Welcome to a new school year Busy Bee’s and their families!

I had a chance to meet some of you last week at open house and enjoyed talking and hearing about your child. Please remember to bring all paperwork to the first day of class if you have not done so yet. Everything should be on-line for you to print from the website , except the immunization form. Class begins right at 9:00 for the am class and at 12:30 for the afternoon session. We start our time together at circletime, where we pick helper jobs,talk about our projects and activities that will happen in class. It is going to be important for your child to be on time to  school. Class is over at 11:45 for AM class and 3:15 for afternoon. Being on time for pick up is also a big deal. Your child gets concerned when they are the only ones left in class. There is also an extra charge for late pick up, $1 a minute after the first 5 minutes. This first week of school will be getting to know our classroom routines and expectations. We will be having some name writing, cutting and letter recognition activities to get some idea of where everyone is at developmentally. Not everyone is at the same place in their learning and we want to be sure we are on target to help them be successful. Keeping up on what’s going on in class is going to be a big part of helping your child have a great school year. If you would like to get the newsletter emailed to you, email me at Rivmom@msn.com and I will add you to the list. If you would like to receive text reminders, let me know and I will get you the paper with directions for that. Our school requires 2 hours of volunteer time per child for the school year. There are many chances for you to complete these hours through school activities,classroom help,supply donations. Look in the hallway for a sign up sheet to volunteer and get those hours out of the way. Each month there will be more ways to get them completed. Thank you in advance for the support this gives our school and program. We really can’t do this without awesome parents like yourselves.                                                                                                     Please have your child check their cubbie at the end of the day for papers to go home. This is a great routine for kids to get in, so let them check themselves and be in charge of coats,helmets,backpack etc. We are partnering to give them the self management skills they will need next year in all day Kindergarten when you and I won’t be there to do it for them. Also sending kids in clothes they can manage themselves(buttons,snaps,zippers) is also a big step in getting them independent and thinking about problem solving.                                    I have given you lots of info to process this week, so please let me know if you have questions or concerns. We are excited about the year ahead and getting to know all the new Busy Bee’s. Thanks for letting us be a part of your child’s pre-k experience!

Teacher Kim and Teacher Caroline

The Busy Bee song

We are the Busy Bee’s

mighty,mighty busy bee’s

everywhere we go-oh

people want to know-oh

who we are

so we tell them

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