Magic Mountain News
Things to note:
The annual Gingerbread house festival will take place on December 5 th at the Family Place
in Norwich. The preschool class will be decorating a gingerbread house for the festival.
The festival is open to the public (for an entrance fee), so please feel free to attend and
check out our gingerbread house as well as those from other area centers.
At our annual visit to VLS to see Santa, MMCC will be selling 50/50 raffle tickets as a
fundraiser. Also, starting on Tuesday December 1st we will be selling these in the cubby
room at drop off and pick up. Prices will be $1 each, 3 for $2, or an arm’s length for $10.
The winter sickness season is upon us. Please re-read our sickness policy in your handbook
so that you are aware of our policies and procedures.
We will be collecting non-perishable food items through the month of December to
donate to our local food shelf just before Christmas. There will be a box in the cubby
room for these items.
Again, if you are able and willing to donate, these are some things we are looking for:
-Cordless drill
–dress up clothes
–measuring cups for sand/water table
-paper towels
–old cellphones for dramatic play
Magic Mountain
Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 4
December 2015
Reminders:
 We will be closed Dec.
25th and Jan. 1st for the
holidays. We will be open
until 12noon on Dec. 24th
and Dec. 31st.
 Our annual visit to see
Santa @ VLS will be on
Friday Dec. 4th at
3:30pm.
 Our annual meeting/open
house will be on Dec. 8th.
Inside this issue:
Reminders
1
Housekeeping
1
Infant News
2
Toddler News
2
Preschool News
2
Infant
Wow! Can’t believe it’s already December! This month we will be doing a
holiday/winter theme. Some of our projects will include painting, making
scented playdough, and making gingerbread ornaments. We also will be
reading lots of books about winter and learning some new winter songs.
We still plan to go outside for our walks around town (weather
permitting).
Toddler
This month the toddlers will be focusing on hibernation and the
holidays. Our board this month will be a spin-off of the book “Whose
Tracks Are These?” by Jim Nail. Please feel free to come check out
whose tracks are on our board. Some of our projects will include a
paper plate bear, stained glass dreidel, Kufi hats, and a Santa sleigh.
Some books we will read are, “Time For Sleep”, “Hibernation Station”,
and “The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell”.
Preschool
This December we will be reading an assortment of Jan Brett books. “The
Hat” and “The Mitten” are great books for children who don’t like to wear
outdoor winter clothing, and “The Gingerbread Baby” is a huge favorite. We
will be teaching the children how to put on our outdoor clothing in order;
snowpants first, then boots, jacket, hat and lastly mittens. If you can
encourage the same order at home it will greatly help. We also will be
teaching the “coat trick” to your children. I will be happy to show anyone
who is interested.
We will be decorating a gingerbread house for the annual family place
Gingerbread Festival. Our house this year will be “Elf’s Vacation Cottage”.
We will also be making our own gingerbread men.
We have welcomed Maison Coburn to our class and said goodbye to Xander
Ryon and Abel Mayotte.
Have A Great Holiday Season!