This is our traditional preschool that runs on the same school calendar as Scappoose School District. Your child will be in the same classroom with the same teachers and students on a regular basis. Our combined child care and preschool offers child care and preschool on a daily basis year around. If you would like both traditional preschool with child care, we offer a discounted rate of $35/day for child care on the days your child also attends the traditional preschool.
TUITION
The registration fee is $40.00 and is non-refundable (this includes a Grace Christian Preschool T-shirt), and the field trip fee is $25.00.
3 days per week classes........$125.00 paid per month
(June will have a partial tuition of $40.00)
2 days per week classes........$95.00 paid per month
(June will have a partial tuition of $30.00)
All tuition is due the 1st of each month. No adjustments are made for holidays or absences. If tuition is not paid by the 10th of each month a $15.00 late fee will be added to your account unless prior arrangements have been made. A reminder will then be sent out. If the tuition is still not paid, your child will not be able to participate in class until your account is current. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Deborah Christensen at 366-0880.
May and June tuition are billed together to decrease paperwork and confusion during the last weeks of class.
TRANSPORTATION
The Columbia County Rider bus service may be available for a fee. You may contact them at 1-888-462-6526.
DAY CARE INFORMATION
If you use day care, please keep us informed with the person’s name, address and phone number. If problems arise, we may need to contact them.
SCHOOL CLOSING POLICY
During bad weather Grace Christian Preschool will be following the Scappoose School District’s school closure. When it is announced that Scappoose schools are delayed or closed we follow the Kindergarten schedule. Listen to KOHI (1620 am), KGW (620 am), KEX (1190 am), 95.5 fm, or 103.3 fm. If we have closures due to bad weather, we will evaluate the need to makeup days depending on the number of cancelled days. You may also call our message machine at 503-543-3153 to get any updated information.
ILLNESS/DISEASE
Your child’s health is a major concern to us. As such, we must make every effort to protect the health and safety of all students at Grace Christian Preschool. It is very important that we have the cooperation of parents in watching their children for signs of illness or disease. Please DO NOT bring your child with symptoms such as:
Fever
Sore Throat
Nausea
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Swollen glands
Headache
Earache
Flushed Face
Inflamed eyes
Skin rash
If a child develops these symptoms, the parents will be notified.
With some communicable diseases we will require proof of treatment prior to the child’s return to school.
If a child contracts head lice, we will notify the parents immediately to arrange for dismissal of the child until the problem has been fully treated. Likewise, we will need to be notified immediately if you discover that your child has head lice.
If a child requires medication during the school day, arrangements must be made with the teacher. Do not send any medication with the child even cough drops without notification to the teacher.
CLOTHING
All clothing that is removable must be plainly marked with your child’s name. Clothing should fit the weather, and give freedom for play. Please keep in mind that the children may be working with messy art supplies. Also, as we play outside often, the children should wear rubber-soled shoes with good traction.
ITEMS FROM HOME
Educational toys and games will be provided by the preschool. We do not encourage children to bring toys from home, unless it is for sharing day, which will be assigned. Other items that are discouraged are any type of makeup, hairbrushes or combs. These are personal items and should be left at home.
BACKPACKS
Each child will need to bring a back pack to school for transporting papers, extra clothes, sharing items and snacks to and from the preschool classroom. Only the student, his/her parents and the preschool teachers have access to the back packs during class time. Please do not have third parties (friends, babysitters) try to send items home from preschool in your child’s backpack. We cannot be responsible for making sure that those items reach you.
DISCIPLINE
Setting limits gives children the security of knowing that their strong emotions will not lead them to do things that they will later regret.
We teach the child about safety, care of property, good health habits, and consideration for others. We allow the child to make as many decisions as possible within the necessary limits. We explain the rules in a cheerful, sympathetic manner to make them understandable and acceptable to the child. We enforce the rules in a positive, non-personal way.
In spite of the limits we set, difficult situations will arise. We attempt to foresee and forestall trouble. We redirect an uncooperative child to another activity. When the child remains uncooperative, a “time-out” may be needed.
At Grace Christian Preschool we use the “time-out” chair to implement our disciplinary policy. The reasons for using the “time-out” chair include the following:
1. Running in the classroom.
2. Hitting, kicking, biting or injuring another child.
3. Taking a toy away from another child repeatedly. This is not used unless this behavior
becomes habitual.
4. Directly disobeying the teacher or classroom aide.
5. Spitting.
6. Throwing objects in the classroom, which are not meant to be thrown.
Children will remain in the time-out chair for no longer than 5 minutes. At the end of the time out, the teacher will discuss the broken rule with the child again, and the child will be allowed to enter into the activity again.
Discipline for hitting, kicking, biting or injuring another child may be handled in the following manner:
First the teacher will talk to the child and explain the rule no hitting, biting, etc. and why we have the rule. The child will then be requested to tell the other child that he/she is sorry and the parent will be notified.
On the second offense, the child is removed from the situation and asked to sit in the time-out chair. Once again the child is reminded of the rule against hitting or injuring another child. Parents will be notified and a conference may be scheduled.
If on the third offense the child continues the unnecessary behavior; and by doing so is disrupting the learning process of other children in the class or consistently injuring other children, the child’s parent will be called to come and remove this child from class. At this time the teacher and parents will set up a conference time so that they can decide upon proper action to be taken. It is possible that the child will be removed from class permanently if it is a chronic problem. This is rare; most of the time this does not become a serious matter.