BACK TO PRESCHOOL Back to School Info from Kate Elkins, Director
August 2021 Greetings Families, The following is your “get ready for school” email with a lot of information to digest before school starts. Please take time to review it all. Our staff spends a lot of time preparing for the academic year and we ask partnership in this from you. Being involved parents means spending time with school documents and informing us with as information about your child and family prior to school starting and interacting with information through the academic year. All links below have been compiled into a "Family Page" under the new tab "Your MTLPS" on the top of the website. I hope this will be an easy reference for you all through the year when you need resources quickly. I look forward to seeing you all and your children very soon! Kate
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HANDBOOKS Updated and online: Family Handbook COVID-19 SOP 2021 Letter pulled from SOP
INFO FORMS 2021-2022 Family Information Forms Required of all families prior to school: DUE Aug. 12th. This is your opportunity to tell us about your child. There is now a new dropdown for a second child (no need to open a second form this year).
MEET THE TEACHER We look forward to individual time with your child prior to school starting! Sign up for a Meet-the-Teachers time slot here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040b4f aba822a13-teacher
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MY PROCARE MyProcare.com is where you will: Find your child's schedule Remit tuition Update information
EDUCA Educa is our parent engagement app. Weekly newsletters (Thursdays) and school announcements get posted for easy access. Teachers post classroom news and student learning stories so families can be a part of what happens in the classroom! New families watch for email invites by the start of school.
MY TEMP TRACKER APP Families will screen children for health and wellness each morning. Save this web-based "app" to your home screen for quick access: https://app.mytemptracker.com/parent_login/ We will link each family by the start of school.
SHUTTERFLY We also post photos of our weeks in a private Shutterfly site. If you're not a member yet, ask to join today: https://midtownlutheranpreschool.shutterfly.com/
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TUITION Family forms above are due NO LATER than Thursday, August 12th so tuition payment plans can be posted into www.MyProcare.com. Tuition will be due no later than August 17th.
QUICK NOTES ON COVID For full updates, see the linked SOP above. The basics in the SOP remain the same as when school ended in May. As we know, science continues to change rapidly. We will base decisions on evolving information from multiple sources such as the local health department and CDC. To summarize, the basics will stay in place: Face coverings Indoors for everyone age 2+ Parents at drop-off and pickup Maintaining good hygiene and surface cleaning. Air purifiers or door/window airflow for indoor spaces. Daily screening and monitoring of health and wellness for students and staff. As the COVID Delta variant spreads, we ask prior to school starting families scale back exposure to too many places outside the home.
DATES 2021-2022 Calendar PDF was sent in July and can also be found online. Upcoming dates to note: August 16 - Meet the Teacher August 18 - Classes begin September 6 - Labor Day - no school
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