Welcome to Kindergarten

1. WelcometoKindergarten

2. Special Notes on Kindergarten • School begins at 7:30. (After 7:50 is considered tardy.) • School is dismissed at 2:45. • If your child is riding the bus please make sure that we have the correct bus number. (Please return bus/car tags daily for the first 2 weeks.) Thanks  • Send your child to school in “clothes for learning.”( comfortable, washable clothing and shoes) No flip-flops • Please write your child’s name on his/her mat, crayon box, and later on, the tag of your child’s jackets. Many jackets • get left and lost during P.E. time. • Please keep your child at home if he/she is sick/running fever. • You will need to send a note to the school within 3 days for your child to be excused. See Handbook about excuses.

3. Special Notes on Kindergarten Cont… • In order to accompany the class on a field trip, we must have a signed permission slip form turned into the office two days before the field trip or on the due date written on the form. • In order for any parents to go, you must fill out and return to school the back-ground check. • Your child will be able to celebrate birthdays during snack time. Feel free to send or bring cupcakes during this time.  • Please send an extra set of clothes to school in a Ziploc bag with your child’s name on the front.

4. Snack and Juice • Snack and Juice can be purchased through the school per day: - 50¢ for juice - 50¢ for snack. Snack money needs to be cash only Please send a snack and juice for your child each day,if you do not play to buy one.

5. Lunch • Our lunch time is 10:50-11:20. • Lunch is $2.50-daily, $12.50-weekly • I would like to encourage everyone to fill out a free lunch form who is interested. • Breakfast is free to all students. • Please make sure you write your child’s name on his/her lunch box.

6. *Please place any money inside the zipper bag that is in your child's binder with a note telling what the money is for. (Example: $1.00-snack and juice)

7. Volunteers • Parents (with back-ground check approval) are always welcome at the school as long as you sign in at the office. • If you would be interested in volunteering to be a room mother, help with parties, field trips, art projects, copying or cutting please let me know. All help is wanted and needed.

8. Very Important Checklist • Bus Number or Transportation arrangements (I will need to know this by the first day of school.) • Please return your child’s bus tag/car tag each day for the first three weeks. • Please read the student handbook. • Please sign all the handbook pages and return them to school. Thanks! • Student Folder returned on the first day of school. Be sure that lunch money, snack/juice money, and transportationinformation is included (i.e. bus number) Also write your child’s name on anything that has money in it.

9. I would like to encourage you to feel welcome in our class room at any time. Please stop by the office to sign in and pick up a visitor's pass. A quality kindergarten program depends on your involvement.

10. Questions? Please feel free to contact me by sending me a note in your child’s folder, e-mail, or call me with any concern that you may have. I look forward to working with you and your child this year!! linda.mccollough@elmoreco.com 334-541-5179 Home