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YULUPA SCHOOL OFFICE 542-6272

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR KINDERGARTEN

Please remember that your child must have been born on or before December 2nd, to begin this school year. (Child must be 5 years old before December 2nd.)

1. STUDENT REGISTRATION PACKET: Registration Form, Parent Questionnaire Form, Health and Development Form. Please pick up this packet from the office and complete all of forms in

this packet before you come to register.

2. VERIFICATION OF ADDRESS: this MUST be a PG&E bill, rental agreement or home purchase agreement. All forms of verification must have your name and address on it.

3. PROOF OF AGE: proof of age shall be required of all enrolling students. The legal evidences of age, in order of desirability, are birth certificate, passport, or immigration certificate.

We cannot accept any registration unless ALL of the above items are turned in at the time of registration.

1. PHYSICIAN'S REPORT: (white form) Children are required by California state law to have a health check-up before they enter school. Bennett Valley Union School District requires each child to have his/her check-up no earlier than six months before entering kindergarten and no later than the time of kindergarten entry. State law requires that children be excluded from school attendance until the have a verified physical examination and immunizations on file at the school. This provides an opportunity to take care of immunization and health check-up requirements at the same time. Please have your physician complete the form. This form must be turned in to the school office no later than the deadline date in the beginning of August.

2. IMMUNIZATION RECORD-Immunizations are updated at the time of the child's physical exam. If you have a yellow immunization card take that with you and have your doctor update this record or provide you with a new complete immunization record. This updated record must be turned in to the school office no later than the yearly due date in the beginning of August.

3. DENTAL CHECK-UP: New law requires children to have oral health check-up upon entering their first year in a public school. Dental evaluations that have happen within the 12 months prior to school entry will meet the requirement. Please have your dentist complete the form.

Children may not be admitted to school unless they have turned in updated immunization and current physical exam to the school office.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ATTACHMENT BELOW TO OPEN A PDF OF YULUPA SCHOOL'S KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION PACKET.

An Overview of Our Kindergarten Program

Language Arts :

Open Court and Reading Mastery

Introduction to each letter and letter sound

Concepts about print

Phonics

Rhyming

Beginning/Ending sounds

Short vowels

Long vowels

Blending activities

Our district also adopted the Write Source program to help teach the 6+1 Writing Curriculum. Additionally, we use the Open Court series of Pre-Decodable books to help Kindergarten students learn the 50 sight words included in our program. We supplement all these programs with:

Story time

Weekly Library time

Book-Making

Board Games

Journals and other creative writing opportunities

Mathematics (Sadlier Oxford):

Colors/shapes

Graphing (concrete and pictorial)

Sorting

Positions and Comparisons (in front of, behind, more/less…)

Patterns

Counting, writing and recognizing numerals

Measurement

Introduction to Money

Introduction to Time (digital and analog, telling time to the hour)

Introduction to Addition

Introduction to Subtraction

  Social Studies (Scott Foresman):

Getting Along (rules and good citizens)

Symbols (country and state)

Work (jobs and communities)

Neighbors/Neighborhoods

Calendars (showing time - weeks, months)

Times Past (holidays, people in history and legends)

Science ( Scott Foresman):

Health: Personal Hygiene, Nutrition, Dental Health

Physical Sciences: Objects and their properties, W ater

Life Sciences:  Plants/Trees,  Animals (snails, isopods, earthworms, guppies, goldfish, chicks)

Earth Sciences:  Land, Air and Water,  Weather,  Earth's Resources (land, water, air, paper, recycling)

Physical Education:

Daily SPARKS or Physical Education lessons/activities

Large/fine motor skills enhancement activities

Art and Music:

Weekly art lessons with Nancy Ricciardi (12 lessons)

Weekly multicultural dance/music sessions with Young Imaginations (20 weeks)

Art Docents - 3 kindergarten lessons

Thematic arts and crafts projects throughout the year

Songs and movement in each class

For Fun and Important Development:

Puzzles Birdseed/Water tables Lincoln logs Legos Blocks   K'Nex  

Imagination Centers (home center, grocery store, post office, kitchen)  

The websites and attachments below provide valuable information regarding your child's transition to kindegarten and what you can expect once he or she gets there! Please take a few minutes to read through these resources.

Click on the title to visit the website:

Terrific Transitions

Getting Ready to Read: Early Literacy Activities

First 5 Kindergarten Information Booklet

First 5 Kindergarten Information Booklet--Spanish