November News!
Themes for November:
Dinosaurs People in the Community Space
Contact - this is very important
If you need to reach the playschool to advise of late, absent or alternative pick up arrangements please call or text 403 816 1481. Do not email carstairsplayschool@gmail.com or call/text 403 999 8275. Both of those contacts are for Gail, who is the admin and is not onsite to pass the information along quickly. The 403 816 1481 is the playschool number and staff will receive the message immediately. Thank you for your cooperation on this matter!
Table Time
The four year old’s will be working on the letters E, H, T, and I. 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 three year old’s will be working on the colors orange, pink, brown, gray, and black. The three year olds 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.
November 11 – No school because of Remembrance Day
November 12 – No school because of Remembrance Day
November 12 - Carstairs Playschool board meeting - 7pm
November 19 – Miss Marg comes to read to both 4 year old classes
Scrapbooks
Mrs. Gerle has crafts planned for each day your child attends playschool, however some crafts will not be going home with your child. This is because she will save several crafts over the year and put them into a scrapbook which your child will be bringing home on the last day of class in June.
Mrs. Gerle loves putting these mementos together, and watching the children flip through their scrapbooks is so heart-melting for her!
Thank you!!
Thank you to those of you who have donated items for our programs. We are so very grateful! And 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!!
This month we would be grateful for:
Bandaids Gauze Plastic Spoons
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 we do not have spare clothes for. Accidents do happen occasionally and we do not have extra clothes at the playschool to lend your child if they do need some. If you have not already sent in, please bring an extra pair of pants, underwear, socks, and shirt in a ziplock 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.
School Pictures
We are receiving lots of questions about photos. Gail will email everyone and post on Facebook when they have been emailed out. Renee takes photos for many schools and has to edit each one, but she will have them done shortly.
Thank you for your patience.