April is a special month for young children! It is a month of celebration! National Week of the Young Child is April 12th-16th. We will be having special activities planned for the children each day this week.
Now that the weather is warming up, the children will be spending much more time outdoors. For your child’s safety, please do not send him/her to school with open toed shoes. This will help prevent injury’s while running and riding the trikes. Please also send non-aerosol sunscreen that we can keep here at school for your child.
In celebration of Earth Day, all the classrooms are learning about the life cycle of a butterfly, as they watched them change into their different stages, as well. They will also be spending lots of time outdoors planting in their classroom garden boxes.
Sincerely, Stephanie Gill/Principal
Dates to remember in April:
April 2 Classroom Easter Egg Hunts- outdoors
April 5-6 Classrooms release their butterflies
April 12-16 Scholastic Book Fair- outdoors
April 12-16 Celebrating Week of the Young Child
April 22 Classrooms release their ladybugs and plant in their garden boxes in honor of Earth Day
Scholastic Book Fair- We will be having our annual Scholastic book fair during the Week of the Young Child, April 12th-16th. You will be able to purchase books for your child and for our classrooms. Merryhill gets 50% of the profit made in books back to the school. You are able to purchase books using a credit card, check or cash. Thank you for supporting books for kids!
Here is a schedule of events during the Week of the Young Child-April 12th-16th:
Monday April 12th Music Monday! In celebration of Week Of The Young Child, the children will explore the world of Music today through various ways.
Tuesday April 13th Tasty Tuesday! In celebration Of Week Of The Young Child, the children will make a tasty treat with their class today!
Wednesday April 14th Work Together Wednesday! In celebration Of Week Of The Young Child, the children will build together to experience teamwork and develop their social and early literacy skills.
Thursday April 15th Artsy Thursday! In celebration of Week Of The Young Child, the children will create open ended projects that let them make choices, use their imagination and create with their hands
Friday April 16th Family Friday! In celebration of Week Of The Young Child, Family Friday encourages parents to engage in a school project with their child. A family Tree will be sent home for each child to work on with their family!
Earth Day-All classrooms will be planting in their own garden boxes during the week of April 22nd. The classrooms will be planting all sorts of vegetables, and then later will use the grown veggies in food experiments, cooking projects and various other activities.
Non-aerosol sunscreen only- Now that the weather is starting to warm up, hopefully we will see a lot more sunshine! Please remember to bring in sunscreen for your child so that we could apply it here at school. You can apply the first layer at home and the teachers will re-apply for the afternoon. We cannot use any aerosol cans of sunscreen-everything must be for lotion application. Please label your child’s sunscreen lotion.
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April Newsletter
April is a special month for young children! It is a month of celebration! National Week of the Young Child is April 12th-16th. We will be having special activities planned for the children each day this week.
Now that the weather is warming up, the children will be spending much more time outdoors. For your child’s safety, please do not send him/her to school with open toed shoes. This will help prevent injury’s while running and riding the trikes. Please also send non-aerosol sunscreen that we can keep here at school for your child.
In celebration of Earth Day, all the classrooms are learning about the life cycle of a butterfly, as they watched them change into their different stages, as well. They will also be spending lots of time outdoors planting in their classroom garden boxes.
Sincerely, Stephanie Gill/Principal
Dates to remember in April:
April 2 Classroom Easter Egg Hunts- outdoors
April 5-6 Classrooms release their butterflies
April 12-16 Scholastic Book Fair- outdoors
April 12-16 Celebrating Week of the Young Child
April 22 Classrooms release their ladybugs and plant in their garden boxes in honor of Earth Day
Scholastic Book Fair- We will be having our annual Scholastic book fair during the Week of the Young Child, April 12th-16th. You will be able to purchase books for your child and for our classrooms. Merryhill gets 50% of the profit made in books back to the school. You are able to purchase books using a credit card, check or cash. Thank you for supporting books for kids!
Here is a schedule of events during the Week of the Young Child-April 12th-16th:
Monday April 12th Music Monday! In celebration of Week Of The Young Child, the children will explore the world of Music today through various ways.
Tuesday April 13th Tasty Tuesday! In celebration Of Week Of The Young Child, the children will make a tasty treat with their class today!
Wednesday April 14th Work Together Wednesday! In celebration Of Week Of The Young Child, the children will build together to experience teamwork and develop their social and early literacy skills.
Thursday April 15th Artsy Thursday! In celebration of Week Of The Young Child, the children will create open ended projects that let them make choices, use their imagination and create with their hands
Friday April 16th Family Friday! In celebration of Week Of The Young Child, Family Friday encourages parents to engage in a school project with their child. A family Tree will be sent home for each child to work on with their family!
Earth Day-All classrooms will be planting in their own garden boxes during the week of April 22nd. The classrooms will be planting all sorts of vegetables, and then later will use the grown veggies in food experiments, cooking projects and various other activities.
Non-aerosol sunscreen only- Now that the weather is starting to warm up, hopefully we will see a lot more sunshine! Please remember to bring in sunscreen for your child so that we could apply it here at school. You can apply the first layer at home and the teachers will re-apply for the afternoon. We cannot use any aerosol cans of sunscreen-everything must be for lotion application. Please label your child’s sunscreen lotion.
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