It’s graduation month! We can hardly believe August is already here. We have been so lucky to have you all be a part of the Story Book Early Learning Centre family. We will miss you and your children so dearly. It has been a pleasure to be a part of watching your little ones grow and helping them get ready for this next big step. They are so excited for Kindergarten and their “big schools!”
Before school starts in September, we have been soaking up the summer weather and having as much fun as possible. Each child has created a Summer Bucket List with several activities that we are on a mission to complete (if possible, we might not get to Hawaii or Cuba haha). Another list we made was our early Christmas Lists to give Santa a heads up while celebrating Christmas in July. Everyone thought this was so funny and enjoyed doing activities they usually only get to do once a year.
While continuing to focus on Kindergarten readiness skills we also have a few last special themed days. Last month our favourite seemed to be Disney Day which turned into a Disney Week! During free play the preschoolers enjoy roleplaying as different characters such as princesses, superheroes, and more. While combining this with our most recent interest being the Essex Fun Fest, we came up with the idea of Disney World. This month our dramatic play centre will change from our carnival to a school. The preschoolers love to role play as teachers and students acting out different routines, they do at Story Book such as circle, fire drills, snack and more. The children will have backpacks and lunch pails they can practice opening and closing, the daily classroom calendar they can now do on their own, and more to help with the transition to Kindergarten.
Next month we look forward to hosting Preschool Olympics, relaxing at our “beach” for Beach Day, dressing up or wearing our favourite character for Character Day, wearing our PJs and watching a movie on PJ Day and dressing up for what we want to be on Career Day. On August 30th we will be hosting our last day of preschool party to say our final goodbyes and have one last dance party. We have been dancing since our first day of Preschool 3 to our last. Best of luck in this new exciting chapter!
Just a reminder we will be closed August 5th for the Civic Holiday as well as September 2nd for Labour Day.
The Greater Essex Public District School Board will start all Kindergarten classes on Tuesday, September 3rd. If your child is attending any other school board, please verify your child’s start day with their school and please let the staff know of their commencement date.