints letters and numbers correctly
• Math
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Reads numbers 0-30
Rote counts to 100
Skip counts by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100
Names and gives values of coins
Tells time to the hour
• A complete list of skills is listed on our classroom webpage.
Any other questions?
• Open House for students is Tuesday August 21
from 5:30-7:00
• Please bring your child’s school supplies
• If you have any other questions, please email
me.