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This
is a sample of one of our Glenview Adventure Time newsletters:
WELCOME TO A NEW SCHOOL YEAR!
It's always fun to see
our returning families and exciting to meet new ones. We hope you had an
enjoyable summer. A fantastic new school year is here and we at Adventure
Time Glenview are ready to offer a fun and safe environment for your kids.
Our wonderful teachers are back for another year of amazing art projects,
crafts, games, sports, Homework Heroes, and so much more. Come meet
our staff:
SUPER
SEPTEMBER THEMES AND ACTIVITIES
We began the school year with Getting To Know You Week. Elisia taught the
kids how to make creative hand mirrors and necklaces, while San had the
kids make fancy name tags and colorful welcome signs. Hiyas taught design
your own name tags, stickers, personal journals, and scrapbooks. The second
week was Fantastic Families when San made family albums and family drawings.
Elisia and children worked with wooden paintings, and bean and seed collages,
and the kids enjoyed making pretty picture frames with Hiyas. Potpourri
was our third week. Stephanie made window pictures, Elisia created wonderful
smelling potpourri and lavender bags, and Hiyas helped the kids make soap.
San was kept busy teaching the kids how to make salt dough bowls. Kaleidoscope
of Colors was the last week of the month when Hiyas had the kids create
colorful windsocks and rainbow hangings. With San, it was friendship bracelets,
and interesting rosebud balls came from Elisia, while kids with Stephanie
created fun mobiles.
OUTSTANDING
OCTOBER THEMES AND ACTIVITIES
The
first week of October was Harvest and Hiyas and kids made yummy fruit salad
and a funny scarecrow, while Elisia has original papier-mâché
bowls. We have Harvest cookies and leaf colors with San, and Stephanie with
refrigerator magnets. The second week, Flower Fun, has Elisia creating flower
pails and picture frames. San's busy with planting in pots, while Hiyas‚
kids are busy with Sculpey Clay flower magnets. Stephanie helped the kids
create framed pictures. We begin the third week of Ghosts and Goblins with
San sewing ghost pillows and pop-up ghosts, as Hiyas makes Halloween decorations
for the room and boo masks. Elisia will create witches and ghosts, while
Stephanie will make bats and crows. The last two weeks of October we have
our Haunted Halloween theme. San is busy with hand painting and crazy mask
making, Hiyas with fun trick-or-treat bags and Halloween Shrinky Dinks,
and Elisia with mini-pumpkins, fancy hats, crowns, and wands. Stephanie
will have fun with arm painting and spider rings.
K-TIME
We have a great bunch of kindergarten friends this year. We familiarized
our Ks with our daily routine and Adventure Time rules. A.T. wants to make
their transition a smooth and easy one. Our K-Time is a very special time,
just for our K friends. We have circle/reading time, cooking day, free-play,
indoor arts and crafts, and outdoor play. For September and October, we
are busy with original place mats, fun windsocks and kites, pin-poke art,
and clay play. Then there are fun games like dodge ball and musical chairs.
Also, you may send extra clothes with them, just in case. Please label with
his or her names.
HOMEWORK
HEROES
Encourage your kids to join our Homework Heroes Club. Every afternoon, the
teachers announce the HHC. We have a Homework Heroes table where they can
work peacefully, and a teacher is always available when they need help.
After homework is completed for the day, a teacher signs their own HHC sheet,
and the kids earn stickers, certificates, prizes and special treats along
the way. We want to help the kids get into the habit of studying and completing
their homework. This is a fun way to encourage the kids to do homework.
Check out our HHC board.
OUTDOOR
SPORTS
We play a variety of outdoor games like four-square, jump rope, wallball,
Chinese skip, and many more. On Wednesday afternoons, we have a special
Sports Day. We announce our featured sport a few days before, and we have
a sign-up list for the kids who want to participate. Sports Day games we
have played in the past include dodge ball, basketball, kickball, tennis,
baseball, and soccer, among others. On Fridays, we have an awards day when
we recognize good sportsmanship and teamwork. The kids who participated
get special prizes and treats.
Please be sure your Emergency Packet is filled out and kept up to
date. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Be safe this Halloween!
Your Adventure Time Staff,
Stephanie, Elisia, San, and Hiyas
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