Watch for monthly SOS notices coming home in the student's book bag. Insert them into the family folder. Please read and review often.

April

School Responsibilities

• For 10 minutes each day, the student will work quietly.
• Practice the "5" good listening skills daily.
  1. Eyes on speaker
  2. Lips closed
  3. Ears listening
  4. Sit up straight
  5. Hands and feet to ourselves

Home Responsibilities

• Practice providing personal information.
• Practice prayers nightly.
  1. Sign of the Cross
  2. Our Father
  3. Hail Mary
  4. Glory Be
  5. Angel of God

March

School Responsibilities

• Provides personal information about self (name, address, phone number and birth date).
• For 5 to 10 minutes each day the child will work quietly (no talking).

Parental Responsibilities

• Reinforce child's ability to provide personal information about self.
• Reinforce child's ability to tie, zip and button.

February

School Responsibilities

• For 10 to 15 minutes each day, the child independently engages in developmentally appropriate activities.
• Refrains from disturbing the activities of others during independent center time.

Parental Responsibilities

• Establish a period of quiet time (color, read, puzzle play) to develop the ability to sit quietly for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Refrains from disturbing parents while they are on the phone or talking with another adult or sibling.

January

School Responsibilities

• Establish a quiet working routine in the classroom.
• Review and reinforce school routine. (Examples: hanging up coats, hats, mittens; emptying folders and placing in cubbies)

Parental Responsibilities

• Establish a study routine. (Example: quiet place with Mom and/or Dad to do homework or review letters and sight words)
• Establish a nighttime routine. (Example: a set story time, bath time, personal reading time, and bed time)

December

School Responsibilities

• Be responsible for remembering your personal belongings.
• Be responsible for practicing weekly reading books.
• Be responsible for writing upper and lower case letters.
• Be responsible for writing numbers 1-20

Parental Responsibilities

• Mark all children's clothing. (Coats, Hats, and Mittens)
• Encourage your child to practice kindergarten skills.

November

School Work Habits

• work quietly at tables
• complete task within given time frame
• wait until directions are completed to begin work

Homework Routine

• practice kindergarten skills daily for ten minutes
• ***letters, sounds, numbers, reading, writing***

We work and play and make good friends along the way.

October

Clean up after yourself at school.

• put crayons in box
• put pencils in box
• put glue sticks in box

Clean up after yourself at home

• make bed
• put clothes away
• put toys in their home

Look at your teacher when she is talking

S - stop
A - and
L - look
A - at
M - me
I - immediately

Look at your parents when they are talking

September

Parent Responsibility:

1. Empty your child's book bag on a daily basis.

2. Check your child's folder. Read notes from the PLEASE READ side and return notes on the same side.

Child Responsibility:

1. Give book bag to your parents.

2. Organize folder: PLEASE READ MY WORK

3. Take care of supplies.