April 27, 2024
Kindergarten Round Up is a big deal for new students and their families. They are anxious to learn about their new school and excited to make their debut. These students will soon be attending a kindergarten round up (open house) and teachers are planning for ways to make this day a success. Keep reading for helpful kindergarten round up tips that will benefit teachers, students, and their families.
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This can be a time of many feelings for students and their families. Create a space that is calm and inviting for families.
Set out activities for future kindergartners to work on while visiting. This will allow their parents time to fill out paperwork, ask questions, and get acclimated with the new world their child is entering. Some fun ideas for children to work on are below.
Parents will have questions regarding their child’s readiness for kindergarten. Prepare a packet of helpful information that parents can take home and use as a tool in the months leading up to the first day of kinder. Some important items to include in your packet are listed below.
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Give future kinders and their families a tour of the school building. This will help students familiarize themselves with the layout of the building and will help ease some of the worry on the 1st official day of school.
Check out the playground, cafeteria, library, bus/car loops, main office, and classrooms. Students will find excitement and comfort in seeing these spaces before the craziness of the first day.
Fun Tip: Turn the tour into a scavenger hunt. Create a checklist of places for them to find and check off their list. Provide a small treat or sticker to students once they have completed the scavenger hunt.
Students and parents may not know what to expect during a full day of kindergarten. Explore a sample classroom schedule and routine. Discuss the main academic blocks of each day, center rotations, recess, specials, lunch, and dismissal.
Set aside time for a Question-and-Answer session. Invite students to ask questions as well. You can include a question box for parents to place questions in at the end of your round-up event. Reach out to those parents individually to provide an answer to their specific questions.
A fun kindergarten round-up tip to implement would be a “Kindergarten Signing Day.” Incoming kinders will sign their certificate of intent to commit to their new school (think signing day for athletes). This makes for a cute photo opportunity.
Hang chart paper around your main gathering area. Place sticky notes and pens near the chart paper. Have students write down one wish for kindergarten on a sticky note and add it to the chart. Hold on to these charts and hang them back up before the 1st day of school.
End your round-up by giving each child a small treat to thank them for coming. All kids love a prize and this will easily give them heart eyes for kindergarten.
Share ways that parents can support learning at home with parent handouts! Start by sharing the FREE Science of Reading letter to families here inside Simply Kinder + Printable Membership and learn more about more parent handouts here!
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