November Themes
Dinosaurs Five Senses Space
School pictures are done! Thank you families for being flexible with us when Renee was having lightening issues! Renee is busy editing images. She will notify me when she is going to be sending the picture links out. Please wait patiently. You will receive your link well in advance to order those Christmas pictures! Notification will be sent to everyone once, links are coming out.
October 30 - Halloween Parties - MW classes
October 31 - Halloween Parties - TT classes
November 1 - Growing Smiles Winter Fundraiser Kicks Off
November 8 – No school because of the fall break
November 9 – No school because of the fall break
November 14 - Board Meeting at 7pm
November 21 – Miss Marg from the Carstairs Library comes to read to both classes
November 21 - Growing Smiles orders due
Growing Smiles Winter Fundraiser!
Our annual Winter fundraiser is ready to go. Same as last year, we have lots of options for Christmas decorating! Online orders are due November 21st and delivery is schedule for December 6th.
Classroom Volunteers
Some parents really enjoy volunteering in the class. A sign up sheet will be posted on our website in the near future for those would like to join. Please add your name to the date; any black spaces are not available for volunteering. We also ask that you do not bring siblings with you. We understand it can be difficult to find childcare, but the additional children can make it difficult to follow programming. Thank you for your cooperation!
Table Time
The four year old’s will be working on the letters E, H, T, I, and U. The children will be learning to use correct top-to-bottom, as well as left-to-right directionality for their letters. At the same time, we will be working on holding a crayon with proper grip to write, and using our helping hand to stabilize objects and paper. The children will also be encouraged to use the same hand they started the task with, and then use that hand consistently to hold their crayons. The sight words we will be learning are a, is, me, and it.
The three year old’s will be working on the colors pink, brown, gray, and black. We will then start learning our shapes, the first one being a square. The three year old’s will also be participating in activities which will allow them to practice their fine motor skills. They will be introduced to crayons, tweezers, tongs, and clothes pins to help them develop the muscles needed to begin their pre-printing activities
This month we would be grateful for:
Large popsicle sticks Small clay pots
Scrapbooks
We have crafts planned for each day your child attends playschool, however some crafts will not be going home with your child. This is because several crafts are saved over the year and put into a scrapbook. This scrapbook will come home on the last day of school. Mrs. Gerle loves putting these mementos together and watching the children flip through their scrapbooks!!
Spare Clothes
Thank you very much to the families who have sent an extra set of clothing for your child, however there are still quite a few children who do not have extra clothes. Accidents do happen occasionally and we do not have extra clothes at the playschool to lend your child if they do need some. For those of you who haven’t yet done so, please bring an extra pair of pants, underwear, socks, and shirt in a ziploc bag with your child’s name on it. This set of spare clothes will stay at the playschool until the end of the year when we will send them home.
Please no finger gloves!
Thank you so much for your understanding at both drop off and pick up. Getting the children into and out of their outside gear at the beginning and end of each class can be time consuming some days. With that being said, we would very much appreciate it if you sent your child to school with mittens. PLEASE NO FINGER GLOVES. They are very tricky for some children to put on and it would be so much quicker and easier for us to help them with their mittens. We are very grateful for your patience during these times!!
Family Pictures
We still don’t have many family pictures for our family wall!! Please send a family picture (it doesn’t have to be recent) so that we can fill it up for the kids!! They love looking at them and showing their families to their friends and teachers!