Welcome to Pine Tree Primary School. We are glad that you are visiting our campus. Pine Tree Primary School is home to Pre-K and Kindergarten students in Pine Tree ISD. We have seventeen sections of kindergarten and eight half-day sections of Pre-K at our campus. To attend kindergarten, a child must be 5 years old on or before September 1. Pre-K children must be 4 years old on or before September 1, and must qualify for free or reduced lunch or be from a non-English speaking home. To register, we need copies of the child’s official birth certificate, immunization record, social security card, and proof of residency in Pine Tree ISD. Pre-K applicants must also present proof of income for all working members of the household.

Proof of Residence

Students must live in PTISD to attend school. New students are required to bring proof of residence in the district. This can include a rental lease including names of children or a utility receipt showing the parent / guardian name. The utility receipt must be a current gas, electric, or telephone bill.

School Hours and Transportation

Pre-K hours are 8:00 until 10:55 or 11:35 until 2:30. Kindergarten hours are 8:00 until 2:30. Students are not allowed to arrive at school before 7:30 each morning. All Primary students are eligible for bus transportation. Only Pre- K and kindergarten students ride the Primary buses. Children must ride the bus to the same destination each day.

Lunch Information

Morning Pre-K students will eat breakfast at school. Afternoon Pre-K students will eat lunch at school. Kindergarten students may eat breakfast before school and will have lunch each day. Kindergarten students need to arrive at school by 7:45 if they are eating breakfast at school.

Current prices: Breakfast $1.25
Lunch $1.75
Reduced breakfast $.30
Reduced lunch $.40

Applications for free and reduced lunches will go home with kindergarten students the first day of school.

Registration

Kindergarten registration is April 27, 2007, from 8:00 – 2:30 in the Primary cafeteria. Pre-K registration will be announced at a later date.

Kindergarten


Our kindergarten curriculum is based on the state developed Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and is vertically aligned with the other grade levels in our district. We provide students with a balanced literacy program in which they have opportunities to develop skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. By the end of kindergarten students are expected to recognize letters and sounds, identify 22 basic sight words, utilize basic decoding skills, demonstrate knowledge about books and write letters and words. We also provide students with balanced instruction in math through the Bridges in Mathematics program. Time is devoted to whole group, small group, and individualized instruction in which students have an opportunity to develop mathematical thinking and reasoning abilities in such areas as numbers and operations, geometry, probability, data analysis, sorting, patterning, and measurement.


Kindergarten students attend the Writing to Read computer lab for 35 minutes four days a week. The students also attend PE each day and library classes and science lab one time a week. The library is open each afternoon for students to check out books.




Pre-Kindergarten


Our Pre-K classes eat either lunch or breakfast together as a class each day. Pre-K students attend PE classes every other day and library classes one time a week. We strive to provide a quality program that provides a challenging but achievable curriculum that engages students in thinking, reasoning, and communicating with others. Our Pre-K curriculum is based upon the state developed Pre-Kindergarten guidelines. Students are instructed in the areas of language and literacy development, mathematics, science, social studies, fine arts, health and safety, and personal, social, and physical development.
Regular attendance is necessary in order for students to achieve the full benefits of Pre-K classes. Mandatory attendance laws are in affect once a child is enrolled in Pre-K.



Report Cards / Conferences

Report cards are sent home with students each nine weeks and parent conference days are scheduled one time each semester.