Tuesday Tip - Hello and Goodbye

Students will have an opportunity to meet their new teacher a few days before the school year begins (in August - check the school website for date/time). This will allow your child to become accustomed to his/her classroom and teacher. On the first day of school, parents are welcome to bring their child to the classroom. (It is a huge moment!) For the rest of the week, please say your good-byes in the gym before school. Students are to be in the gym by 7:45. The gym is supervised in the morning and your child’s teacher will pick up her class from the gym at 7:45. Please do not send your child directly to class. After the first week, please help us begin to foster your child’s independence by saying goodbye in the parent loop and allowing him/her to walk in independently.

Here are the general things you'll need to know about our arrival and dismissal procedures:

Morning Arrival

- Morning drop-off time: 7:30-7:49

- All parent loops and inside waiting areas are supervised and your kindergartner will not have to walk in or wait alone in the morning.

Afternoon Dismissal

- Afternoon pick-up: 3:05

- All parent loops and inside waiting areas are supervised and your kindergartner will not have to walk out or wait alone in the afternoon.

- Children riding a bus or daycare van will be escorted outside and to their bus in the afternoon.

- Children that have a siblings in K–2nd grade (or no siblings), will be picked up from the front office loop. All students with an older sibling in grades 3rd-5th grade, will wait for his/her sibling in the hall (by the office) and be dismissed to the cafeteria loop.

- If you are driving through the parent loop to pick up your child, please be sure to have the yellow sign in your dashboard and pull all the way up the curb. DO NOT get out of your car. (This yellow sign will be given to you at the beginning of the school year).

- Walkers, please respect our safety system and use the crosswalks (from the parent parking lot). Please wait outside for your child and wait away from the doors so the sidewalks are left un-crowded.

• Both dismissal loops are supervised by adults who are available for help!