Parent Handbook

You'll receive a PDF of the Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool (GMCAPS) Parent Handbook in the same email as the registration forms, but you can always view/download a copy here:

Health and Safety Policy

2021-22 - SPECIAL STATEMENT
During the pandemic, health and safety regulations are continually being updated. We operate in strict adherence to all directives and guidelines from Ottawa Public Health, and those directives override all published health and safety policies published here (on the website) or in the Parent Handbook. 

Covid-19 Policies and Procedures 

Normally, our policies are as follows...
​In the best interest of your child, the teachers and the other children at the school, you must keep your child home for 24 hours when they have the following symptoms:
  • Elevated temperature within the last 24 hours - fever of 101 F or 38.5 C or more
  • Vomiting within the last 24 hours
  • Diarrhea within the last 24 hours - two bouts or more
  • Red, itching or discharging eyes or ears
  • Green or yellow discharge of mucus from the nose
  • Undiagnosed skin rashes or infections

The teachers reserve the right to send a child home who arrives at school with any of these symptoms. 

Thank you for your co-operation in keeping our classroom healthy.
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Policies and Procedures

You are also invited to view or download the PDF of our Policies and Procedures (last updated in 2018). This document outlines how we are compliant with the Ontario Ministry of Education's policies.

Police Record Checks

All Good Morning staff have a recent Police Records Check for Service with the Vulnerable Sector.

In non-pandemic times, any parent that will be volunteering in the class room is required to get a Police Records Check for Service with the Vulnerable Sector as well, which you can apply for online.

Good Morning By-Laws

If you are interested in our by-laws, please download the PDF.
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Tips for Drop-off and Pick-up

TogetherFamilies.com has a great list of recommendations for more effective drop-offs and pick-ups.  

Favourite Play-Dough Recipe

Please make TWO batches of the following recipe so there is enough for the preschool class. If you double the batch, add the food colouring after step 4, so that you can make more than one colour.

Dry Ingredients
  • 2 cups flour 
  • 2 tbsp cream of tartar  (NOT tartar sauce... that would be awful)
  •  ½ cup salt 

Wet Ingredients
  • 2 cups of water
  • 2 tbsp of cooking oil
  • Food coloring

​Directions
  1. Combine dry ingredients in a large cooking pot.
  2. Combine wet ingredients in a measuring cup or bowl.
  3. Slowly pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients, stirring until completely combined and mixture is smooth.
  4. Place mixture in pot on stove and heat at medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture forms a ball.
  5. Let cool. Store in an airtight container. 
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Show-and-Tell Schedule for Preschool and Beyond

We will be introducing a new routine to the children and they will now be able to participate in Show and Tell this year. At the end of each class the scheduled child will have about 3-5 minutes to share and talk about what special thing they have brought from home. We would ask that they just bring ONE item and perhaps you can help prepare and write 3 clues on a piece of paper for them to share with their friends who will be guessing what it is. (i.e. Where it came from? What colour or shape it might be? Who gave it to them? Where it lives in your house?) We will provide the child with a navy blue “Show and Tell Bag” on their hook and they can put their item in it and give it to a teacher until the end of class. Please also keep the item in a clear Ziplock bag which will be disinfected upon arrival and before it goes home with you. If your child will be away on his/her day it will be the parent’s responsibility to make a switch with another child and let the teachers know. Please mark your calendars: