Director`s News - Shrewsbury Children`s Center

THE PARENT CONNECTION
Volume 26 Issue #2
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October
2016
The
Parent
Connection
Director’s News
By Lesley Belanger & Rebecca Casey
Important Dates
October 10th – Closed
Columbus Day
Greetings,
Happy Autumn! We are looking forward to
enjoying the cooler weather and watching the
trees turn beautiful colors! Our new school year
is well under way and all of our teachers and
students have settled into their new routines
nicely. We are looking forward to many fun fall
activities!
The Annual Registration Fee is due October 3rd.
Notices have been handed out and the fee
remains unchanged at $50.00 per child. The
Registration Fee is dedicated to the operating
costs of the center that include annual liability
and property insurance. Please do not include
this fee with your regular tuition payment.
Harvest/Halloween Parties will be Thursday,
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October 27 & Friday, October 28 . Each
classroom will design and create their own
costumes out of craft materials. They will then
participate in a parade around school to show
them off! There will be sign-up sheets on each
classroom door for families interested in
donating party goods. Please coordinate with
the classroom teachers if you would like to signup, so they can provide you with any special
information regarding classroom allergies.
Thank you in advance, our parties are always so
much fun with your help!
We will be hosting a Family Fun Night in
November. Please watch for postings around the
school for the exact date! We cannot wait to see
you there!
We do NOT allow families into the building
BEFORE 7:30am. This time is needed to allow
teachers to arrive and setup the room for the
day.
All classrooms start their day between 8:45 and
9:00 am. We encourage all parents to have their
children in their classrooms by 9:00 am.
Please call the center before 9:00 am if your child
is going to be out or in late so the teachers can
order your child a lunch.
Each time you call the center with questions or
information regarding your child to please state
your child’s first and last name as well as the
name of his/her classroom or teacher.
Monthly Tuition Payments are due before the
first of each month.
Weekly Tuition Payments are due one week in
advance; please pay each Thursday morning by
9:00 am.
Make sure your child’s name is on each tuition
check to ensure that we credit the proper
account with your payment.
The parking lot has one way in and one way out.
Please exit the parking lot closest to the shed.
PLEASE DRIVE SLOWLY and BE AWARE OF
OTHER CARS. There are always CHILDREN
WALKING in the parking lot. Please REFFRAIN
from talking on your cell phone while driving in
the parking lot for safety reasons.
Please remember - It is required by the state
that all children have updated physicals and
immunizations in order to attend the Center.
Tuition ~ Please contact Mary Rose Casey
directly for all tuition related questions; at
(508) 755-3922 or [email protected]
We love hearing from our families.
– Lesley and Rebecca
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THE PARENT CONNECTION | October 2016
Infant 1
By Debbie S., Debbie G., & Christine M.
Our newcomers are adjusting very well to
their new environment! They are busy
making connections with their teachers
and friends. We are excited to welcome
two new children to our room this month:
Mason and Ruby.
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Aiden has begun to reach for the toys
above him while playing on the activity
mat. He really enjoys sitting in the
entertainer, looking at himself in the
mirror and watching bubbles float by as he
sits in the Bumbo seat!
Lila loves to listen to stories and look at
pictures in the books we read to her. She
has really enjoyed sitting in the Bumbo
seat and taking in the world around her!
We are gearing up for cooler weather by
changing our summer wardrobe to comfy,
cozy outfits. We will try to get outside as
often as possible, weather pending! At the
end of October, we will enjoy the school
parade of all the Halloween costumes!
Stella is up on all fours and trying to crawl.
She continues to roll from, back to front
and front to back! She loves to examine her
hands and has now begun to move her
fingers. She is working on waving!
Reminder: please replenish your child’s
basket with appropriate clothing as
needed!
Elin came into the room with lots of smiles.
She really enjoys interacting with her
teachers! She is always laughing and
cooing!
It is very important to remember to remove
all shoes, especially boots before entering
our classroom.
Monthly Milestones
Infant 2
By Courtney D. and Lai C.
Welcome to fall! October is already here
and we are all ready for a spooktacular
month! This month we are going to have
lots of fun decorating our room with many
festive art projects. We will get ooey-gooey
by finger painting with lime green and
black to create Frankenstein and stomp
around in white paint on black paper to
make some silly ghosts. We will take full
advantage of the beautiful, crisp weather
by heading outside to explore the colorful
trees and listen to the crunchy leaves blow
around! Stay tuned for further information
on making Halloween costumes! We would
like to wish BIG Happy 1st Birthdays to our
friends Matthew (10/10) and Tyler (10/24)!
Lena enjoys laying under the activity mat
and will even try some belly time for us..
We noticed on our first neighborhood walk
that Lena loves the outdoors! Lena coos
and babbles in response to those talking to
her.
We hope everyone has a wonderful
Halloween with their little ones! Please feel
free to share some pictures!
Monthly Milestones
Sebastian is officially walking! He enjoys
dancing when we sing songs and building
with the duplo blocks.
Anthony is working very hard on finding his
balance and is getting brave at letting go
and trying to take some steps! He loves to
bounce and jump in the entertainer!
Julia has been doing a fantastic job walking
with some help or with the push walker!
She stands up on her own while picking up
toys and squats back down! Jules has been
using simple signs such as “please” and
“more”. Way to go Julia!
Tyler is almost walking! He can already
walk half way across the room! He is doing
great keeping up with his friends! Tyler
likes to push the trucks all around the room
chasing after his friends!
Matthew has been practicing standing for
short periods of time. He has been having a
blast playing pee-a-boo inside the pop-up
tent with his friends.
Abram has been really enjoying listening to
books. His favorite is Brown Bear, Brown
Bear and he likes the That’s Not My
Monkey touchy-feely books.
Chase loves to turn around playing chase
with his friends. All over the class, under
the tables, through the tunnels he gets his
friends to follow all while laughing and
having lots of fun.
It is very important to remember to remove
all shoes, especially boots before entering
our classroom.
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Welcome Fall! September was a fun-filled
month. We had lots of fun getting to know
each other and exploring the classroom.
Thank you to everyone for making some
creative scrapbook pages! The children love
to look at them and get so excited when we
get to their page! Our Johnny Appleseed
parties were so much fun! We wore our pot
hats and made apple monkey bread to
share with all our friends outside. It was
very yummy!
October is Fire Safety Month and the
Shrewsbury Fire Department will be coming
by to show the children their fire truck. We
will be making fire hats and badges to wear
when they get to climb into the truck.
Watch our classroom walls for fall artwork.
We will be making colorful leaves and
pumpkins. You may even find some ghosts
and spiders! We cannot wait to carve and
decorate our class pumpkin as well. Our
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Harvest Parties will be October 27 and 28
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please watch for sign-up sheets on our
door. Our class will be making our own
costumes. Could you please send in an
oversized white t-shirt for your child to
decorate? Thank you in advance!
We would like to welcome Lila to our class.
She is having fun with her new friends.
Also, Cynthia (10/21) and Clark (10/28) are
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celebrating their 2 birthdays this month!
We hope you both have fabulous days!
The fall brings cooler weather. Please be
sure to leave a jacket or sweatshirt for
outside play. Just a reminder, the Center is
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closed October 10 for Columbus Day! We
are busy planning our Annual Food Drive
which will take place during the first week
of November. Details to come soon!
Have a wonderful October!
Toddler 1
By Beth S. and Sue R.
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Toddler 1A
By Sarah F. and Becca R.
It is officially fall; although we are still
enjoying summer-like weather. The
children love going outside and have
transitioned into their new rooms
and routines smoothly. We learned
all about farm life in September and
got dirty painting pigs, gluing cotton
balls on sheep and learning the
animal names and their sounds. We
also explored all about apples! We
discovered all the colors apples grow
in, as well as, how they feel!
In October, we will continue to
explore our classroom and welcome
both a new friend and a new teacher
to our T1A family! October is Fire
Safety Month and we will be learning
all about how to stay safe during a
fire. The Shrewsbury Fire
Department will visit us and let us
climb in their firetruck! We will be
busy creating our own Halloween
costumes to wear during our school
parade! We are excited to make
spooky decorations for our
classroom! Harvest Parties will be
held on October 27th and 28th. Please
watch our classroom door or sign-up
sheets!
Reminder: Our center is closed
October 10th for Columbus Day!
Happy October!
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Toddler 3
Toddler 2
By Karen G. and Jill N.
By Jen T. & Canisha B.
Hello October! Fall has begun and before
we know it the ground will be covered
with snow again! With the cooler
weather coming, we ask that you please
make sure your child is dressed
appropriately and has a warm sweater or
jacket for outdoor play when needed.
Weather permitting, we do go outside
two to three times a day.
September has flown by! All of the
children are settling into the routine of
their new classroom! We spent the first
couple of weeks getting to know each
other while learning the classroom rules.
Towards the end of the month, we
learned about our five senses and how
they help us. The children enjoyed the
last week of September when we
discussed apples and celebrated Johnny
Appleseed’s birthday. We baked Apple
Monkey Bread and made special “pot”
hats to wear just like Johnny Appleseed
did!
During the month of October, we would
like to wish our friend John a happy
birthday! He turns the big two on 10/10!
We will discuss fire safety too and have a
visit from the Shrewsbury Fire
Department. Our Harvest Parties will be
this month. We will discuss things such as
pumpkins, scarecrows, ghosts and
everything else spooky and fun to
prepare for them. Please watch for signup sheets on our door! Parent
participation is greatly appreciated and
much needed to make our parties a great
success!
September has come and gone!
Welcome FALL! Welcome
apples, pumpkins and cooler
days and nights! Fall is always a
favorite in T3! We had fun in
September making leaves for our
tree! We explored all our favorite
colors. We talked about friends
and family, as well as, fall
changes. Johnny Appleseed’s
birthday was in September.
made apple monkey bread and
had a party outside to celebrate
while we wore pot hats on our
heads that we made as a tribute
to him. All our friends in T3
seemed to enjoy the celebration
We also have a new friend in our
classroom who started in
September. Welcome to SCC
Gloria! We are happy to have you
in our class!
October is a very fun and busy
month! We will be talking about
fire safety and along with that
having a visit from the
Shrewsbury Fire Department.
We will be exploring apples and
pumpkins and having a harvest
party. We will make some fall
crafts such as paper bag pumpkins,
pumpkin prints, corn cob paintings
and pumpkin collages. We also will
make some spooky art (ghosts,
bats, monsters and spiders)!
T3 will create our own costumes
and having a parade (a SCC
tradition!). We are excited to have
a party and a fun and exciting
week. October is so busy and we
love it!
Some dates to remember:
10/10 SCC is closed for Columbus
Day
10/27th and 10/28th Harvest Parties
10/31 Our food drive begins. Please
feel free to bring in a canned good
or non-perishable item. Thank you
in advanced for helping the needy
in our community.
Please send in sweaters or
sweatshirts for your child as some
mornings are cooler.
Thank you and have a happy, safe
October!
Reminders:
SCC is closed Monday 10/10 for Columbus
Day.
Please check your child’s folder daily.
Fire Truck Visit TBA
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Harvest Parties will be October 28 and
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October 29 !
Have a Great Month!
Fall Reading
Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber
introduces children to identifying
leaves! Within its story, descriptions
of eight common leaves are given!
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Preschool 1
spiders and goblins decorating our
classroom too!
By Lusi D. and Taylor M.
We wish Ben Haskins, Lanella and
Chloe Happy 3rd Birthdays this
month!
Whoa! Time is flying by so quickly!
Transition week went very well. All
our new friends are adjusting
wonderfully and we are all ready to
jump in and have a fun and busy
school year.
September was full of fun and
excitement. We met new friends and
teachers and learned all about each
other. During our morning meetings
we love singing songs, counting the
days on the calendar and discuss the
theme for the week. We made lots of
fun projects like mosaic school
buses, finger paintings and family
portraits. All the children really
enjoyed making our “All About Me”
books, with all our favorite things
inside. They created beautiful
paintings with their friends and
made special friendship bracelets.
We ended the month discussing
apples, farms and animals to get us
ready for a fun field trip to the apple
orchard. We made applesauce, apple
turnover and we even had an apple
taste test to see what apple is our
favorite!
In October, the days are shorter, the
nights are longer and fall changes
are all around. We will be exploring
the fall changes with different art
projects using lots of seasonal colors.
We will go on a nature walk where
we will collect leaves and make a
collage. October is fire safety month!
The Shrewsbury firefighters will visit
us and let us sit in a real fire truck.
They will teach us to stop, drop and
roll and what do to in case of a fire.
At the end of the month, we will
have our Harvest Parties on 10/27
and 10/28 where we will be making
our own costumes for the parade.
There will be many creative ghosts,
Please remember as the weather
gets a little cooler please dress your
child appropriately.
Our center is closed on 10/10 in
celebration of Columbus Day.
We hope everyone has a great
month!
week to learn about harvesting.
We will talk about how different
foods are grown and what some
of our favorite foods are. Also this
month, we will be talking about
safety in our town. We will learn
all about the ways to stay safe in
our house, as well as, how to stay
safe outside, especially when we
are trick or treating. Our month
will end with “getting ghouly” as
we prepare our costumes for our
parade and do some creep crawly
hands on activities. We will also
get to carve pumpkins as a fun
class project! It’s really a fun time
of year!
We are excited to welcome three
new friends to our classroom this
month. Jessica, Sarah and Sophia
we are looking forward to having
you in our class!
Reminders:
Preschool 2
By Liz M. and Bonnie G.
As the weather gets a little cooler please
dress your child appropriately.
10/5 Field Trip to Tougas Farm
September was a fun-filled month
that was spent getting to know
each other, meeting new friends
and exploring our classroom. We
kicked off the month of
September learning all about our
families. We discussed some of
our favorite things to do with our
family, where we live and who we
live with. We even got to
decorate a paper bag house.
Next, we took a week to learn
about apples, pumpkins and
orchards. It sure was fun painting
with apples and seeing the star in
the middle. We also learned
about the life cycle of a pumpkin
and played a sequencing game!
Finally, we ended the month
learning about seasonal changes.
We made marble painted leaves
and foil ball trees with fall colors.
We also discussed what seasonal
changes we see happening
outside.
SCC is closed 10/10 for Columbus Day!
October is here and with it we are
sure to have a fabulous month.
We will begin the month learning
all about colors, shapes and sizes.
We will explore mixing colors,
shape games and putting items in
order by size. Next, we will take a
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed in at
1,502 pounds and was grown by Ron Wallace of
Greene, Rhode Island!
Thank you for continuing to label all of you
children’s belongings! It is very helpful!
Happy fall!
Pumpkin Time!
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Preschool 3
By Jen N. and Kristen M.
Wow, September flew by! The month of September started out by welcoming new friends into our classroom.
There was much to learn about each other, ourselves and what makes us individual and unique. We also spent
time learning about our families and the homes we live in. We created houses and people. We welcomed fall on
September 22, even though the weather certainly did not feel like it in the afternoon!
October will start out by going on a field trip to Tougas Farm! We are looking forward to picking apples and riding
on a bus! It will be exciting to see all the fall changes, such as the leaves changing colors, all the fall decorations
and lots of yummy smells. We will be having our annual Harvest Parties at the end of the year! In which we get to
have special treats and get to parade around the school with costumes that we make at school! We will enjoy
some Halloween fun by exploring the guts of a pumpkin, reading fun creepy crawly stories. October is an exciting
time! It is also fire prevention month. We will take time to learn all about fire safety and have a visit from the
Shrewsbury Fire Department!
We wish Jackson (10/1) and Ellie (10/12) happy birthdays this month! We hope you have wonderful days!
Reminders:
Please remember to bring your child’s sheets back to school after the weekend.
10/5: Field Trip to Tougas Farm
SCC is closed 10/10 in observance of Columbus Day!
Preschool 4
By Crystal H. and Katelyn S
September was a busy month of getting to know each other. We were busy exploring the room during transition
week and spent the week getting to know all of our new friends and teachers. We then spent a week learning all
about ourselves. During All About Me week, we created self-portraits with crayons, paper, paint and glue. We then
learned all about families, discussing different family dynamics, as well as, different kinds of houses. We made our
own houses with paper, scissors and glue. We then loved our pets as we discussed how to care for them. We made
cats out of paper, scissors, glue and googly eyes. We also made bird feeders to hang from trees. We then discussed
fall changes. We learned about the changes of weather and scenery around us. We made colorful fall trees with
paper, scissors and glue.
October will be a busy month, as well. We will start the month with the theme Fall Harvest. We will go on our apple
picking field trip during this week. We will then learn about emergency responders and have a visit from a real fire
truck! We will end the month with bats, goblins, ghosts and preparing for our Harvest Parties! These parties will
include a parade so the kids can show off their costumes they created at school.
We will begin our Early Literacy Curriculum this month. This consists of small group activities after morning
meeting. We do ask that you have your child at school for 9 each morning so they do not miss this important part of
the day.
We will also start letter of the week this month. We will practice the sounds of the letter of the week, as well as, the
formation and we will even make lists of words that begin with that letter.
We wish a happy birthday to Calvin (10/2)! We hope you have an amazing day!
10/5 will be our apple picking field trip to Tougas Farm
Our Center is closed 10/10 in observance of Columbus Day.
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THE PARENT CONNECTION | October 2016
Kindergarten
By: Mrs. Toohey, Sylvia and Michelle
September was a busy
month in Kindergarten. We
are off to a great start! We
spent time exploring our
new classroom and learning
“all about me”. We enjoyed
drawing self-portraits, our
families and, of course, our
new friends. We also
graphed the members in
our family and interviewed
our friends. We finished up
the month welcoming fall,
discussing seasonal
changes, exploring leaves
and learning about
“chlorophyl”. Lastly, we
explored apples, learned
about Johnny Appleseed
while celebrating his
birthday and talked about
the farm life. We made
sheep, scarecrows and
apple trees, of course!
October brings many
exciting adventures to
Kindergarten! First, we will
begin our formal reading
and math curriculum. Each
week, we will learn all
about a new letter. There
will also be a letter museum
in our classroom. Each
Monday, your child will
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need to bring in an item
beginning with the Letter
of the Week. Their item will
be added to the museum
for the week. This month,
we will learn the letters Cc,
Oo, Gg and Aa. We will also
learn about Columbus
Day and fire prevention. At
the end of the month, we
will celebrate Halloween
with a parade and a party.
For new families, we
celebrate by having the
children make their own
costumes here at school.
There will be a sign-up
sheet for special snacks and
paper goods. Wow! That is
a busy month!
Happy Birthday wishes go
out to Ishawn on October
19th! We hope you have a
special day!
Important Dates:
10/5 Apple Picking Field
Trip to Tougas Farm
10/10 SCC Closed: Happy
Columbus Day
10/28 Halloween Party and
Parade
TBA: Shrewsbury Fire
Department Truck visit
Have a great month!
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