• MON, APR 3 - WED, APR 12: Bernie's Book Drive at Fox Ridge
• TUES, APR 4 - MON, APR 17: Elementary School Intra-District Transfer Window
• FRI, APR 7: NO SCHOOL (School Improvement Day)
• THU, APR 13 Family Event: CHANGED TO APRIL 25. How about visiting the library, park, or forest preserve instead?
• MON, April 17: Intentional Self Care in the LRC

9:15 - 10:45 AM with Michelle Clark from TriCity Family Services

12:45-1:45 PM with Tricia Sabathne from Fox Ridge

• MON, April 24: Hearing and Responding to Behaviors and Actions in the LRC

9:15 - 10:45 AM with Michelle Clark from TriCity Family Services

12:45-1:45 PM with Tricia Sabathne from Fox Ridge

• TUE, APR 25: Family Event: Tammy Town at Fox Ridge

4:30 - 5:15 PM OR 5:30 - 6:15 PM (see schedule below)

• WED, APR 26: Early Release Day (LAST OF THE 22-23 School Year)

AM classes DISMISS EARLY at 11:05 am

If your child rides the bus home from our morning session, drop off at your home or child care will be 25 minutes early.

PM classes START EARLY at 12:05 pm DISMISS EARLY at 2:10 pm

If your child rides the bus to school for our afternoon session, pick up will be 25 minutes early from your home or child care and the bus at the end of the day from Fox Ridge will drop off 50 minutes earlier.

• MON, MAY 1: Understanding Reactions to Loss Through the Lens of Grief in the LRC

9:15 - 10:45 AM with Michelle Clark from TriCity Family Services

• THU, May 11: Orientation for One-Way Dual Langage Kindergartenat Davis (for Spanish-speaking students)

5:30 - 6:30 PM at Davis Primary

Last Day of School for Fox Ridge/ Early Childhood

More information to come about a Fox Ridge Early Chilhdood Community Event at Pottawatomie Park in St. Charles- staff and families invited.

Fox Ridge Early Childhood Center would like to acknowledge Week of the Young Child April 1-7 2023.

“The Week of the Young Child”® is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services which meet those needs."

In an effort to bring attention and awareness to Fox Ridge Early Childhood Center, I invite you to "share your story" and give a shout out to acknowledge Early Childhood programming, services, staff, experiences, and parent support that have been meaningful to you and your preschooler's early years and development.

Please take a moment to fill out this form with your story. These will be shared with Fox Ridge Staff and we will also share with our D303 Social Media outlets as possible. Thanks in advance for sharing in this opportunity to focus attention on Early Childhood Programming!

Click Here to Share Your Story

Tammy Town - A traveling training town proudly presents, “Stranger Danger Safety and Medical Emergency Preparedness Training”.

Officer Tammy Schulz, with 30 years of law enforcement experience, take children on a trip through Tammy Town, a scenario based training town geared to prepare children for encounters with strangers, getting lost, and medical emergencies should they or someone they know require emergency assistance.

Participants learn about community helpers, people working in the community, who they can go to for help during an actual emergency. During scenario based exercises children will learn what to do if a stranger, or someone they don’t know very well offers them a ride, candy, gifts or for their help finding their dog, and other related incidents.

Students will learn what to do if a parent, or someone they know, has a medical emergency.

This interactive training offers children an opportunity to play the role of the community helper and student so they know what each person should do during an actual emergency.

Students learn about 911, when it should be utilized, who they can go to for help and what they should say to the emergency 911 dispatcher during an actual emergency.

BERNIE’S BOOK BANK DONATION DRIVE

The D303 donation drive for Bernie’s Book Bank will be held for one week, April 3-12, 2023, at all D303 schools. Please consider bringing in new and gently used children’s books for birth through 6th grade to one of the D303 schools during the donation drive. Parents or students may place books in the collection bins located in the front hallway. D303’s goal for the 2023 donation drive is 20,000 books. Every book will help us reach our goal.

Keep or donate elsewhere your books that are in poor physical condition such as:

• Torn or bent covers

• Torn pages]

• Heavy marking

• Mildew/mold

• Off odor

• Very yellow pages

• Cracked bindings

• Hardcover books with cardboard showing in the corner

• Noise making buttons that don’t work

Please check that the books you are sending fit the following criteria:

TriCity Family Services wants to join you in helping your children learn and practice social and emotional skills. Parents/Guardians of 2-5 year-olds are invited to attend the upcoming presentation:

Intentional Self-Care: An Essential Parenting Tool - April 17

• Learn and practice brief, effective self-care strategies
• Explore and schedule personal self-care habits
• Become motivated by the benefits children receive from parents who implement effective self-care strategies

Hearing & Responding to the Messages Behind Preschoolers' Actions- April 24

• Finding the meaning behind the behaviors
• Responding to the needs of the child while respecting the needs of the adult
• Preparing children for positive choices

Understanding Reactions to Loss Through the Lens of Grief- May 1

• Natural flow of emotions and thoughts
• Tasks of mourning
• Preschooler responses to grief

AM Sessions (9:15 - 10:45 AM) are presented by TriCity Family Services' Director of Emotional Wellness Programs, Michelle Clark, LCPC, NCC

PM Sessions (12:45 - 1:45 PM) are facilitated by Fox Ridge's Child and Family Educator, Tricia Sabathne, with highlights from the morning sessions.

Presentations will be in the LRC at Fox Ridge. Please park in the parking lot, bring your id, use the crosswalk, and ring the buzzer to be signed in the office before heading to the LRC.

Registration requested, not required. Register to attend one or more presentations here.

When your child is going to be absent from school only ONE phone call is required --- to the attendance line 331-228-2400. Notifying teachers is optional but the call to the attendance line is essential.

If you know ahead of time your child will be missing there is also a pre-arranged absence form to complete (request from the front office). It is required to be turned in at least 2 days before the requested absence and applies for certain types of absences (family vacation, special religious events, etc.)

Bus Riders: There is NO NEED to call the transportation department to notify them of the absence. The bus driver will stop for 2 minutes at your child's stop and then continue on the route if you are not outside when they arrive. The department doesn't have staffing to field phone calls regarding absences or notify the drivers of the messages. Additionally, they need the phone line open for other purposes.

Website: https://foxridge.d303.org/
Location: 1905 East Tyler Road, St. Charles, IL, USA
Phone: 331-228-2400