Parent Meeting for Twos

The Parent meeting for the 2-year-old class is Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30 pm. This meeting is for parents only. There is a babysitter list in the cottage, which has our college students on it, if you are in need of child care for that night. This meeting will be a great time to get to know other families and your child's teachers.

Hope to see you all there!

~Kerri, Kathie and Mrs. Dottie~

College Students

I am sure you have noticed all of our wonderful college students working here at The Children's School. It has been a very busy time with hiring and orienting them, but well worth it. With our full day this year we have had a greater need for larger numbers of students.

For many of them, this is their job where they can earn spending money. However, we also have interns that are earning college credit by working here. We are privileged to have interns from two Professors this semester. Pat Smiley from Pomona and Mita Banerjee from Pitzer both have sent students to us, and do every year. We are very grateful to them.

We also have a large number of students that are volunteering at The Children's School. Pitzer College put out a notice to all of their students asking for volunteers, and many of them are now donating their time to make your child's experience here richer.

The children love the college students. They bring a different energy and experience to the day, and help enable our individualized program. And we love them too!

Broken Record

I know, I know, I have been saying this forever...However, if you have not turned in your registration packets yet, please do so this week. Every child needs to have the updated forms turned in every year, including a new medical form signed by your pediatrician. Also, if your child has had immunizations this past year I will need a new copy of their immunization record. The state requires that we report all of this information to them every year. I have to do this report in October, which is almost here!

If you lost your registration packet I can give you another one.

Also, the disaster prep kits are due this week. There is a labeled bin in every cottage, so you can drop the kits into them.

To those of you that have already turned these items in - thank you, thank you, thank you!

Parent Handbook

Our new parent handbook is out. I put them in your child's cubby on Friday afternoon. There is one handbook per family, so if you have more than one child it will only be in one of their cubbies.

He made my day!

Yesterday afternoon one of our first graders came into my office. He said, "You must be 21, right?" I said to him, "You are right, I am 21." He got a very excited look on his face as he exclaimed, "I KNEW it!"

Disaster Prep Kits

Parents have had some questions on what food to include in the Disaster Prep Kits. The self-contained, nutritious meal refers to any food items that your child likes that are sealed so they will last the school year. This can include personal servings of applesauce, granola bars, crackers, tuna, etc. The grocery stores are full of personal servings of all kinds of food these days, so it is up to you what you would like to include.

If you can return these kits to your child's classroom by Monday, September 21st, we will appreciate it. There is a labeled bin in all of the cottages where you can drop them. We will store the kits for the school year and then return them to you.

Hopefully we will not need these emergency supplies, but we will be prepared if we do.

Three and Four Year Olds - Parent Night

The Parent Night for our three and four year old class is Thursday, September 17, at 7:00 pm. This is an information night and it will be better if you don't bring your children. With 36 little ones between both classes, it will be difficult to talk and listen if they are there.

Hope to see all of you there!
~~Marcia, Maria, Badria, Lori and Jeanette~~