Welcome to Kindergarten at Center/Sylvester Elementary School. Please review the kindergarten student information and documentation available below.

Recognizing letters, numbers, colors, shapes; handling books; using writing and drawing tools; having opportunities to develop and use language and chances to speak and listen; exploring beaches, museums, nature, historical sites; and opportunities to play and develop social skills will ensure that your child is ready to learn in September.

There is a required reading book for all students entering Kindergarten. The title is “Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten” by Joseph Slate and is available for sale at Center School during your child’s screening appointment in May or at local bookstores. For those who don’t wish to purchase, you will be able to borrow the book from The John Curtis Library.

• SCORE Web page

Bus routes will be printed in the Hanover Mariner and posted on our bus routes web page in late August. Please find your street on one of the published routes. Buses and routes are designated by letters.

Each student will be assigned to a bus for transportation to and from school. We cannot efficiently and safely accommodate requests for multiple bus assignments or requests to ride other buses. The bus company and the Hanover Police safety officer establish routes and neighborhood bus stops. The routes begin at approximately 8:15 AM. The AM buses are scheduled to leave school at 11:30 AM. The PM buses begin to pick up students at approximately 11:45 AM. The buses are scheduled to leave school in the afternoon at 3:20 PM. Kindergarten students sit at the front of the bus. Kindergarten students wait at the front of the bus dismissal lines.

• AM Bus: AM students travel on the neighborhood bus with Center/Sylvester students in grades 1-4. They are picked up at the bus stop closest to their homes. When AM students are transported home at 11:30 AM, there are only Kindergarten children on the bus. At this time, Kindergarten students will be dropped at their homes. Please wait outside for the arrival of the bus. If for some reason you are not at home/not outside, the driver will bring your child back to us at Center School. Arrangements will then have to be made for your child to be picked up. On Tuesdays, when the AM Kindergarten students are dismissed at 1:20 PM, they will ride the neighborhood bus and will be dropped off at the neighborhood bus stop.
  
  
• PM Bus: When PM students are transported to school there are only Kindergarten children on the bus and they will be picked up at their homes beginning at approximately 11:45 AM. Please wait outside with your child for the arrival of the bus. If for some reason you are not outside and miss the bus, please call the school. At the 3:20 PM dismissal, Kindergarten students will be dropped off at the neighborhood bus stop closest to their homes. Please plan to meet Kindergarten children at the bus stop or have them walk home with siblings.
  

Verification of immunization must be on file prior to your child starting school in September. If you have not done so already, please ask your pediatrician to document your child’s most recent physical examination on an approved form.

The Center School cafeteria offers lunch on Tuesdays to AM Kindergarten students. The cost of lunch, including milk, is $2.25.

• Lunch menus

Reversal of AM and PM Schedule. On Monday, January 30, 2012, those students attending the AM session will begin attending the PM session and those students attending the PM session will begin attending the AM session.

• Kindergarten Reversal Letter for AM to PM
• Kindergarten Reversal Letter for PM to AM

In addition to the regular program on instruction provided by the Kindergarten teacher and assistant, Kindergarten students are scheduled for one thirty minute period of art, music, physical education, and library, with special subject area teachers.