REMINDERS

Keep Saving Campbell Soup Labels (UPC Bar ONLY), Boxtop Labels, Kids Caps and Cash (Foremost Farms), Milk Moola (Nature's Touch Products), and Kemps products.

Breakfast/Lunch/Milk Money Information:
Lunch accounts need to be paid in full by the end of each school year.  If you need to know your lunch account balance, please call Diane Vossekuil at 588-2551.  If you have any money left in your account, it will be carried over to the next year unless you request a refund.  If you do not pay your account in full, lunches will be denied to your children for the 2007-2008 school year.

When you send lunch money to school, please include your Family Lunch ID number on your check.  If you send cash, please put the money in an envelope with your child's name on it.  Also, state your Family Lunch ID number on the envelope. 

Attendance:  Regular and punctual attendance at school is necessary to assure student success.  Parents MUST CALL the school office before 9:00 a.m. if their child will be absent or tardy from school.  A planned absence/tardy (doctor/dentist appointment) can be documented with a note ahead of time.  We will attempt to call parents/guardians or the emergency contact person if a child is absent and we have not been notified.  This may mean calling you at your workplace.  If we don't hear from you that your child will be absent or late it will be noted in your child's attendance register as unexcused.                                      

ATTENDANCE - TAKE NOTE:      Students arriving to school prior to 10:00 am will be recorded as tardy.  Students arriving to school later than 10:00 am will be recorded as having a 1/2 day absence.  Students arriving after 1:00 pm will be counted as a full day absence.  Students missing up to 2 hours of school throughout any portion of the school day will be recorded as tardy (i.e.- arriving late/leaving and coming back/picked up early).

                               
Please remember to stop by the school office if you are picking up your child during the day.  Mrs. Harrington will contact the teacher to release your child from class.  


Please be sure your children do not bring expensive items (toys) to school.  We would hate to see their possessions become lost or broken.  Thank you!

If your child complains in the morning that he/she doesn't feel well, please take your child's temperature.  School personnel will send your child home if his/her temperature is 100 degrees or higher.  If at all possible, let's avoid passing unnecessary viruses on to other children.

 PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. . .
Monthly Book Club Reminder: When purchasing books through the monthly book clubs, make checks  payable to the specific book club not to Arena Elementary.  This is the preferred method of payment.  No cash accepted.  If your child is ordering from two or more books clubs,  you will need to write out a check for each book club.  If two or more children in your family bring home book orders, you must send different checks for each grade. 
Prices for Breakfast, Lunch, and Milk for the
    2007-2008 school year will be as follows:
BREAKFAST  
         Full Price for $1.40 per day,   Reduced Price $.30 per day
LUNCH   
         Full Price Elementary (Grades K-5) $2.25 per day,  Reduced Price $.40 per day,
         Adult $3.25 per day
MILK
         (Grades K-5) $.30 for 1/2 pint - $1.50 per week
For more information, please call Diane Vossekuil at 588-2551.
Remember, if we have a 2 hour delay, breakfast will not be served.

Arena's Bus Drivers for the 2007-2008 School Year are:
    Kari Marks (Bus Number 410 - Symbol DOG)
    Marty L'Herault (Bus Number 425 - Symbol HORN)
    Jerry White (Bus Number 423 - Symbol CANDLE)
    Karl Nelson (Bus Number 411 - Symbol BELL)
    
Parents are welcome to join their child for lunch.  Please call the school's office early in the morning and inform us if you plan to eat hot lunch.  Ours cooks prepare amounts of food close to what student hot lunch needs are.

2-HOUR DELAYED STARTS FOR THE 2007-2008 SCHOOL YEAR
     Wednesdays of the following months:  
            Friday, September 21 (Homecoming)
            Wednesday, October 3
            Wednesday, December 5
            Wednesday, February 6
            Wednesday, April 2
            Wednesday, May 7
If we are experiencing inclement weather on a school day, please listen to the local radio or television station for school delays, cancellations, or early release announcements.  If your child's "Emergency Plan" for an early release has changed from what was provided to us as the beginning of the school year, please let us know.  Otherwise, we will use the information that was given to us earlier this year.  The following are some of the stations that are notified by the administration:
WDMP Dodgeville (810 AM and 99.3 FM)
WOLX Madison (94.9 FM)         
WRCO Richland Center (1450 and 100.9 FM)
WTSO Madison (1070 AM and Z104 FM)
WISC-TV (3), WMTV-TV (15), WKOW-TV (27)  

This is Wisconsin... Be sure your child dresses appropriately for outdoor recess.  We suggest they have with them the following items: coat, mittens or gloves, hat, boots and snow pants (when there's snow), and an extra pair of socks.  If at all possible, please have your child bring heavy gloves or mittens for warmth rather than light weight gloves. Let's keep our kids dry and healthy.