May has bloomed here at the Goddard School!

We have a lot of exciting things going on throughout the month of May! We will be showing our teachers how much we appreciate all the hard work they do everyday during their first week in May. We are looking forward to celebrating Mother's Day and are working hard on our gifts. Also, keep your eyes open for an exciting door contest that will be taking place at the end of May, it will be very exciting to see our great teachers' creativity come to life! With May approaching and June right around the corner we are getting ready for graduation, the children are very excited about the big event. A big congratulations to Miss Debbie O who is our most recent employee of the month. Miss Debbie is doing a fabulous job as Head Teacher in our Preschool class and we are happy to have her part of our school!

Barbara DiNicola
Center Director

Darling Dolphins

First we would like to apologize for not wishing Michael a Happy 1st Birthday!

May's theme is: Look What's Growing, we will be having fun "In the Jungle" , "In the Vegetable Garden", "Fancy Flowers", "Fun in the Forrest", "Bugs: the good, the bad and the ugly!" Our color is white and shape is diamond.

Charlie is having a blast during tummy time! Ava is trying her hardest to roll over. Emerson loves to run laps with her friend Aaron. Aidan is now crawling and pulling himself up to stand everywhere. Aaron loves going out for a walk.

Sean has really found his voice. Jack loves to bring the busy bead over to Miss Cindy so they can play. Marni is getting adjusted to our classroom. Madison is doing a great job walking. Joseph loves touching all the smile faces on the changing table. Ethan is now standing up! Michael is practicing walking with the walker.

Please be sure to check your child's cubby for weather appropriated clothing and bring in sunblock and hats for going outside. Please label all belongings with first and last names.

Thank You!
Miss Kym, Miss Cindy, Miss Irma

Terrific Turtles

April was an awesome month! We had a great time celebrating during The Week of the Young Child, what a great puppet show! Everyone enjoyed our Spring celebration and our picnic with our teddy bears! We are looking forward to a fun-filled May. Our themes for May are: In the Jungle, In the Vegetable Garden, Fancy Flowers, Fun in the Forrest and Bugs: the good, the bad and the ugly! Our letter is "Y", our number is 9, our shape is a diamond and our color is white.

We want to wish Brendan a very Happy 2nd Birthday on the 27th of May.

To all our mother's we wish you a Happy Mother's Day and a safe a Happy Memorial Day weekend! Please remember to put weather and size appropriate clothing in your child's cubby.

Miss Katherine and Miss Debbie

Wonderful Whales

April was a month of mild weather and learning about "New Beginnings." The Toddlers enjoyed learning about "The Creepy Crawlers" the best! We celebrated The Week of the Young Child by making our hand prints on tiles, we watched a puppet show, we got our faces painted, goodie bags and had an ice cream party. The Toddlers had a blast!

The Whales are learning new words and are talking so much with each other, it's amazing! They also really enjoy playing on the computer and listening to stories!

Our themes for this month are: "In the Jungle", "In the Vegetable Garden", "Fancy Flowers", and "Bugs: the good, the bad and the ugly!" The children are very excited about the month of May!

For the Health and Safety of our class please make sure everything is labeled with first and last name. Also, check cubbies to make sure there are two sets of clothing and utensils and bibs are labeled.

We want to thank all the parents that brought in something for our Spring Celebration! We hope everyone has a Happy Cinco de Mayo on the 5th, Happy Mother's Day on the 14th and Happy Memorial Day on the 29th!

Thank You,
Miss Bethanne and Miss Ellen

Fantastic Fish

We had so much fun last month learning about different kinds of animals. We had a great time during The Week of the Young Child, we loved our ice cream party!. Now, as we approach May, we are spending our time exploring the outside, particularly different types of plants. We will focus our time on the jungle, the vegetable garden, flowers, the forest and different kinds of bugs: the good, the bad and the ugly!

We would also like to remind everyone that as the weather gets warmer, check your child's cubby to make sure they have weather appropriate changes of clothes. Also, as the days are getting hotter, you may want to send in water bottles to keep in your child's cubby. We would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Stephen and Sabastian!

Thank You
Miss Jordyn and Miss Ruthie

Super Seals

The month of April was an especially exciting month. It began with a very special week, The Week of the Young Child. During this week we had an ice cream party, got our faces painted and participated in the Uncle John's Puppet show. We had so much fun! We also celebrated all kinds of new beginnings. We learned that there are a wide variety of baby animals in this world. Some live deep beneath the earth and yet there are others who live in the clear blue sea. We now understand that no matter the size, shape or color of the baby animal they are all special to the earth and each one has its own special job. We really loved getting down and dirty with our creepy crawlers. We also couldn't believe how fast our class caterpillars grew, before we knew it they made cocoons and turned into beautiful monarch butterflies! May's theme is: Look What's Growing! During this month we will be studying things that grow in the vegetable garden as well as in the jungle. We will learn about fancy flowers, fun in the forrest and more bugs: the good, the bad and the ugly. We'd like to wish a Happy Birthday to Scott 6th, Justin 9th, Katelyn 20th, Anthony 26th, Kayla 29th and Marisa 30th. We'd also like to officially welcome Ibrahim and Jonathan B to our class! We are the Super Seals-Let's Grow!

Thanks,
Miss Debbie and Miss Phyllis

Marvelous Manatee

Greetings! The Marvelous Manatees are checking in for May! As the season changed and Spring arrived, We have been busy growing, along with the budding flowers! The little Manatees you remember from September have vanished. Check us out! We have really sprouted and have learned so many new and exciting things! We're almost at the end of the alphabet, we know all our letters and sounds and we can even write our first names! We've been learning how to be a good friend to each other. Our teachers are so proud of us! We have been practicing for our graduation! We're trying to keep our big performance a surprise so we can really do a fabulous job! We are very excited to put on our big show! This month will be so much fun as we take a journey "in the jungle" and "in the vegetable garden!" Not to mention the " fancy flowers, fun in the forrest and more bug talk!" Happy Birthday to our friend Cole on May 25th! Happy Mother's Day and Happy Memorial Day!

Thank You,
Miss Stacey and Miss Debbie

Sparkling Seahorses

April brought us "New Beginnings," It was wonderful to learn about the creepy crawlers and all the things that live and grow around us. We had a Teddy Bear picnic lunch and enjoyed the outdoors as well. We watched and observed in our classroom live caterpillars and ladybug larva it was so exciting to see them change into new life right before our eyes! The children are doing a wonderful with their vowel sounds and sounding out new words. They are having so much fun with our rhyming word games. Addresses and phone numbers continue to be enforced. We also enjoyed a fantastic Week of the Young Child, the children had so much fun at the puppet show, there were so many of their favorite characters. We had a terrific "Spring Celebration" party, a big Thank you to all the parents who provided special treats for our class.

May is upon us and "Look What's Growing" is our theme. We are looking forward to lots of fun learning experiences ahead of us. We want to wish a Happy Birthday to Sarah and Meranda.

Enjoy the month of May and all the beautiful spring flowers that it will bring us!

Thanks
Miss Elyssa and Miss Sue

Starfish

Graduation is right around the corner...the year as gone by so fast! Besides seeing how fast the children are growing, we will be noting how other things grow with May's theme "Look What's growing!" We start off this month "In the jungle" and through to "In the Vegetable Garden" where we will see "Fancy Flowers" growing. The following week we will have some "Fun in the Forrest" to observe some "Bugs: the good, the bad and the ugly." With all these adventures, lets not forget our moms on Mother's Day on the 14th and Memorial Day on the 29th. As always thank you for your support!

Thanks,
Miss Jenn