Sunday, June 3, 2012

Rainforest/ End of the year Summer News

It has been a while since my last post. Sorry, but a lot of changes and maintance. I am up for relicensing so I have been reviewing my records and making sure things are set in the little free time that I have. As most of you know, ms. Amanda is now full time. She has been busy doing NAAC classes with me. We have also been blessed with Amanda's sister Chrissy for the summer months. Two of our close "family" friends are going to be moving soon. (clodagh and jayden)We will have a goodbye party the same day as our graduation. We will be doing this event June 13th after school. If your child does not usually attend or return to school this day we would really love them to come back. We will be having a little preschool graduation for our graduates and we will be having an ice cream party. We are continuing our rainforest theme through the end of the school year. The children have learned a great deal about the rainforest. We started with the layers of the tropical amazon rainforest and our continuing with the different animals of the this particular rainforest. Our favorite animals soo far are the jaguar and the pink dolphin. Hopefully this week we will be able to upload some fun videos of us roaring like a jaguar! We have finished the entire alphabet and our numbers 1-20. Nicholas and Aubrey are reading easy readers!!! Way to go!! Val and clodagh have learned all their phonics and are sounding out 3 and 4 letter words. Jay-den and Jonah have learned how to write their names. Our youngest pre-k's jojo and cam and Caleb have learned their colors, shapes and some of the letters in their names. Joe and cam are also diaper graduates!!! All three are learning to draw shapes and write their names.. We have had a great year of learning. This has been a great year and I have been blessed to be a part of your children's Our littlest addition has begun to crawl and pull herself up!! She is always happy and cheerful. Our after school children have been diligently doing their homework and helping us out with the younger ones in our group. They have made a fort in the woods and have been having fun playing kickball and whiffle ball. I have planned our June field trips. Mosley pines Frog pond Liquid planet Seabrook beach and dunlaps Sawyer park and twin lanterns Amesbury park and hoggies Look for your child's calendar and please sign your child's permission slip. All money for these field trips are do when you sign the form. Our toddlers and our baby will not be attending most of these field trips due to chaperone availability. Most of our field trips will be on Monday's and wednesday's throughout the summer.