Essential Items for Your Child in Early Childhood

Essential Items for Your Child in Early Childhood

1.    Extra clothing, (a complete set, including underwear and socks) labeled with your child’s name.  Also include warm clothes like a sweater and long pants.  These items should be placed in the child’s bag hanging on their cubby.  Please check the bag regularly to replace used items.

2.    Comfortable, indoor shoes or well-formed slippers with enclosed backs (please no floppy or backless shoes or shoes/slippers or slippers with animals, characters or media on them).  Many of the children like the woolen slippers with leather bottoms (Padraig) found at Whole Foods, Rocky Mountain Kids, Ginger and Pickles or http://www.padraigcottage.com or the Soft Star Slippers/Shoes found at http://www.softstarshoes.com/ .

3.    Children should wear sturdy play shoes with socks (or snow boots in the winter) to school.  Please no sandals, open-backed shoes, cowboy boots or shoes with blinking lights.  We go on regular walks and sometimes hike through fields where there might be “pricklies”.

4.    A seasonally appropriate hat, brought daily, or left at school

5.    Children should bring a proper jacket, coat and/or raincoat to school each day.  It is also advisable to leave one at school.  Colorado weather is quite variable and we like to be prepared for any weather.

6.    Extra mittens to be left at school during mitten weather.  One pair often gets wet. Please make sure your child's name is on each mitten!

7.    A bottle of sunscreen with your child’s name on it.  Please choose a natural brand without a paraben preservative.  For help in choosing a sunscreen, you might find the Skin Deep website that evaluates skin products helpful.http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
 

It is important that these items, as well as the clothing your children wear to school, be free from commercial slogans, writing, sports logos, camouflage, imitation animal skins, cartoons and caricatures, especially those depicting popular movies and commercially advertised products. 

Please remind the children to leave their jewelry and toys at home.  This will prevent them from becoming lost or broken as well as eliminate disruptions in the Kindergarten. 

It is a school policy as well as a Kindergarten policy that the children come to school without fingernail polish, tattoos or make-up.  

Young children take in the realm of color quite directly and the mood of the child (the hardness or gentleness) is enhanced by color. We find pastels or bright colors, made of natural, breathable materials (cotton, silk, wool) are more in harmony with the nature of childhood and we ask that black clothing (other than shoes and belts) not be worn to school. (Kindergarten through Fifth Grade).

Please see the school Handbook for additional information and direct specific questions to your child’s teacher.  We all appreciate your dedication in helping us provide an environment, which enhances your child early childhood experience.