Your child is tardy if he/she comes to school after 9:15. When your child is tardy, you must go to the office and get a tardy slip. After you have signed the tardy log and received a tardy slip, please bring your child to class.

If you check out your child early (anytime before 3:45 is considered early), you should go to the office and sign out your child. The office will call our classroom. One of us will bring your child to the office. If you are going to pick up your child early, please write a note. If we know ahead of time that your child is leaving early, we can gather necessary items and help your child have an easier transition of leaving early.

If your child is bringing her/his lunch to school, please do not send food or drinks in glass containers! Glass can be very dangerous; therefore, children are not allowed to handle any type of glass at school.

Children who buy lunch from the cafeteria are responsible for keeping their lunch money. To eliminate the necessity of having your child carry money every day, you may pre-pay school lunch by the week or month. Since lunch payments are computerized, no money on your child’s lunch plan is lost if your child is absent or chooses to bring lunch.

We will send home folders every Monday (or every other Monday). The folder will contain your child’s work and school related information. You are to keep the work (unless otherwise indicated), sign the parent signature sheet, and return the parent signature sheet in your child’s folder.

 The cost of buying and laminating weekly folders is very expensive! When the weekly folder goes home, please help your child be responsible by returning it on Tuesday. Sometimes we might send the folders home on a different day. If so, please return the folder the next school day.

You are asked to provide the following school supplies. Please do not write your child’s name on the facial tissue, 2-pocket folders, Ziploc bags, dry erase marker nor the baby wipes.

• Backpack (no wheels)
  Your child will need a backpack that he/she can open and close. The backpack should be large enough to fit a 12x18 manilla folder.

• 1 box of facial tissue (Any brand)

• 1 container of baby wipes (Any brand)

• 1 pack of glue sticks--------Large or Small (3)

• 1 box of crayons (8 or 16 count, no larger)

•  1 box of markers

• 1 Dry Erase marker

• Index card box (Size: 3x5 or 4x6)

• Index cards (2 packs---Same size as the index card box you purchase)

• A-Z Card Dividers for the index card box

• 2-pocket folders with the fasteners in the middle
  Please do not write your child’s name on the folders.
  (Girls— 4 yellow folders)           (Boys—4 blue folders)

• 1 box of Ziploc bags
  (Boys: Quart-size      Girls: Gallon-size)

• Bath towel
  We will rest daily. Since we are limited in the amount of storage space for each student, please send a bath towel instead of a rest mat. We will send the towel home on Friday so you may launder it. Please send the towel back to school on Monday.

• Extra clothes
  It is important for your child to be prepared for school by having some extra clothes in her/his cubby. The extra clothes will be used if your child has an accident (water spill, paint spill, etc.). Send the extra clothes in a large zip-loc bag. Make sure your child’s name is written on the bag.

On occasions it will be necessary for your child to bring money to school (for lunch, field trips, book orders, etc.). When sending money to school, please place it in a sealed envelope clearly marked with the following information.

• Your child’s first and last name

• Amount of money enclosed

• Purpose of the money (lunch, milk money, etc.)

Homework should be done every day.  Right now the following activities should make up your child’s homework. As the school year progresses, homework will change.

• Read to your child every day.  Ask questions about what was read.  By asking questions about what was read, you can see if your child actually understood the story. 

• Ask your child about her/his day.  Have your child tell you about the things she/he learned for the day.

• Help your child prepare for his/her sharing day.  You can use ideas from the sharing sheet or develop something yourself.

• Have your child read the books he/she has made in class.

Periodically, we will send home skill sheets for your child to complete.  Whenever a skill sheet goes home, your child should do the work and return the skill sheet on Friday.