Daily Routines: · Daily 5 Literacy Block (Focus lessons, Read to Self, Read to Someone, Work on Writing, Listening to Reading, Conferencing or Strategy Groups with the teacher) · Catch/Recess · Math · Writing · Specials · Science and Social Studies
Communication: You may send notes, call, email or contact us on ClassDojo at any time. We will not be sending home a newsletter. Instead, we will post information on our ClassDojo and on this website. We hope to keep you informed of what we are learning in the classroom, your child's conduct and other important information.
Take Home Folder/Backpack: Your child will need his/her backpack every day. Your child will bring a folder home every night. This folder will contain homework and/or notes from me. Please go through the folder every night with your child. Please use the folder to send things back to me.
Changes in Transportation: If your child is going to be picked up from school or will be going home with someone else, a note or a phone call to the office is required. If you know that your child will be needing a change in their transportation for the day, please send a signed and dated note with your child’s full name on it to school with your child. Please notify the office as early as possible if you were unable to send a note in the morning.
Tardiness: It is important for your child to arrive at school promptly each day. Daily attendance and participation in opening exercises as a class, gives the day a positive start. If you are bringing your child to school late, you will need to escort your child to check in at the office and get a pass into class. They will also need to inform the office if they will be receiving hot lunch for the day. Also, please send a note if your child is to leave school early for any reason (dentist, doctor, funeral, etc.). Your child will be picked up in the office. Identification is required in order to pick a child up early from school.
Conferences: Parent-Teacher conferences are held in November and March. These meetings allow us a chance to sit down together, discuss your child’s progress, and set new goals for your child. If at any time during the school year you would like an additional conference, please feel free to contact us. We can set up a date and time.
Report Cards and Progress Reports: Progress reports and report cards are distributed 3 times each during the school year. Progress reports and report cards are designed to give you an indication of your child’s growth and maturity. Please do not hesitate to drop me a note if you wish to discuss the progress report or report card.
Schedule: Please see the link to your child's homeroom for our current schedule. Please note, there may be periodic changes to the schedule.
Snacks/Birthday Treats: Food is not permitted in the classrooms at KM. If you would like to send a special treat for your child's birthday, please consider sending non-food items such as stickers, fun pencils or small party favors for your child to pass out.
Medicine: All medicine that needs to be taken during the school day must be turned into the school nurse. This includes cough drops.
Field Trips: Our class may participate in field trips during the school year. A note will be sent home in advance stating all of the necessary information. Keep the note handy so that you will have all of the information the day of the trip, thus eliminating phoning the school and/or sending your child unprepared. Disposable sack lunches and juice boxes are used on field trips. Do not send a thermos or lunch box.
CATCH/Recess: Please prepare your child for daily recess outside. Recess is held outside unless it is raining or extremely cold (below 10degrees). Please label all hats, gloves, scarves, boots, and snow pants.
Book Orders: Each month we will send home a book order. We will give you a couple of weeks to look over them before they are due back to school. You are under no obligation to order any books, but the clubs usually offer quality books at a discounted price. Your orders help us to earn points to put towards free books for the classroom. If you choose to order books, please send the order form with payment to me in an envelope with your child’s name on it. All checks should be made out to Scholastic. One check can be written even if ordering from more than one brochure clubs. Please do not send cash. We will be sending out information with how to order online with the first book order.
School Supplies: Please be aware that your child may need additional school supplies throughout the year. We will send a note home or post a note to you on ClassDojo if the need arises.
Classroom Donations: Every year I have parents ask if they can donate any items to the classroom. The following is a list of ideas: . Yoga mats or laundry baskets for children to sit in during Daily 5 · Baby wipes or Clorox wipes · Dry erase markers (We always seem to run out.) · Stickers (any kind) · Small prizes for the prize box. (Ex. McDonald toys, fun pencils, etc. ) · Any old games that your child does not play with at home. (We are always looking to add games for our indoor recess days.) · Any gently used books to add to the library. · Kleenex · Paper towels