Dear Joyful Beginnings families,
It has been a wonderful week in Joyful Beginnings. The children have settled into our daily rhythm and we gradually added more activities into our classroom. We continued with our autumn leaves songs in our circle time. The children were curious and observed the leaves softly floating in the air and sinking into the ground. To celebrate the Day of Courage in our classroom, the children created beautiful and magical star wands. They were excited to play with them in the forest. We finished telling our story “Young George and The Baby Dragon”. It was a story about helping friends in need and also being brave when there was a challenge. There was a fire breathing baby dragon near a gnome village, and the gnome king asked George to help to make it stop. George promised he would try his best. George kept his promise and came back with the baby dragon. It turned out that the baby dragon had hiccups and with each hiccup, out came the fire! The gnome king used his healing stone and helped cure the baby dragon of its hiccups. With thanks, the dragon decided to stay with the gnomes to protect earth. It was such a cute story to tell and the children enjoyed it. We also celebrated Eleanor’s 3-year-old birthday in our classroom. She shared some yummy treats with us. Thank you Eleanor and Happy Birthday!
When we come back from the fall break, we will start to add songs about apples in our morning circle time and start a new story called “ The Apple Star”. We hope you have a great fall break and enjoy your time with families. Please dress your child in labeled layers for our new season’s weather.
Upcoming Events and Friendly Reminders:
October 3rd is a teacher in service day, there will be no school on that day.
Picture Day will be on Wednesday, October 12th and Thursday, October 13th.
Teacher-parent conferences will be held from October 12-14th. It is a great opportunity for us to chat about where your child is developmentally and socially. Each conference will be 20 minutes long. We will meet at the picnic table or small playground at drop off, and we can walk to our platform or our indoor space depending on where the children are at the moment. Ki Patiah will sub for me on Thursday and Ki Ieva will be in the classroom for me on Friday.
Please sign up here.
If you have any questions, or do not see a time that works for you, or you prefer a zoom call, please let me know. I am looking forward to seeing you!
October 29th is Kingdom of Halloween. Please save the date for this magical festival.
Thank you for sharing your sweet children with us and thank you for your support.
Best,
Ki Siyu and Ki Priti
