WELCOMEWesley D. Tisdale’s

Kindergarten Orientation

September 2011-2012

There are few more exciting experiences in a child’s/parent’s life than the start of

Kindergarten!

Be sure to step back, celebrate these special moments, and appreciate how soon

it will be before you will be getting ready for a high school graduation ceremony!

TISDALE SCHOOL

The ideal school should be a cross between Harvard and Disneyworld; educational excellence and the happiest place on Earth. ~ Author Unknown

Our goal is to provide our students with the skills to become independent thinkers and learners and to prepare our students to be true lifelong learners.

We take great pride in how we encourage, nurture, and support them along the way!

Dr. Morton and I wish everyone the very best for another great year at Tisdale School!

Take care of yourself, take care of others, and take care of Tisdale. Work hard, have fun, and make this your best year ever!

Traffic Patterns- Courtesy Please!

Nurturing/Caring /Safe/Joyful Environment

Reminders for ParentsPlease:•Be careful when driving in our parking lot.•Read to you child!•“Zipper In” from Island Avenue when entering the school parking lot in the AM•Read to your child! •Teach your child how to get out of your car with their book bag.•Read to your child!•If you do not use the pick up line, park in a designated spot and walk to get your child.•Read to your child!•Keep your child home for 24 hours after a fever breaks.•Read to your child!•Reinforce washing hands. •Read to your child!•Make arrangements now for child care on sick days. •Read to your child!•If you e-mail the teacher about an absence, please also notify the office. •Read to your child!•Sign up for e-alerts.•Read to your child!•Check out our web site. www.ramsey.k12.nj.us•Read to your child!

If I Knew Then What I Know Now!Parenting can be so confusing. Often by the time you figure out what to do, it’s too late

Here are a few tips you may already know or may find helpful along the way:

• Listen, support, and encourage your child to handle their own age - appropriate challenges. • Resist the temptation to tell them what to say, do, and or how to solve the problem.• Instead, validate the issue and ask what they plan to do. “That sounds like it was unfair, what do you

think is the best way to respond?”• Nurture independence, it builds self confidence, persistence, and perseverance.• People learn at different rates and with many levels of interest and motivation.• Encourage laughter, patience, tolerance, and compassion for others.• Celebrate individuality, creativity, and imagination. We have enough followers already.• We often learn as much or more when things don’t go as planned. Children learn how to get over

the bigger hurdles/challenges in life if they practice on the smaller bumps, twists, and turns along the journey. Though you want to help them avoid disappointment, we actually hamper their growth when we hover like helicopters clearing the obstacles in their way.

• Avoid comparisons to other siblings or peers. Support setting/reaching individual goals.

We welcome you to the Tisdale Learning Community

Please always feel comfortable to ask your teacher, our secretaries, or me if you need information. We’re here to make this the

best experience for you and your child!