WELCOME TO WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!KINDERGARTEN!

WELCOME TO WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!KINDERGARTEN!

Mrs. Carney Mrs. Carney

Room 106Room 106

How to get in contact with

Mrs. Carney?

Marble notebook: best way to contact me Email address: LCarney@havsd.net

Manoa School phone number: (610) 853-5900 extension 6000

Voice mail L. Carney: (610) 853-5900 ext. 6406

Sign Up

• Volunteer Schedule

• E-Alerts sign up www.haverford.k12.pa.us/manoa

• Scholastic Book Clubwww.scholastic.com/bookclubsclass activation code: GP3PV

Kindergarten Procedures:

Transportation• Bus Rider

• Walker/Pick up AM Dismissal- 11:25 PM Dismissal- 3:26

• After Care- Trinity or Brookline

*Please send a note into school if there is a dismissal change

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

Snacks

Nut-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, that’s fine.

•Snacks are not shared

•Food allergies or specific diets- please let me know.

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

Notesplace all notes inside your child’s marble

notebook under the rubber band

• Absent notessend in the yellow absent form when he/she

returns to school.

• Change of dismissal

• CommunicationDailyResponding to notes/questions

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 Friday’s What the children are learning Announcements/News Field Trips

• Homework- usually due the following ThursdayPlace homework in marble notebook

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.

Everyday Math

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

Social Studies/Science

Social Studies*Combined with Language Arts

Science*Engaged in active construction of ideas*The Senses*Living things and the environment

Kid Writing

• Writing letters to match sounds and words

• Describe their illustration

• We need parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, ANY grown-up

Handwriting Without Tears

• Formation of letters and numbers• capital letters• lowercase letters• numbers

• www.hwtears.com

Responsive Classroom

• Rules• Positive Reinforcement• Circle Meeting• Community Learners• Hopes & Dreams• Traffic Light

•

Report Cards &

Kindergarten Assessments

Standard based report cards-December, April, June

AIMSweb-Letters and Phonics

* Report card skill- homework

Conferences

• December & April

*Please sign up for conferences

“All the seeds of today,Are the flowers of tomorrow.”