Important Information

Drop Off Procedures:

Please remember that we begin welcoming students at 8:35 AM. Students should not be dropped off and left unsupervised prior to 8:35 AM.

When dropping off students in the morning, parents should proceed to the rear of the building, travel down to the turn around and then pull up alongside the curb at Door #10. Parents must refrain from pulling out in front of other cars without properly moving through the procession.

Please note that the instructional day begins at 8:50 AM and students should already be in their classrooms at this time. Students arriving after 8:50 AM should be escorted directly to the main office by a parent. There is no parking permitted in the front of the building. This area is needed for our school buses. Please park in the visitor lot and accompany your child to the office for a proper sign-in.

Pick-up Procedures:

Please note the school day ends at 3:30 PM. Parents picking up their children should plan to arrive between 3:20-3:25 and proceed to the designated pick-up area located in the rear of the building. Please follow the drop off procedures outlined above and pull up alongside of the curb at Doors 8, 9 and 10. Students will be escorted out to your vehicle. Please make sure to have a your Pick Up Patrol visor hanger sign hanging from your visor or a clearly labeled sign on your passenger side dashboard. We are asking parents who are new to the building to have a copy of their photo ID ready at parent pick-up for security purposes.

We will be utilizing PickUp Patrol for all dismissal procedures. Please enter your child's default dismissal plan (Bus Rider, Everyday or Pick-Up). Parents will then enter changes if and when their child's dismissal routine differs from the daily default setting. Please refer to the PickUp Patrol registration email you should have received. 

Lastly, please be on time for parent pick up. We do not dismiss the rest of the building to the buses until every student is picked up by a parent and accounted for by the staff.

*Parents must still call the Attendance Line for any absences or late arrivals. Please do not utilize PickUp Patrol for absences.

Lunch:

First graders eat in the cafeteria! It is so exciting! There is a lot of adult support when buying lunch during the first week of school, so I do recommend giving it a go one of those days for the extra support and to "rip off the band-aid" if you will. It will be much less intimidating later in the year knowing you bought lunch already.

School Pay Payment Program: Please use this link to add funds to your child's account. These funds can then be used for  lunch and a la carte milk, snack, or ice cream purchases. We are CASHLESS and cannot accept cash at the cafeteria registers. Payments made via SchoolPay may take up to one (1) hour to show in our POS. Auto-replenishment or e-mail notifications for a low-balance threshold (designated by the parent) can be set up in SchoolPay. Purchase history by student is available on SchoolPay. Free or reduced-price meals are available to students who qualify for these benefits. 

Homework:

Homework should only take 25-30 minutes a night if the child is truly working at task completion. 

Nightly Homework Time Guidelines:

          10-15 minutes—Reading/Poem

          10 minutes—Everyday Math Home Link (See calendar in binder for assignment)

            5 minutes—Practice Word Cards (Add sentence to back of card) 

EVERYDAY MATHEMATICS- The EDM Home Links book will be placed in Take Home Binders in October.  It should stay there and all pages should remain in the booklet.  You will see a monthly calendar in your child’s binder. This is where students will record the nightly Home Link assignment. Please keep in mind that students should be able to complete the Home Link based on that day’s lesson. Assist where needed.  

WORD CARDS—Practice ALL of the cards on the ring, not just the new ones.

Parents should write the sentence on the back of the card. This sentence should be created by the child and dictated to the parent. The child should underline the word in the sentence. The child does not need to read the sentence on Check-up Days just the word on the front of the card.

Binders:
Your binder is to go home and return to school each day. Students will be bringing home work they have done and important papers for you in a folder included in this binder. Please check this folder daily. When sending in any notes or papers for the office or me, please put them in this folder and your child will be responsible to hand them in each morning. In the binder, you will find the Specials schedule, 5 Day Rotation schedule, and a poem book. A math Home Links book and homework calendar will come home in the coming weeks. Please do not take those items out. 

Birthday Celebrations:

Please do not send in birthday celebration favors on your child’s birthday. Thank you for your support.

Birthday Party Invitations:

Birthday party invitations may not be handed out in school unless every child in the class is invited. It causes hurt feelings when only a select few are invited. Thank you for your support.

In the past, my policy was that every boy in the class be invited or every girl in the class be invited. Although this can still cause hurt feelings, I find it to be a better solution for parents AND feelings. If this is not an option for the kind of party you are hosting, you will need to make arrangements outside of school.  Please let me know if you have any questions.