Teacher Newsletter
January 2017
Pre-K Academy Pen Pal
Each month – from September through May – your Pre-K Academy classrooms are going to receive a letter from one of the characters. The letter will detail information relatable to both your students and the things you are teaching within the Pre-K Academy curriculum.
Once you receive a letter we expect you to read it aloud to your students, discuss its content, and respond – as a whole – to the character. You will have a big pad of paper for children to record their ideas and then the teacher will write the letter out on a regular piece of paper for the class. The brainstorming paper should be kept in the classroom as evidence of learning. Your response should then be sent to the Education Department at the Home Office. The character you responded to will send you back a final response based upon what your classroom wrote to them. Thecycle is followed by – letter from PKA character, letter from your classroom, letter from PKA character – and it will continue every month through May. This correspondence is a required curriculum component. It is a great opportunity to help work on emergent writing skills and also to talk about how to write a letter, how to address an envelope, and how the mail system works.
RCCC Pinterest Page
We love seeing your pictures! If you do a fun activity in your room send a picture to education@rainbowccc.com so we can add it to the Pinterest page for others to see.
Check out the page, you might see a picture from your room!
T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Scholarship Program
T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® Scholarship Program
Currently active in 24 states, T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® is designed to help the Early Childhood industry as a whole address education, compensation and turnover issues that affect the field by helping ease the cost of furthering employee’s education. It also leads to higher quality care for our families, because teachers will be more familiar with best practices. T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® and Rainbow partner together to help cover some of the cost of tuition, books, and related education expenses as well as compensating employees for the time spent doing schoolwork in the form of release time and providing employees with bonuses as they finish classes and programs.
To be eligible to participate in T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood®, an employee has to have been employed with Rainbow for at least one year. They must work at least 30 hours a week and agree to work for Rainbow for one year after finishing their T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® contract. The employee must be going for either their CDA or Associates degree in the Early Childhood field. Currently there is a maximum of three employees per location in the T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® program. Employees in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Alabama, and Ohio are eligible, because T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® currently is operating in these states.
After speaking with your Program Director to check that you meet the criteria to be eligible, call T.E.A.C.H. at 866-648-3224 for an application or visit your states T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® website. You can find all contact information for your states T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood® Program at http://teachecnationalcenter.org/state-contacts/
For further information about the program, contact the Education Department at 248-519-9254 or education@rainbowccc.com.
Rasmussen
Experts Explain How to Support Kids Through the Stages of Child Development
By Ashley Brooks
Your preschool classroom is a place where children are introduced to early learning concepts like literacy, counting and spatial reasoning. You probably aren’t using worksheets and flash cards to drill your lessons, but the early literacy and STEM exposure you provide in your classroom is invaluable to the students’ success later on. They key is helping them absorb as many early concepts as they can. Thanks to a technique called spaced learning that priority is now easier to accomplish
http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/support-through-stages-of-child-development/
Rainbow Child Care and Rasmussen College Partner in your Education
Benefits to you as an employee of Rainbow Child Care:
* Staff and immediate family members eligible for up to 10% tuition discount.
* College credit available for your CDA
* Programs offered completely online for flexibility and convenience
* NEW: Bachelors in Early Childhood Education-Child Development
* Masters degrees are also available through our partner networks- http://www.collegiseducationnetwork.com
For more information:
Amie Engels
T: 952-806-4680
January Curriculum
Toddler, Young Preschool, Preschool, Pre-K Academy, GSRP and Private Kindergarten:
Jan 2-13: Pets
Jan 16-27: Dinosaurs
Montessori: Dinosaur Discovery
Varsity Club: Animal Antics
Kids of Character: Responsibility
Pre-K Academy Project: Pet Rock
Varsity Club Community Service Project: Furry Friends Pet Food Drive
Baby Sign: Cat
Ready, Set, GROW!: Grooving and Moving
Language Immersion Spanish: Numbers 0-10
Zoo-phonics: Q, R, S, T and U Review M, N, O and P
January Calendar of Events: Dates to Remember
* Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) Round Up - Ask you Center Director for more information on this date!
Teacher Spotlight
Lisa Tipton is the Pre-K Academy teacher at the Washington RCCC in Centerville, Ohio. The kids love going into the classroom where Lisa has so many creative things for them to do. Lisa has been at our center for 5 years and has a BA in Early Childhood. Her imagination is seen through the learning experiences she provides for the children in her classroom. Lisa, thank you for all that you do for the center - you are an asset to the Rainbow team!