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We also have an open house the week of home visits. We invite all families to visit the school and classrooms us from the hours of 5:30-7:00 that night. Information about Bus and Pedestrian Safety was passed out to all families in attendance.
 * Kindergarten: The Kindergarten teachers have a full week of home visits and meet with the families who will soon entrust their children to us from the hours of 8:20-3:32. The teachers visit the homes and meet their students with their families. This time is used to form a relationship with studnets and their parents, complete paperwork about the students, prepare parents for their student's kindergarten school experience and explain expectations, and to get survey information to help plan family meetings. This is a great way to start building successful partnerships that benefit students. The home visit is a worthwhile, though time intensive, activity. Usually the teacher spends roughly a half an hour to forty five minutes scheduling and traveling to the home, an hour or so with the families, then travels back for another hour or so completing the paperwork that is necessary. When you think about the class sizes being around seventeen this year and 3-4 hours per student, that is roughly 51-68 hours that teachers commit to spending the week before school starts getting to know their families. A really important aspect of the home visit is the parent also gets to know us. We no longer are the teachers that call from the school with questions, concerns, or praises. We have a name and a face to go with.

The Preschool teachers have two full weeks of home visits and meet with the families who will soon entrust their children to us from the hours of 8:20-12:00 or 12:00-3:30. The teachers visit the homes and meet their students with their families. This time is used to form a relationship with students and their parents, complete paperwork about the students, prepare parents for their student's preschool experience and explain expectations, and to get survey information to help plan family meetings. This is a great way to start building successful partnerships that benefit students. The home visit is a worthwhile, though time intensive, activity. Usually the teacher spends roughly a half an hour to forty five minutes scheduling and traveling to the home, an hour or so with the families, then travels back for another hour or so completing the paperwork that is necessary. When you think about the class sizes being around seventeen this year for each session, morning and afternoon, so 34 students per teacher, and 3-4 hours per student, that is roughly 102-136 hours that teachers commit to spending thetwo weeks before school starts getting to know their families. A really important aspect of the home visit is the parent also gets to know us. We no longer are the teachers that call from the school with questions, concerns, or praises. We have a name and a face to go with. We also have an open house the first week of home visits. We invite all families to visit the school and classrooms us from the hours of 5:30-7:00 that night. Information about Bus and Pedestrian Safety was passed out to all families in attendance. We are in a partnership with the local head start and comply with all regulations that head start has. The Creative Curriculum.net will be used as the data recording program this year for the entire preschool. The measures that are taken are aligned with the Head Start performance measures. These show developmentally appropriate measures of students' growth. Child development plans are created for each student that attends the preschool.
 * Preschool:

Both preschool and kindergarten students have technology available to them in the classrooms. Preschool students have access to computer centers and share an iPad in their classrooms. The kindergarten students have iPod touches with math and reading applications, computer centers, response systems, and SMART boards used for interactive instruction. We are striving to prepare our students for their futures to use 21st century tools and develop the skills necessary for success.

Hope that helps you to understand who we are and what we are doing!