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Sandy HighScope Preschool

Welcome!

• Review Policies• Curriculum• Assessments• Field Trips• Volunteer • Scholastic Book Order•Housekeeping•Coming Soon!

Policies

School policies are located on the school’s webpage under the “classes” section. Please read and sign the the policy agreement in your folder.

Highlighted Areas:

•Health•Pick up and drop off•Tuition

Construction!!

The church is in the process of building a new entry way! Please use the side doors during construction.

When construction is complete, we will have a new arrival and dismissal policy. You will be able to choose to drop your child off and pick your child up under the covered enterrance!

Discipline

PBISPositive Behavior Interventions and Support

• A preventative way to teach expectations•Each part of our day children know what to do with their bodies, mouths, and ears. •Children are rewarded with stickers, charms, and tokens when they are following rules

Thinking time is used if a child needs a break to calm down, or if they demonstrate an unsafe behavior. Thinking times are facilitated by a teacher and the child is guided through any de-escalation and problem solving to come up with solutions to correct the behavior or situation.

6 Step Mediation

Approach calmly, stopping any hurtful actions. Place yourself between the children, on their level; use a calm voice and gentle touch; remain neutral rather than take sides.Acknowledge children's feelings. Say something simple such as “You look really upset;” let children know you need to hold any object in question.Gather information. Ask “What's the problem?” Do not ask “why” questions as young children focus on that what the problem is rather than understanding the reasons behind it.Restate the problem: “So the problem is...” Use and extend the children’s vocabulary, substituting neutral words for hurtful or judgmental ones (such as “stupid”) if needed.Ask for solutions and choose one together. Ask “What can we do to solve this problem?” Encourage children to think of a solution but offer options if the children are unable to at first.Be prepared to give follow-up support. Acknowledge children’s accomplishments, e.g., “You solved the problem!” Stay nearby in case anyone is not happy with the solution and the process needs repeating.Adults respect children’s ideas for solving problems, even if the options they offer don’t seem fair to adults. What’s important is that children agree on the solution and see themselves as competent problem-solvers.

Curriculum

Early Literacy

Zoo-Phonics and HighScope’s Growing Readers Early Literacy Curriculum

Focus on:

•Comprehension•Phonemic Awareness•Concepts about print•Alphabetic Principle

Curriculum

Writing

First Strokes

A multi-sensory approach that has specific verbal reminders when writing letters.

CurriculumMath

HighScope's Number Plus Preschool Mathematics Curriculum

-Number Sense and Operations including number words and symbols, counting, comparing and ordering (quantity), combining and dividing groups, adding and subtracting

-Geometry includes shapes, transformation, and spatial relationships

-Measurement includes measurement terms, unit, comparing and ordering by attribute

-Algebra includes alternating patterns and increasing and decreasing patterns

-Data Analysis includes describing, organizing and comparing, representing, and interpreting and applying

Home Resources

Every child is registered on Raz.kids.com

Username: SCTONY2

After you type in the username, click on your child’s name

Home ideas will be included in the weekly newsletter!

Assessment

You will receive a written assessment three times a year.

The main assessment is COR (Child Observation Record). Please refer to the COR handout.

Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle, and Math Skills will be assessed using Curriculum Based Measurements.

November – a brief assessment with the CORJanuary- COR and additional assessmentsMay- COR and additional assessments

COR online

We are in the process of registering each student on the COR online assessment. You will receive a username and password via email.

The first assessment will be entered in November.

Field Trips

We will be scheduling family field trips!

•Field trips will be scheduled on Saturdays•All family members welcome•Transportation is not provided

Our first field trip will be to the pumpkin patch. We are arranging the field trip on the second Saturday in October, the 13th. We will explore Bushue’s Farm! Details coming soon.

Volunteers

Volunteering is optional, but we could use help with:

•Class parties•Getting crafts ready •Putting books together and stapling them

Scholastic Book Club

We are registered to get the Scholastic Flyers for book orders!

There are three flyers:•Toddlers to four years old•Preschool-K•Kindergarten-first

Each family will receive the flyer (s)Payment must be made before the order goes in

Housekeeping

•Make sure to read each week’s newsletter•Take papers out of your child’s hanging folder each day•Please fill out any forms that are in your Back to School Folder

Coming Soon!

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•Class and individual photos •Book Fair•Fundraisers

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