Dear Parent, (Take with you to the first meeting, or email to parent)

Welcome to our school! This letter is designed to help you get started with curriculum choices, and to understand the aspects of our school instructional funding, time-lines regarding orders with vendors, and ensure that your student can start their schoolwork on either the first day of school, or the day you sign the student agreement.

1) As a new parent to our school, our school instructional funding will be available for usage:

a. On the first day of school if the Student Agreement has been signed at least a week prior to that date.

b. Or, the date the student is activated (from the date you sign the student agreement, it can take a week or two for the funds to become available, depending on the office backlog.)

We are happy to place orders for new instructional materials for your student to check out, once our school instructional funding is available. Please keep in mind that the IEM office processing of orders at the beginning of the school year can take a bit longer due to the workload. Once the order has been placed, we are at the mercy of the business vendor to fulfill the order in a timely fashion.

2) It is suggested that you have other educational resources during the first month of school. There are many free websites linked at our school website that you can utilize while waiting for your curriculum orders:

· http://www.ogcs.org/curriculum.html and then scroll down until you see: Free Internet Educational Websites

· You can also:

ü Check out books at the library, take advantage of free educational activities in your community, engage in PE activities, and/or watch educational TV programming.

ü Visit our Resource Room in Boulder Creek to check out available textbooks–(OGCS students only)

3) The school expectation is that students:

a. Begin instruction on the first day of school, or on the date you signed the student agreement.

b. Until your curriculum orders arrive, you are responsible for ensuring daily schoolwork is completed on each school day on your attendance rollsheet for that learning period.

c. By utilizing the suggestions in #2 above, enough daily schoolwork should be completed in time for your first learning record meeting of the year.

d. The learning record meeting (within 20 days or less), is when you will show all school work completed to justify attendance with the state, and provide work samples.