April showers...

April will be busy, busy, busy! We will start the month by celebrating "The Week of the Young child". There will be a puppet show coming, face painting, goody bags and lots of fun events, ending with an ice cream party! Yummy!! April will not only find bunnies hopping about, our children will be hopping around raising money for Muscular Dystrophy by participating in the Hop-a-thon. The end of the month will also find us smiling our best smiles for Spring photos. Thank you to everyone who participated in our Spring fund raiser,enjoy all your goodies! As we welcome the Spring weather we also want to wish everyone a peaceful and joyous Passover and Easter. Enjoy!

Barbara DiNicola
Center Director

Darling Dolphins

Welcome Spring! The babies are growing so fast. Joseph will be celebrating his first birthday on April 18. We would like to welcome Madison and Marnie to our classroom. We wish Marli the best of luck when she moves over to the Terrific Turtles. Our themes this month are: Animal Babies, Creepy Crawlers, Flying Friends and Teddy Bears. On April 29th we will have a pajama day, so please dress your child in their pj's and bring a teddy bear. Our babies are busy: Charlie loves bouncing in the car exersaucer. Ava gives the cutest smiles. Michael claps his hands to music. Emerson is busy getting into everything in the room. Ethan is so happy, everytime you look his way he gives the biggest smiles. Madison is adjusting well to our room. Jack loves playing ball with his friends. Sean has fun sitting at the table or bouncing in the exersaucer. Joseph loves when we bring in the piano. Aidan is so happy crawling and boy is he quick. Aaron has so much fun chasing his friends around the room. Parents please be sure to check your child's cubbie for weather appropriate clothing and bibs. Please be sure to label everything with first and last name.

Thank You!
Miss Kym, Miss Cindy, Miss Sandra and Miss Irma

Terrific Turtles

March was a busy month for the Terrific Turtles. We have been learning new words in sign language and enjoying the warm days as we learned about the weather. We all wore our green on St. Patrick's Day and had a blast eating green ice cream!

In April we will be having fun exploring the themes for the month. We will also be inviting our Teddy Bears to a Teddy Bear picnic!

Grace has moved up to the Wonderful Whales, we all will miss her and wish her a Happy 2nd Birthday! We welcome Marli into our room, we are always excited to have new friends! Our letter this month is "X", the number is 8, the shape is an octagon and our color is brown.

Miss Katherine and Miss Debbie

Wonderful Whales

The Toddlers learned a lot about the weather during the month of March. We enjoyed being Meteorologists for dramatic play! March was a busy month for birthday parties and learning about Dr. Seuss. We are really enjoying learning our Spanish and sign language. We have been having a blast playing on the computer.

We like to wish Colton lots of luck and we are going to miss him.

The Toddlers are very excited to explore all the new themes for the month of April.

We hope everyone enjoys Passover on the 13th, Easter on the 16th and Earth Day on the 22nd.

For Health and Safety of the children please remember to label all of their belongings with first and last name. Please check cubbies for any reminders of items that may be needed.

Thank You,
Miss Bethanne and Miss Ellen

Fantastic Fish

This past month has been so much fun! We loved looking and anticipating the first signs of Spring! In April, we are looking forward to celebrating our Spring holidays. We are also going to be studying all different types of animals throughout the month of April. We will be having bring our favorite teddy bear to school on April 24th and we will have a picnic with our teddy bears.

We are also going to learn about the letter "Q" and "F". The shape of the month is an octagon and the color is brown.

We would like to wish James, Olivia, and Derek a very Happy Birthday!

Thank You
Miss Jordyn and Miss Ruthie

Super Seals

March was such a fun and exciting month! We learned all about what causes weather, weather patterns, weather symbols and different types of instruments used to teach us about the weather. We loved making our thermometers, rain gauges and barometers. We also defined what a meteorologist is and what they do. Along with our wild weather, we celebrated and embraced National music month. We learned about four composers: Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and Brahm. We also identified the four families that make up an orchestra and what instruments belong to each family. We loved our musical road and it taught us that different notes have different tempos. Our favorite thing was learning to play the song " Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on the Swiss Bells. April's theme is New Beginnings and we are going to have so much fun discovering all sorts of baby animals and birds. We are going to learn about all types of creepy crawlers including caterpillars.

We would like to wish a Happy Birthday to Jack S on the 25th and Sydney on the 29th. We'd also like to officially welcome Maryrose to our room!

Well, we're the Super Seals and we're off to discover new beginnings!

Thanks,
Miss Debbie and Miss Phyllis

Marvelous Manatee

Greetings from the Manatees! We have just been rescued from all of that "Wild Weather" we experienced in March! We sure did get carried away with all of our weather stories and tornadoes! Did you see Miss Stacey "Blowing in the wind" while she hung our winter bird feeders on the trees outside? Well, lucky she made it and the "Weather Watchers" taught us all about different kinds of sunny or stormy weather! We're calming down a little now and looking forward to "new beginnings" in April! The weather won't be slowing us down this month but we sure hope those "creepy crawlers" and "flying friends" will be nice and friendly as we venture into their territory! We are looking forward to learning about "animal babies" and having a "teddy bear picnic", too! Do you believe we're on the letter "V" already? We're really moving along! Happy 5th Birthday Morgan!

Thank You,
Miss Stacey and Miss Debbie

Sparkling Seahorses

Happy Spring everyone! We are so happy that spring has arrived. What a windy month March was it certainly gave us the opportunity to be Meteorologist and observe various kinds of weather. Each day we watched the clouds to determine what the weather would be, we would even decide if it was a lion or lamb day. We have had some exciting science experiments, we learned about the water cycle and how rain forms, we even made rain and formed a cloud , and it was very awesome to create a tornado in a bottle. Wow! What fun we have had learning. A big Thank you to all the parents for helping your child make a pinwheel. The children had fun experimenting with them outside. We have finished the alphabet and have started reviewing. We are focusing on the vowels and sounding out letters to form words. The Seahorses are very excited about learning how to read. We have been working on tying skills and doing very well, this is certainly a challenging fine motor skill.

We want to wish a very Happy Birthday to Noelle, Brielle, Julia F., Gabriella and Mehmet! Enjoy Spring!

Thanks
Miss Elyssa and Miss Sue

Starfish

After being rain soaked, wind swept and sun dried throughout the month of March, we are looking forward to a month of "New Beginnings" during April. We will first discover a world of "Animal Babies", followed by a week of "Creepy Crawlers" and "Flying Friends". Our last week of April, we will celebrate the animals coming out of hibernation with a Teddy Bear Picnic. On the 2nd we will celebrate Earth Day! We will also be having a Spring Party. We want to wish Conner a happy 6th birthday on the 19th! As always, thank you for your continued support!

Thanks,
Miss Jenn