Thank you, Parents, for your amazing response and support with the toy drive for SafePlace!
My truck bed holds 8 full-sized square bales of hay (excuse my farm comparison 😜), so we had an enormous amount of toys! So many kiddos and their families will have a brighter holiday season because of your kind donations!!
…Poetry Recital this Saturday, 12/11! You can sign up for a time to recite with your class here.
…and Book Exchange next Thursday, 12/16, during circle. Please let me know if you have any questions at all!
Continue readingThe Fill-the-Tundra Toy Drive was a great success! We have an enormous pile of toys in the teacher workroom ready to go help a child in need have a great holiday season. I’ll take pictures of the toys piled high in thew truck tomorrow when I drive them down to the SafePlace warehouse.
Our next big event is the Poetry Recital this Saturday! Please let me know if you were not able to access the SignUp Genius list for the event and I’ll send it your way.
Have a wonderful day!
Continue readingJust a reminder that our Toy Drive ends tomorrow! We have quite a stack of toys ready to make the trip down to the Safe Place warehouse tomorrow. Thank you so much, Parents, for all your support and donations!
If the grey clouds fooled the school’s directress, and she kept you inside–even though there wasn’t any rain–and you missed your friends and the playground and the grass area over the weekend and you have so much energy it’s bubbling out of your toes and fingers and the wind pushes you to move faster…
Sometimes, you just need to run.
Continue readingOne of our classes, the Awesome Axolotls, reached their toy drive goals! Thank you so much to all the parents who have donated to the SafePlace Toy Drive so far. The end of the toy drive will be next Tuesday, December 7th. I’ll drive the toys to the SafePlace warehouse on Wednesday afternoon.
The lesson you see in a few of the pictures featuring a clear, plastic tissue box and throwing scarves was inspired by my observations of some of our younger students rushing to the tissue box and ripping out as many white tissues as their little hands could hold, as quickly as their little hands could do it. Now we have a less wasteful way of engaging their senses and meeting that physical need to manipulate soft, flat cloth while also simultaneously allowing them to yank the scarves out of a small opening!
Have an enjoyable, relaxing, and safe weekend!
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It’s time to celebrate the end of the year with one of our favorite Marimont traditions! Please look for a book exchange note in your child’s lunchbox tomorrow. They will draw a friend’s name and we will record that friend’s age on the note for you. On December 16th, during circle time, the children will give a book to that friend! Please bring in a wrapped new/like-new book for that friend. Thank you so much and please let me know if you have any questions at all!
I’m also in the process of creating teacher gift lists for the end of the year. If you would like to participate, you can sign up for a gift and bring it to the office (please make sure it has your family’s name on it 🙂 ) I put all the gifts together in fancy bags for the teachers. The children help present the gifts on the final day of the semester. Parents request these lists each year, but please don’t feel obligated or forced!
Finally A BIG CONGRATS to our amazing school. Our wonderful childcare regulation rep, Beth, came to visit this morning for her official, annual, unannounced inspection. We continued our perfect record! A shout-out to our amazing, caring, attentive teachers and a pat on the back to myself for keeping up with all the paperwork.
The children were faster than my camera during afternoon playtime. I couldn’t believe how many roaring dinosaurs were playing tag in the grass!
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Today, the older friends will write a letter to Ms. Angela Shelf Medearis to thank her for her wonderful and much beloved book Seven Spools of Thread. We’ve read this book in December for years, but Ms. Jerical just let me know that the author lives here in Austin!
And, just in case you would like to check out the safety of some of those new purchases from Black Friday, here’s a list of recent recalls for your inspection 🙂
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