The parents, friends and families of our students are tremendously supportive and vital to the education of the children at Messiah Lutheran Preschool. Below are links and reminders to help you find the information and resources that you need. Please let the preschool office know if any other information would be helpful to have at this site.

Parent Handbook

The parent handbook contains all of Messiah Lutheran Preschool’s policies such as registration, inclement weather, emergency situations, discipline, tuition and health.

Parent Handbook 2019-20

School Calendar

The Messiah Lutheran Preschool Calendar for the 2019-20 school year:

Calendar 2019 -2020

Messiah Lutheran Preschool Newsletters

The monthly newsletters are sent electronically along with class calendars and church newsletters. They contain seasonal reminders and upcoming events.

September 2019

Parent Volunteers

Messiah Lutheran Preschool welcomes the help of our parents and families, both in and out of the classroom. Please let your teachers or the preschool office know if you have a particular skill or task in mind. We are required to have a Release of Information Form on file for each person who works or volunteers at school. This form must be notarized.

Release of Information Form

Medication Administration

Messiah Lutheran Preschool is required to have a written order from an authorized health care provider and written permission from a child’s parent or guardian in order to administer any prescription or non-prescription medication to a child (this includes all over the counter medication). Please use the Maryland State Department of Education Medication Authorization Form.

Medication Authorization

Parking and Traffic Flow

Your safety is important to Messiah Lutheran Preschool! Please

• park in the parking lot when dropping off or picking your child.
• do NOT park or stop at the curb as this creates a hazard for pedestrians using the crosswalk.
• ask another parent or staff member if you need assistance.
• let us know of any safety concerns that you have.
• follow the flow of traffic as pictured in the first link below.
• use proper safety seats for your children as detailed in the second link

Parking and Traffic Flow for MLPS

Maryland Child Passenger Safety Law

 Scholastic Book Orders

SIGN UP at https://clubs.scholastic.com. On the parent page, register by clicking the “Don’t have a user name or password?” link. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code: H8FYT. This unique code ensures that your order is sent to the preschool.

Snack

A daily snack is provided to the children at MLPS. Several times a year, each class is asked to bring in items for our snack cupboard. When it is your class’s turn, please select two items from the list below to bring.

Snack Information and List

Classroom Stories

Messiah Lutheran Preschool has used these stories in the classroom to help children know what to expect during the day and how to solve problems.  Please read them to your children as often as you like!

• The Lord’s Prayer
• I Go To Preschool
• Tucker the Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think
• What Do We Do in Circle?
• I Can Use My Words

Parent Resources

Tips for turning everyday activities into learning activities Messiah Lutheran Preschool has found a wonderful resource in this book, Tips for turning everyday activities into learning activities.   It is from Countdown to Kindergarten and is available to download in 17 languages from their website at http://www.countdownmd.org/countdown_order_tips.html. We have this book available in three languages in the links below.

• Tips in English
• Tips in Korean
• Tips in Chinese

Links to Articles of Interest

• Value of a Lutheran Preschool
• Life Together, Worship Together
• Children Grow in Faith When
• Flu Guide for Parents
• Tardiness: It Hurts Students; and Other Students and Teachers Too — January Parent Pages  
• Help Your Child to be Ready for Kindergarten
• The Importance of Talking To Babies
• The Early Years — Spring 2014
• Developing Empathy in Children

Emergency Preparedness

Messiah Lutheran Preschool has completed an Emergency Preparedness Plan (available in the office). MLPS has semiannual evacuation drills in addition to monthly fire drills. MLPS follows the Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) decisions for closings or delayed openings and early dismissals. Please sign up for emergency notifications from Montgomery County at Alert Montgomery at https://alert.montgomerycountymd.gov.