First Day

Our first few days of school will be full of learning and practicing our procedures.

There are a few housekeeping items I would like to go over.

1) Students may begin entering classrooms at 7:50 a.m. Please make sure your child goes to the bathroom before coming into the classroom.

2) Breakfast is in the cafeteria from 7:30 am - 7:50 am. Students will enter the school from the playground entrance of the school at 7:30 and will be led into the cafeteria.

3) Please make sure your child's personal items are clearly marked with their name. For security purposes you may choose to out his/her name on the back of the backpack (where the backpack rests against his/her back) or on a label on the inside of the backpack. Items that need to have their name on the them are backpacks, lunch boxes, water bottles, jackets, and sweaters.

4) Near the end of the day we have snacks and recess. Students are responsible for bringing their own snack to school. Students are not required to bring a snack, however, they will not be provided a snack. If a child wants to have a snack, he/she needs to bring a snack to school.

4) Please make sure your child brings a water bottle to school. Write your child's name on the water bottle (even if it is a disposable water bottle). Your child brings his/her water bottle to school and then brings it home again. Any water bottle that is left at the school on Friday will be thrown away after school. Students will have an opportunity to get drinks of water at a drinking fountain throughout the day but we will not be allowing children to leave individually during class to get a drink of water from the fountain. Having a water bottle in class allows the children to quench their thirst without missing any instruction time. If you are unable to provide a water bottle for your child, please contact me.

5) We will provide 2-3 times for your child to go to the bathroom as a class. It is important that your child attempts to use the bathroom during these times. It interrupts class learning time when we go to the bathrooms together as a class and 15 minutes later a student says he/she has to go to the bathroom. When one student asks, 4-5 other students suddenly have to go to the bathroom, too. We do not want any children to have an accident at school, so if a student needs to use the bathroom between our our class trips to the bathrooms, we will allow him/her to go. However this is often avoided when the child actually goes to the bathroom when we go as a class. Often times the student said he/she didn't have to go or didn't try when we all went together.

6) We have a few students who still have not brought in their folders for class. Each student needs to bring in a green, red, blue, and yellow plastic 2 pocket folder. If you are unable to purchase these things for your child, please contact me. Please make sure your child brings these folders to school as soon as possible.

Thank you very much for sharing your children with me this year.

Kristal Gardner