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Starting kindergarten is one of the biggest steps a child will take! We here at Jefferson would like to give parents and soon-to-be students an inside look into our kindergarten classrooms.
Kindergarten Roundup 2018 will happen on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Please visit the Kindergarten Roundup Landing page for more information or at this link: www.plymouth.k12.in.us/parents/kindergarten-roundup-information
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Jefferson Elementary School's Kindergarten Roundup Video
Transcript for Video
Amy Borkholder, Jefferson Elementary School
“Let’s spell it together, we are going to spell it, we are going to say it and then we are going to spell it again and then we are going to say it one more time ok?
Borkholder: “Kindergarten really is where my heart is. They’re just so loving and they're excited to learn and it’s just their first little bit that you can excite their lives and be there for them and have their rest of their school years be exciting because you started that way… and they’re ready to always be there.”
Borkholder: “I decided Plymouth is the place that I’d love to teach at because it’s a large corporation that makes it feel like it’s a small family. There’s so many opportunities for our students, but you still have that personal connection with your classroom teacher- you’re not lost in the shuffle as a big community.”
Borkholder: “We try to make sure that they have a wide variety of tools that they can use, because we’re not just going to teach every child one certain way, because they don’t learn that way. So having all different technology that’s available to us, and all the different material and different ways we can connect to each student really helps and that's one thing that stands Plymouth apart because we have something for everyone and there’s teachers that are dedicated, that are ready to work with your child and that are going to help them succeed no matter what.”
Jake Rios, Jefferson Kindergarten Student
“My favorite part about kindergarten is sharing and doing nice things.”
Nicole Burns, Jefferson Elementary School
“I love working with the kids. I love watching them. So you get to teach them fresh. You get to mold them, and that’s one of the beauties of kindergarten is you’re the person that gets to help shape a future for them for the rest of their life, and you’re the one that gets to help them love learning, and you’re the one that gets to help them learn how to read and learn their basic math facts, so it’s such a heartwarming job as you watch these kids who maybe didn’t even know what a letter sound is to now you have kids who are looking at a sentence and being able to read the entire thing. So just watching them grow is the best part of it.”
Burns: “We’re such a community here. I feel like every single person I work with I can have an open and honest conversation about - with anything. I feel like they’re my family. If I have something going on they’re more than happy to help me in anyway and I feel like the kids have that same sense of community with us. My class is such a family with each other.”
Bailee Seeders, Jefferson Kindergarten Student
“It’s really really fun.”
