May Newsletter

Dear Families,

April showers bring May flowers…we are hoping that the warm weather has arrived, and is here to stay! Hopefully over the next month we can enjoy the spring weather. We will be playing outside more, going for walks, watching for bugs and birds, watching outside our classroom window, and admiring all that is going on around us. We will celebrate two birthdays this month, Happy Birthday to Max and Sophia, who will both be 2! We will celebrate with birthday treats and presents!

As the weather begins to get warmer, we are asking you to go through your child’s bin to make sure that the clothes inside it are weather appropriate, and still fit. We are also asking for you to bring in a bottle of labeled sunscreen. We will be applying this when we are outside.  During the month of May, we will honor our Mothers by talking about how special our mommies are! We will be reading some wonderful stories and making special crafts for our mommies. This month we will be painting with water color paints, sponge painting with paint, and making some more hand and footprint crafts. Our themes for this month will include: Just like Mommy, The Color Purple, Farm Animals, and Construction.

We have been dividing our 2 year olds and the younger toddlers into two groups during the day for a small group time. With our 2 year olds, we work on sitting together. We sing a couple songs including: Days of the week, ABC’s, introducing colors, and counting to ten with our fingers.  With our younger toddlers, we will sing a couple of songs, and do language flash cards, working on saying the names of the objects on the cards, and having them tell us what it is. We are still working on sitting, but this is a skill they will develop as they get older. In the afternoons we read many books, and we get out different story books for the older ones that can listen to more than five pages in a book.

Love, 

Miss Becky