Hello and Welcome

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Created on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 00:06

Written by Site Admin

            We are so ecstatic to have all of you as part of our baby room for this upcoming fall season! We are gratefull to get to know all of our new additions and to have created a friendly bond with each one of your babies. We are also very happy to have a regular schedule now working out to help them nap together during the day. This makes it easier for the babies and helps them to know what to expect throughout their week.

            With the new schedule comes consistent planned learning time for our precious little sponges. We have been working on integrating an art time for the older, pre-toddler, group of girls. This seems to be one of the funnest and most interactive learning experieces for the children.

             Another fun learning period we have added is a circle time, where the children enjoy learning new nursery rhymes. They learn speech through the songs and also motor skills through the motions that go along with the songs. Although not everyone can sing, sit-up, or clap their hands, all of the babies enjoy this song time and all of them join us on the carpet in a circle for this activity.

 *Please make sure to update your child's wardrobe! With the colder weather starting to show itself again it can be kind of difficult to judge how to dress them in the morning. Just remember we can always take clothes off it they are warm; however, if you do not send warm clothes in, we cannot dress them warmer if they get chilly during the day. Also, we still like to take them out for a walk a few times during the week. We need to make wure they are in appropriate clothing to go out for a stroll.

 *Just a reminder; We cannot properly sanitize bottles in our facility, so we are asking parents to bring a clean bottle and nipple for each feeding.

             Thank you for letting us be a big part of you and your child's learning experiences.

   -Kimberly, Vickie, and Tara

Welcome to the Amazing world of Pre-School

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Created on Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:52

Written by Isis Eustace

This is a big year for your children and we are very excited about it.

This year your children will be learning all the new things they need to know to be ready for Kindergarten. They will learn how to recognize the upper and lower case letters, recognize their numbers, count objects, share and take turns.

As they move to the blue room there will be some changes. Their lunch boxes will be kept in the classroom next to the sign in/out sheet. Their bedding will be kept in their cubbies. Please do not send them to school with toys from home unless it is their share day. Stuffies for rest time are fine to bring in.

Share time will start next week. On their share day they will be able to bring in something they want to tell their friends all about. There will be times when they will be asked to bring in something that correlates with the theme we are working on.

We will be starting out the year learning "All About ME" and then we will move onto Autumn.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to ask. You can also contact me via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hello Terrific Toddler Room Parents

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Created on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 03:58

Written by Site Admin

Goodbye Summer...Hello Fall!! We cannot believe how fast summer came and went. I hope that everyone had a chance to enjoy the great weather. We were very busy in the toddler room doing lots of great exploring and learning.

A big welcome to our new friends Ezra, Bayon and Clare, they are wonderful additions to our room. We have spent the past few weeks getting used to life in the yellow room. Denise and I have been working very hard on a daily routine. There is a schedule attached.

Ms. Denise and I have also been working very hard on self-help skills, encouraging the children to clean themselves up after snack and lunch. This is an important life skill and it has been very rewarding to watch the children wash up on their own. We have also been having the children "try" to dress their own feet. This is a win, win for Ms. Denise and I as they have learned very quickly it is much easier to keep their shoes on. Please if there is time and opportunity at home to practice either of these skills, we encourage and appreciate it. During snack and lunch Ms. Denise and I have been demonstrating good table manners. We both understand that they are kids, but have talked about the importance of sitting nicely at the table, chewing with your mouth closed, talking quietly with friends at the table, and clearing their space when done eating.

The week of September 26 we will begin learning about the alphabet. We will explore a letter a week. While exploring each letter we will engage in many different activities including art, music, movement, snacks, learning games and language. Each week we will do something special with the letter of the week. For example we will make applesauce and have it for snack the first week. I will be writing daily with each diaper change.

We cannot emphasize enough the importance of school to home learning and vise versa. Please parents if you are potty training and using Pull Ups, we ask that you purchase the Pull Ups that have tabs, so we are not having to undress and dress with each diaper change.

We would like to thank the Baker family for the gernerous donation of puzzles and Zack's handy work.

As always please feel free to come and talk with us if you have any questions for concerns of ideas. We are open to trying new things and always looking for ideas.

Thank you for the opportunity to spend time with your toddlers. We cannot tell you how many times we laugh at things they have learned and how to do and relish in what is to come as they continue to grow and learn.

Ms. Els, Ms. Denise

Dress for the season

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Created on Thursday, 09 June 2011 10:32

Written by Isis Eustace

Please send your child to school prepared for the day with appropriate clothes for possible cold temperatures. As we enter fall layering is a good idea so children can be warm all morning and not too warm if we are blessed with afternoon sunshine.

Thank you,

Isis and Jessica

New, for us all!

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Created on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 04:01

Written by Site Admin

This past month we have been working on establishing new friendships in the Red Room. Ms. Heather and Ms. Stephanie are excited about the coming year as the new teachers of the early pre-school class. We began the month reviewing our shapes and colors. Then we spent some time talking about ourselves and our families. We also learned about different forms of transportation, as well as farm-yard animals, and apples.

We used these topics to build our skills and knowledge in all different areas. We have especially been focusing on our cutting abilities, coloring skills, glueing and painting, as well as creating comprehensive images through constuction.

The early pre-school class has been working on learning the days of the week, the months, numbers and letters. We hope to be able to write all of our letters come spring time! We have already learned A and B.

In the coming month we will be introducing new letters and we will also be talking about nature and fall, halloween and woodland animals. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please come talk to us!

Ms Heather and Ms Stephanie

Fundraisers

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Created on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 18:47

Written by Site Admin

There are a myriad of opportunities for parents to take part in fundraising, with both an upcoming bake sale, lunch event at the ski swap and a Garnett hill sale night and raffle. Please refer to your fundraising comitee correspondence of speak with your shilds teacher about selling tickets!

Autumn Newsletter

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Created on Friday, 07 October 2011 20:51

Written by Isis Eustace

The After-School children are in full swing...

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Created on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 04:33

Written by Site Admin

The after school children are working on their sight words, combing them to make sentences. They did an art project involving autumn leaves. In the coming weeks they will be working on learning all about space!~Linda~