Thursday, June 11, 2009

Expectations from Orientation

A chart was posted at the Kindergarten Orientation for parents to post some expectations for next year, here are the results...

Question: What do you expect of your child's Kindergarten teacher?
  • Communication/Easy to talk to about concerns
  • Listen
  • Be open to each child's needs and willing to try different approaches
  • Patience, compassion, love and kindness
  • Provide a safe classroom
  • Passion
  • Confidence
  • To make the school year/learning fun and meaningful
  • To make students excited about education
  • To be dedicated to help my child learn to his best ability
  • To be caring and understanding and love my child
  • To make the students first experience the best, so that they will love to learn!

Question: What do you expect of your child?

  • Good Listener
  • Team Player
  • Learn to read & write
  • Be nice to others
  • Listen
  • Make friends, be a good friend
  • Cooperate & try hard
  • Develop better social skills
  • Patience
  • Learn new things
  • Respect teacher
  • Love school
  • To be less fearful of trying new things
  • To be a good student
  • To be excited about learning!

Question: What can we expect of you as parents?

  • Be involved
  • Communication
  • Participation from home/work with my child every day
  • Volunteer when I can
  • Knowledge that education is a partnership
  • Help in any way that I can
  • To support my child's education
  • To continue to show my child new things
  • To make sure my child is in school everyday
  • To have 150% support
  • To help my child feel comfortable and confident in school
  • Follow through and "back" you
  • Be available
  • To make sure my child has a positive learning environment
  • To work together as a team so kids can learn to their maximum potential!

Thank you to those that posted an expectation! We value your thoughts and opinions!

Friday, May 29, 2009

Kindergarten Orientation

We all want to say a big thank you to the families that came out to the orientation last night! We had just over 30 families at McBride! What a great turn-out! We enjoyed meeting each and every one of you-especially those kiddos!! We can't wait till August gets here!
Coming soon: the expectations that you left for us last night as well as handouts from last night!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Getting Ready for Kindergarten

To find out all you need to know about Getting Ready for Kindergarten at David Harrison, click on "Getting Ready for K" below and post any questions you may have!

Getting Ready for K

What to Expect of Kindergarten

Click on the following link and scroll down to "Kindergarten at Harrison" then open "What to expect in K" and post any questions you may have!

http://springfieldpublicschoolsmo.org/harrison/

Kindergarten Procedures

To find out all you need to know about Kindergarten Procedures at David Harrison, click on "Kindergarten Handbook" below and post any questions you may have!

Kindergarten Handbook