| If your child is ill and can’t come to school you will need to contact our school office attendance line at (909) 398-0304 and let us know that your child will not be coming to school due to illness. Please do not send your child to school if they are ill and running a temperature over 100° or if they have thrown up within the last 24 hours. Children that are sick have a difficult time focusing and expose the rest of the class to their illness. |
| If a child becomes ill at school they will be sent to the nurse’s office where it will be determined if the child needs to be treated and be sent back to class or if it is necessary for them to go home. |
| If a child is scheduled for a doctors appointment during school hours you must always go to the office to check your child out from school. Please do not go to the classroom to get them. The office will call for your child and they will meet you in the office. In order to keep loss of instruction for your child at a minimum I strongly suggest that whenever possible you schedule their appointments for after 11:30. Of course this is only a suggestion and I understand that sometimes this may not be possible. |
| Punctuality is also very important. Any time a child is late to school it disrupts our classroom instruction and your child may fall behind on assignments. School starts at 8:00 a.m. A good rule of thumb is to have your child at school by 7:50 a.m. so that they get to class on time. Your help in this area is highly appreciated. When a child is late they should check into the office and obtain a late slip prior to coming to class. |
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| The Claremont Unified School District requires that we assign a maximum of 15-30 minutes of homework nightly for kindergarten. I will be assigning homework on Friday and it will be due on the following Thursday. The homework will consist of the following: 15 minutes of reading 15-minutes of work in another subject area. For those students desiring additional homework I recommend the purchase of enrichment workbooks. The amount of additional homework will be left up to the discretion of the parent and may be turned in to me if you desire. |
| Homework will be given on a weekly basis in packets. The homework is intended to provide additional practice and further study of previously introduced material, and an opportunity to acquire additional information or reinforcement where appropriate. It also provides opportunities for positive parent-child interaction and allows the parent to see what is being taught. |
| Each child is responsible for completing and turning in their homework weekly. It is vitally important that you check your child’s homework daily to ensure that they understand it and are doing it correctly. Please make sure that all homework has your child’s name on it so that they get credit for doing it. Please initial the homework so that I know you have checked it with your child. It is also very important that all homework be done by the child. Parents are encouraged to assist with questions but the actual work must be done in the child’s own writing unless stated otherwise. |
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I recommend that you plan for a regular time of quiet study for your child each day. A place with a good light and necessary supplies. We will provide all necessary materials essential for learning at school. Please keep personal pencil boxes, trapper keepers, notebooks, and large boxes of crayons at home for homework use. |
| Please let me know if your child is having difficulty completing the homework assignments. Homework is not meant to frustrate the child. If we work together toward providing your child with the best education we will foster the greatest gift of all: a life-long love of learning. Let’s help your child make this a wonderful year. |
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- Set time aside to read with your child.
- Listen to your child read and ask questions about what they read.
- Go to the public library with your child and help them pick out books.
- Subscribe to a children’s magazine (in the child’s name).
- Talk to your child about subjects that are of interest to them.
- Give your child his/her own place to keep books.
- Write notes to your child.
- Play games with your child.
- Help your child write letters or notes to relatives or friends.
- Ask your child about their school day.
- Assist your child with their homework but don’t do it for them.
- Give your child a calendar so they can write down special events and mark off each day.
- Help your child look up words in the dictionary.
- Help your child make a telephone directory with the names and phone numbers of their friends.
- Give your child specific duties to perform at home on a regular basis.
- Let your child help you make dinner.
- Encourage your child to show their schoolwork to relatives and friends.
- Monitor and limit what your child watches on television.
- Encourage your child to play outdoors and use their imagination.
- Take your child to a store or a garage sale and let them spend their own money to buy something.
- Show your child how to count money.
- Teach your child how to tell time.
- Display your child’s schoolwork on the refrigerator.
- Help your child write stories and make books.
- Show your child how to measure with a ruler or yard stick.
- Let your child help you in the garden.
- Expose your child to different ecosystems.
- Talk to your child about the weather and have them predict the weather.
- Encourage your child and tell him/her often you love them.
- Hug your child and help them feel safe.
- Show your child that you have confidence in them.
- Model honesty, trustworthiness, respect, fairness, caring, and good sportsmanship.
- Let them know that they are important.
- Provide them with the supplies they need and a quiet place to work.
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| I love parent volunteers.Volunteering is a great way to be involved in your child’s schooling experience. There are many ways to volunteer even if you are unable to volunteer in the classroom. Many people work and are unable to make that commitment. But the good news is that many times I have things that can be done at home and at your convenience. If you are able to donate your time please complete the Parent Volunteer Form I have provided and I will get in touch with you. |
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For those parents wishing to volunteer in the classroom it is important that you obtain a TB test before you start your volunteer work. There will be a form that you need to complete which needs to be turned into the school office. Classroom volunteers will be used for clerical or project preparation, or in centers with small groups of students, or one-on-one. I usually like to have two or three parents in at the same time so that I can split the kids up into groups of four. If you are interested in doing this please sign up on the Parent Volunteer Form for the day and time block you prefer. Please keep in mind that this commitment would be for the entire year. However, if there is ever a time in which you are unable to come I would really appreciate it if you could let the office know so that I could plan accordingly. For anyone volunteering in the classroom or on field trips I need to mention that siblings need to be left at home. We are not allowed to have siblings accompany us on field trips and to minimize classroom disruption during volunteer time they need to be left at home.
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| For anyone wishing to volunteer to be our room parent you will need to know that you will be the person in charge of organizing and putting together our class parties. Please note that this can be a shared position with another parent so if any of you are interested then I encourage you to sign up for it. |
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Please know that any time volunteered is of great value and benefit to our children. I encourage you to volunteer and very much appreciate your valuable time and efforts in helping our children succeed and reach their success. I look forward to working side by side with you and really making this year a positive experience for our children.
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