Mrs. Abraham Mrs. Cook Mrs. Coroneos Miss Gable Story Elementary

Story Facts: We are the Story Falcons School Colors are Blue and Silver Our mascot’s name is Sammy On Friday’s we wear Allen or Story shirts for Spirit day. We are in our 28 th year

Kindergarten Communication We will send home a communication folder each day with your child. Please check, empty and initial the folder each night. Most information will be coming home via , so please make sure to check it daily for important dates and events. A Kindergarten newsletter will be ed monthly.

School Communication On Tuesday a school folder will come home. Please check these folders, remove all papers, and return the folder the next day. The school will also send out an electronic newsletter each Tuesday. We tweet!!! Please follow us

Conferences We will schedule parent conferences on an “as needed” basis. However, parents are more than welcome to request a conference at any time. Please make sure to call or us so we can schedule a good time for both parties.

Backpacks and Personal Items Please be sure your child has a backpack large enough to accommodate a jacket, change of clothes, lunch bag, etc. During the day we ask our kids to keep their jackets zipped up in their backpacks. Please do not send toys, play make-up, stuffed animals, blankets, money, “treasures”, etc.to school. In the past some of these items have disappeared, so one way we can fix this problem is to not bring these items to school.

Shoes and Jackets We ask that all students wear shoes they can put on and fasten by themselves. If your child cannot tie their own shoe, please continue to work with them at home on this skill. We do ask that you do not send them in flip flops for safety reasons. With the weather constantly changing, please send a jacket each day during cooler weather. We go outside if the temperature is above 32º.

Let’s Talk Food The lunch menu and payment system is online. It can be found on Story’s website. Click on the link for Parents, then on the Cafeteria link. If do not want to pay online through Paypams you can send a check with your student’s name and pin number on the check. Your student will turn it into the cafeteria. *Helpful tip: Practice with your child to learn their lunch pin number- make it a game

Snacks Be sure and send a healthy snack to school each day. Please do not send anything that will spill such as pudding, yogurt, fruit cups with syrup, etc. Please only send water for your child to drink, milk and juice are not allowed. Please do not send anything with peanuts or peanut products.

Class Shirts PTA will purchase each student a class shirt this year! We will wear these shirts on Mondays and on field trips. Look for more information to come!

Attendance If your child misses a day of school remember to send a handwritten note or note from the doctor upon your child’s return within 3 days. Even if the Nurse sends your child home, they have to come back with a written note. If we do not receive a note the absence is unexcused.

Other Need to Knows Medicine If your child takes medication at school, it must be turned into the Nurse in the original container. Students cannot keep it with them in their backpack. Personal Care Please make sure your child knows how to take care of their bathroom needs.

Let’s Talk About Arrival 7:30-7:45 K-2 students report to the cafeteria and sit in their assigned spots. (The first day of school will be different) 7:45-7:55 K-2 teachers walk students to their classrooms. * Parents must have a picture ID and sign in at the front desk to walk their students to the cafeteria starting the 3 rd day of school.

Let’s Talk About Dismissal Dismissal for Kindergarten is 2:50 Carpool Please review the Arrival and Dismissal Procedures included in your packet. Kindergarten students are let out a few minutes before the other students. Please place your kindergarten car line sign in the front passenger window when you drive through the car line.

Dismissal Continued Daycare and Bus Riders Students will be picked up by a staff member and taken to a designated spot for day care pick- up. Bus riders are also picked up by a staff member and taken to a designated area to wait for their bus.

Dismissal Continued Walkers Walkers are students who will be walking home with other students but without an adult. Kindergarten walkers go to the gym and wait for the older student to pick them up before they may leave the building. If the student your child will be walking home with is absent please let us know how your child will be getting home that day.

Dismissal Continued Walk-ups Walk-ups are students who will be picked up by a parent or designated adult. They will exit the gym door by the bike racks. If a parent is not picking up their child but has designated another adult to do so, the student’s teacher needs this in writing. We will ask that adult to present ID. Please use the crosswalks and teach your child to do so as well.

It’s Raining! What do we do? Patience, patience, and more patience. Follow the procedure you indicated on your bad weather dismissal form. Please stay in your car, display your car line sign and a teacher will walk your child to your car. You may still pick up at the gym door next to the bike rack but the students will be in the gym not waiting outside.

IMPORTANT If for any reason your child needs to go home a different way you must send a note or call the office notifying us of the change. Teachers cannot rely on the student’s word alone. Please do not rely on an sent the same day. If another adult is picking up your student, they will need to present identification and be on the list in skyward.

First Day of School Parents may walk their students down to the classrooms between 7:30 – 7:45. If you expect this to be a difficult goodbye, please remember that lingering will make it harder for everyone.

Family Access Go to the Story Website. Click on Parents. Click on Family Access to complete all the necessary forms. An was sent earlier this summer with your login information.

All I Ever Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. There are things I learned: Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we. And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. Robert Fulghum