Welcome to Kindergarten

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Welcome toKindergarten
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Opening/ Circle Time

• Each day the children will talk about the day,
  date, share their journals,and work on learning
  new concepts.

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Story time

• An important part of the day is listening to and
  discussing stories. This re-inforces
  pre-reading skills.
• Please read to your child daily at home.

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Skill Development

• Work time will include cutting, pasting,
  pre-reading, mathematics and language skills.

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Play Centers

• Play centers help reinforce sharing, language and
  social skills. Some centers remain the same all
  year, others change.

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Lunch and Recess

• Children may bring their own lunch or purchase
  lunch. Children sit with their class in the
  cafeteria.
• Lunch tickets are sold on the first day of the
  week.

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Rest Time

• After recess children have a quiet, rest time.
  Please send in a towel for your child to rest on.
  This will be sent home on a regular basis for
  washing.

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Special Areas

• Each class has 40 minutes with a trained art,
  music and physical education teacher each week.
  Sneakers are needed for gym.
• Children also go to the school library.

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Middletown Public Schools

• The full-day kindergarten is not a stepping
  stone to first grade. It is not a traditional
  first grade begun one year earlier, nor is it an
  extended nursery school. Ideally, it is a unique
  time with its own knowledge base and practices
  that reflect a continuum of child
  development. Doris Fromberg, 1982

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U.S. Participation in Full-Day Kindergarten
Programs
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The Kindergarten program enables your child to...

• recognize all upper and lowercase letters.
• recognize beginning and ending sounds.
• recognize 24 sight words.
• draw a detailed picture and tell about it.
• write a complete sentence.
• rote count to 101.
• recognize numbers 0-20.
• extend simple and complex patterns.
• act out story problems.
• sort and classify.
• order by size
• listen and follow directions
• learn to get along with each other

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Tips for a Successful Year

• Make sure your child is well rested.
• Have your child eat a good breakfast so that
  he/she has energy everyday.
• Gather school items the night before.
• Read daily to your child.
• Read Mrs. Rubins Principally Speaking sent
  home every Friday.
• Volunteer in your childs classroom or in PTA
  activities.

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The DIAL 3

• Developmental Indicators
• for the Assessment of Learning
• 3rd Edition

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Categories of the DIAL 3

• Motor
• Jump, hop, skip, naming body parts
• Concepts
• Colors, largest, smallest, beside
• Language
• Letters and sounds

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Why use the DIAL 3?

• Assists in determining Title I status.
• Assists in preparing classes
• Race
• Gender
• Age
• Ability

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Who gives the DIAL 3?

• Kindergarten teachers
• Language Arts Consultants or Elementary
  Instructional Support Teachers
• Speech Pathologists
• Family Resource Center personnel Farm Hill and
  Macdonough

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How did my child do with the DIAL 3?

• Call the school and ask for the Language Arts
  Consultant, Elementary Instructional Support
  Teacher or the Principal.
• Scores based on meeting age-level expectations.

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Registration

• Documents needed
• Birth certificate with raised seal.
• Social security card.
• Proof of residency.
• Dont forget your child!

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The registration process

• To enter the school you may have to press a
  buzzer and identify yourself.
• Follow signs to registration or report to the
  main office.

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At registration

• The parents job
• Complete paper work.
• Review district kindergarten handbook.
• Pick up CT State Department of Educations
  Health Assessment Record.

• The childs job
• Work on the DIAL 3 by moving from station to
  station.
• Have fun!