All Day Kindergarten Orientation Plett’s Puffins Cindy Plett-Teacher 2017-2018

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Communication with Home The Messenger: Every day, your child will bring home a two-pocket portfolio. Please go through The Messenger every day with your child. Take out any papers your child brings home-DAILY!!!!

Communication with Home Seesaw gives families an immediate and personalized window into their child’s school day, and makes communication with parents seamless.  Please sign up when information comes home!! Email: I usually send some form of email update on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

Communication with Home I Can Read Binder: Every Friday your child will bring home a three-ring binder labeled: I Can Read Book. In it you will find poems and songs that we have worked on in class. Please read this binder to and with your child throughout the weekend and then return it to school on Monday.

Communication with Home Homework: This year I am trying a monthly homework sheet. It will come home at the beginning of each month and then be due back at the end of each month. Some Fridays, your child will also receive a homework activity focused on something we learned in class that week. Please help your child complete this activity and return it to school by the following Friday. If you believe your child needs more stimulation than what is provided by me, I encourage you to get your child involved in a sports or music lessons.

Communication with Home Read-At-Home Books: This program provides an opportunity for your child to bring home a book to read that is at your child’s reading level. This program begins in December.

Lunch This year lunch will be after recess, for the first time. As we establish procedures, I will keep you up-to-date on how it’s going. 20 minutes in lunchroom Email if you have lunch concerns. Lunch Cost: $2.75/student- includes milk Adult Lunch Cost: $4.50 Milk .60

Lunch Hot Lunch: I recommend that you download a monthly lunch calendar from the website, decide which days your child will buy hot lunch and pay for those lunches once a month through online payments or send a check to school in a labeled envelope. If your child does not bring a lunch, the lunchroom will provide your child with one and you will be charged. Children may charge up to $8.25 before they are given a cheese sandwich and milk only for lunch. Please pay attention to your child’s lunch account.

Cold Lunch If your child brings a lunch, please put it into a lunch box and not a bag. Sometimes bags break and lunches go tumbling out. Milk Money: .60 Chocolate and White Please send milk money in a Ziplock bag or container in your child’s lunch box. Your child will pay for their milk in the lunchroom. (this can also be taken from their lunch account online.)

Snacks We have a morning and afternoon snack daily. Please sign up for a snack day each month when you receive the sign up link in your email later today. AM SNACK: Please send in a store-bought healthy snack on your assigned day (see ideas on snack schedule) PM SNACK: Send in one boxed snack that does not require refrigeration NO PEANUT SNACKS PLEASE!!!! We have nut allergies in our classroom. I cannot serve treats as a snack. If you send in cookies, rice crispy treats, chips, etc… I will not be able to pass them out. Everyone forgets occasionally. It’s okay. I always have extra treats. Just send in a non-perishable snack to replace what we use, if you forget.

Classroom Schedule Mon-Thur 8:25 Earliest you may drop off your child at school 8:30 Students allowed in classroom ****PARENTS NOT ALLOWED INTO CLASSROOM! 8:40 School begins (If you are later than 9:10, you must park and check your child in at the office) 9:50 Morning Recess 11:35 Recess 11:55 Lunch Recess 1:00 Monday-Art/Stem Tuesday-/Thursday PE#1 Wednesday- Music 1:30 PM Recess 3:00 Kindergarten Dismissed We do have quiet time each day where kids can watch an educational video or draw/color with the lights off. This helps us recharge batteries and prepare for the afternoon. FRIDAYS: EARLY RELEASE: 1:25 pm

Leaving Early/Picking up from School Parents need to enter the school from the office door. If you are volunteering, you can check in there and receive your visitor pass and get buzzed into the main part of the school. If you need to pick your child up early from school, please go to the Office and sign your child out. They will contact me and I will send your child to the office.

1st Day Of School Exceptions We encourage you to allow your child to follow their normal routine on the 1st day of school. If you want to follow the bus to LWES on the first day of school, please park in the parent parking lot or across the street at the church and meet your child as they arrive at school. Then take a picture, give them one last hug, tell them you will see them at the end of the day, and send them into the school with the teacher. Teachers will meet students outside by the buses for the first three days of school. Then paras will help them find their way to our classrooms and there will be special signs up in the hallways to help them find their way.

Changing your Child’s Route Home Please make sure your backpack nametag is correct and attached to your child’s backpack on the 1st day of school. I CANNOT CHANGE YOUR CHILD’S REGULAR TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM YOU. Any time your child’s normal route changes, you must send a note telling where the child is going, who is picking up and what time, otherwise I will send them on their normal pick-up plan. Use pick-up passes and bus passes provided in your packet which will be sent home soon.

Picking Your Child Up at 3:00 pm I encourage you to use the buses whenever possible. Parent – pick up is at 3:00 pm. Please be in the circle at that time to receive your child. This procedure has the potential to change. I’ll keep you posted.

Absences from School Please call 425-413-3500, press or say 2, then press or say 1. That will automatically put you into the safe arrival voice mail. At that point, please leave the name of the student(s), the teacher(s) name and the reason for the absence. Contact the office each day that your child is absent. If you are going on vacation, please get a prearranged absence form online at the LW website. I provide a vacation journal for your child to complete while on vacation, in lieu of keeping up with schoolwork.

Birthdays If you would like to celebrate your child’s birthday at school, we will. You may bring in a non-food item for your child to share with the class. (one sticker, one pencil, one eraser, etc…) Please DO NOT send in food treats for the class. They will not be passed out to the students, which is very disappointing to your child. This is a Tahoma School District policy. If your child has a summer birthday, I will coordinate a date with you to celebrate their ½ birthday sometime during the school year.

T-Shirts We wear these shirts on Puffin Pride Fridays, field trips, assemblies and other important days throughout the year. If you have not filled out the order form and turned in a check for $8.25, please do so today.

Parent Volunteers Kindergarten loves to have parent volunteers. In-class volunteers will begin at the beginning of October. An email will be coming home connecting you to a link to sign up. If you want to volunteer regularly, please sign up every week at the same time. No siblings are allowed in the classroom when you are volunteering. Please sign up for one class party. You do not have to attend to be helpful. Volunteer paperwork must be turned in and you must be approved by the state prior to volunteering in the classroom or attending a field trip. Paperwork is located on the Tahoma website. Please fill it out today! You must also attend a volunteer training here at LWES in order to volunteer at school.

Sending Money To School Any time you send money for lunch, field trips, or for any other reason, please put money in a sealed envelope or ziplock bag and mark it with your child’s name and what the money is to be used for.

Contacting Mrs. Plett The best way to contact me is via email at cplett@tahomasd.us. I check my email throughout the day. You may also call 425-413-3500 and leave a message for me. These messages now go to my email as well. Lastly, you may send a note to school with your child. I train students to empty their Messengers every morning , but if they forget, there is always a chance I will not receive the note in a timely manner. Call the office if I HAVE to know the info before school ends.

OTHER IMPORTANT DETAILS Join PTSA!!!!! You get email updates of things going on. Helping out is optional, but being aware of things going on at school is great. Classroom Donations will also come home through email in a sign-up online. Back to school night: September 20th Teddy Bear Picnic – September 29th Pumpkin Patch Field Trip-October 17th Harvest Party – October 31st. Veterans Day-No school-November 10th Conference Days-Early Release 1:40 November 15- 22nd Thanksgiving: November 23-24-No school YOUR CHILD WILL BE TIRED!!!!!!