1. Welcome to Kindergarten!

2. Homework Monday – Color songs to practice spelling words Tuesday & Thursday – Handwriting Wednesday – Math Thursday – Mini-readers; Read 3 times to an adult; keep these in a safe place to reread throughout the year as needed New monthly calendars will be placed in your child’s red folder, please keep them there

3. Field Trips Crowe’s Nest Farm – November 6 th CiCi’s Pizza & the Wildflower Center – March 23 rd or 24 th is the goal Students must travel to and from on LTISD busses. Please keep in mind that field trips are an extension of our learning. I welcome you as a chaperone, but ask that you find alternate care for siblings.

4. Class Parties Winter Party – December 17 th Valentine’s Day Party – February 10 th EOY Party – June 1 st Time TBD Our Room Moms will let you know how we need your help.

5. Carnival October 17 th from 2:00 – 6:00 This is LPE’s biggest fundraiser! Sign-up sheet for volunteers coming soon! I don’t know our class booth yet!

6. Parent/Teacher Conferences Will be held on October 12 th – Student Holiday I will contact parents for a time on this date.

7. Visitors Check in/out from the front office Please don’t leave through kinder doors or any other doors. Don’t give your sticker badge to your child. You need it to check-out.

8. Birthday Cupcakes Usually the last Friday of the month Kinder celebrates at 2:00 PM. The rest of the school is at a later time. Due to allergies, we’ll celebrate in the classroom. One cupcake per child and one small bottled water per child is requested. Room Moms or I will email you with more details.

9. Change of Transportation Send a note in the red folder or call the office by 10:00am. If you call the office, please send me an email as well to keep me in the loop. It is VERY important that you not email ONLY me with the change. Some days I don’t check email or phone calls until 3pm. Mrs. Thorp, our receptionist must have all of your transportation changes.

10. Early Pick Up Check out your child from the front office. They will then call for your child. You can’t take your child from the classroom, especially at the end of special events. The latest time you can pick up your child is 2:15 P.M. If you need to pick your child up early for an appointment please let me know in the morning.

11. Lunch Come for lunch! The students love seeing you at lunch! Younger siblings are welcome! Please wait by the café doors for our class. All 5 classes will enter through the same doors so if it gets crowed please step out of the way. This will allow us to get all the kids into lunch in a timely manner.

12. Fuel Café Please look at the website to understand what your child can get. There are two different meal options each day with different prices - $2.95 (regular meal) vs $4.50 (Eagle Meal) Go online and sign up for your free account at myschoolbucks.com See what your child is eating and add restrictions as needed (snacks, ice cream, $4.50 meal)

13. Lunch/Ice Cream/School Store Money Send money in a zip-lock bag with child’s name, purpose and my name. Ice cream is sold on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. School store is open on Friday mornings. I will remind students to get their money, but if the students forget their money in the classroom they are NOT allowed to come back for it – ice cream and school store.

14. PTO Have you joined PTO? It’s only $15/family! Most of the money raised this year will benefit the students this year! YEA!!!!

15. Assembly Days Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings I’ll meet the students in the gym. Say your goodbyes at the gym. Please don’t walk through the school with your child and our class. This is a school rule for safety and security. Once we leave the gym we have started our day.

16. Broadcast Days Tuesday and Thursday mornings we will have Morning Broadcast in our classroom. If you arrive before 7:35, go to the gym. If you arrive after 7:35, go to our classroom. Parents are welcome to watch the broadcast in the library.