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Happy New
Year! Welcome back everyone! We are all very excited to
start a fresh new semester filled with lots of fun ideas
and activities!
We hope
everyone had a great holiday season.
THANK YOU:
All of the
teachers would like to thank all Moms and Dads for the
fantastic & goodies we received for Christmas. We really
appreciate all you do for us!
SELF HELP SKILLS:
We are
encouraging al of our classes in self-help skills. It is
essential for the children who are entering Kindergarten
next year to be able to do certain things by themselves.
For instance, putting on and taking off their coats.
Being able to hang their backpacks and outer wear and at
least try to put on boots or shoes is an important part
of independence. Tues/Thurs classes will begin
practicing putting on their coats and soon will be
packing their own backpacks. Please help us out by
allowing them to do these things by themselves. We
realize it takes a great deal of time and patience but
the children benefit not only in self-help skills but it
strengthens their fine motor skills (buttoning &
zipping) and most of all gives them a sense of pride and
accomplishment.
OUTSIDE PLAY:
Our children love
to play outside. There are many days this winter that we
will have the opportunity to do this. It will not be on
days when the temperature is in the teens or when it’s
snowing and blowing. We realize that packing snow pants,
boots & mittens can be a bother only to find out we
didn’t go out that day. It is also disappointing when
most of the children have brought their outside clothes
and some of the children have to remain inside because
they did not. If you could remember to send them in each
day in a separate bag along with your child we would
appreciate it. Please do not put them in their backpacks
as they do not have enough room for their clothes and
papers to go home. The Children will not go out on Field
Trip days, special occasions, or in the MWF classes on
Wednesdays, which is their Music Day.
COMMUNITY HELPERS:
All classes will
be learning about Community Helpers over the next
several months. If you have an interesting occupation
and would like to come in and spend a few minutes
sharing what you do with the children, we would love to
have you!!! Please speak to one of your child’s teachers
or the directors about setting up a day and time…The
children are very interested in what their Mom’s & Dad’s
do!
THEMES:
The Tues/Thurs
classes will have some fun with winter, penguins,
nursery rhymes and Noah’s Ark.
They will begin
picking out their whole name instead of the initial of
their name as they arrive for class.
The MWF classes
will be meeting the letters “J”, “O”, ”E” & “G”.
There themes will be “sounds”, Opposites”, “everyone
needs a home”. They will be printing their name each day
they arrive with upper case followed by lower case
letters.
NO SCHOOL:
There
is no school on Monday, January 18 in honor of Martin
Luther King Day.
CANDY
BAR WINNERS:
Thank
you again to all the parents who worked so hard selling
our candy bars. This fund raiser along with the picture
money we receive will pay for our Carnival at the end of
the year.
We did have a tie
for the TOP SELLER
of each class. The cash prizes will go to:
Tues/Thurs AM ~
Gabriella Bartz Tues/Thurs PM ~ Kaleigh Jordan
MWF AM ~ Taylor
Skretny MWF PM ~ Paige Kubisty
SCHOOL CLOSINGS:
If either Lake
Shore Central or Frontier Central are closed, we are
closed. Please watch your local TV Stations and listen
to WBEN radio. On a rare occasion, we would have a
morning class and due to inclement weather in the
afternoon, we would close. If this should happen, you
will receive a phone call from us.
PROGRESS REPORTS:
Progress Reports
will go home by the end of the month for all classes.
REGISTRATION:
We will begin
registrations for the fall of 2010-2011 school year. The
children in the Tues/Thurs and anyone in the MWF classes
who may have siblings will receive a letter and
registration form regarding next year’s classes.
As rumor has
it…Southtowns Catholic Preschool 3 and 4 year old
program will be moving to our North Campus.
The MWF will be
offering a 3 day extended day program along with a 5 day
extended program.
The Tues/Thurs
classes will remain the same at this time.
The staff will remain the
same.
I am sure many of
you have questions regarding these changes. For this
reason, and to give you an overview of our programs, we
are scheduling a meeting for each class. They will be as
follows:
Tues Thurs AM on
Tues., Jan 26 @ 11 AM
Tues/Thurs PM –
Wed., Jan 28 @ 2:30 PM
MWF AM – Wed.,
Jan. 27 @ 11:00
MWF PM – Wed.,
Jan. 27 @ 2:30 |
