BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
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Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
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Crozet Newsletter
February 12, 2010
February 12, 2010
“When children feel good about themselves, it's like a snowball rolling downhill. They are continually able to recognize and integrate new proof of their value as they grow and mature.”
-Stephanie Marston
-Stephanie Marston
Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, March 9th, Brownie Bake Off!
Friday, March 19th, Children’s Night Out, 5:30-8:30
“Shining Shamrock”
Tuesday, March 23rd, Kindergarten Registration! Registration will take place at the school that you which will be attending. Please see the informational sheets posted on the front Bulletin Boards and Pre-K classroom for details!
Monday, March 29th, Re-registration Fee Charged to Accounts Except Rising Kindergartners
Friday, April 2nd, Children’s Night Out, 5:30-8:30
“Hop into Spring”
Thursday and Friday, April 8th and 9th, Closed Completely for Spring Break
Friday, March 19th, Children’s Night Out, 5:30-8:30
“Shining Shamrock”
Tuesday, March 23rd, Kindergarten Registration! Registration will take place at the school that you which will be attending. Please see the informational sheets posted on the front Bulletin Boards and Pre-K classroom for details!
Monday, March 29th, Re-registration Fee Charged to Accounts Except Rising Kindergartners
Friday, April 2nd, Children’s Night Out, 5:30-8:30
“Hop into Spring”
Thursday and Friday, April 8th and 9th, Closed Completely for Spring Break
School News and Notes:
Thank you all for another wonderful week. Please turn in your parent survey if you have not already done so! Thank you all for your feedback! Thank you Shannon and Alan Franklin for the generous donation of toys!
March 15th through 19th is the Virginia Festival of the Book! We have several fun events planned. See the front desk/current events bulletin board for more information!
Financial Memo:
Tuition is due by March 3rd this month since February is short (and with a 3 day grace period).What’s Cooking?
Marshmallow Pops
Ingredients:
20 lollipop sticks (found at cake decorating or craft stores)
20 large marshmallows
1 cup Nestle Tollhouse Premier White Morsels
1 cup Milk Chocolate Morsels
Decorating icing
Assorted candies and chocolates
Directions:
1. Line baking sheet with wax paper
2. Push each lollipop stick halfway through a marshmallow
3. Melt white chocolate morsels. Immediately dip 10 marshmallows lightly into the melted chocolate for a thin coating. Set the stick on the baking sheet.
4. Repeat step three but with milk chocolate morsels.
5. Refrigerate marshmallow lollipops for 10 minutes or until hardened. Use decorating icing as glue to decorate with assorted candies.
20 lollipop sticks (found at cake decorating or craft stores)
20 large marshmallows
1 cup Nestle Tollhouse Premier White Morsels
1 cup Milk Chocolate Morsels
Decorating icing
Assorted candies and chocolates
Directions:
1. Line baking sheet with wax paper
2. Push each lollipop stick halfway through a marshmallow
3. Melt white chocolate morsels. Immediately dip 10 marshmallows lightly into the melted chocolate for a thin coating. Set the stick on the baking sheet.
4. Repeat step three but with milk chocolate morsels.
5. Refrigerate marshmallow lollipops for 10 minutes or until hardened. Use decorating icing as glue to decorate with assorted candies.
Speech Weekly Notes from Stacy Torrence:
2.26.10
These are the skills that were addressed this week. I was at Mill Creek and Crozet this week and will be at the Forest Lakes location this coming Tuesday. Toddlers and young 2’s
We began by building our vocabulary by reaching into my function bag and naming objects and talking about the use of the specific object. We discussed around 25 items as well as their functions including a spoon, chair, bed, cup, phone, comb, etc. We also read another noisy story and worked on the sounds /m/, /s/, /n/, /r/, /e/, and /w/. We also reviewed sign language as well.
Older 2’s
Each student reached into the function bag and had to name the object and tell their friends the function of each object. We also read a noisy story and focused on the sounds /m/, /s/, /n/, /r/, /e/, and /w/. Finally we worked on oral motor skills to exercise the muscles in our mouths by blowing cotton balls across the table with straws.
3’s and 4’s
We worked on rhyming sounds and used our rhyming houses. Each student had 2-3 cards in front of them and had to match their cards with the specific rhyming house. We also addressed the use of objects and were able to list 6 things you can do with a ball, discussed the use of keys, quarters, phones, bikes, and several others.
Class Notes:
The Pelican Class
This week, every morning during circle time, we sang the song “Who is here?” We pointed to each one of our friends and called out his name! We played with soap on our blue water table, making soap prints! Gray and Sami had so much fun! Keaton has been cooing and trying to talk a lot and has been smiling all week! We are all walking (except Keaton!) and we had fun marching around the room to music. All of the children would laugh! Sami, Gray, and Ashlyn have learned to put the play rings on their arms! They like to keep them on all day! We enjoyed playing the number game! We have tried to count our toys as we pull them out of the container! We also counted our teeth to see who has the most! We all really enjoyed painting with toothbrushes! We always have so much fun in the baby room!
Ms. Sue
The Bunny Class
Hello Bunny families! The Bunnies had another wonderful week discovering new things! This week we worked really hard on our colors and shapes. We played games and made collages to help us remember the names of our colors and shapes. Elara and Nathan really enjoyed using glue to make shape collages. This week in language arts we read rhyming word stories. We also used the white board to write our names. We practiced saying the letters that make up our names. Emily and Riley did a great job naming their letters! We also talked about the letter “B!” Martin and Jake really enjoyed making “B” art with buttons! We also talked about our teeth this week! We learned about what our teeth are used for, how we lose teeth, and how new ones grow, and how to keep our teeth clean! Addie and Makayla loved telling the class about how they brush their teeth! Thank you for another wonderful week in the Bunny class!
Have a great weekend!
Ms. Whitney
The Peacock Class
Hello Peacock family and friends! I hope everyone has found the transition to the Peacock room and great experience! I believe that all of the classmates in the Peacock room are adjusting very well to the new environment. This week we have been learning about the letter “B.” We have played the “B” game, where each child had to go into the classroom and find a toy that starts with that letter! We also stamped bunny pictures as well! This week we practiced our counting, sorting, and stacking tall, tall towers. We really have enjoyed borrowing some of Ms. Whitney’s story books for reading time during the morning, the whole class enjoys the story called The Hairy Toe. It is very silly but full of suspense! If you ever have any questions or comments please feel free to stop by!
Ms. Lee
The Walrus Class
Snow, snow melt away! The Walrus kids are checking the progress of the playground everyday and can’t wait to get out there and run around. We’ve been super busy learning and getting to know our newest addition, Ms. Ann! In science we’ve been learning all about healthy bodies. We discussed what our favorite form of exercise is and even made a graph with our results. Dancing was the most popular form of exercise in our classroom. By doing graphs we’re working on being able to interpret results by using our visual skills; we also get practice with counting! We’ve also been working on sorting. We sorted M&M’s by color and counted how many of each color we had. We also sorted different foods into their appropriate food group. We were introduced to the concept of food groups but would love to practice this at home as well! In order for us to practice using our fine motor skills we used beans, noodles, and paint brushes to spread glue on our paper plates, placed the food item on the glue, then painted over them with our favorite colors! We also made jeweled “J’s” and soap prints! For our cooking project we made scrumptious chocolate chip banana bread! We measured, discussed wet vs. dry ingredients and stirred the batter. We all enjoyed making the bread together and most of us enjoyed eating it too! Sam and Rye particularly enjoyed the tasty treat! In social studies we read The World Turns Round and Round which is a wonderful book about differences in people all over the world. We read about a girl from India with a beautiful Sari, a boy from Nairobi with a dashiki so grand, and many more. We discussed how important it is to respect differences in people! Ava Jordan really enjoyed learning about other cultures and was quite inquisitive during the story! In children’s humanities we’ve been doing all sorts of puzzles. We love the giant puzzle that can either be an underwater or jungle scene. Mia, Caitlin, and Lucy really like to work on this one as a team! Again we’d like to welcome Ms. Ann into our classroom as our new teaching assistant as we’ve enjoyed getting to know her! Have a fantastic weekend!
Reminders and Information: New Classroom Rule: Please do not bring any toys from home to school unless it is show and tell day (Friday!) We have wonderful classroom toys and would like to minimize the amount of things brought in from home as they may be lost or broken. Please remember to bring in sheets and blankets each Monday! Thanks!
Ms. Erin
The Rooster Class
This week in the Rooster class, we worked with the themes of healthy bodies and healthy teet! In science we learned about the food groups and which foods are healthy. We also discussed what our hearts do for us and listened to our heart using a stethoscope. We also discussed the proper way to brush our teeth and keep our teeth healthy! We are a very healthy class! In math this week, we continued our healthy theme and sorted foods into healthy and unhealthy groups. We also observed and counted our own teeth. In language arts, the Roosters were hard at work with our letter of the week, “Bb.” We practiced writing “Bb” in our writing journal and brainstormed words that begin with “Bb.” We also worked with new sight words: for, do, but. In addition to these new words, we are always reviewing our previously learned words! A great way to practice these at home is to make sight word soup! Simply write the sign words on large pieces of pasta, like Rigatoni. Let your child ladle out a few pieces into a bowl and have your child identify the letters in the word and then the word, if they can! This is a fun and easy review tool to use at home! In art, the Roosters made “Stethoscopes” and hearts. We also made our own toothbrushes and painted with toothbrushes. Our favorite art project this week was making our own tooth fairy wands – then we pretended to collect teeth and give out money!
A few reminders about our class: Please remember to bring in a sheet and blanket for nap. We no longer have laundry facilities so any school linens used will be sent home to be cleaned and returned. Please use ice packs in your child’s lunch to keep things cool as refrigerator space is limited!
Thank you!
Ms. Amanda
434-823-7129
1645 Park Ridge Drive