New Items/ Summer Info

Wow how the time has been flying by!

First of all, I would like to thank everyone for their help and support when I had to have surgery. Everything went very well and I am glad you all had a pleasant experience with my other substitute Ms. Corinne.

Since my last post we have been very busy. The children made necklaces for Mother's Day; which included making the beads, cooking them and then painting them. It was a three day process which the children truly enjoyed. (There will be a slide show of their necklace making craft down below this post.)

We have also started "Family Style Dining" at lunch time. Instead of me putting the children's lunch on their plates then serving them, we have been making lunch time more of a family time routine. The children set the table, help prepare lunch (including mixing food, cooking and cutting with butter knives--of course). Then I put all of the food on plates or bowls in the center of the big table with serving spoons. The children now dish out their own food and help each other by passing plates down to me to be filled. (For example Derek will hand his plate to Amelia, then Amelia will give it to me so it can be filled with the food item that is out of Derek's reach.) The children have learned to only take what they can eat, then get more after they are done. We all wait until everyone has their food and then we all eat together as a family. Your children really enjoy this and look forward to it every day.

During lunch time we talk about what we have done so far in the day and what we will be doing after nap time. We also talk about our food and what it does for our bodies. For example: we had carrots the other day and Julia asked what they did to make her healthy. I explained that carrots help her see better. Amelia wanted to know how so we looked out the window at the house across the street. Then I had them eat one carrot and look out the window again. "Magically" they were able to see flowers in the neighbors yard because the carrots made them see better. All of the sudden everyone ate all of their carrots and they were asking for more! (Now if anyone has a good story about how broccoli will "magically" help our bodies I would love to hear it!)

Family Style Dining is a great way for your children to build social skills, use manners and listen to each other. If you do not already use these techniques at dinner time, I would like to encourage you to begin family style dining as much as possible.

Summer is just around the corner and I am almost done planning. We have Tumblin' Tots coming for one class per week beginning Thursday 18 June. Please see me for your registration forms. This is for children ages 2-6 only.

I am working on having a Karate Lesson for the children as well.

Field Trip information: All field trips will be posted on this website calendar within the next few weeks. There will also be permission slip notes posted on the front door. Please remember that per our contracts field trip entrance fees are the parents responsibility. Also, if for any reason you do not want your child to attend a field trip you will need to make alternate arrangements for childcare on that day. (your fees will not be prorated due to not attending the field trip).

So that I can finish planning out the Summer please let me know as soon as possible about any vacations you are planning to take in June, July or August. As of right now, my vacation in July is on for 6-10 July. I have Ms. Kelly set up to provide care during my absence.