Hello!
I hope everyone had a wonderful summer. It was so nice seeing many of you Friday for Open House! Please read the following carefully and let me know if you have any questions.
You may begin dropping off at 8am for breakfast everyday. Please drop your child off at Door 18 with the covered walkway. They walk down the corridor and a staff member will be at the door to open it for them. The students will have breakfast until 8:20 and then be dismissed to their classroom. Any student dropped off after 8:20 am will need to go to the playground doors and be buzzed in by the office. No parents are allowed to enter the building. Once the door unlocks your child may come in the doors and staff members will be present to help them find our classroom if they do not already know.
1st grade dismisses from Door 18 again, just like in kindergarten. Kindergarten will dismiss a few minutes early since they take a little longer. We will be out between 11:25-11:30am on Monday. Please pull all the way up so all cars can fit in the parking lot. No Montessori parents should park in the parking spots…. Those are reserved for Developmental preschool who arrives and dismisses after the Montessori. Once our class comes outside your child will fist bump me and let me know that they see Mom, Dad, etc. Then you are free to leave. Reminder to just be patient. It takes a couple of days to figure out arrival and dismissal for our new parents. It will get faster the more we practice it. If there is not room in the parking lot please do not stop on Ann Arbor Trail. You can loop around the block or park across the street at the Mosque until more space opens in the parking lot. We stay with the kids until 5 minutes after dismissal time. After that we escort them to the office and call.
****If your child has an older sibling in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade. They will be picked up by their older sibling and dismissed outside of Door 20 (by the STEM doors.) Once you pull into the other parking lot security guards will be present to guide you down the sidewalk. You will pull as far forward as possible and line up that way. Once the siblings come out they will come to your car.
Please make sure that you are subscribed to the Howe School blog as well (you can sign up by entering your email on the Howe school website). That has a post with maps and more details about arrival and dismissal.
A couple of quick things:
- Please send in a change of clothes labeled in a ziplock bag to keep in your child’s locker all year just in case.
- If you have not sent in supplies you can do that next week also.
- Monday is a half day dismissal is at 11:30am.
- Tuesday is a full day, 8:25-3:20 are our new regular school hours.
- Early release Tuesdays start Sept 3rd and dismissal is at 1:50.
- Your child needs to bring a water bottle and healthy snack daily. I will provide them with a snack on the first day. We have early lunch this year so our snack will be in the afternoons.
- Your child will bring home their red folder on Monday. It will have lots of important paperwork for you to read and some to be returned. Please check this folder everyday and make sure it comes back to school every morning.
I look forward to seeing all those smiling faces Monday morning! Don’t forget to go to bed early on Sunday!
As always please email me if you have any questions! My email is schneim@dearbornschools.org. I am super excited and looking forward to a GREAT year in 1st grade with all of you!😊