All Preschoolers Will Need These Items:
2. A spare change of clothes complete with socks and underwear: Please place in a large, clear, Ziploc baggy. Clearly label with child's name.
3. A flat, twin sheet for nap: We suggest you buy a cheap pack of several. In the days before COVID, we had parents bring a sheet on Monday and the child used it all week long. We sent it home on Friday to be laundered over the weekend. However, current guidelines require we send the sheet home and the parent replace it daily. Unless you are prepared to do laundry every single night, we encourage you to have many sheets on hand, which will allow you to quickly replace them throughout the week and then do one load over the weekend.
4. A brown bag lunch: Miss Kathy did a fantastic job converting everyone to plastic lunch bags over the summer, when MSDE required that we do so. However, they have since retracted that mandate, finding that Corona actually can't live very long on paper products. Those of you who wish to continue with Ziploc baggies may do so. Those who wish to revert back to paper, be our guest. We may not have material bags, metal lunch boxes, or anything that is not disposable. Lunches ARE refrigerated, so it is perfectly fine to pack yogurts and cheeses. Keep in mind, we are nut free! No peanut butter, please. You may wish to try soy butter or sunflower butter. If you do, simply note that on the bag, so your child's teacher is aware what the contents contain. All children will have 1% milk served with their lunch, so it is not necessary to pack a drink.
8. A lovey: If your child requires a nap time snuggle toy to soothe them, you may send it in.
If Your Child Is Two, Please Add These Items:
1. Diapers: One pack to start, but this should be kept well stocked.
2. Wipes: Two packs to start, but this should be kept well stocked.
3. Changing Pads: Two, please.
4. Additional Spare Clothes: Add another set of clothes here. Or two. Heck, make it three.
Please Do NOT Send These Items:
1. Medications, vitamins, lotions, potions or other substances for which we do not have a doctor's note. We cannot apply or store it without the proper documentation. We cannot allow students (even school age) to handle them on their own.
2. Cash. We do not accept cash as payment. Your child will not need it. We promise.
3. Backpacks. (The current regulations allow school age children to carry backpacks because they will be handling laptops, etc. Preschoolers are not allowed to have backpacks since they are required to be sanitized)
4. Toys from home. (Other than the nap time lovey). The thought process here is to cut down on any outside germs where possible. All our daycare toys are kept to the same child daily and then sanitized at the end of the day.
5. Nuts.
6. Additional nap time items: Pillows, blankets, comforters, futons, bunk beds. We get it. You want them to be comfortable. But we do not have the storage space nor can we sanitize to this degree. A sheet will suffice.
7. Binkys: Pacifiers are not recommended over the age of two due to speech development. But in a group setting, hygiene concerns also factor in.
8. Water bottles: All students are given milk three times a day at both snack times and at lunch time. They also have access to bottled water throughout the day. It is taken on the playground, while they play, for hydration. It is also accessible to them any time they request it. Individual bottles, again, pose the concern of sharing germs, even if labeled. Preschoolers can't read them.
9. Germs from home, when avoidable!: We realize it is not always possible to know when your child is coming down with something. But, please, especially in the world of COVID, do not medicate a sick child and send them in to school. We must all work to maintain the health and safety of one another during this unique time.
The dates that tuition will be due for the month of June are:
- Monday, May 6th
- Monday, May 20th
Cleaning Supplies and PPE Donations Welcomed!
Fallston Child Care Center always functions within our budget. But, as you can imagine, as we approach the year benchmark of navigating this new "world of COVID" in a large daycare center, the additional cost of critical cleaning supplies and PPE has affected our bottom line. Many of you have asked if there is anything we could use, and for those generous souls, we are supremely grateful. Please do not feel obligated, but if you feel moved to make a supply contribution, these are the items we are constantlly restocking:
- paper towels
- unscented baby wipes
- adult masks
- child masks
- Lysol
- antibacterial wipes
- Basic G cleaner
- alcohol wipes
- hand sanitizer
- Clorox bathroom cleaner
- Swiffer dry pads
- Swiffer Wet Jet Solution
- Soft Soap with Aloe Refills
- Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner
- Ziploc gallon, sandwich, and snack bags