We are only at school for a short amount of time, but we do like to include time for a small snack.  Because we have such a short amount of time we ask that you limit the snack you send to one small item, with the understanding that anything not finished will be sent back home.    We have about 8 minutes for snack – so your child will not have enough time to each a full lunch.  

We do have a drinking fountain in our room and encourage the students to get a drink of water at this time.  (We teach them to drink from the TOP of the rainbow, and not to cover their mouth on top of the drinking fountain. )  

If possible, please write your child’s name on their snack or container or bag.  If you send a baggie of goldfish, writing your child’s name on the baggie is a tremendous help when we have multiple bags of fish on the same day.  If sending just a granola bar - even writing their name on the packaging helps a ton.  

This year the children will not be eating snack at a table and will be sitting on their spots on the floor.  Because of this we are asking that your child does not bring anything that will spill or leave a large amount of crumbs.  (Yummy banana bread - I'm talking to you!)  Yogurt cups, fruit cups, fruit or veggie dip, and basically anything that can only be eaten with a utensil will be tricky.  In a regular year we could easily clean up a spilled fruit cup or pudding cup off of the table.  Sadly at this time, we do not have that luxury.  We know this limits what you can send in for your child for their snack, and we appreciate your understanding at this time.

We have quite a few friends this year with allergies. 

Please do NOT send your child with the following for their snack: 

• Any kind of nuts 

• Peanuts

• Walnuts

• Cashews

• Pistachios

• Peanut butter is also not acceptable.  

Even though we do not share our snack with others, traces of these nuts on tables, chairs, and other places in our room could prove to be very dangerous for some friends in our class. Please find other snacks to send with your child each day. Since we take the safety of our students very seriously, we will not allow any snack with those nuts to be consumed in class. 

We LOVE celebrating birthdays in our class!  

We will sing or chant to the birthday child and make a special book that they get to take home a little bit later.  

• Weekend birthdays are usually celebrated the Friday before. 

• Half birthdays are celebrated for summer birthdays; I will let you know when your child’s half-birthday is coming up. 

To celebrate his/her birthday, your child may do one of the following:  

• bring a favorite book to read to the class during snack OR 

• bring a small (non-crumbly) store-bought snack that is individually wrapped, or a non-consumable treat to share with the class.  This year we sadly are going to ask for no cupcakes or donuts.  This year the students will be eating snack at their spots on the rug, and crumbs from those will just be too hard to clean up after.  We recommend something like a small bag of skittles or something like you would get at Halloween.  You could look over the fun size or snack size area of treats and see what your child likes that also looks manageable and fun.    

We are so sorry we are having to be so picky this year.  Thanks for being so flexible with us as we all navigate this new and very different school year.