Newsletter
January 2016
Director’s News
Contents
Director’s News
1
Upcoming events
1
Butterflies News
2
Buzzing Bees News
2
Hummingbirds News
2
RSFK News
3
School Age News
3
Upcoming
Events

January 1st Center
closed Happy New
Year!

January 8th Pajama
and slipper day!

January 18th Martin
Luther King Jr. Day
Public school closed

January 19th Pajama
and slipper day!

January 29th
Mismatched Mitten
Day!
The Education Center enjoyed
the warmer than usual month of
December. There were tons of
opportunities for the children to
play outside while winter delayed
its arrival.
Our second annual Cookies &
Cocoa family event was held on
December 8th. We had a great
turn out, the children had a blast
decorating cookies and doing
winter themed activities like
building a play-dough snowman.
And of course, there was yummy
hot cocoa for everyone to try!
Thank you to all of you who
purchased from the Square 1 Art
Fundraiser. The art products
were beautiful all of the children
worked really hard on their art
work for the fundraiser!
Now that winter has made its
appearance, please remember to
bring in hats, mittens, winter
coats, boots, and snow pants for
your child. The classrooms do go
outside as much as possible
during the winter. With the
change of the seasons it is also
a good idea to check your
child’s extra clothes to make
sure that we have weather
appropriate clothes that fit
just in case they need a
change.
We are all looking forward to a
fun filled new year! Happy
New Year!
Miss Kristin
Page 2 of 4Center Newsletter
Education
Page 2 of 3
The Education Center Newsletter
Butterflies News
We hope everyone had a great
holiday season! The babies are
really enjoying the changes in the
room arrangement. They have
more room to move around as
they grow. The New Year has
lots of exciting things to come
including some new classmates.
We can’t wait to see what the
Buzzing Bees News
It’s hard to believe that 2015 is
coming to an end! The children
of the Buzzing Bees room have
blossomed over the past few
months. In December, we
expanded our sensory play by
using shaving cream, goop,
scented play-dough, and scented
bags. We learned new ways to
move our bodies using the
New Year will bring!
Miss Lori &
Miss Allie
parachute, a trampoline, and
hula hoops. There was also
Miss
Loriof
& time spent outside.
plenty
Everyone’s vocabulary is
expanding rapidly and we enjoy
having conversations with each
other and on the telephone. We
hope everyone had a safe and
happy holiday, and we look
forward to seeing you in 2016!
Miss Ashley &
Miss Kai
Hummingbirds News
In December we were
concentrating on the topic, “I
feel with my skin.” We enjoyed
sensory experiences every day!
We built with ice cubes of
different shapes and sizes,
painted with our feet, and
explored sand, water, and
shaving cream. Playing with our
new foam play-dough was one of
the most popular experiences. In
January, we will be exploring
everything that is round. We
look forward to many interesting
experiments.
Miss Olga &
Miss Barbara M.
Page 3 of 3
Education Center Newsletter
RSFK News
Ready, Set for Kindergarten is ready
for winter!! With some new
additions to our playground, we are
ready to tackle the winter weather!
We can't wait to play in the snow!
We have been busy continuing to
develop our early math, science, and
literacy skills. We have been getting
better and better at identifying the
letters in our names, writing our
names, and even our friends’ names!
We have been working on being able
to count higher and higher, by
counting how many children are in
our classroom, how many teachers,
how many girls or boys, how tall our
towers are, and how many letters
School Age News
The school age classroom was busy all of
December with fun crafts and activities.
One of the favorites was painting
snowmen with white puffy paint on black
paper to see the contrast. Then they
enjoyed adding food coloring to the puffy
paint to make other colors to paint with.
Playing charades and singing karaoke
were highlights of the winter break from
school. The children were very excited to
try to stump their classmates in charades!
Miss Erin, Miss Jonelle, & Miss Krys
are in our names! We have been
working on making predictions as to
what we think will happen when we
mix different things together.
Although our predictions are
sometimes a little crazy- the process
that we are using is prepping us to
have super science brains as we
grow!!!
Miss Brinna, & Miss Liz