Hello New Kinder Families!

It was so wonderful to get to meet so many of you last night at Meet the Teacher! I am so excited to get this year started!

I know you were given a lot of information last night so I wanted to put the most important things here for you.

The staggered start list is below just in case you need it. Please make sure you are only sending your child on their day (Wednesday or Thursday) and Friday of next week. 

Family Visits

These visits are 20 minutes (in order to allow transition time in and out of the class room for each family). They will give us the chance to get to know your kiddo and give your kiddo a chance to explore the classroom on their own. These visits are beneficial to building a relationship that will continue throughout the year. 

If you are not sure of what time you signed up for please CLICK HERE to check the sign up sheet. If you still need to sign up, please email me with an available time slot and I will sign you up. 

Snack Calendar

This year our lunch is very early in the day (10:30am) so we will be having an afternoon snack every day. We ask that families help us by donating a week of snacks. We currently have 15 students in class and need snacks for each child for each day for the week. The Snack Calendar can always be found in the "Snack Information" section of my web page when you scroll down. I will be providing snacks for the first 2 weeks and then families can sign up for the following weeks. 

If you are able to donate snacks please CLICK HERE to sign up. Thank you!

NOTE: If your child has a particular diet or is particularly picky when it comes to food, you are more than welcome to pack them a small snack from home. We base what we eat for snack on what our families graciously donate to our classroom. If you choose to pack a snack for your child, please follow the same snack guidance provided. If this choice works better for you, we would love to still encourage you to sign-up for a snack week to help support our classroom. Thank you!

Please let me know if you have any questions! The easiest and fastest way to reach me is through email. 

Miss Sapata

Snack Calendar

Snack Guidance:

We have 15 total students in our classroom. It is preferable that snacks are individually prepackaged. Examples of snacks include individual bags of goldfish/veggie straws/popcorn, squeezable yogurt/applesauce, fruit snacks, granola bars, cheese sticks, crackers, or fruit like apples and oranges, etc. 

NOTE: If your child has a particular diet or is particularly picky when it comes to food, you are more than welcome to pack them a small snack from home. We base what we eat for snack on what our families graciously donate to our classroom. If you choose to pack a snack for your child, please follow the same snack guidance provided below. If this choice works better for you, we would love to still encourage you to sign-up for a snack week to help support our classroom. Thank you!

Allergies:

We are aiming to be a nut-free classroom! Please respect this for our friends who may have a nut allergy. 

Our grade level loves to share resources with families if they would like to utilize them. I understand that every family's situation and experiences are vastly different, and there is NO pressure to utilize these resources: 

• Learning for Justice: Race and Ethnicity Resources

Formerly "Teaching Tolerance", Learning for Justice has valuable resources, including articles and discussion points for leading your kiddos in a discussion about hard topics such as racial injustice. 

• Anti-Racism Tools for Adults and Caregivers

This link has SO many valuable resources geared towards parents, families, kids, and teachers. 

• Something Happened In Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice

This is an incredibly powerful book. I recommend that parents listen through it before reading it to their kids. It is the story of a police shooting of a Black man, and it is gives the perspective of a white family explaining it to their children, and a Black family. It is written for children, and is very child accessible and well written. I highly recommend sharing it with your kids when you feel ready. 

• A Kids Book About Racism

A read aloud read by the author of the book, A Kids Book About Racism, talks about racism in kid friendly terms, in an easy to understand way.