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Dear Parents, I would like to take this opportunity to wish a warm welcome to all of our beautiful families - we feel as if you are all part of our families. I look forward to a long, wonderful journey with you and your child. This month the classrooms will be focusing on teaching early math concepts. Even in infancy, you can begin laying the foundation for future understanding in math. While your child cannot use expressive language to show his understanding, playing learning activities will teach him receptively. You can do this naturally in your everyday interactions with your child. Over the years, your child will begin to internalize these concepts just as he does in learning to speak, walk, and attain other developmental milestones. Remember when they tell you all we did at school was play they are correct; however they don't realize that they are learning so much during these fun experiences. Thats why the documentation boards in the hallway are so important to you, the parents. These will validate their play experiences and you will learn what skills your child is acquiring from each activity. Our last class to join the documentation band wagon is the transition class and they will be displaying a documentation board in the hall starting this month. Please be sure to check them out each month! We will be kicking off a cookie dough fund raiser staring on the 6th of march. We really appreciate all of your support and hope that you can all participate. We are trying to raise funds for a portable sink that we can use on the playground to help encourage children to wash hands after they cough, sneeze, and blow their nose. We want to instill these very important self-help skills at an early age so that they will stay healthy and prevent the spread of germs. We will also be able to bring it with us to our annual "Picnic in the Park" which will make it much nicer than walking all the way to the bathroom!! The sink is very expensive (1200.00) so we have to raise the funds through different events. We will be having many fun events and activities during the next months including a "Monthly Parent Date Night " which means pj party, movie and pizza party for the children here at Babes, as well as, our annual bowling benefit, a scrap booking night and a Bounce house Benefit. All the activities will be fun and help the center at the same time. Hope to see you at them! *This is the last month (until Sept.) to turn in Hollywood Market register receipts and deposit them in the box by the front door. Your support is greatly appreciated. Easy ways to help the center... *Save Campbell's soup labels and other Campbell's product labels and deposit them in the receptacle by the front door. Be sure to check out Rochester Hills Babes in Toy land on FACE BOOK. I have created a page that displays all of the photos from each month in a photo album. I have too many great pictures to put on this newsletter so I thought that this would be a great way for you to see a lot of the wonderful activities. Grandparents and friends can check them out too. I hope you enjoy. Remember my door is always open for any thoughts or concerns you may have! Looking forward to an exciting month! Ms. Sue Graf |
| NURSERY NEWS Dear Parents, Happy first Birthday Collin!!!!! This month we will be learning early math skills such as patterns,counting and sorting. We will be sorting objects and lining them up into different patterns. We use naturally occurring opportunities to visually show and verbally say small numbers. For example, while cuddling, we hold up one toy or familiar object in front of your child and say, "one doll, block, bottle, etc." We will encourage your child to touch the object. Over time, we introduce two and three objects, up to about four. We will also use our typical playtime activities to show and say math related concepts such as again, more and less, same and different, and smaller and bigger. Modeling these words using toys and other common objects will help your baby learn the vocabulary and begin developing a non-verbal understanding of quantity, number, and visual comparison. Reminders: *Please be sure to check your babies' daily sheet for items they may need. *St. Patrick Party March 17th Don't forget to wear GREEN! Please help support our school and participate in our cookie dough fund raiser! TODDLER NEWS Dear Parents, This month we will also be focusing on early math skills. We will be counting objects using one-to-one correspondence as well as rote by counting in our "5 Little Duck " song. We will also play many games to introduce math concepts. In one game we hide a person or toy behind a blanket. Then we will ask questions. For example, if we are hiding a teddy bear, we will say "Where's Ms Jessica?" Lower the blanket and show an expression of surprise and laughter. Say "No! That's not Ms. Jessica! That's a teddy bear!" Alternately, hold the blanket up and ask, "Where's the toy?" while holding nothing behind the blanket we pull the blanket away, smile, and laughingly say, "Nothing," "There are none," or "There is no toy." "The bear is gone." This game develops observation, visual discrimination, and the concepts of "not, none, nothing, and gone." It also teaches a basic level of humor and encourages your baby to look for ways to solve problems. Please help support our school and participate in our cookie dough fund raiser! Sincerely, Nursery & Toddler Staff |
TRANSITION NEWS Dear Parents, March is always such a fun month in our room with our St. Patrick's Day party and the approaching spring season. We will be concentrating on wonderful "hands-on" math activities during this month, including mixing and measuring. We will be looking for patterns around us and experiencing fun activities while sorting objects. We will be starting to graph and chart snowfall and rainfall. The children love to observe the elements out the window now we can teach them how to document their observations. Reminders: Remember that Michigan weather is really unpredictable so please continue to bring in all of your child's "snow gear". We try to go out side and enjoy the snow when the temperature allows us to. Potty Training Please be patient in order for toilet training to be successful you child must have bladder and bowel control to physically be able to use the toilet. Signs that your child is ready to use the toilet include: Staying dry for two hours or more Recognizing when he/she is urination or having a B.M. Being able to pull pants up and down Being able to get on and off the toilet Following simple directions Wanting to wear underpants and use the toilet Being able to communicate with words or gestures Pulling her diaper off Telling and adult when wet or soiled Remember to dress your child in easily accessible clothing to help set them up for success. Sweat pants and loose waisted clothing without buttons and zippers work the easiest. Remember that this is a task that takes patience, time, and consistency. Don't worry if it seems like they get it and then start having accidents again- it happens all the time! They will get it eventually. Please help support our school and participate in our cookie dough fund raiser! Sincerely, Transition Staff |
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER: 3/15/10 Last day for Hollywood receipts! 3/17/10 St. Patrick Day Parties 3/20/2010 "A Healthy Me By the Numbers!" Field Trip to Meijer for the Pre-k Children UPCOMING EVENTS: March 6th: Savory Cookie Dough Fund raiser March 14th: Daylight Savings Time April 13th Sign-up for Parent/Teacher Conferences April 16th: Bouncin Party Zone Fun Night!!! |
| PRE-SCHOOL NEWS Dear Parents, Math, Math and more Math!!! What an exciting month! We will be concentrating on different forms of early math concepts such as: one-to-one correspondence, counting,sorting,patterns, shapes, graphing and problem solving skills. We will be incorporating math into all of our centers and language arts activities. Special Project: The children will be working on wooden Shamrock boxes through the early part of March and using them during the week of St. Patrick's Day. They will be bringing them home after the 17th filled with gold coins. Have your child count them out to you and then ask them simple math questions like: If you take 2 away how many will you have left. Research shows... The best time to ask your preschooler about their day is right before bed. Research has found that 15 minutes prior to bedtime is an excellent way to initiate conversation about the days events. Children are more apt to be open and talkative. It also reduces levels of stress and makes for a good nights rest. Remember to read the daily sheet from class so you can stimulate the conversation if they say "I don't know" or " We played". Please help support our school and participate in our cookie dough fund raiser! Sincerely, Pre-School Staff |
| PRE-K NEWS Dear Parents, This month we will be focusing on Early math skills. These skills are introduced through play activities. The children will learn: Numbers represent amounts of objects; Numbers are expressed as spoken words, written words, and written symbols; Using words to count forward and backward from one to ten; To count objects from one to ten; The concepts of add and take away using objects; Concepts of none, more, less, most, smaller, smallest, bigger, biggest; Names of common shapes such as circle, square, triangle, and rectangle and how to recognize those shapes in their environment, as in shapes of doors, signs, and toys; To sort objects by size, shape, and color; Follow simple directions such as, "Show me the one red square, or "Take away one blue crayon." A favorite activity in our class is "I'm thinking of an Animal." This guessing game builds your child's thinking skills, memory, language skills, and ability to think about characteristics and classifications of animals. The development of fine motor skills in our classroom have greatly improved with all the activities the children have been participating in. The children's ability to trace and cut have really improved. We will continue to concentrate on graphing skills, as well as, prediction; using our take home jars! Our class St. Patrick's Day party will be held on March 17th. The Party Treat Sign-up will be posted on the classroom door during the first week of March. Please help support our school and participate in our cookie dough fund raiser! Sincerely, Pre-K Staff |
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