North Canton City Schools

ALL-DAY, Every Day KINDERGARTEN

2012-2013 Registration

North Canton City Schools kindergarten registration for 2012-2013 will be held on Thursday, April 19, and Thursday, May 10, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Parents or legal guardians of children who will be five years old, on or before September 30, 2012,

should register their children at the:     Mary L. Evans Early Childhood Center, 301 Portage St., NW.

North Canton, Ohio 44720

Registration must be completed on the following dates and times:

Thursday, April 19^th 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. For those families who live South of Applegrove Street (Kindergarten will be held at Clearmount Elementary starting August 2012)

Thursday, May 10^th 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. For those families who live North of Applegrove Street

(Kindergarten will be held at Northwood Elementary starting August 2012)

The student’s state-issued birth certificate, social security number, immunization data, information on custody court orders, and proof of residency are required at the time of registration.  Your registration packet will include more specific, detailed instructions.

CHILDREN SHOULD NOT ATTEND REGISTRATION. Your child will have an opportunity to meet his/her teacher in August before school starts at Clearmount or Northwood.

Filling out the forms is time consuming.  To save time, registration packets must be completed prior to the registration.

Option 1: Pick up a registration packet at the Mary L. Evans Early Childhood Center

beginning Monday, February 13^th between 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Option 2: Download registration forms as a PDF at www.northcantonschools.org

**Packets will not be available during Spring Break (March 26th – March 30th).

**If you have questions please call Ted Hall, Dean of Students, at 330-497-5608

Again this year, North Canton Middle School has a 2-hour delay schedule in place should the district elect to use a 2-hour delay for circumstances like inclement weather.  If you are alerted to the fact that the district or our building is operating on a 2-hour delay, your child should arrive at school 2 hours later than normal.  This means that if the bus normally picks your child up at 6:50am, he or she will be picked up around 8:50am on a delay day (the bus garage recommends being ready for the bus at least 5 minutes early, however).  If you normally drop your child off at the school at 7:10am, please drop him or her off at 9:10am.  The NCMS school day will start at 9:30am on a delay day and will still end at 2:35pm.  Students will still have all of their academic and exploratory classes and will still eat lunch at approximately the same time.  As a reminder, if you have younger children who attend an elementary school, their daily schedule remains the same as there is no delay in the start of their school day.

The following list of fees will be collected by the homeroom teacher until Thursday, September 1, and then in the Main Office afterwards:

Checks should be made payable to NCMS.

The following list of Exploratory class fees are collected by the exploratory teacher when the student takes the class:

Over the last year North Canton City Schools has rolled out Google Apps for Education for all of our staff members.  We are pleased to announce that we are now extending these services to our students as well.

So what is Google Apps for Education?

• Google Apps for Education is a free, but powerful, suite of online programs provided by Google for schools.
• It is used by hundreds of school districts and universities around Ohio, the country, and the world.
• It includes such programs as:
  • Gmail - to communicate with teachers and collaborate with classmates
  • Google Calendar - to organize daily activities
  • Google Documents - a word processing program similar to Microsoft Word
  • Google Spreadsheets - a spreadsheet program similar to Microsoft Excel
  • Google Presentations - a multimedia presentation program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint
• It allows users to share documents, so students can electronically turn in assignments to teachers and can collaborate with classmates on group projects.

To further explain these new services we have created both printed and video information.  We encourage all students and parents to view the information below:

• Introduction to Google Apps for Students: Watch Video or Read Handout
• Student Email Guidelines: Watch Video or Read Handout
• Student Gmail Safety Measures: Watch Video or Read Handout
• How to Share Google Docs with Teachers and Classmates: Watch Video or Read Handout

We have also put together help guides and instructions on how to use each of the programs in Google Apps for Education.  This information can be found on out technology website at:

http://www.northcantonschools.org/tech/