Information to help your child transition into the School
Arrival:
-All students must be dropped off at the Early Childhood Center doors between 8:00-8:15 am. If you arrive any later you will have to go to the office and your child will be marked tardy.
-If your child will be absent or leaving early it is important to e-mail the teacher and the school office: [email protected] prior to 8:00am.
Dismissal:
Students are dismissed out the Early Childhood Center doors at 3:15 pm. Children will wait outside until the person picking them up is present. This person must be on their emergency contact sheet. You are not able to walk up to the building. You must use the pick-up line. You may get out of the car to help students into car seats. Hang tags are distributed to families with their last name visible to make this process smooth. Note that our school does provide AM and PM latchkey.
Curriculum:
- Developing social and problem solving skills
- Religion (God Made Me curriculum and Catholic ABCs)
- Letter of the week (The Letter People)
- Upper case/lower case letter identification
- Name Identification and Writing (first letter as upper case only)
- Working with numbers 0-20 (built up throughout the year)
- Math concepts (color identification, shapes, patterns, comparing numbers, graphing).
- Science and Social Studies concepts
+ Each day students learn through centers, which can provide a hands-on experience while working in small groups with a teacher or independently.
+ Students receive report cards four times throughout the school year
Behavior:
-At St. Charles our policy is the traffic light system (red, yellow, green). The goal is for each child to keep a green light throughout the school day by making good/positive choices.
Each child is responsible for having a folder where a behavior calendar is kept and stamped each day. This is for families to check each night, which plays an important part in communication. Any student on red for the day will receive a slip stating why and an email from me.
-All students must be dropped off at the Early Childhood Center doors between 8:00-8:15 am. If you arrive any later you will have to go to the office and your child will be marked tardy.
-If your child will be absent or leaving early it is important to e-mail the teacher and the school office: [email protected] prior to 8:00am.
Dismissal:
Students are dismissed out the Early Childhood Center doors at 3:15 pm. Children will wait outside until the person picking them up is present. This person must be on their emergency contact sheet. You are not able to walk up to the building. You must use the pick-up line. You may get out of the car to help students into car seats. Hang tags are distributed to families with their last name visible to make this process smooth. Note that our school does provide AM and PM latchkey.
Curriculum:
- Developing social and problem solving skills
- Religion (God Made Me curriculum and Catholic ABCs)
- Letter of the week (The Letter People)
- Upper case/lower case letter identification
- Name Identification and Writing (first letter as upper case only)
- Working with numbers 0-20 (built up throughout the year)
- Math concepts (color identification, shapes, patterns, comparing numbers, graphing).
- Science and Social Studies concepts
+ Each day students learn through centers, which can provide a hands-on experience while working in small groups with a teacher or independently.
+ Students receive report cards four times throughout the school year
Behavior:
-At St. Charles our policy is the traffic light system (red, yellow, green). The goal is for each child to keep a green light throughout the school day by making good/positive choices.
Each child is responsible for having a folder where a behavior calendar is kept and stamped each day. This is for families to check each night, which plays an important part in communication. Any student on red for the day will receive a slip stating why and an email from me.
Other Helpful Information
- Preschool has afternoon rest time and are expected to bring a small blanket that must fit in his/her backpack. Please make sure this blanket is being washed over the weekend or when soiled.
- Also, each child must keep spare clothes in his/her backpack, in a gallon zip lock bag- this is in case of any accidents. Please change the clothes with every season.
-Masks are optional as of 8/17/21 (subject to change)
-Teachers/Aides will NOT be taking each child's temperature at drop-off this year. In the event that your child has a fever of 100 degrees or higher, he or she must go home. Your child must be fever-free for at least 24 hours.
- Weekly newsletters are sent out by the teacher every week with important curriculum items and notes.
- Each month every student has the opportunity to participate in a service project (can food drive, adopt a family, etc.) If all are completed in each quarter your child is rewarded a pajama day in Preschool/Pre-k.
- All volunteers for field trips and classroom projects must attend the Protecting God's Children Workshop (Sign Up Here: https://www.aod.org/our-archdiocese/careers/protecting-gods-children-training/) and also complete a background check.
- Our schools "Communicator" contains very important information that goes home with the oldest child every Tuesday. It is to be returned the next school day. You will find lunch orders and important notes in this envelope. The actual academy's newsletter is sent out electronically.
- We will be having lunch in the classroom. Please pack a balanced meal for your child. We are not able to microwave anything.
- For AM and PM snack, we ask that you bring in two boxes of snacks for the class. I will let you know when we run low and greatly appreciate and snack donations throughout the year.
- Also, each child must keep spare clothes in his/her backpack, in a gallon zip lock bag- this is in case of any accidents. Please change the clothes with every season.
-Masks are optional as of 8/17/21 (subject to change)
-Teachers/Aides will NOT be taking each child's temperature at drop-off this year. In the event that your child has a fever of 100 degrees or higher, he or she must go home. Your child must be fever-free for at least 24 hours.
- Weekly newsletters are sent out by the teacher every week with important curriculum items and notes.
- Each month every student has the opportunity to participate in a service project (can food drive, adopt a family, etc.) If all are completed in each quarter your child is rewarded a pajama day in Preschool/Pre-k.
- All volunteers for field trips and classroom projects must attend the Protecting God's Children Workshop (Sign Up Here: https://www.aod.org/our-archdiocese/careers/protecting-gods-children-training/) and also complete a background check.
- Our schools "Communicator" contains very important information that goes home with the oldest child every Tuesday. It is to be returned the next school day. You will find lunch orders and important notes in this envelope. The actual academy's newsletter is sent out electronically.
- We will be having lunch in the classroom. Please pack a balanced meal for your child. We are not able to microwave anything.
- For AM and PM snack, we ask that you bring in two boxes of snacks for the class. I will let you know when we run low and greatly appreciate and snack donations throughout the year.