Dear Families,
Welcome to the beginning of our school year together as a TK/K family community. My name is Allie and I feel honored to be your child’s teacher and I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you on a deeper level. These are strange and unprecedented times and I’m here to support you as we embark on this learning adventure together.
To tell you a little about myself, this will be my 10th year teaching at Harmony, six years teaching 5th grade and three years teaching Kindergarten. This will be my first TK/K combo but I feel up for the challenge because I’m particularly interested in brain development in young children! I’m inspired by Reggio Emilia and environmental preschools and hope to blend some of this into my program at school. If and when we return to campus, we will have an outdoor forest classroom for learning whenever weather permits, which I’m hoping is nearly every day!
I’ve worked hard this summer to really design a program that I believe is developmentally appropriate and engaging for your child, whether we are learning at home or at school.
Your child will be receiving a backpack from the school filled with learning materials. These materials will be used both at home and at school so please always return items to the backpack after use/clean-up. I’ve also assembled a Learning Box that you will pick up with the backpack that is full of hands-on materials that will go along with our lessons on Zoom and SeeSaw! The learning box will be traded out for a new one when we enter into the next unit, so please keep track of any materials that will need to be returned with it as well! As mentioned in the email from the District, the pickups for these materials will be THIS Thursday and Friday in the school gym.
Thursday 9-12 Last Name A-J
Thursday 12-3 Last Name K-P
Thursday 3-6 Last Name Q-Z
Friday 9-5 All Names
I’d love the opportunity to meet with each family virtually after the school year starts to check in and see how you and your child are feeling about school, troubleshoot any tech issues, and answer any questions you may have. Please sign up for a time to meet with me on Zoom by clicking on the document emailed to you! Your child is welcome to join us on the call! Please also take a moment to complete the parent survey I sent out to help me get a glimpse into who your child is as a person. This feels especially important since we’ll be starting the school year online and it’s harder to get to know each other through Zoom!
More information about myself, what school will look like this year, our digital programs, our daily schedule, our remote classroom, and what school may be like when we resume on campus learning will be discussed at Back to School Night for our TK/K class on Zoom, THIS Friday August 14th, at 6:00 pm. (I know this is short notice but I really hope you will be able to attend since school starts on Monday and I'll be covering lots of important information!) I will send you an invitation to this meeting using Google Calendar once we're up and running with our updated license agreement with Zoom.
Details about the digital programs we’ll be using and how to register your child will go out in a follow up email once I’ve secured all necessary usernames and passwords.
Warmest regards,
Ms. Allie
TK/K Teacher
Harmony Elementary
P.S. I may not have an email address yet for all guardians/co-parents so please be sure to share additional important email addresses with me to include in my TK/K family group email correspondence.
Welcome to the beginning of our school year together as a TK/K family community. My name is Allie and I feel honored to be your child’s teacher and I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you on a deeper level. These are strange and unprecedented times and I’m here to support you as we embark on this learning adventure together.
To tell you a little about myself, this will be my 10th year teaching at Harmony, six years teaching 5th grade and three years teaching Kindergarten. This will be my first TK/K combo but I feel up for the challenge because I’m particularly interested in brain development in young children! I’m inspired by Reggio Emilia and environmental preschools and hope to blend some of this into my program at school. If and when we return to campus, we will have an outdoor forest classroom for learning whenever weather permits, which I’m hoping is nearly every day!
I’ve worked hard this summer to really design a program that I believe is developmentally appropriate and engaging for your child, whether we are learning at home or at school.
Your child will be receiving a backpack from the school filled with learning materials. These materials will be used both at home and at school so please always return items to the backpack after use/clean-up. I’ve also assembled a Learning Box that you will pick up with the backpack that is full of hands-on materials that will go along with our lessons on Zoom and SeeSaw! The learning box will be traded out for a new one when we enter into the next unit, so please keep track of any materials that will need to be returned with it as well! As mentioned in the email from the District, the pickups for these materials will be THIS Thursday and Friday in the school gym.
Thursday 9-12 Last Name A-J
Thursday 12-3 Last Name K-P
Thursday 3-6 Last Name Q-Z
Friday 9-5 All Names
I’d love the opportunity to meet with each family virtually after the school year starts to check in and see how you and your child are feeling about school, troubleshoot any tech issues, and answer any questions you may have. Please sign up for a time to meet with me on Zoom by clicking on the document emailed to you! Your child is welcome to join us on the call! Please also take a moment to complete the parent survey I sent out to help me get a glimpse into who your child is as a person. This feels especially important since we’ll be starting the school year online and it’s harder to get to know each other through Zoom!
More information about myself, what school will look like this year, our digital programs, our daily schedule, our remote classroom, and what school may be like when we resume on campus learning will be discussed at Back to School Night for our TK/K class on Zoom, THIS Friday August 14th, at 6:00 pm. (I know this is short notice but I really hope you will be able to attend since school starts on Monday and I'll be covering lots of important information!) I will send you an invitation to this meeting using Google Calendar once we're up and running with our updated license agreement with Zoom.
Details about the digital programs we’ll be using and how to register your child will go out in a follow up email once I’ve secured all necessary usernames and passwords.
Warmest regards,
Ms. Allie
TK/K Teacher
Harmony Elementary
P.S. I may not have an email address yet for all guardians/co-parents so please be sure to share additional important email addresses with me to include in my TK/K family group email correspondence.
