September

 Dear Families,

My name is Catie Stone and I am the Lead Teacher of Room 7 - Toni Addington is the Assistant Teacher for Room 7 this year! We are excited to have your child with us!

We are going to send along an Orientation Packet for our classroom this year for you to read through. Later this week, we will be making some introduction videos for our classroom and show you a virtual tour of the room! We will be talking about our room and share things we think you should know before the school year gets underway. As you can imagine, things are going to look a bit different this year, but we have gotten our feet wet (so to speak) over the summer and have found some great routines and strategies that work for our room to ensure the day runs smoothly with our new sanitizing and health procedures.

After you get a chance to look at our videos, let us know if you have any questions! You are welcome to send an email, or we can set up a Zoom call for a few minutes on Monday, August 31st, if that would be easier for you. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible with the way things are going to look this fall.

Over the summer we sent out videos before we began the semester and the children and families loved them - it really helped everyone see how things would look and helped the children know what to expect.

We will be setting up a ClassDojo account for our room which you will be able to message us with and view photos and videos from our classroom on. As you can imagine, our days are sometimes very busy so we aren’t always able to update right away or see messages immediately; however, this is a great way for families to be able to see what happens throughout the day and the children love to use this as a way to reflect on their school day/week. I will invite each family with the email addresses provided to me from the front desk. If you would prefer another, just let me know!

Some of our families inquire about a classroom WishList at the beginning of the year. We have an Amazon account that I will link below. We also always love donations of matchbox cars, dry erase markers, trains, houseplants, restaurant menus, and cardboard tubes! As we get to know the children more and how our classroom is going to work, we will update you as well. Our Amazon link is:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1IBGOPQTH0PU0?ref_=wl_share


Keep an eye out over the next few days for our videos and let us know if you have any questions. We are very excited to begin the school year and know there are going to be lots of great things in store for us.

Have a wonderful day!

Catie Stone & Toni Addington