1. Eisenhower Elementary School
Back to School Night
Eisenhower Elementary School
Thank you for choosing our school

2. ODDS & ENDS for 2017-2018 Run Club – share details
6th year of RtII – 3 days of reading and 2 of math
Groups based on data – Imagine Math, DIBELS,PSSA scores, curriculum based assessments
Word Work
Understanding of how words are built, active learners, manipulate words
POSITIVE results in vocabulary and spelling scores
Less paper copies – look on calendar and Eisenhower website
New Parent Portal Requests
Parental portal guide – accounts will need verified - approx. 24 hours
You will need your child’s student ID - you can pick this up during normal school hours (no phone calls or cannot be ed, etc.)
Run Club – share details

3. ODDS & ENDS for Cont.
PBIS (Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports)
Mrs. Heidi Myrick
Nutri-Kids
Please make sure that you are signed up to receive low account balance alerts
No red envelopes will be sent home this school year
School Nurse Office
Mrs. Teri Craig

4. ARRIVAL PROCEDURES Arrival – No coverage until 8:00 a.m.
When dropping off, you must turn right
If children walk to school, they gather and line up on the back playground. If they are brought to school in cars, they line up in front of the school at the main entrance. The same is true for pick-up.
When dropping your child off, if the adults are no longer out front, your child is tardy
After 8:10 a.m. students need to enter through the front door – where the flagpole is located

5. DISMISSAL PROCEDURES Dismissal
2:45 Students Walking & 2:50 Students being Picked Up
If being picked up, please encourage your child to be paying attention and looking for your car
Safety Patrols & Staff Members
LENOX Street – please note that this street is still open to residents and safety rules still apply.
Walking School Bus
Leave from out front at end of day
National Walk/Bike to School Day
October 4, 2017
Last minute plans for students
Please make sure your child knows their pick-up plan
Try to avoid calling into the school or ing your child’s teacher

6. ATTENDANCE Please remember:
All excuses for being late are marked as a “tardy” unless you had a Doctors appointment
Please get Doctor’s excuses
When your child is sick, please call in to the office and report them as being sick – we still need a written excuse when the student returns
Excuses MUST be turned into the main office within three days of the absence.
On the fourth day, it is marked as unexcused
Once marked as unexcused you will receive a notification letter in the mail
Once marked unexcused, we cannot go back into the system and change that code
Trip requests – will only be approved if they are turned into the main office within the one week requirement listed directly on the form
Trips will not be approved during the PSSA testing windows.

7. ATTENDANCE Cont.
Please refer to the new Attendance Policy (Act 138 of 2016) on the Camp Hill School District website.
The law creates new procedural requirements Districts must follow when a student is truant and/or habitually truant
School Attendance Improvement Plans when a student reaches 3 unexcused days

8. Wellness Policy Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA)
Camp Hill Website
Smart Snacks Standards for Schools
USDA School Snack Guide
School snacks must conform to the USDA guidelines, which include calorie limits, sugar caps and nutrient requirements
Ideas for healthy snacks

9. SAFETY Emergency Drills-
Riding bikes in the parking lot near the playground
Lincoln and 24th Street – alley
Double doors at the front entrance
Everyone needs to sign-in at the office
Eisenhower Elementary stickers must be worn while in the building
Emergency Drills-
Fire
Severe Weather
Reverse Evacuation
Intruder/Lockdown

10. PTO/PARENT VOLUNTEERS
PTO Representatives
Clearances are required for all volunteers: Act 151 (PA Child Abuse Clearance) and Act 34 (PA State Police Clearance and Act 114- FBI.
CHSD Website and go to the left under “Volunteers”
Volunteering is not permitted until all clearances are on file with the district.

11. LION FOUNDATION Reading interventions Tutoring opportunities
LEGOS Robotics Club
Headphones
Digital cameras
iPADs
Non- fiction reading materials
BizTown for 5th graders
Field trips
Eisenhower Garden

12. TONIGHT’S AGENDA
7:25-7:45 p.m. - Session #1 - Classroom visitations/presentations by classroom teachers.
7:50-8:10 p.m. - Session #2 – Classroom visitations/presentations by classroom teachers.
Please include visits to special education teachers, support teachers and special area subject teachers, as well as the Camp Hill PTO membership table during one of the two sessions above.