KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

SHADYCREST ELEMENTARY2018-2019

Ms. HogueMs. Vernon

Ms. NorthcuttMs. Smellie

Ms. Matusek

Meet our fabulous

Kinder Teachers

ARRIVAL

Your child should arrive at school no earlier than 7:15 a.m.

Students will either go to the cafeteria for breakfast or go to the library and listen to songs and stories until 7:50.

Each kindergarten class has an assigned fourth grader that will escort the children daily to their classrooms at 7:50.

MORNING DROP-OFF

Front doors, by the flag pole (please pull up)

Bus circle (after the buses drop off their students at 7:30am)

All students will wait in the library unless eating breakfast first

BREAKFAST/LUNCH Breakfast is served beginning at 7:20 A.M.

each morning.

The cost of breakfast is $1.45 -- reduced breakfast is $0.30.

The cost of lunch is $2.50 – reduced lunch is $0.40.

Parents are encouraged to pre-pay their meals by sending a check or money to the cafeteria. Payments and restrictions to your child’s account can also be made using Parent Online.

Students who qualify for free or reduced meals will need to send money for the full price of each meal until the application is approved.

Students who carry a cafeteria balance of $5.00 will be served a minimal meal of a sandwich.

You may join your child for lunch and sit on the stage tables or choose to take them outside to enjoy a lunch on the picnic tables (you will have to check them out and back in). When lunch is over, we ask that you say goodbye at the cafeteria doors.

Kindergarten lunch will begin around 10:30am. Therefore, we will incorporate a time daily that they may eat a quick snack in the afternoon if they are hungry. Feel free to send a snack with your child.

Breakfast/Lunch

THOSE FIRST FEW DAYS

We invite you to escort your child to their classroom during the first week of school to help with the transition.

We ask that after the first week of school you allow your child to wait in the library, so that they can begin to learn the school’s daily routine.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

At the beginning of the year, teachers will collect the school supplies and utilize a community supply system. For this reason, there is no need to label all of their supplies.

Students should be dressed in accordance to the P.I.S.D. dress code.

Girls should wear shorts under their dresses.

Please label your child’s jackets and sweaters!

Encourage your child to wear comfortable shoes everyday, especially on days when they go to PE!

Spirit shirts can be worn any day of the week.

We ask that the first shirt you purchase for your child be the themed grade level shirt (Kindergarten’s color is orange).

The themed spirit shirt may then be purchased in additional colors (black and gray).

You may also purchase the Shadycrest spirit shirt in additional colors (black, gray, pink, lime green, yellow, navy blue) and/or a GRIT spirit shirt.

District spirit shirts from our feeder schools (Alexander, East, and Pearland High School) may be worn any day of the week.

NEW! College shirts may be worn ANY day of the week.

DRESS CODE DETAILS Pants, shorts, and skirts: Need to be solid color

tan, beige, brown, black, gray, or navy. Pants must be hemmed and can’t have slicing, ragging, or holes in them. Shorts must be no more than 3 inches above the knee. Cargo (expendable) pockets are not allowed on pants or shorts.

Shirts and Jackets: Can be any solid color (no multicolor) standard collar shirt or appropriate campus/district spirit shirt. Plaid shirts are ok with a collar. College shirts may be worn every day. A single logo is allowed on shirts/blouses.

Shoes: Students must wear shoes appropriate for school (no house slippers, thongs or flip flops). All shoes must include a back strap over the heel, no wheels, noise-makers, or lights please.

Dress Code Examples

Shadycrest Spirit Shirts or Feeder School Spirit Shirts

Dress Code ExamplesJeans and Appropriate Length Shorts

Dress Code Examples

Cargo shorts

with

expandable

pockets

Athletic Shorts

Dress Code Examples

One Single LogoGraphic picture

Dress Code Examples

Striped Shirt with

CollarStriped Shirt without collar

Dress Code Examples

No

Backless

Shoes

No Backless or Light up Shoes

DISMISSAL

The school day ends at 3:15 p.m. and dismissal procedures begin at 3:05 p.m.

Your child will be dismissed by their teachers, and will go to the designated pick up locations with a kindergarten teacher.

Name tag necklaces will be sent home with students the first week. Please send back daily. We will have the students wear these for the first 3 weeks of school to ensure all adults in the building know how they go home.

It is very important that we know how your child will be going home those first few days of school, because it tends to change by the first full week.

If there is ever a change in your child’s regular way of going home, please call the receptionist or send a note before 2:00. Without a call or a note students will be sent home in their usual way. Permanent changes in how a student goes home need to be made with the teacher. The receptionist can only make a change for that day.

CAFETERIA WALK -UP Students will be led to the cafeteria and asked to sit

down in an assigned Kinder section.

Parents are asked to wait near the back of the cafeteria.

Students will tell the teacher when they see their parent or caregiver and point to them. The teacher sends the child once eye contact or a wave with the adult has been made.

IDs are not checked for adults picking up students designated as cafeteria walk-up. If you prefer the enhanced security you will want to designate your child as a car rider.

Please do not block the driveways of neighborhood homes in order to park and walk in.

Please do not park in the school parking lot and walk up to pick up a student designated as cafeteria walk-up. This is a safety concern as the parking lot is extremely busy at dismissal time.

CAR RIDERS

You will need a dashboard placard posted in your windshield with your child’s name and grade on it. Please make it large enough so that the caller will be able to read it. Without a placard, you will be asked to move to the front and an ID will be checked.

For flow of traffic and safety reasons, we can not allow parents to park and walk up to pick up their child.

Children need to load cars on the right side for safety reasons.

If your child needs help buckling their seatbelt, please pull out of the line and into a parking spot to buckle them in.

Dismissal will begin at 3:15 p.m.

CAR RIDERS

**Bare with us for the first week or so. We will be teaching the students the correct procedures. It will improve.

To help us speed up the car rider line, please…

Have your car rider sign visible and pull all the way forward in the line. Your child will be waiting for you at one of the colored poles. Please do not stop and look for your child because this will slow down the dismissal process.

BUS RIDERS

For all Kindergarten students, there must be an “approved” adult waiting at the bus stop to receive each student with a driver’s license or state ID.

If not, the student will be returned to the school.

It usually takes about three days for the transportation office to process new paperwork. Please make other arrangements for the pick-up of your kindergartener on those first three days of school.

You can call the bus barn to check to see if your child is on the list. Transfinder ( the district bus route scheduling program) can also be found online

www.pearlandisd.org

ADDITIONAL BUS RIDER INFO: Be sure to list all persons who will be able to receive

your child on your transportation registration form.

A Kinder student with a sibling 1st grade or older can be let off without an adult. In the event the sibling is absent, please have an approved adult at the stop.

Students are not allowed to ride the bus home with other students at any time.

Contact transportation directly for anything regarding the bus.

PISD Transportation/Bus Barn: 281-485-3562

WALKERS

Kindergarten students are not allowed to walk home from school without an adult.

If you want your kindergartener to walk home, you can designate them as cafeteria walk-up and then an adult can walk home with them.

YMCA The YMCA has an after school care

program that is housed in the Shadycrestcafeteria.

To enroll your child, you would need to contact the YMCA at 281-485-6805.

The hours are 3:00-6:30 p.m.

Please do not park in the bus circle before 3:30 p.m. to pick up your child. If you arrive before that time, we ask that you park in the front parking lot.

ILLNESS Please do not send your child to school if

he/she has a fever. Students must be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. If your child becomes ill at school, you will be called to pick your child up.

Due to the large number of clinic visits you may not always receive a call to let you know that your child was in the clinic that day. We will always call if they have a fever, vomit, hit their head or get something in their eye.

If your child has any allergies or needs to take medication, please let our HCA know. Please also take some time to review the district medication guidelines.

ACCIDENTS/CHANGE OF CLOTHING

We will call you if your child becomes soiled during the day and does not have a change of clothes, or if they are so soiled we determine they need to go home. We cannot keep clothes for everyone in the clinic so it is important for you to keep a change in your child’s backpack (ex. spilt milk, dirt from recess).

ABSENCES Texas has a compulsory attendance law which requires students

to be in attendance the full instructional time class is offered unless a valid excuse is presented.

If your child has a doctor/dentist appointment and returns to school the same day, he/she will be counted present as long as an excuse from the doctor/dentist is provided.

If your child is absent, you need to send a note to the school within three days of when he/she returns.

Please include your child’s name, teacher’s name, date of absence, and the reason for the absence.

Excessive absences/tardiness means that your child will be missing out on important instructional time. 3 or more tardies will also prevent perfect attendance awards.

BIRTHDAYS AND CUPCAKES If you want to send cookies/cupcakes for your child’s birthday, they

will need to be store bought. These will need to be labeled with child/teacher name and dropped off at the front reception. They will be served to the class during the last 15 minutes of the school day.

No balloons or party goods please. We are a balloon free campus to protect our students with severe allergies.

We ask that birthday party invitations not be sent to school to be distributed unless invitations are available for all the children in the class or all girls/all boys.

PTA will provide a small prize for students on their birthday.

Half Birthdays celebrated for our

summer birthdays

ODDS AND ENDS

If you are sending money to school with your child, please make sure that it is in an envelope labeled with teacher name, student name, grade level, and what the money is for (ex. Lunch, pictures, yearbook, etc) . Checks will need your Driver’s License and phone number on them.

For the first couple of weeks please send containers that are easy for them to open for their lunches.

Please keep an extra change of dress code clothes for your child in his/her backpack.

Please check your child’s take-home folder each day. This is the easiest way to exchange notes and stay updated on behavior, homework, and school events.

No rolling backpacks please.

If you are interested in volunteering, an online criminal background check must be completed. You can visit the school district’s main homepage to complete the volunteer paperwork. www.pearlandisd.org

DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment)—Beginning of the Year testing

ODDS AND ENDS

CONFERENCE TIME

Kindergarten teacher conference time is

12:00-12:45

Please call if you would like to arrange a conference.

Phone number: 281-412-1404

PTA VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Kinder Lunch Duty

Room mom or dad

PTA Board Positions

PTA Watch Dog (Dads)

Volunteers-to-go

In-school volunteer

Spring Carnival

Yearbook committee

School Supplies

Fundraising

Field Trip/Field Day

A TYPICAL DAY IN KINDER Morning routines and calendar

Read Aloud

Writer’s Workshop

Literacy Stations and Guided Reading

Shared Reading

Lunch

Recess

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

Specials (Library, Music, Art, or P.E.)

Math and Math Stations

Science and Social Studies

Dismissal

KINDERGARTEN IS…

Hands-on learning

Based on individual needs

About the whole child (social, emotional, and intellectual)

Whole group, small group, and individual

Parents and teacher working together

Hard work

FUN!

• Each year we incorporate a student motivational theme.

• This year we are doing Polka Dot theme.

• Themes allow us to put a fresh spin on general procedures, student recognition, and make each year distinct for our students.

•Teacher Assignment Stations:

--Wednesday, August 15th 4-7 p.m. A-L

--Thursday, August 16th 4-7 p.m. M-Z**Bring with you a copy of a current utility bill, cash/check if desired,

etc. Campus Handbook/forms on Shadycrest website.

•Friday, August 17th

8:30-9:30 a.m. Welcome Walk/Supply Drop Off

•Monday, August 20th

First Day of School

•Thursday, August 30th 6:30-8:00 pm

(Open House) Meet the Teacher Night

• Monday, September 3rd

Labor Day – No School

Dates to Remember

Thank you for attending this orientation.

We are thrilled to have your child as a Shadycrest kindergarten student!

This PowerPoint will be posted to each Kindergarten teacher’s website for future reference.