Attendance
It is very important that you call to let us know if your child will not be attending Playworks due to illness, appointments, or for other reasons. If your child is transported to and/or from school by the Playworks bus, please call the transportation number, 952-496-6851, to notify the bus driver that your child will not need transportation. If the transportation department is not notified your account will be charged a $10 service charge.

Busing/Transportation
Playworks staff and bus drivers will escort your child to and from the Playworks bus and the public school bus check your child in/out on the computer and the sign in/out sheets when they come and go from school.

Check in & Check out
Please make sure that you check your child in and out EVERY day. When dropping off or picking up your child make sure you make contact with a School-Age teacher and they acknowledge the arrival/departure of your child.

When picking up or dropping off your child in the school-age classroom a parent must accompany your child up and down the stairs. Do not send your child downstairs to retrieve their belongings while you are picking up a sibling or waiting in the car. When leaving the School-Age facility do not allow your child to run ahead and wait in the car while you talk with the teacher, check their file, etc. This is for the safety of your child.

Changes
Change of address, hours, vacation notices, and other forms can be found on the Parent Board. Please fill them out and return them to the file folder in the School-Age manager's door.

Payments
Check payments can be made in the drop box next to the School-Age manager's office. Cash or credit card payments need to be made at main Playworks desk.

Communications
Please check the Family Board daily for lesson plans, the daily schedule, school release day information, special events, notices of illness, etc. Check your child's file folder mailbox daily for newsletters, bills, notes home and other special notices.

Science, Nature and Mathematics

• Make observations
• Predict outcomes
• Experiment with different substances
• Care for living things such as plants and animals
• Learn ways to protect our environment
• Participate in money raising events
• Learn about purchasing and using money

Language Development

• Verbalize emotions
• Participate in group discussions
• Expand their vocabulary
• Develop creative expression through music and story telling
• Share experiences with friends and adults

Physical Development

Small Motor

• To assemble or disassemble items in art and science areas
• To create hobby projects such as sewing, weaving, pottery, and bead work
• Use writing skills to create stories, plays and songs

Large Motor

• Participate in group games, and individual and team sports
• Do basic tumbling skills such as somersault and cartwheels
• Balance on a beam
• Learn basic swimming skills
• Develop hand/eye/ball coordination
• Can run, jump, hop, skip and throw in a variety of combinations and sequences

Health/ Safety and Nutrition

• Learn about good nutrition
• Practice good health habits such as hand washing, and exercising
• Learn how to prepare foods
• Learn bus/van safety rules
• Develop safety awareness in the center, home and community
• Learn life skills

Creative Expression

• Express him/herself through arts and crafts
• Create and tell stories
• Creative dramatics and role playing
• Dancing, singing, playing instruments

Living in Our World (Practical Life)

• Become aware of different cultures
• Understand differences and similarities
• Learn about themselves, their families and friends
• Learn manners and respect for others
• Care for own belongings
• Care and respect for the classroom, building and other people
• Develop independence and self-reliance
• Learn to work with others cooperatively
• Learn sportsmanship skills

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