Mrs. Christensen A-6 268-7157 jill_christensen@gfps.k12.mt.us Mrs. O Brien A-5 268-7156 Lindsey_obrien@gfps.k12.mt.us Mrs. Brinka A-4 268-7171 ande_brinka@gfps.k12.mt.us http://vvkindergarten.weebly.com/

Before School: Breakfast begins at 8:00 in the lunchroom. Kindergarten students not eating breakfast need to go straight outside to the playground with their backpacks and coats until school begins. There will be adult supervision on the playground beginning at 8:10. Students may not wait in the classroom before school due to lack of supervision. Students need to leave ALL toys at home during the day while at school unless it is their special day. Thank you for your support. After school: Please pick up your child outside the gated area on the playground near Ave A. Your child will wait by their teacher and their classmates. You need to come up to the gate to pick up your child. If your child needs to be picked up in a different way, please call the office at 268-7145 and the message will be delivered to the classroom teacher. Monthly Homework: A packet will be sent home at the beginning of every month. Return the completed packet at the end of every month. Pre-decodable and decodable books will be sent home and can stay home for you to read with your child. Please have your child read to you each and every night. Wednesday Envelopes: The envelopes will be sent home every Wednesday and will be in your child s backpack. Please look through, sign, and return items if needed by Thursday. Envelopes are great way to send the teacher notes, lunch money, homework, or any papers needing to be returned. Lunch: When sending lunch money to school, please place it in an envelope and label it with your child s name, classroom, teacher s name and Lunch Money.

Birthdays: During the school year, birthday treats are welcomed. Please be sure to include enough treats for the entire class. If invitations are to be passed out, there must be enough for the entire class as well. Otherwise, please mail invitations on an individual basis. Snacks: At the beginning of every month, your child will receive a monthly calendar in their Wednesday envelope. During the month, your child for the day will be a helper, bring a snack for the class to enjoy, and share a show-n-tell. All snacks need to be non-perishable or they will be sent home due to allergies.

Please use the following sheet when picking out your child s snack for the special day. NO PEANUTS/PEANUT OIL/PEANUT BUTTER Snacks: (NO PEANUTS/PEANUT OIL/PEANUT BUTTER) If snacks come that contain peanut butter or peanut oil, THEY WILL BE SENT HOME. We have students who have severe peanut allergies. Make sure to check every snack to make sure. Even check that the snack hasn t been processed around peanuts, oil, or butter. Thank you so much for making our room a safe environment! All snacks must be prepackaged and not homemade. Please try and help to keep our snack cupboard full. I try to have 2 snacks a day because the kids get hungry. They may bring in snacks anytime.

PEANUT FREE/TRENUT FREE SNACK LIST Avoid snacks that contain peanuts, peanut flour, peanut oil, or peanut butter or other nuts. This includes snacks with almonds, coconuts, filberts, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts. Read labels carefully to make sure the products are nut free. This includes labels that read May contain traces of peanuts/nuts or processed in a facility that processes products that contain peanuts/nuts. Food labels and ingredients change over time, so always read the label each time before purchasing snacks. Include the packaging of your treat when you send it to the classroom, so that the label may be rechecked if there are any questions. Thank you for your consideration and support in keeping the food-allergic child safe from having a life threatening allergic reaction at school. Fruits/Vegetables Any fresh fruit Applesauce cups Raisins, Craisins,,& other dried fruits Fruit cups (NOT Del Monte) Fresh vegetables Vegetable dips Cheese/Dairy Yogurt in individual cups or tubes Pudding in individual cups, cans, or tubes String cheese or other cheeses Drinkable yogurt or smoothies Cottage cheese in individual cups Crackers Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Vegetable Thins Ritz crackers/dinosaurs/sticks (NOT Ritz Bitz or sandwiches) Town House, Club, Toasteds Cheez-Its, Cheese Nips, Better Cheddars Saltines, Oyster crackers Wheatbles, Air Crisps, Munch ems, Keebler Snack Stix Brenton brand crackers Goldfish crackers Graham crackers, Graham cracker Sticks, Teddy Grahams Animal Crackers (Austin, Zoo, Barnum) Cereals Cheerios (NOT Honey Nut or Frosted) Chex (Rice, Corn, Wheat) Cinnamon Toast Crunch Corn Flakes Crispix Frosted Mini-Wheats Kashi (Go Lean Crunch, Good Friends, Cinnamon Raisin, Heart to Heart) cereals Kix Life (NOT Vanilla Yogurt Crunch) Wheaties Other Snack Items Small bagels (Lenders or Thomas brand) Popcorn Pretzels Nutri-grain cereal bars/yogurt bars Special K Bars (NOT Honey Nut) Special K Snack Bites Fig Newtons (all flavors) Rice Cakes (NOT Quaker brand, not nut free) Cheez-It Party Mix/Munchie Party Mixes Kellogg s brand Rice Krispie Treats (original) Sun Chips Yogos/Yogo Rolls READ EVERY LABEL EVERY TIME; FOOD LABELS & INGREDIENTS MAY CHANGE!