April News

Spring is really here......
	Please check your child's container of clothing and exchange for lighter and most likely larger clothes. We will be outside on a daily basis and ask you to dress your child appropriately. Proper shoes are very important for the safety of children. Gym shoes are the best. Please no sandals, jelly shoes or flip flops. Thank you for your cooperation.


REMINDER...
Tiny Tot will be closed Friday, April 2, 2010.

April 11-17, 2010
The Week of the Young Child is a time to recognize that children's opportunities are our responsibilities, and to recommit ourselves to ensuring that each and every child experiences the type of early environment ---at home, at child care, at school, and in the community--- that will promote their early learning.

Today we know more than ever before about the importance of children's earliest years in shaping their learning and development. Yet, never before have the needs of young children and their families been more pressing. The Week of the Young Child is a time to recognize that children's opportunities are our responsibilities, and to recommit ourselves to ensuring that each and every child experiences the type of early environment--at home, at child care, at school, and in the community--that will promote their early learning.

	EARTH DAY Thursday, April 22, 2010

Our Book It Program is going on through the end of April.
The competition is building as more books are being read.
Just take a look at the cutouts around each child's name.
Research has proven that reading aloud to a child
is the single most important factor in raising a reader.
By working together, we can prepare children
to be successful at reading and enjoy it for a lifetime.
At the end of the month the children will receive
a reading award certificate from Pizza Hut
good for a free, one-topping Personal Pan Pizza.
Keep Reading!
Also,
April is National Poetry Month.
You might try reading
a little poetry for little ones.

HURRAY FOR READING!

ART SHOW

Our Tiny Tot Art Show will be held on April 29th.
It will be an evening to Remember!
Our teachers have been preparing the
children's art for this special event!

Our walls will shine!

Early Years
is a newsletter to provide busy parents with practical ways
to promote school readiness, parent
involvement, and more effective parenting.
Click here to read the April Edition.
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April Birthday List
Nathalie K. 10^th
Miss Melissa 12^th
Eve B. 19^th
Miss Becky 22^nd
Vanessa A. 26^thDaniel B. D. 28^th^{HA PPY BIR THD AY!!!}

Five Reasons Why Four Is The Perfect Age

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Four delights in walks or bikes around the neighborhood. Four still loves to collect treasures (sticks, flowers, etc.) on these little jaunts. Fours still reports with great enthusiasm that she met a neighbor- or a neighbor's cat on her walk. Four walks holding your hand happily.
Four has her own fashion sense. Fours wears the hood from a Batman costume to the park or the
supermarket. In the latter, she asks with great innocence, "Why is everyone looking at me?"

3.	Four sleeps through the night, is well past potty training and doesn't turn the house upside down when you take a shower. Four makes you miss your baby sometimes but lets you delight in this little independent person she's become-one who no longer needs you to tote around a small army's worth of supplies. Four still likes it if you have snacks in your purse, though.
4.	Four sings and dances, unabashedly. four colors amazing pictures, with giant heads and stick bodies and big smiles. Four lives books and is into leters and numbers. Four can do puzzles and hang upside down on the monkey bars. Four makes you laugh when she says, " I'll put a duck on your head!"
5.	Four is sweet and cuddly and full of over-the-top praises for everyone she loves like, "You're the best mom I've seen on Earth." Four is also brutally honest when she says, "You have a giant bottom."

WHAT'S HAPPENING...

Our Teddy Bears, the two's ...
We started March off talking about Dr. Seuss.
We painted with cups in tribute to the book Hop on Pop.
Later in the week we painted with apples & read Ten Apples Up On Top!
Then we talked about people who help in our community.
Such as police, firefighters, doctors, mail carriers, and teachers.
Lastly, we discussed the wind and how it blows things around.
We made kites & painted by blowing colored bubbles on paper!
Next month we will talk about baby animals, turtles, frogs/tadpoles & gardening!

The Bunny Bunch, the threes ...
What a marvelous March the Three's had!
We talked about windy weather, Ireland and St. Patrick's Day.
The leprechaun sure played tricks on us and messed up our room, but he also left us some presents, too!
In April we will have many fun activities about farm life, Spring, flowers, Earth and dinosaurs.
We will continue to work on our letter recognition and practice printing our letters.

Our 4's, our Junior Kindergarten...
We had a March full of Madness!
We started out with a week full of Dr. Seuss books and crafts to celebrate his birthday.
We made Cat In The Hat hats and real green eggs and ham.
Then we dove right into March winds and made windmills and kites.
Next, we learned about birds and butterflies.
We made beautiful butterflies to decorate our walls for Spring.
We also had a wonderful time at our fieldtrip to a play called �Jack Sprat Low Fat World Tour�
that taught us all about eating nutritious foods and how they help us grow and stay strong and healthy.
We had a St. Patrick�s Day party, and were amazed to discover
how much mess little Leprechauns can make.
We made a trap, but did not catch any Leprechauns this year.
All of the children had fun cleaning up all of the footprints and green toys spread out all over the room.
The last week of March was focused on learning all about insects.
We made spiders and ladybugs.
We learned about the different characteristics associated with many kinds of insects.
Next month will prove to be another busy and fun month.
We will learn about baby animals, frogs, turtles, and spring gardens.
We will celebrate Earth Day and enjoy many days out in the spring weather.

Our 5's, our Kindergartener's...
March was a fun month in our class!
We enjoyed the last winter days and welcomed the so wanted spring!
We celebrated Dr. Seuss� Birthday by reading his books mostly all by ourselves
and by cooking green eggs and ham, which was such a delicious snack!
We explored and played in Seussville University at http://www.seussville.com/games
and had a lot of fun moments, learning together with Dr. Seuss� characters!
During the fairy tales and fables week we learned about honor, grace,
and nobility as well as older types of music and dance such as the minuet or waltz.
We also learned about nutrition labels and how to read them on the different foods
we buy from the grocery store. We worked REALLY hard to catch a Leprechaun,
but�unfortunately we couldn�t and we have to try it again next year.
We talked about why the season changed and how the earth moves in the sky around the sun.
We also started our long term gardening project by planting been stalks and observing their growth.
In April we will celebrate Passover and go on egg hunts for Easter!
We will continue with gardening and we will plant not only beautiful flowers,
but also tomatoes and salad for our vegetable garden.
We will learn about the trees and their parts and what they need to grow.
We will go to visit our friends next door in �Robineau� nursing home,
wish them happy spring and do some fun projects together.
We will talk about birds and insects and, weather is permitting,
will finally go observe nature in Emily Oaks Park.
We will review how important it is to preserve our planet and ways to do this like
Re-use, Reduce, and Recycle!
We will meet oviparous animals and learn all about them
and how they are different from the other animals.

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