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Newsletter July 23, 2010
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com
Crozet Newsletter
July 23rd, 2010
Upcoming Events:
*Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out
*Monday, August 2nd we have our Open House for Prospective Families (6-7pm)
*Wet and Wild– Children’s Night Out on Friday, August 6th at 5:30-8:30
*Monday, Aug. 9th: we have an Open House for Prospective Families (6-7pm)
*Friday, August 13th we are closed for Staff Development and Training.
Weekly Financial Memo:
For weekly or bi-weekly payments, tuition is due prior to vacation absences or holidays. Payments not received when due are subject to late charges.
Re-registration fees are due now for the 2010-2011 school year. Automatic credit cards will be charged the re-registration fee with the August payment.
School News and Notes:
This week has been another wonderful week! We went on many space adventures this week! The Kangaroos were busy taking off in their space ships that they colored, while the Bunnies and Peacocks drew of what they thought they would see in space. The Roosters and Walrus’ enjoyed reading books about space and even completing a tricky puzzle that revealed a secret about space. Ask one of them to tell you what they saw when they put all the pieces together!
Staff Appreciation Day
We celebrated our Staff Appreciation Day this week on Wednesday! Thank you to all the parents who were so willing to bring something special in for our wonderful teachers! AND for all the families who have been with us for so long! We thank you for your support. Without our teachers we simply would not be here. I’d like to send out a thank you to our teachers for their hard work and dedication.
Construction Finally Over!
Our fence for our water park has FINALLY been installed. We thank you for your patience as we have been in construction! The children have a BLAST while running through the sprinklers. We are very fortunate to go above and beyond licensing regulations and provide a fence for our teachers and children.
Recipe Fun:
This week’s recipe will blow you out of the water or the ocean rather!
Pail of Sand Cake
This novel cake, topped with crushed cookie “sand”, will be the hit of any beach party!! After your children eat this wonderful cake, scrub the pail and let them fill it with real sand (no eating allowed)!
Ingredients:
1 baked 8-inch round cake
1 8-9 cup capacity new plastic pail
24 oz. unsweetened applesauce (or 1 3-oz. package pudding, prepared)
1 c. crushed graham crackers or cookies
Shell candies
1 plastic shovel
Instructions:
1.Cut the cake into 1-in. slices. Fit the slices into the pail, alternating layers of cake with applesauce or pudding, ending with applesauce.
2.Sprinkle on the crushed cookie sand and top with shell candies.
Now dig in with the plastic shovel.
This snack is so quick, easy, and yummy! Try it!
Class Notes:
Pelican Class
We started the week by talking about space and rockets showing them pictures of rockets in the day and night. Painting with cubes, potatoes and broccoli was so much fun! Jason and Brooks played the game Hand to Hand by giving each other toys and placing them in the container. Sage loves her tummy time and is getting very good at reaching for toys. We all had fun shaking the noise bottles and rattles to make different sounds and singing the ABC song. We talked about the food we eat and looked at pictures of food. Have a great weekend!
Ms. Sue
Kangaroo Class
This week the Kangaroos have had fun in gross motor pretending to be a ball bouncing and rolling around the room. We did a hula-hoop huddle to see how many people would fit inside the hula hoop. We quickly found out that to many meant we were all on the floor! :) In fine motor/art we had a vegetable tasting, we cleaned the vegetables in the water table, and then with what we had left over we made vegetable prints. We painted space masks, and colored a space ship. We pretended to ride a space ship and moon-walking was so much fun. We read Goodnight Moon, and went into outer space. Be back soon! Have a great weekend!
Ms. Jen
Peacock Class
Hello peacock families and friends! We had so much fun with Blast Off week this week. We have been having fun learning about spaceships, planets, and the outer space! We also learned about the sun and the moon too! This week we had a great time painting a group outer space collage with finger paints! We also went on a moon rock hunt outside on our playground; in addition we loved coloring and painting pictures of our Earth with different blues and greens!
As the weather is continuing to get hot outside please feel free to send in extra water bottles or cups for your child during playtime. I do take out a pitcher of water and cups to ensure that everyone is staying hydrated while playing! If ever any questions or concerns please feel free to ask!
Ms. Lee
Bunny Class
Ms. Whitney is out enjoying her summer vacation this week!!! We try to give all of our staff at least a week off in the summer- A well needed one! :) While Ms. Whitney was out the Bunnies and the Roosters were together in the Rooster room. Check out the Rooster blurb to see all the fun things they did!
Ms. Whitney
Rooster Class
This week the Bunnies joined our class, as Ms. Whitney had a great vacation at the beach. The Roosters and Bunnies learned all about space this week! We did lots of fun space projects including making a space mask, drawing pictures of space, finger painting, a moon and stars craft and space chair art. We also continued to work on our numbers, letters, and imaginative play with one another. We enjoyed the summer fun of riding our bikes on bike day and sprinkler day everyday. We had a great week with our friends and we have lots of fun stories to tell Ms. Whitney when she returns on Monday.
Ms. Tracy
Walrus Class
This week the Walrus class learned all about space and the stars! We made space suit helmets using paper bags and paper plates and telescopes using paper towel rolls! We used glitter to paint stars on black paper and made “space creatures” out of paper lunch socks! We even made a Paper Mache model of the solar system in a joint project with the Rooster class! It was a great week for science in the Walrus room! We learned about the sun, moon and stars! We even learned about the constellations. As always, we enjoyed our summertime as well. Bike and sprinkler days are a HIT! Have a great weekend and we will see you next week!
Ms. Amanda and Ms. Stephanie
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Newsletter July 23, 2010
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com
Crozet Newsletter
July 23rd, 2010
Upcoming Events:
*Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out
*Monday, August 2nd we have our Open House for Prospective Families (6-7pm)
*Wet and Wild– Children’s Night Out on Friday, August 6th at 5:30-8:30
*Monday, Aug. 9th: we have an Open House for Prospective Families (6-7pm)
*Friday, August 13th we are closed for Staff Development and Training.
Weekly Financial Memo:
For weekly or bi-weekly payments, tuition is due prior to vacation absences or holidays. Payments not received when due are subject to late charges.
Re-registration fees are due now for the 2010-2011 school year. Automatic credit cards will be charged the re-registration fee with the August payment.
School News and Notes:
This week has been another wonderful week! We went on many space adventures this week! The Kangaroos were busy taking off in their space ships that they colored, while the Bunnies and Peacocks drew of what they thought they would see in space. The Roosters and Walrus’ enjoyed reading books about space and even completing a tricky puzzle that revealed a secret about space. Ask one of them to tell you what they saw when they put all the pieces together!
Staff Appreciation Day
We celebrated our Staff Appreciation Day this week on Wednesday! Thank you to all the parents who were so willing to bring something special in for our wonderful teachers! AND for all the families who have been with us for so long! We thank you for your support. Without our teachers we simply would not be here. I’d like to send out a thank you to our teachers for their hard work and dedication.
Construction Finally Over!
Our fence for our water park has FINALLY been installed. We thank you for your patience as we have been in construction! The children have a BLAST while running through the sprinklers. We are very fortunate to go above and beyond licensing regulations and provide a fence for our teachers and children.
Recipe Fun:
This week’s recipe will blow you out of the water or the ocean rather!
Pail of Sand Cake
This novel cake, topped with crushed cookie “sand”, will be the hit of any beach party!! After your children eat this wonderful cake, scrub the pail and let them fill it with real sand (no eating allowed)!
Ingredients:
1 baked 8-inch round cake
1 8-9 cup capacity new plastic pail
24 oz. unsweetened applesauce (or 1 3-oz. package pudding, prepared)
1 c. crushed graham crackers or cookies
Shell candies
1 plastic shovel
Instructions:
1.Cut the cake into 1-in. slices. Fit the slices into the pail, alternating layers of cake with applesauce or pudding, ending with applesauce.
2.Sprinkle on the crushed cookie sand and top with shell candies.
Now dig in with the plastic shovel.
This snack is so quick, easy, and yummy! Try it!
Class Notes:
Pelican Class
We started the week by talking about space and rockets showing them pictures of rockets in the day and night. Painting with cubes, potatoes and broccoli was so much fun! Jason and Brooks played the game Hand to Hand by giving each other toys and placing them in the container. Sage loves her tummy time and is getting very good at reaching for toys. We all had fun shaking the noise bottles and rattles to make different sounds and singing the ABC song. We talked about the food we eat and looked at pictures of food. Have a great weekend!
Ms. Sue
Kangaroo Class
This week the Kangaroos have had fun in gross motor pretending to be a ball bouncing and rolling around the room. We did a hula-hoop huddle to see how many people would fit inside the hula hoop. We quickly found out that to many meant we were all on the floor! :) In fine motor/art we had a vegetable tasting, we cleaned the vegetables in the water table, and then with what we had left over we made vegetable prints. We painted space masks, and colored a space ship. We pretended to ride a space ship and moon-walking was so much fun. We read Goodnight Moon, and went into outer space. Be back soon! Have a great weekend!
Ms. Jen
Peacock Class
Hello peacock families and friends! We had so much fun with Blast Off week this week. We have been having fun learning about spaceships, planets, and the outer space! We also learned about the sun and the moon too! This week we had a great time painting a group outer space collage with finger paints! We also went on a moon rock hunt outside on our playground; in addition we loved coloring and painting pictures of our Earth with different blues and greens!
As the weather is continuing to get hot outside please feel free to send in extra water bottles or cups for your child during playtime. I do take out a pitcher of water and cups to ensure that everyone is staying hydrated while playing! If ever any questions or concerns please feel free to ask!
Ms. Lee
Bunny Class
Ms. Whitney is out enjoying her summer vacation this week!!! We try to give all of our staff at least a week off in the summer- A well needed one! :) While Ms. Whitney was out the Bunnies and the Roosters were together in the Rooster room. Check out the Rooster blurb to see all the fun things they did!
Ms. Whitney
Rooster Class
This week the Bunnies joined our class, as Ms. Whitney had a great vacation at the beach. The Roosters and Bunnies learned all about space this week! We did lots of fun space projects including making a space mask, drawing pictures of space, finger painting, a moon and stars craft and space chair art. We also continued to work on our numbers, letters, and imaginative play with one another. We enjoyed the summer fun of riding our bikes on bike day and sprinkler day everyday. We had a great week with our friends and we have lots of fun stories to tell Ms. Whitney when she returns on Monday.
Ms. Tracy
Walrus Class
This week the Walrus class learned all about space and the stars! We made space suit helmets using paper bags and paper plates and telescopes using paper towel rolls! We used glitter to paint stars on black paper and made “space creatures” out of paper lunch socks! We even made a Paper Mache model of the solar system in a joint project with the Rooster class! It was a great week for science in the Walrus room! We learned about the sun, moon and stars! We even learned about the constellations. As always, we enjoyed our summertime as well. Bike and sprinkler days are a HIT! Have a great weekend and we will see you next week!
Ms. Amanda and Ms. Stephanie
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Newsletter, July 16th
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com
Millcreek Newsletter
July 16, 2010
Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, July 21st, Staff Appreciation Day
Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out
School Notes and News
Bright Beginnings always appreciates all of the donations that we receive. If anyone is thinking about donating some clothes, we are in need of boys and girls bottoms. We have a nice supply of shirts but not enough shorts, skirts, pants, etc… Also, extra shoes are always a nice thing to have around as well. So as your children are getting bigger, please think of us when needing to get rid of things. J Do not forget to sign up for Children’s Night Out! It is “Aloha Night” and it will be hosted by Ms. Michelle and Ms. Jessica on Friday, July 23rd.
Financial Memo
If you forget your pass card to enter the building, please remember to sign your child in or out at the front desk.
Re-registration fees are due by August 1st. Automatic Credit Card Payments will be charged the re-registration fee on July 27th with the August payment.
We are currently giving tours to prospective families in addition to working on final class placements for fall and now is a great time to add more days to your child's schedule. Hurry, before we sell the spot to someone else!
Class Notes
Penguin
In class this week, we did lots of reviewing with our colors, counting, shapes, using our words, animals and sorting by color. We had another great Sprinkler Day! Our hit books this week were, Ten in the Meadow, which was about a little bear playing hide and seek with nine of his little animal friends. Everyone also really enjoyed, Peek-A-Zoo, which on each page had a different zoo animal covering their face for you to guess who it was!
For arts and crafts, we finger painted, made elephant ears, which also looks like dog ears! We also made clown hats, ink blot painting, free art, and made a lion’s face by using our hand prints! The children had fun playing in centers this week. Delaney loves to dress up in the fancy hats and Mr. Andrew likes to play “Mr. Fix it” in the workshop. As you can see, we always have a great time in class! Enjoy your weekend!
Ms. Danielle
Sea Turtle
Hello again! It was wonderful to be back with the Sea Turtles after a week absence! We’ve had a lot of fun this week. This week’s theme was the circus and we focused several activities around that concept. On Monday we decorated clown hats. Tuesday we finger painted elephant ears and put them on a headband. The kids had a lot of fun wearing them around the classroom pretending to be elephants! Friday we used our hands to paint a lion and practiced roaring like one. We also worked on our balancing by pretending to walk on a tight rope. We continued reviewing our colors and shapes at circle time and by reading a color and shapes book, and “A Color of His Own” by Leo Lionni. This week we also talked about our different body parts. We sang “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and “Head, and Shoulders, Knees, and Toes”. Other books we read include “Is Your Mamma a Llama”, “How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?”, and “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”, all of which the children really enjoyed! In the Gross Motor room we put ocean sounds on the CD player and pretended to go to the beach. We played with a beach ball, swam in the pool, and pretended to sail in boat. Other art projects included ink blot painting, painting with marbles, and finger painting. We all enjoyed Friday’s cooking project, especially eating it at snack time! Water day was a hit again, the kids have a blast running around in their suits, and playing around the sprinkler! Please continue to sun screen them before school, as it has been very sunny recently and we don’t want them to get burnt as we play outside in the morning. Thanks for another great week. I look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday!
Ms. Ashley
Dolphin
This week in the Dolphin Class we learned about the circus. For math, we reviewed numbers 1-10, graphed our favorite circus animals, and practiced addition and subtraction. We were able to go on a safari hunt on the nature trail, and it was a blast! In social studies, we learned about some of the circus animals like, elephants, lions, seals, and monkeys. We answered the question, “If I could in the in circus, I would be…” This turned out to be a great discussion. Circus art was so much fun because were made elephants, seals, clown faces, and a circus train!
We would like to welcome Maddox and Owen to the Dolphin Class!
Reminders:
Sprinkler Day is every Wednesday
Bike Day is every Friday
Show and Tell is every Friday and there is always a theme!
Please sign up for CNO July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii!
Ms. Michelle and Ms. Missy
Walrus
The Walrus group did a fantastic job this week and everyone had great participation! The children have a great understanding of addition and subtraction problems and the signs that belong in each one. They helped me write a few and wrote their own in their journals with the help of our dominos! We reviewed the beginning, middle, and end of a story and answered some questions while reading some of our books. We went over our coins names and amounts. The children are aware when there is five pennies that it equals a nickel, and if we have ten pennies, that equals a dime and so on…
We had a wonderful discussion about why it is important not to interrupt people while others are speaking. We talked about how it makes us feel when others interrupt us and how the classroom can get loud when everyone is trying to talk at once.
I want to thank Ms. Cheri and Ms. Emily for doing a fantastic job last week while I was on vacation! I reviewed with the children and they learned so much about Betsy Ross, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington! Have a wonderful weekend and we will see everyone on Monday!
Ms. Ryland
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Newsletter July 9th, 2010
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com
Crozet Newsletter
July 9th, 2010
Upcoming Events:
*Friday July 9th, USA Night themed Children’s Night Out!
*Wednesday, July 21st, Staff Appreciation Day
*Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out
Weekly Financial Memo:
If you forget your pass card to enter the building, please remember to sign your child in or out at the front desk.
Re-registration fees are due by August 1st. Automatic Credit Card Payments will be charged the re-registration fee on July 27th with the August payment.
We are currently giving tours to prospective families in addition to working on final class placements for fall and now is a great time to add more days to your child's schedule. Hurry, before we sell the spot to someone else!
School News and Notes:
I hope everyone had a great long weekend and saw lots of fireworks!! It was definitely a nice treat to have a 3 day weekend! Have a happy Fourth of July everyone!
This week has been really, really hot! We have done our best to stay cool! We had sprinkler day on Wednesdays and some groups went out early on Tuesday and Wednesday before it got really hot! On Tuesday the Pre-K side of the hall children went to the Discovery Museum! They had a blast exploring the museum! Thank you for those parents who took the time to drive and care for the children who went on the trip! We couldn’t do it with out you!! Thanks Again!!
U.S.A. Night!
We are having a Children’s Night Out this FRIDAY! It is absolutely FREE! We are launching this deal to get parents to go out for a couple of hours and let their children go out too! The children love Children’s Night Out! They are provided with a great hot meal. This weeks meal is chicken nuggets, French fries, and carrots! There are some great activities planned for the night! Sign- up now so we can be sure to plan for the right amount of children! So far we have 4 children signed up!! Don’t be the one who forgot to sign up! :)
Class Notes:
The Pelican Class
Boy, has it been hot this week! We have welcomed a new student to our class… Mr. Brooks! We played Red, White, Blue Peek. Everyone started to laugh when we said Boo! The children loved looking into the mirror to see who has the biggest smile! We splashed around n the water with noodles everywhere. Everyone liked turning off the lights and shining the flashlight all over the room. This week we did our best to stay cool and have fun! We look forward to more fun next week! Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Sue
The Kangaroo Class
In Gross Motor, music, and movement, we paraded around the room, pretending to be in a parade. We pretended to be zoo animals. We were tall like a giraffe, stomped big like an elephant, roared like a lion. We jumped over a rope; we went under a rope; and around a rope. For fine motor, art, and sensory we put our animals in the water tub. We even blew bubbles and stomped on the bubbles! We easel painted, we made a scrap paper collage, we made animal foot prints. For children’s Humanities we practiced sign language, thank you, please, drink, train, you’re welcome, sit, and more. We worked on our yoga moves- the backwards dog, tree, bird, mouse, and a frog! Have a wonderful weekend!
-Ms. Jen
The Peacock Class
Hello Peacock Families and Friends,
This week in the peacock class we have had so much fun learning and practicing our letters, numbers, and shapes. We have very special flashcards we use during circle time to help us with our learning. This week was also “All American Week”, so we did a lot of red, white, and blue artwork as well as learning about our flag- the colors and the shapes on it! We have had fun with creating master pieces on our easel. We practice taking turns and following painting directions. The whole class really enjoys this activity. Be expecting to see a lot more easel artwork to come home with your child! It’s their favorite activity. Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Lee
The Bunny Class
Hello Bunny Families and Friends- I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend! On Tuesday the Bunnies went n their first Bright Beginnings Field Trip! We had so much fun! Thank you for all your support! This week in Math we’ve been working on our Spanish counting skills. We like to use our bears and nuts to help us count. We are working on our one-to-one correspondence. For Science this week we learned all about bugs. We enjoyed looking at books with bugs and picking out our favorite type of bugs. For art we had fun making art using the American flags and painted with red, white, and blue. For children’s humanities we began learning about baki9ng. The bunnies enjoyed learning about certain foods you bake and ones you don’t! We had a great week! See you next week for more learning and fun!
-Ms. Whitney
The Walrus Class
This week in the Walrus Class, we learned all about the U.S.A with this week’s theme, “All American.” We made a collage of stars and strips, painted with red, white, and blue, and made ki8tes in honor of Benjamin Franklin. We practiced the pledge of allegiance and learned patriotic songs like “Yankee Doodle.” We learned all about Benjamin Franklin, the American flag, and Independence Day. We even made observations about fireworks and voted for our favorite type of firework!
Thank you to all the parents who attended the fieldtrip to the Discovery Museum! We had a fantastic time learning about bee hives, recycling, and “going green” in their new exhibit. It was a very special treat!
Next week, the walrus class will be learning about the circus. We will be making clown hat ice-cream sundaes. Please see our door to sign up to bring in supplies. Thank you for your support.
-Ms. Amanda and Ms. Stephanie
The Rooster Class
In honor of the 4th of July holiday on Sunday the Rooster Room will be learning all about America this week. We have lots of fun patriotic crafts planed; making a George Washington portrait with cotton ball hair, creating a fireworks scene using black paper with tissue paper fireworks, making an American flag, making Benjamin Franklin’s kite out of popsicle sticks, tissue paper and yarn with a key. We are going to talk about what we all did for our Fourth of July holidays, talk about the presidents that lived in Virginia, and learn a little bit about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We will talk about presidents and their homes. We are going to make explorer binoculars to go on an Adventure with to see what we can see outside. We will be working on traceable letters, measuring, using small shapes to make bigger shapes, color combinations, and reading patriotic stories. We plan to play outside games along with our daily sprinkler day activities, bike day, and playground time. It’s going to be a great week and we plan to have lots of fun with our friends while learning about America!
-Ms. Tracy
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