Application Procedure
For Academic Year 2011 - 2012, the kindergarten application procedure is as follows:
- Applications must be turned in to the school office by Friday, January 14, 2011.
- Please include a non-refundable, non-transferable check for $150.00 made out to West Portal Lutheran School.
- A copy of your child's birth certificate must also be attached to your application.
Please Note: Student must be five years old by September 1, 2011.
Acceptance is based on the following:
- Established membership in West Portal Lutheran Church.
- Brothers or sisters in West Portal Lutheran School.
- Application information.
- Pre-school evaluation.
Due within two weeks of acceptance is a $750.00 non-refundable, non-transferable tuition deposit which is applied to the first month's tuition and which guarantees your child's space for the ensuing year.
Kindergarten Readiness Checklist
Motor Skills
- Involve child in cutting and pasting activities.
- Encourage child to color and stay within the lines.
- Assist child in developing gross motor coordination: hopping, skipping, running, galloping, throwing, and catching.
Concept Skills
- Familiarize child with different parts of his/her body.
- Assist him/her in recognizing left and right.
- Encourage him/her to write and recognize his/her first and last names.
- Develop an awareness of colors and shapes of familiar objects.
- Recognize and name the following colors: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, black, brown, gray, pink, and white.
Language Skills
- Read together; develop the love of reading through books. Have child recall facts of a simple story.
- Talk to your child often and encourage him/her to speak clearly using sentences.
- Give child simple oral directions.
- Encourage child to follow directions closely.
- Encourage child to create stories.
- Introduce child to the letters of the alphabet.
- Encourage him/her to recognize all upper and lower case letters.
- Teach child to recognize and name the numerals 1-10.
Self-care Skills
- Teach child basic self-care skills: washing hands; brushing teeth; buttoning and zipping shirts, jackets, and pants; and tieing shoes.
- Teach child to clean up after self.
Social Development
- Encourage child to play cooperatively.
- Encourage child to start his/her own play activity.
