Weekday Preschool Newsletter April 2006

Kids In Color Photography: On April 5th , 6th, and 7th, all of the children in each of the classes will have their pictures taken by Kids In Color Photography. Siblings are welcome to come and be photographed as well. Each child will receive a FREE 5 x 7 class picture, regardless of whether you order any photographs or not. You do not need to feel obligated to order anything, but please be sure your child attends that day so they will be in the class picture. (The day for each class to be photographed is typed on their calendar.)

Early Childhood Celebration Event: On Saturday, April 8th from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm, we will have a booth at the Ag Hall at the State Fairgrounds for this fun event. All the activities are FREE and age-appropriate for preschoolers and early elementary-aged children. We hope you can come out and visit our booth as well as the other fun activities that will be provided. It is a great way to spend some time with your child!!

Westminster Church Easter Party: Another fun event on that same Saturday, April 8th, is an Easter Party being held at Westminster Church. It begins at 10:30 am. A postcard with all the details will be sent home with your child. The church is inviting all the preschool families to come and join in the morning activities.

Preschool Easter Egg Hunt: We will have our own Easter party on the Wednesday or Thursday before Easter. We will dye eggs and make a basket to bring home our colored eggs and some plastic eggs that we find during our egg hunt!!

NEEDED: If you can save and bring in empty gallon milk jugs and 2-liter pop bottles (or the 16 oz. or 20 oz. Size will work also - we need them by April 10th. If you have extra plastic eggs (large size) that you don’t need, bring them in as well and we won’t have to buy so many new ones!! We are striving to demonstrate to the children how you can reuse and recycle items and make fun, new things out of them. Thanks!!

Pizza Hut Certificates: At the end of both March and April your child will receive a coupon good for one personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. This is because we are participating in their "Book-It" promotion to encourage literacy and pre-reading skills in preschoolers. Please continue to read to your child and bring in the lists of books you read as we are posting them on our walls in the classroom.

PRESCHOOL CLOSED: Both the preschool and extended care program will be closed on Good Friday, April 14th. Please make other arrangements if you need child care on that day. On Monday, April 17th, the preschool will be closed, but we will be offering Adventure Camp. Be sure to sign up ahead of that day if you plan to have your child come to Adventure Camp so we know how many to plan for.

Birthdays: If your child started preschool during the year and we have not celebrated their birthday or special day (half-birthday) sometime during this school year, please talk to one of their teachers so we can get their day scheduled. We don’t want to miss anyone.

Rosters: Since there have been some changes in children in most of the classes, I have copied the class roster on the back side of this newsletter-- [Note from Webmaster: it is NOT here on line. Sorry]   I’m sure I don’t have all the latest changes, but hopefully most of the information is accurate!!

If there are mistakes in this newsletter, I apologize. I’m typing this all with one hand, as I did in fact, break my arm at our preschool roller skating party. Thanks for all the concern and the notes I have received. It is my first (and hopefully my last) broken bone ever!! WHAT AN EXPERIENCE! I’m just glad it was me who got hurt and not one of the children or their family members.

Just watch out for those roller skates though, THEY CAN BE DEADLY!!