January 11th, 2021

MATERIALS DROP OFF:

As we prepare for In-Person learning next week, we will NOT have a materials pick up this week, but we WILL have a drop off scheduled for returning class work. Your child's teacher will let them know what papers and materials should be returned this week, so you can check with your student. Or look for a communication from the teacher. If you do have materials to drop off, the building will be open on both Wednesday (12:00 pm - 7:00 pm) and Thursday (7:00 AM to 7:00 PM). Labeled boxes will be set out in the library lobby for you to drop off the items.

We want to acknowledge and THANK all of our families who so faithfully participated in this exchange of materials each week.

INFORMATION FOR OUR PLANNED RETURN TO IN-PERSON LEARNING ON JANUARY 19TH:

Parents – Lots of information so please read carefully to the end :-)

We are so excited to be welcoming your children back into our building! We want to assure you that we will be following all the same protocols that were in place in the fall. Students will be familiar with them but we wanted to review with parents so that you could then review with your children.

TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION:

We ask that you DON'T drop off any students before 7:40. Teachers are not ready to see them until 7:45, and due to social distancing concerns we don't have room for lots of students to mill about waiting to go down to class. Drop off procedures will remain the same, in the front of the lot until all our buses have arrived and dropped off their children. Then cars will come to the front of the school. School personnel will be outside directing cars and students!

Parent pick up will again take place at the side of the building. Cars will be held until the buses and daycare's have departed, then you will be directed to the side to pick up your student from the gym. Hopefully everyone still has their name placard for the dash board; please let us know if you need a new one. These were issued for our regular car riders to help identify the cars. If you no longer have it, please let us know so we can create a new one.

Any changes to transportation routines from the fall, or for our newly returning students need to be communicated to the school office through a transportation form. IF YOUR STUDENT has no changes to transportation, no new paperwork is necessary. If you are unsure, please call the school office and we will let you know what paperwork we have.

The Home Access Center (HAC) will be updated by transportation and should be ready for viewing on Tuesday, January 12th; parents should be notified by A One Call which will be coming from the district. You will be able to check it to determine bus numbers and times and locations of drop off/pick up on the HAC.

ALTERNATE TRANSPORTATION FORM

IA SCHEDULE:

Please review the attached Integrated Arts Rotation Schedule. We have returned to our traditional A-E rotation that changes each day. PLEASE NOTE THAT WEDNESDAY IS A REMOTE LEARNING DAY FOR ALL STUDENTS but will not be a part of the A-E schedule. It is a day that students are expected to participate in classroom learning and they will be graded and marked absent accordingly.

2nd semester IA A-E schedule

DISTRICT CALENDAR:

We have also attached a district calendar for you to print and keep for reference. On it, you will note that Wednesday's are highlighted in yellow because they are remote learning days, not because they are days off of school. Also please note the date of our parent/teacher conferences, which this year are scheduled for the evening of February 24th and all day on February 25th. There will be no school on February 25th and 26th. This will be the time that you are able to meet one on one (via ZOOM) with your child's teacher to discuss their progress this year. Teachers will be sending out sign up information to you separately.

DISTRICT CALENDAR 2020-21

RECESS:

We will be continuing with our socially distant recess times. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for colder weather as we do go outside unless the wind chill is below 20 or there is precipitation. We also ask that you send in individual games and small items for their personal recess bags to keep at their desks for the days that we have indoor recess.

BREAKFAST SNACKS:

We still have the breakfast snack program in place. We will be using the breakfast list that we had in place when we returned to remote learning in November. If you want to continue your student to receive the breakfast items, you don't need to do anything, we have them on the list. If you want to START receiving the breakfast for your student, you must call the school office to sign up. If you would like to STOP receiving the breakfast for your student, you must also call the school office to let us know.

We will distribute the breakfast items twice a week on the following schedule:

Thursday afternoon – three packages for use Friday, Monday and Tuesday morning.

Tuesday afternoon – two packages for Wednesday (remote day) and Thursday morning.