January                                     February

1st Week: Brrr-r-r (winter)                  1st Week: Hearts & Flowers (Valentine)

2nd Week: Our Best Friends (Pets)      2nd Week: Sweets for our Sweets (Valentine)
                                                    (parties 11^th & 12^th)
3rd Week: 1,2,3’s (Numbers)          3rd Week: Veggie Tales (Good Nutrition)              

4th Week: Lions, Tigers (OH MY)         4th Week: What’s My Line
                                                                                   (community helpers)

Jan. 5: Warm Your Belly Brownies           Feb. 2: Heart Sandwiches

Jan. 13: Clifford’s Crunchy Taters           Feb. 10: Magic Love Potion

Jan. 21: Triple Chocolate Pudding             Feb. 18: Malty Milk Shakes

Jan. 29: Wild Chopped Salad                    Feb. 26: Farmer Fruit Cup

WE LOVE OUR PETS – Please bring in pictures of your pet(s) with your name and your pet(s) name on the back. We will display them on our special Pet Bulletin Board for January and February and give them back to you in March. Join the Pet Parade!

Jan. 14 & 15: Pets on Shirts Day! Children come dressed with
                     pets on their shirt.

Jan. 27:        Scrubby Bear will be visiting from the Red Cross.

Feb. 11 & 12: Valentine's Day Parties! If your child is not
                     normally here either day, please make arrangements
                     with their teacher to bring him/her. Please have your
                     child bring in his/her valentine cards by February 8^th.

Feb. 22 & 23: Pajama Day! Children come dressed in warm P.J.'s!
                      (Please have children wear their shoes and socks.)

1. We wish to extend a warm thank you to all of our students and their parents, relatives and friends who attended our 30th annual Gaul's Nursery and Arts Centre Christmas Concert, held in December at the Maple Shade High School. We thank everyone for helping to make it such a success!

2. If you would like your child to bring in valentines, please leave the envelopes blank. That way, we can be sure that each child receives an equal number of valentines. It would probably be easiest to send the amount of valentines that are in your child's group. Please send cards in by Feb. 8^th. The groups are approximately as follows:

Morning & Full Day Bears - 24
Morning & Full Day Bunnies - 24
T - TH afternoon - 15
M-W-F afternoon - 15

3. For your income tax - Tax I.D. # 22-2314409

4. Thanks for all the party goodies that you sent in during the holidays!

5. Please bring your child’s nap room pillow and blanket in the sacs we

provided, as they keep everything fresh for naptime. Thanks!

7. Please let us know if there is any reason to update your file such as new address, new phone number, allergy, etc.

8. Some Helpful Lunchtime Reminders:

1. If your child has fruit at lunch and likes his/her fruit cut up, please
make sure you cut it before putting it in the lunch box.
2. In the winter the cubby room keeps food cool but please use ice
packs to keep food colder.
3. Don’t forget those happy lunchtime messages on napkins. The kids
love notes, hearts & hugs from home! Thanks!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Literacy specialists tell us that reading aloud helps with developing language and all its nuances, with building comprehension, building critical thinking skills, and discovering classic text structures.
Beyond that, there are still more advantages to be gained. Good children's books offer a strong sense of values and responsibilities. Helping your child learn about things such as friendship, kindness, patience, and bravery in the context of a story is one way to develop shared values.
Stories have power. We share joys and sorrows through stories. Books allow you and your children to visit many worlds together, and hear many voices. Through books, children begin to feel the power of many different stories, and learn that their stories matter too.
Books read aloud bring comfort to children. The world outside can be hard, confusing, and scary, as children navigate through social interactions. A child's inner world can contain fears, worries, and other strong emotions, and books provide ways to talk about all of this.
Reading aloud to little children gives us all of this. But reading aloud should not stop with children when they learn to read independently, lest we lose some of these valuable things.
Reading aloud creates a kind of energy, becoming a new adventure that bonds adults and children.
Find a good book, and read it aloud.