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2020-21 Westonka Community Preschool

Attached is all the information you will need to know in order to register for preschool at Westonka.

Here are Important Dates to Keep in Mind:
- December 16-February 5 - Turn in your paperwork to either the Early Learning Center or the Shirley Hills Early Learning site. The following forms need to be completed and submitted prior to approval of your child's preschool contract.
  
  Early Childhood District Registration Form - you complete this and return it to the Shirley Hills Early Learning site or the Early Learning Center.
  
  Health Care Summary Form - your child's physician completes this form on your behalf and faxes it to us.
  
  Immunizations - you may complete this form or have your child's health care provider fax us your child's immunizations.
- January 15 - Parent Information Night at 6:15pm in the Hilltop Media Center. Please enter through the Early Learning Center doors.
- January 22 - Online Registration opens at 8am.
- January 29 - Preschool contracts for current preschool families, ECFE weekly class families and district staff begin to be approved in the order in which they were submitted if all forms are completed and turned in.
- February 5 - Preschool contracts begin to be approved in the order in which they were submitted if all the forms are completed and turned in.
If you have questions regarding preschool, you may contact Sarah Grimm, the Early Childhood Coordinator at 952-491-8580 or grimms@westonka.k12.mn.us.

To obtain the forms, please call:

Tammy Miller, Shirley Hills Early Learning site

952-491-8480 ormillert@westonka.k12.mn.us

Lisa Morast, Early Learning Center site

952-491-8576 or morastl@westonka.k12.mn.us
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Follow these directions to sign up online:
1. Type "Screening" in the browser bar of the web page.
2. Select the date you'd like to sign up for.
3. Choose the time that you'd like to sign up for.
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SCREENING DATES:

September 14 & 28
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