January Newsletter

Monthly Calendar

Click here to view January events.

Growing Tree will be closed the following days in January:

December 31st - Open normal hours
January 1st - CLOSED Happy New Year

Accounting:

Annual Registration fees and Volunteer hours not completed were billed to your account on January 1st. For your convenience these fees are due by March 1st. You should have received this invoice in late December. Volunteer hours were only billed if you did not complete your 10 volunteer hours by December 31st.

Many of you have small credits or balances on your account. In January you will receive a "Statement" instead of an invoice. This statement gives the total amount due on your account through January. Our goal is to get everyone to a "0" balance to start off the new year.

On January 31st we will send out year end statements that can be used for tax purposes. Please watch for these in your email.

Message from the Board

The January Board meeting will be held on January 13th. If you are interested in serving on the Board, please see Tammy. Serving on the board is a great way to support GT and your children.

Did you know...

Growing Tree conducts a monthly fire drill and emergency drill? Fire drills are conducted using the actual fire alarm and emergency drills rotate monthly.

Drills included are:

Unwanted Intruder

Earthquake

Lock Down

Injured child/staff

Missing Child

Immunizations

We are in the final stages of completing our annual review of immunization records.
Tera has already notified you if your child does not have the required immunizations or non medical exemption certificate. You have until January 13th to complete the process. You can review Growing Trees Immunization Rates on our website under Contact Us > Forms.

Inclement Weather/Emergency Closure Policy

December allowed us to put in to action our Weather/Emergency procedure on several occasions. If you did not receive an email notification from Growing Tree regarding the weather and our lock down please notify the front desk immediately so that we may add you to our email list.

For your review our Inclement Weather/Emergency Closure Policy.

Growing Tree does NOT follow the public school schedule for snow/weather days or 2-hour delays. It is our goal to be open as usual.
If we need to close the center because of weather or an emergency, we will contact you first via email and then post closure information on Facebook.
In the event of an emergency, if the situation allows we will the contact you via phone.

Please friend us on Facebook so that you may receive notifications of all the happenings at Growing Tree: https://www.facebook.com/growing.tree.bend

Winter Clothes

All classrooms go outside several times daily, and it is important that they have the appropriate clothing to stay warm and dry.
Please make sure you child has:

A complete change of weather appropriate clothes in their cubby at all times
A jacket to wear outside as needed
Hat & gloves
Boots & Snowsuits

We have found that storing your child's winter gear in a backpack/reusable bag that can be hung it their cubby lessens the chance of misplaced items and enables your child to take care of their own clothes.
Teacher LOVE it when clothes are LABELED!!!

First Friday

First Friday will be held on Friday, January 8th. Please pay prior to Friday night so that we may pay the teachers in a timely manner. The cost is $20 per child. Just a reminder, if you cancel after signing up, you will still be responsible for First Friday fees.

Birthdays

Jan 4 - Kayla
Jan 11 - Jolene
Jan 27 - Kelley

Anniversaries

Teresa - 11 years
Haley - 1 year

Newbies

Classroom Details

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