January News
January Newsletter
Literacy Events Were Amazing!
Remember, just reading one book a day with your child can make a HUGE difference in their reading growth. If you are looking for quality books and a cheap price (FREE), check our your local Greenville County Public Library!
Dress Warm!
In these winter months, please send your child to school with a warm coat, hat, and mittens each day so they will be warm when outside. If you need help providing a coat, hat or mittens, please reach out to us and we will confidentially provide them for your child.
We don't want any child to miss out on this important part of our programming.
4K Preregistration is HERE!
Let's Get Those Brains Ready for Learning!
This is why our first job is to be the Safekeepers to keep the classroom physically and emotionally safe. Part of this job is teaching children calming strategies so their brains are ready to learn. One way we do this is by engaging in Brain Smart Starts. Each day, our teachers lead the children in a Brain Smart Start that helps them to unite together as classmates, disengage stress, connect with each other and commit to helping to keep the classroom safe for learning. In the next few newsletters, I will breakdown each of these four different components of the Brain Smart Start: unite, disengage stress, connect and commit
Produce of the Month
Ms. Produce is introducing KALE as the produce for the month by sharing a book, dressing in costume wear and serving kale in some form for lunch each week this month.
Kale is one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet!
A single cup of raw kale contains:
- Vitamin A: 206% of the DV (from beta-carotene)
- Vitamin K: 684% of the DV
- Vitamin C: 134% of the DV
- Vitamin B6: 9% of the DV
- Manganese: 26% of the DV
- Calcium: 9% of the DV
- Copper: 10% of the DV
- Potassium: 9% of the DV
- Magnesium: 6% of the DV
It also is full of antioxidants as well as helps lower cholesterol, so why not try it out??
Hoping You and Your Child Have Fun Trying Some Kale This Month!
Manner of the Month
It is important that when we hurt someone's feelings or hurt them physically that we apologize. This can be a difficult circumstance as we do not want to FORCE a child to say sorry, but rather help them to develop empathy for the other individual so they WANT to say they are sorry.
Here is an article worth reading consider some ways to teach this difficult skill: How To Teach Your Child To Apologize and Actually Mean It.
Not all Screen Time is the Same
Now that the holidays have passed and many of our children have access to online content they may not have had before, we often wonder how can we still maintain safe boundaries for them?
The article below talks about what types of screen time are available and how much time is too much time.
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