Welcome New Kindergarten Students

This year, for the first time, Victoria has full day Kindergarten!

To help our incoming kinders to transition to kindergarten ... and a long day at school... we offered a Summer Kinder Academy! Our academy was held the week of August 9th - 13th for two hours a day. Students practiced various school procedures (i.e. walking in line, playground rules, sitting on the carpet, etc.), teachers were able to complete pre-assessments/ observations of participating students, and students were reassured that their parents would come pick them up after school and they would not be stuck at school forever. While our new kinders completed activities in class, parents of each incoming student participated in the “Parent School/Home Connection” component of the academy. These informative workshops were designed to build parents' knowledge to support their kindergartener’s academic success. Workshops included:

• Building Your Kindergartner's Social and Language Skills
• Understanding the RUSD Kindergarten Standards in Language Arts
• Understanding the RUSD Kindergarten Standards in Mathematics
• Unlocking the California English Language Development Test (CELDT)
• English as a Second Language-Improving Your English to Support Your Child
• RUSD-Opportunities for Parent Involvement

A thank you to the students, parents, teachers, and presenters that made our first Kinder Academy a huge success.