Welcome 2008!

I hope everyone had a wonderful time celebrating and relaxing with family and friends during the winter break. I want to thank all the teachers and the families for contributing so selflessly to help our children experience the sharing spirit of the Holiday season. Our Salvation Army toy drive was a huge success. The children's classroom celebrations were full of many international treats and our little one's had so much fun singing and reading stories with the parents and guests that were able to visit. I hope everyone had as much fun as we did! Well, as winter has certainly arrived, I know all of my cold weather friends are bundling up and enjoying the brisk days. For those of us warm weather worshipers, pile on the extra layers and hang in there! Happy Birthday to all of our January friends. Have a great month!

Barbara DiNicola Center Director

Darling Dolphins

We want to welcome everyone back and hope you all had a happy, healthy and safe holiday. We would like to welcome Will S. who started in mid December and Sophia S, and Camryn C. to our room. We can't wait to get to know you and watch you grow! The big news from the current stars of the room is: Jasmine talks, talks, talks all day long, Brayden is crawling and standing up everywhere. Nathanial is busy rolling around and Spencer is sitting up like a pro. Camryn P. is on her way to crawling. Charlie loves to climb in and out of the block pit. Ashley is just a busy bee, smiling all day long. Shane is giving us great big smiles and Mason is standing everywhere, holding on ready to walk! Andrew and Alexis will be joining their friend Brady in Room 2 and we want to wish them lots of fun! Parents, please remember to label all of your child's belongings with first and last name and to always have at lease two complete changes of clothing and lots of bibs. Thank you!

Thank You!
Miss Kym, Miss Cherrell, Miss Sharon and Miss Irma

Terrific Turtles

We hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. The month of December brought cold weather, but that did not stop the children from traveling the world. Cooper and Matthew were excited to locate airplanes in the sky. Brady and Victoria giggled a lot when they imitated airplane to Barney's "We Are Flying In An Airplane". Ava, Ashlee and Keira enjoyed interacting with different cultural dogs from around the world. Louis and Lauren loved putting on the cultural puppets and talking to them. Madison and Adrian had a blast creating their own holiday cookies. The month of January is all about "Winter Reading Fun". The themes are "Nursery Rhymes", "Favorite Stories", "Snowy Climates", "Disney Friends" and "Hibernation". The children will learn about the color blue and the shape of a star. We would like to say good-bye to our old friends who moved on to Miss Kim's Toddler classroom. We would like to welcome Andrew and Alexis into the First Steps classroom!

Miss Lisa and Miss Debbie

Wonderful Whales

The Wonderful Whales had a terrific month of December! We enjoyed learning about the world and it's customs! We expanded our language through new Spanish and Sign Language words. We loved our art and science projects during the month of December. We also enjoyed reading stories which is always a favorite in the Toddler room! We are looking forward to a month of Winter Reading Fun! We will be having fun with Nursery Rhymes, Favorite Stories, Snowy Climates, Disney Friends and Hibernation! Please remember to check your child's cubby to make sure they have utensils, bibs and extra clothes. Also please label everything with first and last names for the health and safety of our class. Happy Birthday to all our January friends! We would also like to take the time to say good bye to our friends that are moving on to the next classroom and welcome all our new friends!

Thank You,
Miss Kim and Miss Niccole

Jolly Jellyfish

December was a busy month of learning about traveling, customs and costumes and the Holidays. They had fun learning about them and eating the different foods. They enjoyed dancing to music from around the world and learning about the different Holidays like Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. The Toddlers enjoyed the Yosi show and our Holiday party. Thank you to our parents for bringing in all the yummy goodies. We would like to congratulate L.J, Matthew, Joseph, Michael, Denine, Madison, George, Meghan, David and Ethan on graduating to the Get Set class! We will miss you. We would like to welcome Sean, Ava, Jake, Richard, Anthony and Anthony. Our themes for this month are Nursery Rhymes, Favorite Stories, Snowy Climates, Disney Friends and Hibernation. We can't wait to learn about these. For the health and safety of our class please make sure everything is labeled with your child's first and last name. Also make sure your child has bibs, utensils and two sets of weather appropriate clothing that are labeled and in your child's cubby.

Thank You!
Miss Bethanne and Miss Kimberly

Fantastic Fish

Welcome to a New Year! We are excited to welcome several new friends to our room; Matthew, L.J., Madison, Meghan, Michael, Denine, David, Joe, George and Ethan. We are happy to have you with us and we know you will have a wonderful time with us! Congratulations to Abby B., Alexa, Sage, Sydney, Marli, Kayla, Aiden and Abby Y as they all move on to the Young Preschool room. We know you will have wonderful time there. This month we will be visiting with lots of literacy friends as we have Winter Reading Fun. We will read stories about Nursery Rhymes, Favorite Stories, Snowy Climates, Disney Friends and Hibernation. Happy Birthday this month to Alex. We are looking forward to a wonderful 2008 and we wish all of our families all the best this new year!

Miss Joan and Miss Sabrina

Super Seals

December went by so fast. Our month was filled with new activities and special events. The children learned all about other customs and costumes. We examined a folk dance dress and wore a Mexican poncho in dramatic play. They had fun flying in our makeshift airplane that we created using our classroom chairs. We were all so excited when Yosi came to visit us, he taught us the Dreidel song and we moved to the Reindeer Hokey Pokey. Our month was complete as we gathered with friends and family to sing our holiday songs, it was so special. Get ready for January it will be a fun filled month of Winter Reading!

Miss Jeanette and Miss Lisa

Lovely Lobsters

What a month we had in the Lobster room. We enjoyed learning about different customs and costumes and Holiday celebrations! We enjoyed our holiday party and we thank all our parents for bringing yummy treats to share with our friends. We also had Yosi come to visit, we had fun dancing and singing with him! We are all sad to see our friends; Alexis, Jack, Dante, Hailey, Micayla, Quintus, Luke and Madeline leave to move on to the Big classroom! We know they will have lots of fun. We are welcoming our new friends; Abigail B., Alexa, Sage, Sydney, Joshua, Marli, Kayla, Aiden and Abigail Y. We are looking forward to having lots of fun with them. In January we will be talking about Nursery Rhymes such as; I'am A Little Tea Pot and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. We will also do activities that include all of our Disney Friends. We will also be talking about the cold weather and hibernation. We look forward to seeing lots of snow in January. We also are excited to hopefully make snowmen and be able to have snow ball fights in the snow.

Thank you
Miss Chrystal and Miss Phyllis

Marvelous Manatee

Another year has passed and the Manatees are ready to welcome 2008! December was a wonderful month of learning in our room. We learned about the holidays that are celebrated all around the world and had an international holiday celebration of our own. We also had a blast on our field trip to see the Nutcracker! We are excited for our month of "Winter Reading Fun"! We will learn all about snowy climates and animal that hibernate. We will also read some of our favorite Disney books. We hope everyone had a wonderful break!

Thank You
Miss Kristen and Miss Debbie

Sparkling Seahorses

Happy New Year everyone! The month of December brought magic and excitement into our classroom. Our theme "All Around the World" was so much fun as the children learned about transportation and many customs and costumes of different people and their countries. One of our biggest events was dressing as hula dancers and doing the "Hula". Our seahorses have been working very hard, they have learned the letters M through P and their sounds and they are doing a fabulous job with letter recognition. Thank you for working with your child with their letter pictures, this is a great way to enforce the letters and their sounds. We are also working with the concepts of plus and minus and more complex patterning skills, using manipulatives. The children had so much fun performing for their parents to "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree", they did a fabulous job. A big thank you to all of our parents who contributed to our Holiday Celebration party. We hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season! January is here and we are ready for imagination and fantasy as open up to our "Winter Reading Fun" theme. Our class has grown in so many ways socially and academically, we are very proud of them. We thank you for your continued support. We want to wish a Happy Birthday to James and Caitlin. Just a few reminders: please label everything that comes to school with your child's first and last names. Parent teacher conferences will be held during the weeks of January 7th and 14th, don't forget to recheck the schedule on our classroom door.

Thank You
Miss Elyssa and Miss Rebecca

Shining Starfish

Wow, winter already! We are taking notice of all the weather changes and will be experimenting with cold and ice! Our January themes are all about winter reading and includes Nursery Rhymes, Favorite Stories, Snowy Climates, Disney Friends and Hibernation. Lots of reading fun! We will dive into our reading readiness, so make sure those sight words are practiced every night! Please be sure to send in weather appropriate clothes for your child's cubby as well as hats and mittens in case we are able to go outside! Thank you to all the parents who participated in our December festivities! You made it a wonderful month for the kids! Happy Birthday to Debbie this month!

Happy New Year!
Miss Jami