Kaposia Education CenterAn International Baccalaureate
Primary Years Program World School
Mission Statement Ignite a passion in every learner to inquire, continuously improve and engage in positively
changing our world.
Kindergarten Round Up! February 1, 2018
Kaposia Office Staff We are here to support you and your child!
Terry Bretoi Principal
Dan RileyAssistant Principal
Lisa BoelterPrincipal's Secretary
Tammy ChristophersonBuilding Secretary
Daisy Medina-Cuenca Cultural Liaison
Melissa HoLicensed School Nurse
Lyssa Cook Health Assistant
Kelcie LitchfieldFamily Support Worker
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Kaposia’s Kindergarten Staff
Erin Roeske
Sarah WotipkaElizabeth Rozendaal
Erin Gross
Kristin Sampson
Mary Molumby Noel ChirhartESL Teacher
Kim DahlenESL Teacher 3
Many Emotions...
Children:✓ Exciting! Can’t wait to get started! (Bus, friends)
✓ Nervous about being away from home and family
✓ Curious about school
✓ First steps to independence
✓ New feelings, friends, experiences
Parents:✓ Nervous /(Excited!)about being away from your kids!
✓ Interested in what they will be doing all day!
Turn and Talk!Share what you are thinking and feeling!!! 4
It’s OK to have questions!
For Example:✓ Who’s going to help me?✓ Will I miss home?✓ Will other kids like me?✓ Will the teacher like me?✓ Who’s going to meet me after school?✓ Where’s the bathroom?
Try to:✓ Encourage discussion✓ Be reassuring✓ Work out problems
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Kaposia is an IB World School!
✓ What’s PYP?
✓ What do we want kids to learn?
✓ How will we teach?
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Kaposia Creates IB Students
IB learners strive to be:
✓ inquirers ✓ knowledgeable ✓ thinkers ✓ communicators ✓ principled ✓ open-minded ✓ caring ✓ risk-takers ✓ balanced ✓ reflective
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IB Primary Years Program Coordinator
Units of Inquiry:
✓ Who we are
• Senses are used for exploring and staying safe.
✓ Where we are in place and time
• Communities provide for the people who live in them.
✓ How we express ourselves
• Symbols reflect the uniqueness of people and places.
✓ How the world works
• Some choices are based on understanding weather.
✓ How we organize ourselves
• Cooperating and being responsible allow people to learn and
get along.
✓ Sharing the planet
• Plants and animals live and grow in shared environments.
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Kindergarten Prerequisites
Copies of:
✓ Immunizations
• With 5 year old immunization dates
✓ Birth Certificate
✓ Early Childhood Screening
✓ Proof of Residence
If these four items are not turned in PRIOR
to the first day of school your child will NOT be allowed to start!
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Summer Opportunities!
Kindergarten Camp:
August 13-16 (tentative)
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Kindergarten Family Connection Days First Two Days of School
TBA in August
Student/ parent conference to…✓ Tour classroom and bring in school supplies✓ Build relationships with the teacher
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First day of school for Kindergartners
TBA
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“All I ever needed to know, I learned in (All Day) kindergarten.”
- Robert Fulgum
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Fact of the Day:
✓ An experienced teacher and a small class in kindergarten can set a person up for life. At least according to a large-scale study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The bureau study, conducted by a team of economists, draws on data from Project STAR, one of the most widely studied education experiments in the United States. The project spans 11,600 students and their teachers in kindergarten through third grade across 79 schools. What's unique is that, while numerous studies have shown the benefits of intensive preschool programs, this study is the first to link a better classroom environment in the earliest grades to success in adulthood.
✓ The study shows compelling proof of how kindergarten affects your salary, your chances of going to college and owning a home, and even your retirement savings.
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Bus Transportation
• One-mile eligibility for free busing for K-6 students (south of 494 non-eligible for free transportation. North of 494 is bussed within the KEC attendance area.)
• Daycare forms for bussing. We need to know where the child is being transported. Must be in the KEC attendance area. This form may be found on the SSP website under Transportation.
• Pay-To-Ride forms are for students who live within the one-mile boundary and want to pay for their child to be transported by bus. Forms are due to the Transportation office no later than August 1, 2017. The sooner the better! The fee for the program is $225.00 within the Kaposia boundary, with a family cap of $450.00 Forms may be found on the SSP website under Transportation.
• Bus passes are in a postcard format and will be mailed home the middle of August. Please keep the bus pass in your child’s backpack at all times.
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Arriving at School
Busses:
✓ We will meet them on the north side of the building. ✓ We have adults escorting them to their classrooms the
first couple of weeks of school.
Walkers/Drop Off :
✓ Walkers and students being dropped off can enter school through the main entrance near the parking lot or the south side of the building near the south doors.
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Typical Kindergarten DayBreakfast available in Cafeteria
Children Arrive at School
Morning Meeting/ Calendar
Language Arts
Recess/Lunch
Quiet Time – Story & Rest
Art, Music, Phy. ED., Spanish
Math
Unit of Inquiry
Closing- Songs, Stories and Group Games
Snack/Milk
Choice Time
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Choose
ActReflect
Primary Years
Program
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What’s Our Curriculum?The Minnesota State Standards
✓ Numbers✓ Patterns✓ Add/Subtract✓ 50 Sight Words✓ Calendar✓ Shapes and Colors✓ Read Simple Sentences✓ Write Simple Sentences✓ Reading @ D Level
✓ Letter Recognition• Upper/Lower Case
✓ Letter Sounds✓ Printing✓ Rhyming✓ Social Studies✓ Health✓ Science✓ Count & Write to 31
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Technology at Kaposia
Three Computer Labs iPads
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Breakfast/Lunch in the KEC Café!● Free Breakfast for every child!
● Recess before they eat
● Assigned lunch tables
● Two options of food, or bag lunch
● Lunch cost is currently $1.70
● A reminder to please add your new
Kindergarten student to a free/reduced lunch
application, even if you have older SSP
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How will my child get home?Walkers/Pick Up
✓ Walkers/Pick Up - Each kindergarten teacher will escort their class out the north side of the building (Dale Street) to be picked up. If you have other children in the building they can meet your kindergarten child and you outside the north doors. Each family must make visual connections before students will be released.
Busses✓ Students will be escorted to
the Gymnasiums at 3:30 PM to board busses first. We have adults assisting teachers the first couple of weeks of school.
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Your Kids NEED YOU! Parental Involvement
✓ KEC PTA ✓ Kaposia Parent Teacher Association
✓ Classroom Volunteer✓ Read weekly newsletter and perform teacher tips on
reading or math✓ Read everyday with your child✓ Lunch with your child✓ Attend conferences
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What can you do to help them become ready for school?
✓ Provide opportunities for your child to to work with other children✓ Know their name, address, telephone number✓ Encourage curiosity about the world✓ Practice writing, tying shoes, zipping jackets for fine motor skills. This
promotes independence-• Let students do what they can
✓ Read to your child daily✓ Count to 10✓ Letter identification✓ Number identification✓ Tour the school✓ Talk with them about school with enthusiasm and excitement✓ Attend K Camp. ✓ http://www.getset4k.org/✓ www.IsYourChildReady.com
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What supplies will we need?Tentative Kindergarten Supply List
• 24 Pack of Crayola crayons• Large backpack – no wheels• 6 - 0.77 ounce Elmer’s Glue Sticks• Old paint shirt• 1 box/container of snacks to share
with class (ex: goldfish, fruit snacks, animal crackers, etc.)
• 2 - (8 Pack) thick Crayola markers• 1 - pair of headphones that go
over child’s head (in Ziploc bag labeled w/child’s name)
• Large box of Kleenex• 1-pair of tennis shoes that you child
can independently put on & tie for Phy-Ed
• 2 - Containers of Clorox wipes• Plastic box for crayons
• 2-Expo dry erase markers
• 2 - Wide-ruled spiral notebooks
• Boys: package of white or brown lunch bags.
• Girls: One Crayola 8 count set of
watercolor paints
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Before and after School Care available at KECKids Choice
District Coordinator : Jeanne Zehnder - 651-306-3634
Kaposia Youth Facilitator: Amy Trettel – 651-288-6840
Kids Choice Hours• Before School
– 6:30 am – 8:50 am• After School
– 3:35 pm - 6:00 pm• Non –School Day/All Day Care
– 6:30 am - 6:00 pm
Summer care is also available!
Kids Choice Prices• Before School & After School
Session
– Rate $10.50– Drop in Rate $15.75
• Non School Days Contracted
– Day $32.55– Drop in Rate $37.80
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How are homerooms decided?We place students in classrooms based on:
✓ Gender balance✓ Range of abilities✓ Special needs are clustered with support✓ Separation of students with behavior conflicts.✓ We use the parent input form and observations to
make these decisions.
No specific teacher requests!
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Attendance & Tardies✓ To be successful your child must be in
school and on time by 8:50.✓ Students should be in their seats ready to
go at 9:00✓ If they are tardy, you must come in and
sign them in to school.
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Health OfficeStaff & Hours
Lyssa Cook, HA
✓ Health Assistant✓ CPR Trained✓ First Aid Certified
Melissa Ho, RN, LSN
✓ Licensed School Nurse✓ CPR Trained✓ First Aid Certified
Hours: 8:15-3:45 Daily
Health OfficeServices
Manage Acute & Chronic
Health Conditions
✓ Asthma✓ Diabetes✓ Life Threatening Allergies✓ ADHD✓ Seizures
If your child has a health condition that requires any medical attention during the school day, please contact
the Health Office to arrange a conference to discuss how these needs can be met during school hours.
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Health OfficeMedication at School
Forms Available Tonight
✓ Asthma Action Plan
✓ Anaphylaxis Action Plan
✓ Seizure Action Plan
✓ Diabetes Action Plan
✓ Lactose Free Milk Form
✓ Consent for Medication Administration
• Must be signed by a parent and physician• Original Prescription Bottle/Medication
Container• Not expired
PLEASE DO NOT SEND MEDICATION TO SCHOOL
WITH STUDENTS !!!
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Health OfficeSick Children
You will be asked to pick your student up for:
✓ Temperature over 100˚ F✓ Diarrhea✓ Vomiting✓ Unidentified Rash✓ Injury requiring medical
attention
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Health OfficeSick Children
For the health of our school we have the following rules:
Before returning to school your child
should be:
✓ 24 Hours fever free without medication✓ 24 Hours diarrhea free without medication✓ 24 Hours from the last episode of vomiting
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Health OfficeAllergies
Due to student allergies please do not bring the
following to school:
✓ Latex✓ Pets✓ Flowers✓ Balloons✓ Nut Products
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Health Office
IMMUNIZATIONS are REQUIRED to start
kindergarten.It is a state law.
Immunizations
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“The goal for children in this type of program is to become critical thinkers, effective group
participants, and enthusiastic, life-long learners.”by David Elkind
Thank you for coming!!
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School Website• Please visit our school and district website at www.sspps.org for up to date school news and
information and a copy of this power point presentation.
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✓ ALL registration materials are complete?
✓ Enrollment packets with Birth Certificate, Early
Childhood Screening and Proof of Residence?
✓ Schedule a Preschool Screening date?
✓ Before and After School child care information –
Kid’s Choice?
✓ Transportation information?
✓ Immunizations/Health Forms?
✓ Interpreter needed? Daisy Medina-Cuenca
✓ Kaposia Parent Teacher Committee Information?
Ready? Set? Register!
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