We have multiple families with children home due to the need to quarantine for COVID-19. If your child has two flu-like symptoms, please keep them home. If they continue to be sick it is advisable to have your child tested for COVID-19. Dr. Rudy Valentini, the husband of our PK 3 teacher Dr. Nancy Valentini, is in the Detroit Free Press today sharing COVID-19 information and ways to best stay safe. Open this post to view the complete newsletter and find a link to Dr. Valentini's article.

Please open this post to find the links to sign up for a time to meet with your child’s teacher. Note that all conferences will be limited to 10 minutes maximum. No students will be permitted to enter the building. All parents must wear masks, maintain social distancing in the hallways and the classrooms, and leave the building directly following their conference. If you are unable to attend in-person conferences, please contact your child’s teacher directly.

The Archdiocese of Detroit recognizes the extreme stress their employees and families have been under this school year still being in the pandemic. The Acting Superintendent shared that the AOD is giving employees and families two additional days off and suggested we take it over Thanksgiving Break. At this time, I believe we will add two days onto our break the week following Thanksgiving being Monday, November 29th and Tuesday, November 30th. We would return to school on December 1st.

I am reaching out to all of you as tardiness and drop off safety are of major concern. Your children need to be in their classrooms at 8:00, not arriving at 8:00. All children should be dropped off by 7:55 using the Drop Off line. The drop off procedures allowed all children to be on time last school year. Every four cars or so may drop children off. You do not need to wait for me to open your car doors though I do love seeing all of you. We are having the line back up now as it seems new families are parking and having children cross in front of cars trying to leave. Please get to school between 7:45 and 7:55.

We have made it through first quarter without a case of COVID-19 in our school building. It was at Halloween last year that one of our little ones tested positive for COVID. If you answer yes to either Question 1 or Question 2 you will need to keep your child home and call Ms. Crowley at 313-647-5129. We want to keep our children safe and face-to-face for second quarter too. I did sign our school up as a vaccine site once the vaccine becomes available for children five to twelve years old.