June - Airport Learning Tree
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June - Airport Learning Tree
Airport Learning Tree P Director: Penny Haakinson Assistant Director: Ru Coyne Front Desk: Debbi Alger & Deby Waldner June 2015 Mothering Heights by Penny Haakinson Contents Mothering Heights 1 Upcoming Events 1 Front Desk News 2 The Month of June – Honoring Fathers “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would Snuggle Bunny News 3 reply, “we’re raising boys.” - Harmon Killebrew Wobbly Lambs News 3 What a wonderful statement by this father! He really understood what’s important in this world. If you look at most of the successful people in this world they will Tiger Cubs I News 4 Tiger Cubs II New 4 Fuzzy Duck News 5 were of time spent together and not anything that he bought for you. Bouncy Bear News 5 Here are some other quotes that say so well what Fathers are all about. Kangaroo News 6 “He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Panther News 6 Budington Kelland. Family Matters 7 I guess there is no greater teacher than those of us that have been lucky enough Menu Attachment Our Theme This Month Summer’s Here Upcoming Events 6/11 Kindergarten Graduation 6/12 PNO Hosted by Debbi & Caitlyn 6/15 Summer Program Begins 6/19 Father’s Day Breakfast always attribute their success to a strong relationship with their father or mother. As you think of your own memories of your Father, I’ll bet the best ones to watch our fathers live the lives that they were teaching us to live. I had a real task master for a father, but even though I had to work very hard, I was watching him work harder than I was. This toughness that he instilled in me has been a great gift to me in my life, and a strong contributor to my success. “Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.” - Reed Markham That is really the toughest part of good parenting. We have to find a way to take our greatest parenting day and do it over and over again. But the one thing I would like to say to all of you Dads is “WAY TO GO!!!!” You are out there doing it each and every day and making a real difference in the lives of your children who will become our future world. Enjoy this month and especially Father’s Day. You deserve it. Page 2 Front Desk News Dear Parents… Mother’s Day Success What a wonderful celebration of all the moms in our lives at our Mother’s Tea. In addition to the memorable performances, it was so nice to see all of our mothers, grandmothers, aunts and others at this special event. We hope that everyone had a good time mingling with other families as we enjoyed the nice afternoon and some refreshments. We love these opportunities to bring our ALT “family” together. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Coming Up – Father’s Day Breakfast We will be honoring the father figures in our lives with our annual pancake and sausage breakfast on Friday, June 19th from 7am – 9am. We hope you will join us for this special occasion; these events mean so much to your child(ren). Scholastic Book Order Our last scholastic book order for this school year will be submitted on June 23rd. We will start back up in September. Thank you for your continued support. Summer: Schedules, Shoes, and Sunscreen As we begin our journey into the summer months, we need to remind everyone of a few important things. First, the school year is coming to an end and most schoolagers will be done the week of June 11th. Our summer program will begin the week of June 15th. If you or someone you know has an elementary student that would like to have some summer fun, please give them a referral card. We have three field trips scheduled for each week and plenty of cooking, science and arts/crafts projects planned. Children are sure to have a blast! For those faimlies that will be leaving for the summer months and/or have vacations planned, please let the front desk know of your schedule changes. This is often a time when staff want to take some time off to be with their families, and we want to make sure that we are staffed appropirately. Second, even though the first thing we want to do when the weather gets nice is break out the sandals and flip flops, we want to remind you that these do not make for safe climbing, running, and playing in bark chips. While flip flops are not allowed at daycare, proper sandals are okay. Please just make sure they are sturdy and that they have a back to them. Remember however that they can still get bark chips in them and be a hastle to play in. Tennis shoes are always the favored choice. Finally, as the sun continues to get warmer, we need to start thinking about sunscreen. We encourage families to apply sunscreen to your child(ren) prior to drop off and then June Newsletter we will reapply in the afternoon. Just make sure you have filled out a current authorization form and bring in a bottle of sunscreen with your child’s name on it. We will store them up and out of reach of children, PLEASE DO NOT leave it in your child’s bag. Additionally, we cannot use the aerosol spray cans of sunscreen. New Faces You will begin to see some new teachers in the building as we gain some help for the summer. They are a great help to facilitate our full time teachers spending time with their families and taking vacations so please introduce yourselves when you see a new face. Trading Days Due to our almost full classrooms, switching your days within a week may not be an option. Please feel free to ask at the front desk, but know that it may not be available because our classes are full most days. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear… Kio Corban Maxwell H. Teacher Jessica and Teacher Robin Happy Birthday to you! Page 3 Classroom News June Newsletter Snuggle Bunnies loved by Char & Joy This month brings some wonderful new friends. We would like to welcome Rhys and Saul to our classroom. The sunny weather is upon us so please remember to provide short sleeve shirts or onesies and shorts in the extra clothes bin. For our older friends, please bring shoes and sunscreen as they may get to go outside. The room is getting busier and busier as these bunnies get older and stronger. Their sensory awareness is blossoming too. We will focus on this more and more in the coming months as we bring back sticky tape play, shredded paper play, sensory boxes, and so much more. Remember tummy time is crucial to your little bunny’s development so let’s play. Wobbly Lambs loved by Jan & Denae We are settling in nicely in the Wobbs room. The children are now accustomed to their new surroundings. There will be a lot more outdoor time this month. Please apply sunscreen before coming to school! They will be going out morning and afternoon for at least a half hour each time. Our target goal for this month is to start our daily circle time. Now that everyone is transitioned, it’s time for learning some new fun things. The alphabet and animal sounds and movement plus we will be practicing counting with colors. Father’s Day is coming so something fun to make for him is in the plans. Make sure we have shoes for outside! Summer is here this month! Classroom News Page 4 June Newsletter Tiger Cubs I loved by Jen, Denae, & Chela Last month we had a great time Pirate week will continue with Y With summer coming up we look celebrating Mother’s Day. We for “Yoho a Pirate” week. We will forward to lots of time outside hope you enjoyed our songs to make treasure chests and pirate on our very shaded playground. you and your gift. This month is ships. During these weeks, look On nice warm days we may also my favorite time of year with out for Captain Jen Sparrow and play in the water so make sure our pirate theme. We will be listen for some fun pirate music your child has a change of switching up such as “We Are the Pirates clothes. On hot days, we also because I will be on vacation Who Don’t Do Anything.” After provide extra water for your and don’t want to miss pirate 2 pirate weeks, we will come child but sunscreen is up to you. week. The first week of June back to the letter W. We will Just make sure you fill out the our letter of the week will be V. talk form in the office and bring in We will be dressing Vikings and whales. We may even have a tasting vegetables. We will then watermelon treat. We will end start our pirate weeks with “X” the last few days of June with marks the spot. We will be letter Z where we talk about the making treasure maps and flags. zoo. some letters about watermelons and a bottle (no aerosol sprays). Tiger Cubs II loved by Kim & Caitlyn May has come and gone and we had a wonderful month in our Todds class. We all worked very hard to put on a wonderful performance and show our mommies how much we love them, had a super fun and messy ‘glow in the dark’ party and continued to enjoy the wonderful weather. For the month of June, we will be learning the letters V, W, X, and Y and the numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5. This month will be especially fun because we will be joining teacher Jennifer’s class for two weeks of pirate fun. There will be pirate art, pirate themed circle time, and a pirate party. We’ll also continue to take advantage of the awesome sunny weather and celebrating Father’s Day by having a special pancake breakfast. Last, with the hot weather fast approaching, please be aware that we will be spending a lot of time playing outside. If you would like your child to wear sunscreen, please make sure to let us know and fill out the appropriate form at the front desk. Please make sure your child also has an extra change of clothes in case we play in water (which the Todds LOVE)! Classroom News Page 5 June Newsletter Fuzzy Ducks loved by Deby, Amber, Karissa, & Stacey May was full of changes with field and look for treasures or Also some kids moving to JrK and creatures. Colors for the month which is a solid until you pick it some coming to preschool from are grey and purple. The shapes up and it becomes a liquid. It Todds. Everyone is adjusting will be diamond and star and the should be a big hit – along with well. Mother’s Tea was a big hit. letters will be E and F. plenty of other fun discoveries. We will learn about Elmer the If Elephant and F is for Frogs. please feel free to talk to a Where do they live? What teacher. Also check your child’s sounds do they make? We’ll try art our hand at mixing paints again breakfast will be Friday, June and 19th. We hope you can all make We worked hard for the performance and did a great job. The lesson that the kids loved most was dinosaur week from doing the dinosaur stomp to finding dinosaur bones on the playground and painting them. experiment with what happens when you mix white June promises to be just as with black or red with blue? much fun. We will be going on How many stars are in the sky? we you file. will have make any The Oobleck questions, Father’s Day it. more walks to run in the big Bouncy Bears loved by Kayla & Chela May was an exciting month in During circle time, we will be the activities and artwork. We our classroom. The highlight adding color, number and letter are especially looking forward to was the Mother’s Day Tea. We of the week to our routine. A the nice weather June has to all had fun practicing our songs very special Happy Birthday to offer so we can have more and singing them on stage. We Maxwell! activities outside. also enjoyed learning about what a police officer does and did some fun art activities with things we found on our nature walk. Please remember that we do wash sheets every week, but blankets are to be washed at home. Our room has been moving around and changing a bit, we We have plenty to look forward are still trying to make it just to in June. We will be focusing right for all of our classroom on oceans, flags for Flag Day, needs. If you have any questions vegetables, and the changes about anything, please feel free from spring to summer. We will to ask. We have a lot of fun and also be working hard on a learning planned for our class. special gift for Father’s Day. We are all looking forward to June Newsletter Classroom News Page 6 Kangaroos loved by Ru & McKenzie We have made it to the end of our We then shifted gears to talk about His family moved to Michigan. We school year! May was another dinosaurs. This may have been our had a lot of fun writing him notes successful month that included a favorite topic of the year. Some of and drawing him a picture which we Mother’s Day celebration, a lot of us came into the theme with a lot of then put into a book. We hope he dinosaurs, and some end of the background knowledge which allowed has a wonderful time in his new year will for the children to become the home. continue for the first week or so teachers in some cases. It was quite of June). We had so much fun exciting. We even went outside and preparing for Mother’s Day. Did measured how long dinosaurs were. you all enjoy your gifts? We had a A Brachiosaurus really shocked us! lot of fun picking the color of The measurements also included a paint for the jar then choosing a Triceratops horn, a Tyrannosaurus flower that would match nicely and Rex, and a few other dinosaurs. finally being very careful to put a Finally we wrapped up some end of perfect handprint on the jar. the year things which included a lot Hopefully they have found a nice of reading practice. We have seen home in your house. We also hope quite a few light bulbs going off as you we we recognize sight words, are able prepared and the opportunity to to sound out words, and are reading have refreshments and visit with sentences other families. comprehension questions about what wrap up enjoyed (which the we songs and then answering we’ve read. Sadly, in May, we also With the little time we have together in June, we will prepare for our Kindergarten graduation and continue practicing our skills so we are ready for school in the fall. Please check cubbies for an invitation to graduation which will be held Thursday, June 11th at 4 pm which will also be our last day of school before we officially join the school age children for the summer program. Thank you to all of our families for your support through this wonderful school year! It has been a lot of fun! said goodbye to our friend Everett. Panthers loved by Robin, McKenzie, Alicia & Ashley In the month of May, we celebrated We did a few wind projects - the In the month of June, we will Mother’s annual whirly-gig and the helicopter. We continue with science experiments. Mother’s Day Tea. It was a huge added strips of streamers to gauge Zoomers success as we heard many mothers airflow and air resistance. We also pinwheels, and flex tangles are on say it was the best recital ever, did some fun fuse bead bracelets. our agenda. School is out in June and even better than the Christmas one. We were amazed at the very cool field trips begin – Woohoo! How thankful we were that our patterns the kids came up with. We extra effort was noticed. In our even made Penny a black and science projects, two were a failure: orange Beavers one to take on her the candy trip to Texas. Lastly, we made experiments. If you would like a stress balls with flour and balloons. penny Day and with our the rock copy of these projects to try at home, just ask Teacher Robin. made out of straws, Page Page 77 Classroom News May Newsletter June Newsletter May Newsletter Just For Fun Home Depot: Kids Workshop When: First Sat., 9-12pm Where: Various Home Depot Locations Description: Free, monthly hands-on, “how-to” craft* workshops designed for kids ages 5-12. 6/6 Learn How to Build a Load ‘n Go Truck Lowe’s Build & Grow Workshop When: Sat. 10am Where: Various Lowe’s Locations Description: Free, monthly hands-on, “how-to” craft workshops designed for kids 6/13 Iron Man’s Avenjet 6/27 Captain America Motorcycle Lakeshore Learning When: Every Sat, 11am –3pm Where: Lakeshore Learning Store, 16901 SW 65th Ave., Lake Oswego Description: FREE fun craft activities for ages 3+ Information: 503-620-9888 or lakeshorelearning.com. 6/6 Beaded Bubble Wands 6/13 Design-Your-Own Race Cars 6/20 Great Catch! Fishing Pole 6/27 Storybook Cottage $2 Days at OMSI When: First Sun. of every month, 6/7 Where: OMSI 1945 SE Water St., Portland, OR 97214 Description: Enjoy discounted $2 admission to OMSI. $4 Zoo Second Tuesday When: Tue. June 9th, 10am – 4pm Where: Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd. Portland, OR 97221 Description: Enjoy all of the fun wildlife and adventure at the Oregon Zoo for a fraction of the cost with $4 admission per person. Children 2 and under are, as always, admitted free of charge. Ride transit and receive an additional $1.50 off with proof of ridership. There is a fee for parking a well. Wondrous Wednesdays When: Wed. June 3rd 10am – 5pm Where: World Forestry Center 4033 SW Canyon Description: Tour the World Forestry Center for the discounted price of $3 per person. Ride the wetfree rapids, try your smoke jumping skills, and discover interesting things about forests all over the world. There is a fee for parking as well. Guided Nature Hike When: Saturdays, 10-11:30am Where: Tyron Creek Park 11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd. Description: Free guided nature hikes exploring the forest and stream ecosystems and natural history at Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Topics will vary from week to week but will be appropriate for all ages. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No pre-registration required. For more specific information or if bringing groups larger than 10, call (503) 636-9886 ext. 225. 6/6 The Unseen World of the Forest Canopy 6/13 Urban Wildlife 6/20 Fish of Tryon Creek Second Saturday at WREC When: Sat. June 13th, 1pm – 3pm Where: Water Resources Education Center, 4600 SE Columbia Way Description: Second Saturdays at the Water Resources Education Center are not only fun, they're free! Each second Saturday of the month, from 1 to 3 p.m., kids and their families are invited to explore a different topic through hands-on activities, games and stories. The Water Resources Education Center’s regular June Second Saturday will celebrate National Get Outdoors Day at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Enjoy a fun-filled day of activities to help get you and your family outdoors! Kids Morning Skate at Oaks Park When: Saturdays, 10:30am - 12pm Where: Oaks Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, Portland OR 97202 Description: Get your family's weekend rolling at Kids Morning Skate! This session is specifically designed for kids ten and younger and features music chosen by kids for kids, a 15 minute group lesson taught by a USA Roller Sports certified instructor, and cool skating games like "Dead Bug", "Roller Limbo" and, of course, "The Hokey Pokey"! Includes conventional skates. Ages 0-10, with family. $6 per child, grown-ups free. oakspark.com Check out these great sources for more family fun activities… Multnomah County Library https://multcolib.org/events/progra ms Metro Parent www.metro-parent.com/calendars Vancouver Family Magazine www.vancouverfamilymagazine.com/ca lendar.html PDX Kids Calendar http://www.pdxkidscalendar.com/sum mer-fun-events/