Important+Information

Please try to have your child to school on time each day. Students who are late will be counted as tardy. || Jane Smith Lunch money: 10.00  Ms. Brake’s Class - K || The behavior chart also lets you know of your child’s behavior for the day.Please initial the date on the chart each night. ||
 * Important Information for Kindergarten **
 * **__Arrival/ __** **__Dismissal __** || School begins at 8:00 each morning.Our school day ends at 3:00. Please make sure your child knows how he/she is going home each day.Also, be sure to let the teacher know of any changes in transportation.If transportation changes, send a note in your child’s binder or speak to me in person on the phone. ||
 * **__Car Riders __** || If your child is a car rider, please be patient with us while we teach the students the procedures that will ensure their safety. We are asking you to stay in your car until your child’s name is called. Be sure that you have a "Visor Card" for your child. Your child will not be released without it! ||
 * **__Absences __** **__Tardiness __** || If your child is absent, please send a doctor’s note or a handwritten note explaining the reason for the absence.Students must be fever free for 24 hours before they can return to school.
 * **__Breakfast/ __** **__Lunch __** || <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Breakfast and lunch are now FREE in Metro Schools. If you do send in money for extra snacks at lunch, please send in an envelope.Label the envelope with your child’s name, amount of lunch money, and child’s teacher.Place this envelope inside the zippered pocket of the daily binder.Example:
 * **__<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Clothing (SSA) __** || <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Students are required to wear shirts that have a collar and are solid in color.Ex.Any color polo style shirt.Pants must be Khaki, Navy Blue or Black (no cargo style).Kindergarten students **//__are not__//** required to wear belts.Emblems on shirts must be smaller than 2 inches. ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Daily Binder __** **__<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">(BEAR Book) __** || <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Each day your child will come home with a daily 3 ring binder named: **__My BEAR Book__**. Inside you will find our behavior chart, a zippered pocket for notes and money, and different sections to help with reading and math skills.Please send this binder back to school each morning.Any important notes, newsletters, etc. will be placed inside.If you need to send me a note, you may send it inside the binder.I have purchased each student’s binder however if a binder is lost, you will need to replace it.
 * **__<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Snack __** || <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">We will have a snack time every day. You will be responsible for providing your child with a snack each day. Please send only one snack. The easiest things are prepackaged snacks or small snack size bags with cereal or goldfish or chips, cookies, etc.. ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Calendar __** || <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I will send home a calendar at the beginning of each month, which you can post at home.It will have all of the upcoming events on it.Our first event is: **__“Our Color Days”__**.We will be learning the color words and the students are asked to wear different colored shirts in SSA.If your child doesn’t have that particular color, you may send in a t-shirt to wear over their SSA shirt.It will last about 2 weeks and is lots of fun for the students! ||