Keeping Up with Carrington

It's Cookie Friday! What better way to end the first week of school!

Thank you for a great first week of school! We appreciate your cooperation and patience as we work to get everything updated and completed for the turnover of Summer and a new academic school year.

As a reminder, please log into ALMA to set up your child's pin to check your child in and out of the building each day. Like mentioned in our previous note, for safety reasons, we will need you to check your child in before dropping them off in the classroom. When picking up for the day, please check your students out after getting them from their classroom. A parent came up with a good way to remember when to check in/out, "they must be with me when using the iPad." :)

If your student is enrolled in our Half Day program (8am-2:30pm), they must be picked up by 2:30pm.

Please be sure to send a note through Tadpoles/Links 2 Home and/or email if your child will be in past 10am. We value our school as a private preschool, and not just a daycare. With this, we want to ensure that your students are getting the very most out of our curriculum and most of that occurs in the morning hours. Additionally, this helps your child's teachers and our admin staff be prepared and plan accordingly. We appreciate your help and communication when it comes to late arrivals in the new school year!

Our uniform sale is still going and will be going for another week. Just a reminder that we will charge your account for the used uniforms. Beginning September 8th, Intermediates and Private Pre-K will need to be in uniforms Monday-Thursday.

We would like to remind anyone who plans to use their vacation credit for Fall Break, we must have the request in writing at least 30 days prior to the start of the break. Please remember that your child must be enrolled for 6 consecutive months. Should you have any questions regarding this, please see a member of the Admin Team.

To help our students adjust we love to have photos of familiar family members and friends! With this, we'll have August family projects ready to be picked up at the front desk on Monday, August 10th. We ask that you create a family photo collage with your child's name on it and return back to us by Monday August 24th. We'll laminate these and they'll be used in the classroom, on display, and for various curriculum activities throughout the school year! As a note, please do not put anything 3D on the collages as they won't fit in the laminator.

To help parents adjust, we'll begin a weekly "Get to Know our Staff" series included in this newsletter, highlighting different admin and teaching teams throughout our school each week. Next week, we'll start with the Admin Team. The week after that will be the Infant Team, and so on each week, until we've highlighted everyone in the building, including all support staff! :)

Thank you for being the best part of Carrington! As always, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions, comments or concerns you may have - we are always here to help!

With Love,

Ms. Ashley Chandler

ashley.chandler@carringtonacademy.com

Friday, August 7th-Cookie Friday

Monday, August 10th-August Family Projects Go Home

Wednesday, August 12th-Wear it Wednesday-Mismatch Day!

Friday, August 14th-Cookie Friday & Football Friday!

Monday, August 17th-Chick Fil A Spirit Night 5pm-7pm

Tuesday, August 18th-Leave us a Google Review!

Wednesday, August 19th-Wear it Wednesday-Hat Day

Friday, August 21st-Cookie Friday & Football Friday!

Monday, August 24th-August Family Projects DUE

Wednesday, August 26th-Carrington Spirit Wear/Cheetah Print Day!

Thursday, August 27th-Principal Office Hours 12pm-1pm

Friday, August 28th-Cookie Friday & Football Friday!

• Videography & Photography at pickup and drop-off is NOT permitted for the safety of the other children in the classroom.
• Parking Lot Safety: Please ensure that you are not allowing your children to play and run in the parking lot. Additionally, supervision must be maintained by parents once you've picked up your child - please do not allow your children to run into the parking lot unsupervised.
• Sunscreen: Sunscreen should be applied each day BEFORE coming to school; we will apply it in the afternoon only. (Summer Only)
• Outside food and/or drink: These are NOT permitted in the school for allergy and safety purposes. We appreciate your help and cooperation with this.
• No Zipper Bedrolls: The state does not permit us to have bedrolls with Zippers on them. Please ensure that when purchasing your bedrolls that it is
• Toys from Home: Toys from home are not permitted unless specified on the monthly calendar for special events/days. Soft, small loveys are allowed, but only for naptime, where applicable.

• 10am Drop Off Time: As mentioned previously, we want to ensure that all students are getting the benefit of our private preschool curriculum. With this, if you will be arriving for the day past 10am, please ensure you have called the school to notify us OR sent a message through Links 2 Home/Tadpoles. This also helps with planning teacher lunches for the day, and ensuring that the chef is aware of proper numbers for snacks/lunch as she prepares food for the day.

• If your child is out sick and diagnosed with an illness, please be sure to let the admin team know. This way, we can send out a notice of medical concern to the classroom so that parents are aware of any exposure to illness.
  
• Outside food and/or drink is NOT permitted in the school for allergy and safety purposes. We appreciate your help and cooperation with this.
• Hazardous Items in Bookbags - We ask for your partnership in helping to ensure that hazards are not in your child's bags and accessible to children throughout the day. Please be sure there is not chap stick, necklaces, choking hazards, medicine, plastic bags, etc. left in your children's bags. If needing to bring such items, please give them to an admin team member or your child's teacher when dropping off. We appreciate your help with this!

Kids in Motion Dance Class (ages 3+)

Kids in Motion offers fun and imaginative dance classes in a positive and nurturing environment. Steps, positions, movement patterns, and routines are taught using fun props and music. An off-site recital will be held in May and is optional. 30 minute classes are held every Monday at 9:30am. Price is $55.00/month.

Amazing Athletes (ages 2+)

30 minute classes are held every Wednesday at 10am. Price is $75.00/month.

Soccer Stars (ages 2+)

30 minute classes are held every Tuesday at 10am. Price is $80/month with a one time $30 registration fee.

N Zone TBall/Pickleball (ages 2+)

30 minute classes are held every Friday at 10am. Price is $80/month with a one time $15 registration fee.

Karate-Coming SOON!

*Georgia Pre-K students are not permitted to participate in enrichment programs if they fall during their instructional class time. We will be doing demo days in the afternoons for GA Pre-K and Afterschool Students.*

• Green zones - all scheduled outdoor time is permitted
• Yellow zones - limit outdoor play to part of the time scheduled and watch for signs indicating the children need to go inside
• Red zones - scheduled outdoor time is NOT permitted; Flex room will be utilized during these times

If there is ever anything we can do to help, please do not hesitate to reach out - we are always happy to do so!

Email: ashley.chandler@carringtonacademy.com
Website: carringtonwindermere.com
Location: 4410 Front 9 Drive, Cumming, GA, USA
Phone: 770.888.8011