Flashing Lights

We need your help and support at pick up and drop off times. We continue to have a significant problem with people passing the buses and vans while the red lights are flashing. It is illegal to pass the buses or vans when the lights are flashing. The bus/van drivers can and will write your plate number down and turn it over to the police departments. If they do this you will receive a ticket in the mail for $200.00, for the first offense.

F.Y.I

1st offense: $200.00 fine

2nd offense: Fine and suspension of license

3rd offense: Permanent loss of license

Home School Connections

We're reading books and talking about families at school. We hope you'll take some time to talk about families at home, too.
The following activities are things that you can do to help your child learn. We hope that you can complete some of the activities. The activities can be done in any order. The goal is to reinforce at home what your child is learning at school. Most importantly have fun!

Show your child his or her baby pictures. Talk about them together.
Tell your child about something that happened to you when you were little
Sing the alphabet song together
Take you child to the library. Choose books to read together. Some suggestions that go along with unit 1: Abuela by Arthur Dorros, A Birthday Basket for Tia by Pat Mora, Brothers & Sisters by Ellen B. Senisi, A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams, Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
Let your child help set the table. Talk about colors, shapes and colors.
Ask your child to help you make a sandwich for lunch. Talk about each step
Count the people in your family. Use your finger to keep a tally count
Read a book. Point to things in the pictures as you read them in the story.
Have a scavenger hunt in your home. find things that can stretch, grow or make noise.
Look at family pictures together. Talk about the people in your family.
Keep a list called "Things I Can Do By Myself." Let you child decide what to add to the list day by day.
Trace your child's hands and label the drawing with his or her name. Then let your child trace your hands.
Call a family member. Say the numbers and point to them on the phone. Let your press them.
Measure your child by taping a strip of paper to the wall and marking it over time.
Play house. Let your child decide who the baby and who is the mommy or daddy.
Help your child write his or her name. Decorate it and hang it on the door of your child's room.
Turn off the car radio and talk with your child as you drive.
If there's a baby in your family, name baby items as you shop. Talk about what babies need.

Family (unit 1 OWL)

In Unit 1, children will be exploring and learning all about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another. Through the Story Time books, children will hear about a boy who help his family take care of his baby sister, a boy who realizes how much he has grown when a new baby arrives, a girl who behaves badly when she wants attention, and a lonely stuffed bear who finds a new friend. Besides listening to stories children will begin to recognize initial sounds in words and identify rhyming words as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills. They will also be participating in a variety of music, poetry, mathematics, science and art activities during center time and small groups.

The Following are several of the books the children will be exposed to over the next few weeks. Please check your child's classroom blog for more specific activities.

Tuition

Tuition Reminder:

Tuition is due the first Tuesday of the month. The tuition schedule for this school year is as follows:
September 7th
October 5th
November 2nd December 7th
January 4th
February 8th
March 1st
April 5th
May 2nd (May and June is due on May 2nd)


All checks should be made payable to the Burlington Integrated Preschool and can be dropped of with Laura Caprio in the office.

Rates:

3 day AM is $2,320.00 a year or $232.00 per month
5 day AM is $3,860.00 a year or $ 386.00 per month
4 day PM is $1,750.00 a year of $175.00 per month

Thank you in advance for making your tuition payments on time. Non-payment of tuition can jeopardize your child's slot in the program.

Opening the World of Learning (OWL)

Next week we will begin the first unit that goes along with our comprehensive early literacy curriculum. The theme for the first unit is "Family" the children will be exploring and taking about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another. To help us plan the unit on families, here is a list of basic materials that we like to refer to as "Beautiful Junk" if you have any of these items around the house could you please send them in. We are looking for the following recyclable items:
cardboard boxes (copy paper size)
Empty plastic squeeze bottles (baby shampoo, baby oil, lotion)
Empty plastic pump type bottles (liquid hand soap)
Empty plastic spice-type bottles (holes in lid for shaking)
Newspapers
Old letterhead stationary
Old gift wrapping paper
Old paint cans
Paint can stirrers
Paint sample brochures
Paper towel cardboard tubes
Plastic baby food jars
Plastic buttons
Plastic tops from jugs of laundry detergent
Shoe boxes with lids
Small metal cans
Small size yogurt containers