School Day
School Day
Arrivals and Dismissals
The school day officially begins at 8:45 a.m. and concludes at 3:15 p.m.
Kindergarten Arrivals and Dismissals
- Kindergarten AM Session - 8:45 - 11:25 a.m.
- Kindergarten PM Session - 12:35 - 3:15 p.m.
AM K Arrival
Students being transported to school by parents are required to be dropped off between 8:35 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. Students should not arrive at school before 8:35 a.m. If you arrive at the school before 8:35 a.m., then please find a place to park, and remain in the car until 8:35 a.m. Staff will come outside to help students safely exit vehicles and enter the building. Parents should not be escorting students to the building. At 8:45 a.m. the entrance is locked. Students arriving after 8:45 a.m. are considered tardy, and are required to report to the building office with their parent or guardian to sign in before going to their classrooms. For the first few days of school, we are prepared to extend the arrival window if the traffic deems necessary.
PM K Dismissal
When a child is being picked up early, the child must supply a parent note containing the child’s first and last name, the teacher’s name and a signature. Notes may be sent into school with students, but we are encouraging electronic communication via email whenever possible. Parents are encouraged to write a note with an original signature, take a picture of the note, and email it to the main office. The only notes that will be accepted via email will be those that contain photos or scans with original signatures. Please send to the attendance office.
Please submit notes as early as possible, and the cut-off time for all end-of-day transportation changes is 2:00 p.m.
At the end of the school day, students will be lined up to be dismissed to their assigned bus or vehicle based on the transportation selection that was made on the August survey. If your transportation selection has changed since the survey, please notify the ECC office before the first day of school. If your child needs to take a different form of transportation than the one originally selected, please provide a note according to the procedures above.
Car Rider Dismissal
Each K-2 family will receive three car rider vehicle hang tags that will match a corresponding student tag. These tags are noted LE for all K-2 students, and each family will have the same set of tags for all K-2 students in their family.
The student tag must be attached to the child’s backpack, and the car hang tags must be visible to all staff when arriving to pick-up a child(in windshield or hand carried). If an adult gets out of a car to walk to the sidewalk to pick-up a child, then the hang tag must be hand carried.
Adults do not need to get out of the cars. Staff members will be escorting children out of the building, and will help to make sure each student is matched with the correct adult or vehicle.
Children will only be released to someone with the appropriate tag for the current school year. If you are picking up your child and another child, please have all of the corresponding hang tags to be matched to all of the correct children
Car riders will be dismissed for pick-up beginning at 3:15pm at the ECC, and 3:20pm at LE.
Early Dismissals
The kindergarten schedule for early dismissal days is as follows:
- Kindergarten AM Session - 8:45 - 10:35 a.m.
- Kindergarten PM Session - 11:25 a.m. - 1:05 p.m. (parent pickup begins)
Delays and Closings
Winter weather can result in cancellations or late starts to school. Because these problems can create inequities in class time, we have adopted a modified kindergarten schedule for days when there must be delayed starts. Schedules on days with delays are as follows:
One hour delay - start time 9:45 a.m.
- Kindergarten AM Session - 9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Kindergarten PM Session - 1:10 - 3:15 p.m.
Two-hour delay - start time 10:45 a.m.
- Kindergarten AM Session - 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Kindergarten PM Session - 1:40 - 3:15 p.m.
Extended/Full-Day Kindergarten is cancelled on days with snow delays.