Weekly Director's Report

Happy Wednesday!

Our first fire drill went very well today!! The kids were prepared and did a great job with it. We do this toward the end of every month and we will also have a tornado drill sometime in October and another one in the spring in addition to our monthly fire drills. Please remind your child these are just practices and there is no need for them to be afraid. The one in October will be held on Thurs. October 28th.

What a busy month September was for SCDC! Since the teachers are responsible to send updates to parents about the classroom activities the specials teachers will be sending an update of the monthly activities to me and I will add it to my update. Here is what went on in the centers lab, music, and computers for the month of September:

Welcome to Centers Lab. We create, we play, we work, and we cook. The month of September was full of getting to know you, the color green, working with our new blocks and sand...we love sand. We cooked Bright Banana Bites and really loved that...yum! Now that we have our songs, processes, and basic understanding of Centers Lab under our hats...we will jump right in to October with Community Helpers. We will be using our foam blocks to build buildings we see in our community, we will create art with "bleeding tissue"...so don't have on your Sunday best, we will add to our sand some community cars and will help us make our roads...and we will cook again (Pumpkin Dip) to get into the fall season. (Ms. Natalie – Centers & Computers teacher)

Computers... We started off with some great games to get us more familiar with the Computer Lab. We then worked our way into the parts of the computer (song to the tune of Alice the Camel) and now we are able to log in and out...better hope those passwords work at home Mom and Dad....We will continue to support the work in our classrooms with technology support. In October we will begin learning the "home row" on the keyboard...

Music - Praise be to our Awesome God!!! Let me start off by saying I am having a BLAST with your precious children!!!!
In September, we did a lot of movement with the 3's and 4's and a lot of fun songs with scarves and stars/puppets for the 18mos and 2's. We focused on our body parts through fun songs and finger plays.
In October we will do a lot of autumn/harvest songs about leaves, scarecrows, bats, pumpkins, and food. It will be awesome to watch them as they grow and change literally from one week to the next! I LOVE MY JOB!!!! (Ms. Mary Lee – Music teacher)



October is community helper month and throughout the month we will have special guests at SCDC to help us with that. We will have a visit from a doctor, a pastor, and in early November a fire truck visit from the Allen Fire Department. We will also enjoy the season of fall and our bible verse for the month is “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalms 56:3 and in chapel time will be studying the story of Ruth. This is such as a fun time of the year and we have a very busy month coming up!

3rd Annual Bike-a-thon - A flyer about the bike-a-thon came home this week and next week another with an envelope attached will be sent in your child’s folder. The envelope is to collect pledge money for the bike-a-thon and the lap sheet is attached to the envelope. This is our main fundraiser for the school and it benefits each of your children. We use the funds to purchase curriculum and additional classroom items. This event takes a lot of parent volunteers so please sign up to help. A sign up sheet will be posted at the front desk next week. SCDC purchased t-shirts for all the children to wear on the day of the bike-a-thon. The t-shirts will be passed out that day. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 20th.
We appreciate all you do to support us!!! Thank you!!!!!!

School Directories – Will be sent home tomorrow

*I am sending this out on behalf of one our SCDC staff and three of our SCDC mom’s that are participating in the Komen 3 Day – please see below:

Chick-fil-A Night Tuesday, October 5th
Please support one of our teachers (Jane Gary – Rainbow Room) and three of our moms (Erin Johnston aka Noble’s Mom – Yellow Room, Sarah Quinlan aka Owen’s Mom – Green Room, and Lara Glazar aka Austin’s Mom – Orange Room ) by eating at Chick-fil-A (902 W. McDermott Drive, Allen) on Tuesday, October 5th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. They are participating in the Susan G. Komen 3-DAY for the Cure in November and have to earn $9200 in order to do so. You can help them by either dining in or driving through and telling the cashier that you want to give your receipt to the 3DAY fundraiser! Chick-fil-A has generously agreed to donate a percentage of the sales, earmarked for the 3DAY, to Susan G Komen for the Cure on behalf of this group of ladies! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

There is still time to sign up for the Love & Logic Workshop – starting next Wednesday, October 6th from 9:30-11:30. (Sign up at the SCDC front desk)

Check out our blog at www.suncreekkids.blogspot.com or find us on Facebook under Suncreek Children’s Development Center . The blog and Facebook will keep current on events and happenings at the preschool. The individual classroom blogs are a work in progress!

Reminder: No School - Monday, October 11th – Columbus Day

Have a great evening!

Blessings~