The Parent’s Guide to Robert Frost

Bicycles/Skateboards/Rollerblades/Scooters

Bicycle riding is not permitted on school grounds between 8:30 am and 3:45 pm. When students ride their bicycles to school, they are expected to dismount at the edge of the school property and walk their bikes to the bike racks located on the South side of the school.

Scooters may be ridden to school but must be locked up at the bike rack as they are not permitted in the classrooms. In addition, students riding scooters to school must dismount and walk them while on school property.

Kindergarten students are not permitted to ride bicycles to school; first and second-grade students are discouraged from doing the same. Students who ride their bikes are expected to follow proper safety procedures and lock their bikes to the bike racks using proper chains and locks.

breakfast & lunch

All Frost students are eligible to eat breakfasts and lunches during the 2023-2024 school year at no charge as part of the national Community Eligibility Provision (“CEP”) Program.

If you prefer, you can send a lunch from home with your child.

We discourage parents from having food delivered from places such as GrubHub. In our experience, this often causes confusion as the students don’t know it is arriving. It also puts an additional unnecessary task on our already busy office staff.

For additional information, contact Cindy Kile at 847.520.2706 or [email protected].

The Buddy Bench

The Buddy Bench is a bench located in the middle of the Robert Frost playground. The purpose of this bench is to eliminate loneliness and foster friendship. If a child feels lonely and doesn’t have someone to play with, they simply sit on the bench. Other students will see the child and come over to invite them to play.

Frost Library procedures

Students visit the school library each week and are allowed to check out books to bring home.

Kindergarten and 1st Grade can check out 1 book per week.
2nd Grade and 3rd Grade can check out 2 books per week.
4th Grade and 5th Grade can check out 3 books per week.

All students have a scheduled check out time each week. Books are due the following week and can be renewed if they are needed longer. Books can be exchanged at any time by their classroom teachers.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Cell phones and smart watches are not allowed to be used at school. If your child has a device, they must keep it turned off and stored in their backpack.
Please do not visit the school playground during school hours (9:00-3:30) or attempt to enter the building at any door other than the front office. Unexpected adults on the playground can be stressful for students and staff. Thank you for contributing to our safe, comfortable school environment.
If students wish to have a water bottle in the classroom to stay hydrated they are welcome to do so. However, nothing other than water should be consumed in the classroom. Students may have juice or gatorade as part of their lunch.
Toys/pokemon cards/dolls must be kept at home, they are not allowed at school.

Picture Days

There is one opportunity to take and order pictures at Frost in the fall an done retake in late fall. All students will take a picture, it is up to you to order. The individual pictures, once the order is placed, it usually will come home about a month or so later.

Red Flag

The red flag out front means that the weather is inclement. When you arrive at school prior to 9:00 am, and you see this red flag, please drop your child off at the front of the building and they will go inside immediately. The red flag is displayed in the morning only.

Safety

Our outdoor supervisors are here to help ensure your safety and the safety of all our students. If you have a question about our safety procedure, they will be happy to assist you.

ARRIVAL PROCEDURE

Students who would like to get breakfast at school can begin arriving at 8:30 am to report to the cafeteria.
Outside supervision begins at 8:45 am daily and students can access the playground until the 8:55 am bell rings alerting students to line up with their classmates. Starting the day with time to play and socialize is encouraged!
Students are strongly encouraged to arrive no later than 8:50 so they can line up with their class.
On poor weather days, a red flag will hang from the southwest corner of the building by 8:30am. When the red flag is hung, that indicates that students should enter the building through either door 12 and head directly to their classrooms.

DISMISSAL PROCEDURES

Students go home in multiple ways, and we endeavor to have a safe, efficient, calm dismissal capping of each Falcon’s day of learning. To help us accomplish this, we ask parents to notify us if there is a change from your child’s regular procedure. Please let the teacher know and the front office ([email protected]).
The classroom teachers and the office work together to ensure everyone is getting where they need to be. You can help by having as consistent a plan as possible for your student. If and when a change to the usual dismissal plan must be made, please communicate that change NO LATER THAN 2:30 on the day of the change. Please contact the school with an email to the child’s teacher, AND the school office ([email protected]) you can also call the office prior to 2:30 and let us know.
Students who ride the bus will get a bus tag for their backpack. Please let the teacher know if a tag is lost or becomes unattached. Your child will get a colored band tagged to their backpack to indicate their bus assignment. This helps our bus supervisor ensure students are getting on the correct bus.
KINDERGARTEN parents and guardians will receive a yellow card to present to the bus driver when picking up a child from the bus at the end of the day. The bus driver will not allow a kindergarten student to exit with an adult who does not have the card to present to the driver.
Students are expected to follow all bus rules and directions from the bus driver, students must remain seated and quiet, no food is allowed in the bus.

TARDY PROCEDURE – PARENT MUST ESCORT STUDENTS INSIDE SCHOOL

We respectfully request that you make every effort to have your students at school by 8:55 a.m. so your students can line up with their classmates. Being consistently on time for school is expected. When students arrive late, they miss out on instruction and cause disruptions to their classmates.

If you arrive after 8:55 a.m., there is no adult supervision outdoors. For the safety of your students, you need to escort your student(s) to the front office to sign them in with the front office.

Reporting absences

If your child is absent, please notify our attendance secretary, Mrs. Sylvia Lopez. Please get in touch with her at 847-803-4812 and leave a voice message if she isn’t able to answer. When we are not notified of the absence or the reason for the absence, Mrs. Lopez will call the parent/guardian on file to follow up. The follow-up call is to ensure all students expected to be at school have safely arrived. We appreciate your attention to this procedure.

Spirit days

Every Friday, wear a Frost School Shirt or Sweatshirt. Spirit Wear is sold at the beginning of the school year through the PTO.

Support Staff

Frost is fortunate to have so many support staff and resources available to their students. Many support staff work with students along side the classroom teacher in the class. In addition, depending on the student’s needs, provide some opportunities to work with students outside classrooms. For a full list of support staff please refer to the website under “staff list.”