Trish’s Tiny Tots December Newsletter

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold

Welcome December! What an amazing blessing to be able to share this holiday season with the ones we love the most! Soon we will be leaving 2012 and ringing in the New Year with many great adventures in store for Trish’s Tiny Tots!

This Month: During this month we will be talking about forgiveness, giving, and peace. We will continue studying our five senses and spend time discussing the many feelings and emotions we have. During art time we will be creating Christmas displays, Santa’s, Snowy days and we will be making gifts for our families! We will continue the process of learning each individual letter per week as well as additional curriculum such as two letter sounds, and site words. We will learn the sounds of the letters, the sign and practice writing them. The children have gotten a great start on their ABC books, and are looking forward to showing off their finished products to their families! We will talk about shapes, colors and numbers and continue to review them for consistency. We will be learning about the months of the year, days of the week and the weather! Each week we will also talk about principles such as kindness, honesty, forgiveness and patience. I encourage you all to review the work the children take home. I would like them to share with you the topics they learn about, so as parents you can continue to review with them for consistency.

Don’t Forget About Your Family Pictures: I love for the children to be able to talk with the other children about their families. Family photos in the classrooms facilitate these conversations. I am working on a new special bulletin board or area to post pictures. I am asking you to send one or two family photos to be displayed in this area. The children really like it when grandparents and pets are included in the pictures too. Please help to complete our family photo area by providing pictures as soon as you can J

Dates to Remember: Friday, December 21^st we will he holding our annual Christmas Party.  The festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m.  Please bring your favorite dessert to share with the group. This is an after dinner event, so make sure you fill your belly’s with healthy dinner before we enjoy our family’s favorite Christmas desserts! The children will also be singing songs, and giving their parents the gifts they have been working on here.  Please bring a wrapped children’s book for our book gift exchange as well.

Birthdays: Happy Birthday to my sweet Noah who turns 8 on the 13^th of December! Happy Birthday my amazing little boy!

Closures: Trish’s Tiny Tots will be closed in observance of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (the 24^th and 25^th) and also in observance of New Years Eve and New Years Day (Dec 31^st and Jan 1^st)

Love and Blessings, Mrs. Trish