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Our Staff
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Kindergarten Health
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Immunizations

• Must be current.
• The parent, guardian or responsible person has 30
  calendar days from the first day of attendance to
  present the required written proof of
  immunizations. The child CAN be excluded from
  school until proof is provided.
• If you have any questions about your childs
  immunizations please contact the school prior to
  the start date.

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Medications

• Medications will be administered at school ONLY
  if a Physician Order for Medication form 1702 is
  completed, signed by physician and parent and is
  in the possession of school officials.
• These forms are available at the front office.
• All medications must be brought to school by
  parent/guardian.

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When to Keep Your Child Home from School

• Fever of 100 or higher (Should be fever free for
  24 hours before returning to school).
• Red, watery eyes with yellow drainage
• Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea
• Severe headache
• Undiagnosed rash

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Transportation

• We promise to help your kindergartner get where
  he/she needs to be

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Ways to travel

• Ways to travel
• Carpool
• Bus
• Daycare Vans
• YMCA Before and
• after school care
• Walker
• Get carpool and bus numbers at July 6 meet the
  teacher.

• Transportation tags are needed for the first two
  weeks of kindergarten.

Transportation Tag Date ______________ Student
Name___________________ Teacher Mrs.
Atwood Lunch (circle one) Buying Brought
lunch How I will be going home today (include
Bus number or carpool number)
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During the First Weeks

• Parents are welcome to walk kindergarten students
  to their classrooms on the first day of school.
• A kiss and go routine reduces
• the likelihood of tears.
• Upon arrival kindergarten students are escorted
  to their classrooms by staff members.
• In the afternoons, kindergartners are escorted to
  buses and carpool by teachers.

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Arrival and Dismissal Procedures

• Arrival (845 -915am)
• Children may not arrive at school until 845
  unless enrolled in YMCA Before School Care.
• Carpool and buses begin unloading at 845.
• Children should go straight to their classroom.
• A child arriving after 915 will need to go the
  office for a tardy slip
• Any child who is tardy or absent will receive a
  phone call from the NCWISE automatic message
  center.
• Dismissal 345pm
• No check-out after 315.
• At 340 carpoolers and YMCA children walk to the
  multipurpose room to be ready for the 345
  dismissal.
• At 345 walkers go to lobby to meet their parents
  and buses are called.
• All kindergarten students are accompanied to
  their carpool lines/buses by teachers for the
  first few weeks of school.

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Staggered EntryWhat is it?

• Staggered entry is a transition activity aimed at
  helping to ease your childs (and your!)
  transition into kindergarten.
• Each kindergartner will come for one full day
  during the first week of school.
• Be sure to sign up for a
• staggered entry day today!
• Sign-up tables are along the wall outside the gym.

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Staggered Entry

• Smaller group sizes allow the staff to offer
  individual attention and support as children try
  new things
• An informal assessment is integrated into the day
  through play activities.
• This assessment, along with observations over the
  first weeks of school will allow the staff to
  plan your childs instruction.

• Why do it?

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• Staggered Entry Select ONE date
• Staggered Entry Day Tracks 1,2,3
• July 9, 10, 11 OR 12
• Staggered Entry for Track 4July 30, 31, Aug 1 OR
  Aug 2

• First Day for ALL students (after Staggered
  Entry)
• Tracks 1,2,3 July 16
• Track 4 August 5

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On the way to the first day

• Meet the teacher is Friday, July 6 at
  230-330.(Track 4 Meet the teacher July 26,
  5-6pm)
• Focus on the positive your attitude determines
  your childs attitude.
• Communicate Use your childs daily folder to
  turn in important papers and notes for the
  teacher.
• Get plenty of rest and expect
• tired children in the afternoon.

• July 6

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Things to remember

• Talk to your child about how he/she will go home
  in the afternoon.
• Talk about snack and lunch have your child pack
  both in his/her backpack so they know which is
  which.
• Allow plenty of time in the morning to arrive at
  school on time.

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First Day Supplies

• Students will need to come to school with the
  following supplies on their staggered entry day
• A large backpack without wheels (for art projects
  and school work!)
• A towel for rest time labeled with childs name
  (no blankets or pillows please.)
• A healthy snack labeled with childs name and
  packed separately from lunch. Please do not send
  cookies or sweets for snack. Think brain food! ?
• A full change of clothes (inc. socks
  underwear)
• packed in a large Ziploc bag and labeled
  with childs name
• Transportation tag pinned to childs shirt.
• You will receive a list of additional supplies
• from your teacher at Meet the Teacher.

Transportation Tag
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A Typical Kindergarten Day

• Morning Meeting/Calendar
• Literacy Block
• Snack
• Special Classes Art, Music, PE, Media,
  Technology
• Sharing/Shared reading or writing
• Lunch
• Recess
• Quiet Time
• Math
• Science/Social Studies
• Social Centers

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Time to EAT!

• On your staggered entry day you will receive
• Your childs lunch number
• Free Reduced Lunch forms
• Payment options
• Pre-pay online (preferred)
• Send a check made out to TCE cafeteria for an
  amount you choose.
• Students will wear name tags that also list their
  lunch .
• When students pay for lunch they type their lunch
  into a key pad.

Lunch Money can be pre-paid online at the WCPSS
website under Departments Child Nutrition. Then
look for Lunch Money Options.
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Communication

• PTA Newsletter
• Ribbit Report weekly
• Principal Newsletter
• Classroom Newsletters
• Student Folders
• Conferences - 2 per year
• Report Cards - 2 per year

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Opportunities to VolunteerALL VOLUNTEERS MUST
REGISTER IN THE MEDIA CENTER

• Field trips
• Classroom events
• Learning centers
• KITS Kids into
• Thinking
• Lunch Bunch
• PTA Events
• Media Center

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Thoughts at the Bottom of a Beanstalk

• Once upon a time there was a little boy named
  Jack who was about to climb his very first
  beanstalk. He had a fresh haircut and a brand-new
  book bag. ??     Even though his friends in the
  neighborhood had climbed this same beanstalk
  almost every day last year, this was Jack's first
  day and he was a little nervous. So was his
  mother. ??     Early in the morning she brought
  him to the foot of the beanstalk. She talked
  encouragingly to Jack about all the fun he would
  have that day and how nice his giant would be.
  She reassured him that she would be back to pick
  him up at the end of the day. For a moment they
  stood together, silently holding hands, gazing up
  at the beanstalk. To Jack it seemed much bigger
  than it had when his mother had pointed it out on
  the way to the store last week. His mother
  thought it looked big, too. She swallowed. Maybe
  she should have held Jack out a year... ??     
  Jack's mother straightened his shirt one last
  time, patted his shoulder and smiled down at him.
  She promised to stay and wave while he started
  climbing. Jack didn't say a word. ??     He
  walked forward, grabbed a low-growing stem and
  slowly pulled himself up to the first leaf. He
  balanced there for a moment and then climbed more
  eagerly to the second leaf, then to the third and
  soon he had vanished into a high tangle of leaves
  and stems with never a backward glance at his
  mother. ??  

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• ?     She stood alone at the bottom of the
  beanstalk, gazing up at the spot where Jack had
  disappeared. There was no rustle, no movement, no
  sound to indicate that he was anywhere inside.
  ??     "Sometimes," she thought, "it's harder to
  be the one who waves good-bye than it is to be
  the one who climbs the beanstalk." ??     She
  wondered how Jack would do. Would he miss her?
  How would he behave? Did his giant understand
  that little boys sometimes acted silly when they
  felt unsure? She fought down an urge to spring up
  the stalk after Jack and maybe duck behind a bean
  to take a peek at how he was doing. ??     "I'd
  better not. What if he saw me?" She knew Jack was
  really old enough to handle this on his own. She
  reminded herself that, after all this was thought
  to be an excellent beanstalk and that everyone
  said his giant was not only kind but had
  outstanding qualifications. ??     "It's not so
  much that I'm worried about him," she thought,
  rubbing the back of her neck. "It's just that
  he's growing up and I'm going to miss him."
  ??     Jack's mother turned to leave. "Jack's
  going to have lots of bigger beanstalks to climb
  in his life," she told herself. "Today's the day
  he starts practicing for them...
• And today's the day I start practicing something
  too Cheering him
• on and waving good-bye."
• (Author Unknown)

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Thank you for coming
Questions?