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September 2010
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WELCOME TO ALL OUR OLD FRIENDS AND TO OUR NEW FAMILIES! We are looking forward to spending time with your family and working with each other this year, along with getting back to our school year routines. Following is a list of all the staff to help you put our names with our faces:
| Robin Henderson |
Morning toddler preschool teacher |
| Brooke Zahn |
Morning aide with toddler class |
| Emma Benner |
Afternoon teacher with toddler group |
| Jan Domer-Shank |
Morning three-year-old preschool teacher |
| Allyson Berry |
Morning aide with three-year-old class |
| Lisa Hoelle |
Morning four-year-old preschool teacher
Afternoon teacher with oldest school age group |
| Mary Ann Hart |
Morning four/five-year-old preschool teacher
Afternoon teacher with four/five year olds Mon-Thur |
| Suchita Dhond |
Aide with Ms. Lisa and Mrs. Hart’s A.M. classes |
| Kate Haines |
Evergreen kindergarten teacher |
| Sharla Dunham |
Afternoon teacher with school age group |
| Sue Sheets |
Afternoon teacher with three/four year old group |
| Ashley Gray |
Afternoon teacher with Mrs. Hart’s P.M. group on Fri
Afternoon aide and homework supervisor T-TH |
| Carol Green |
Afternoon aide and homework supervisor on Mon/Wed |
| Janie Campbell |
Cook |
| Bobby DiTommaso |
Office aide |
| Jill Gordon |
Director – Please feel free to call or see me to share concerns, problems, or ideas. I plan to be in till 6:00 P.M. on Tuesdays and Fridays this year. My weekly schedule, with updates, is posted on the Parent Bulletin Board. My home phone number is 1-937-833-4201. |
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There are two new staff members this school year. Also, you might notice a couple staff members in new positions. New this year is Brooke Zahn who is a working with toddlers in the mornings. She is a certified teacher and has worked as an aide in public schools. Plus she is one of our very own parents, so she is already familiar with Evergreen. Also new this year is Emma Benner who will work with toddlers in the afternoons. She is working on her masters in education at WSU and has hands on experience through the job of supervising a church nursery.
Our staff has been lucky to include a senior citizen for the last 10 years. Mrs. Green from next door (she lives adjacent to the parking lot) will be retiring again this year. After working for years in the public school system and retiring, she then worked with us at Evergreen. She walked over every afternoon. On snow days when the roads were bad, we shoveled her a path and she was the one we could always count on to make it to work. Parents were happy to have her in their children’s lives as many of their grandmas live far away and exposure to seniors is often limited. Our staff were blessed to have the example set before us of an individual who was still vibrant, active, contributing, and humor filled at eighty- something. What a positive force! We will soon be planting a bush here on the grounds with a plaque that says: “Endless Summer Hydrangea” Planted to honor the endless vitality of Fran Green. |
This first newsletter of the year is full of information and reminders – some things may apply to you, some may not. Please read all of it though and I promise next month’s newsletter will be much shorter!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
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We are a PEANUT FREE building. Please do not allow your child to bring peanuts or peanut products of any kind into the building with their packed lunches, breakfasts, etc. Before bringing foods to share for birthdays or parties, please see your child's teacher. We will need to check the ingredients on packaging or recipes.
Foods manufactured with equipment used to manufacture peanut foods are alright. It is the listed ingredients that we need to check. Please see me if you have any questions or concerns. |
We will plan many special activities, field trips, and special days throughout the year. We cannot plan every activity for both M/W/F and T/TH sessions; however, we do plan an equal number of activities for both sessions of comparable excitement and interest.
On the PARENTS’ BULLETIN BOARD there is a sign up sheet for parents of children in the morning classes to send in party treats. If you sign up for parties, you do not have to attend, just send in the item needed (usually a party snack, or a party favor, or cups & napkins.) |
Please call when your child is not coming to Evergreen. This is especially important for those children coming for after school care. When any of those children do not get off the bus, we make every effort to contact you to find out where that child is so that we can determine if your child has missed the bus or has gotten on the wrong bus. If your child is home sick or you plan to pick him up at school, please let us know so we do not waste our time and yours looking for him.
If your child will be bringing breakfast and you want us to serve it, you need to arrive by 8:00 A.M. Also, REMEMBER TO MARK YOUR LUNCH BOX AND FOOD CONTAINERS WITH YOUR CHILD’S NAME.
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If your child stays for nap, he/she will need a blanket, small pillow, stuffed animal (optional) sent in a pillow case for storage. Please do not send Barbies, action figures or other toys of this type. We are required to send nap items home each week to be washed. Also, REMEMBER TO MARK THESE ITEMS WITH YOUR CHILD’S NAME. |
We provide a snack between 2:00 – 2:30 for the children who come for after school care. However, some of those who stay at Evergreen later into the afternoon seem to get hungry again around 4:30. If your child is here at that time and if you would like to send an extra snack, we will give them the opportunity to eat it. However, please send healthy snack items, not candy and junk foods.
On most days between 4:00-5:00, we use the lunchroom as a homework area for school age children. It is voluntary that the children go down at that time. If you want your child to make use of this option, please encourage him/her to do so.
 If your child is outside when you pick up, please stop inside to sign out. Then have a staff member radio outside to your child’s teacher to verify who is picking up.
Remember that we will have to ID anyone picking up that we do not know. Considering that we occasionally have substitute staff, this could happen at any time. Please bear with us for your child’s safety. |
PLEASE do not let your child bring toys to Evergreen. They too easily become lost, broken, or a source of conflict. We do, however, allow children in Sharla and Lisa's after school groups to bring electronics on Fridays.
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We are again participating in the monarch tagging program. Stop in the Science/Math room or the outside butterfly house to observe the monarch stages and share this experience with your child. |
 We will again have Webby dance classes offered on Tuesday afternoons. There is information hanging on the PARENTS’ BULLETIN BOARD for those interested.
If you have misplaced your Evergreen handbook, you will find another one on top of the mailboxes. It may answer some questions that you have or some that may come up throughout the year.
You will find in your mailbox a copy of our current lunch/snack menus for those of you who like to keep track of this at home. If you choose to pack your child’s lunch, please try to pack a nutritious meal. We are required by law to check these lunches and supplement them if necessary so that they include at least one item from each food group and at least two items from the fruit/vegetable group.
It is required that preschool and kindergarten children have an extra change of clothing in their Evergreen tote. This makes bathroom accidents, spills, etc. easier to handle. If you did not receive your Evergreen tote bag, there are extras on top of the mailboxes.
Please check the collection of lost and found items from the summer, which can be found in the office. We will be giving them to Goodwill after Labor Day.
PLEASE MARK ALL ITEMS WITH YOUR CHILD'S NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
