Upcoming Dates & Announcements:
- Mark your calendars! Early Childhood Family Night: December 12th at 6:00 p.m. More information to come!
- Thursday, December 12th 6:00 – Early Childhood Winter Family Night
- Children should come dressed in festive attire. Please drop them off in their classroom by 5:45. Families can then head to the gym and find a seat. The children will perform a special song and then enjoy a story read live by their teachers. The story, Share Some Kindness, Bring Some Light, will then be brought to life in each of the early childhood classrooms. Families will be invited to enjoy refreshments and travel freely around campus while participating in a variety of heartwarming activities sure to bring joy this holiday season!
- December 19th – ALL School Dismissal 11:30
- Winter Break – December 20th – January 1st
- Thursday, January 2nd – 10:00 a.m. Start
- Starting in the new year, our preschool class will begin having community snacks. This will be a fun way for the children to build independence, as they’ll help set the tables, prepare and distribute the snacks, and clean up afterward. We’re asking families to sign up to bring snacks for the class for one week. You will provide snacks for 20 students for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning snack times. Monday and Friday snacks, as well as afternoon snacks, will remain individual, as usual. Click to sign up for your family’s week. Thanks!
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Dear Preschool families,
We hope everyone had a relaxing Thanksgiving with family and friends. It’s hard to believe that we are in the month of December. The children will be busy with various festive provocations, not to mention all of us getting ready for our Winter Family Night. It will be an evening of magical wonder, joy and creating memories together.
It’s that time of year that we settle on our cozy carpet and begin reading holiday stories. We read the cutest story titled We Disagree about this Tree by Ross Collins. Bear and Mouse are friends, however they each have different ideas about the Christmas tree decorations. But in the end they found a way to compromise and celebrate in the spirit of the holidays. Friendship is very important and we will be diving into some friendship provocations very soon.
You could hear all the sounds of excitement coming from the classroom when the children decorated their class Christmas tree. Making sure every ornament, ribbon, and strand of tinsel had a unique and special spot on the tree. Here is a question for you- What can you make with 5 boxes, green paint, and a variety of loose parts…? A one of a kind tree! Stay tuned as the children will be creating a beautiful tree masterpiece for the classroom to enjoy during the winter months.
We enjoyed the shimmering illustrations of the story Chicka Chicka Ho Ho Ho. A fun story of the alphabet and shapes working together to decorate a Christmas tree. It’s self-portrait time, Christmas edition.What better way to practice our shapes with none other than a triangle to make a Christmas tree, the children learned that a triangle has 3 sides! We started working on them this week and they will be completed for our family night so you can see how cute they turned out.
We wrapped up the week with a fun story, How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? We had the best responses from the children. Enjoy!
Evelyn – “I think he has a slide to get down and a rope to get back up “
Atticus- “He uses a lawn mower and mows his way down!”
Sydney – “I know! Magic and the elves help him”
Isla – “He slides down the hill”
Avery- “The reindeer just pull him down and he just laughs and laughs”
Hunter- “I think Batman, Spiderman and the Joker help pull him down”
Lincoln – “I think he uses water to shoot down- or maybe a monster truck”
Lily – “He uses a slide”
Archie – “He just slides down the chimney”
Jackson – “He flys down!”
Brody – “He just goes through the front door!”
Ben – “He runs like Sonic the Hedgehog down the chimney- really fast!”
Clara- “He slides down, he gets small and then he gets big again, like a balloon!”
We also asked the question- What do you want Santa to bring you? They used color pencils to draw what they would like. We are putting the finishing touches on our Dear Santa Letter next week. Here were there Christmas wishes:
Jackson – “Gems”
Romeo -“I want Santa to bring me a Triceratops”
Avery -“I want a lot of people and doctor kits, and do you think he can make paper and pencils for me?”
Lennon -“I want Santa to bring me a big Barbie Dreamhouse”
Levi – “I want Santa to bring me a mail truck, I just don’t know how to draw it for him.”
Lincoln -“I know, I want Santa to bring me an Ice cream shop, a popcorn shop and a monster truck.”
Khy -“A Spiderman”
Lily – “I want a baby Jesus with a hat for Christmas.”
Audrey – “I want Santa to bring me a green basket for a picnic.”
Sydney – “I want a big giant robot to play with for Christmas and a play gun!”
Isla – “I want Santa to bring me a dinosaur.”
Ben – “I just want Santa to bring me a square toy.”
Atticus – ” I want Santa to bring me a cloud from the sky.”
Brody – ” I want a red monster truck.”
Clara -“I want me as a toy!”
Hunter -” I want him to bring me a Spiderman.”
Evelyn – “I want him to bring me a doctor kit.”
Roman -“I want Santa to bring me a dinosaur, real or toy.”
Emma – “I want hi to bring me toys.”
Archie -” I want Santa to bring me ABC’s!”
PS Have a warm and cozy weekend,
Miss Airry, Miss Meredith and Miss Arden
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