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Medfield Afterschool Program
Jump Start – Kindergarten – First Grade
November 2017 Newsletter
Important Dates in November:
(*dates are out of order)
 
Early Release Days
Thursday, 11/9
Tuesday, 11/14   
 Wednesday, 11/22

What will happen @ MAP? On these days, if  it is your child's normal day to attend MAP, we will be expecting them (there is no Jump Start). There is no special sign up or extra charge for the extended coverage. If your child will not be coming, please make sure to notify MAP. Annette.map@comcast.net (508) 359-2165 
  • Jump Start - NO MAP
  • AM K & PM MAP – Children will be released to MAP @ 11:40.
  • AM MAP & PM K – Children have NO SCHOOL and may stay at MAP until 2:30 or their usual pick up time.
  • 1st Grade & Full Day K have a half-day, and will be released to MAP @11:40. 
  • All children need to come to MAP with a lunch (and a toothbrush if you gave your permission)

Friday, 11/10 – Veteran’s Day - No School - MAP CLOSED!  

Thursday, 11/23 & Friday, 11/24 - MAP is CLOSED - Happy Thanksgiving !


LOOKING AHEAD TO DECEMBER:

Early Release Days - Tuesday, 12/12 & Friday, 12/22 - What will happen @ MAP?  On these days, if   it is your child's normal day to attend MAP, we will be expecting them (there is no Jump Start). There is no special sign up or extra charge for the extended coverage. If your child will not be coming, please make sure to notify MAP. Annette.map@comcast.net  (508) 359-2165 
  • Jump Start - NO MAP
  • AM K & PM MAP – Children will be released to MAP @ 11:40.
  • AM MAP & PM K – Children have NO SCHOOL and may stay at MAP until 2:30 or their usual pick up time.
  • 1st Grade & Full Day K have a half-day, and will be released to MAP @11:40. 
  • All children need to come to MAP with a lunch (and a toothbrush if you gave your permission)

MAP will CLOSED over the Winter Break 12/26 through January 2nd 2017!



Mornings @ MAP – Jump Start & Kindergarten
During the month of October we have been very busy being Scientists! We have been making hypotheses (what we think might happen), conducting experiments and reviewing our results. We learned that sometimes scientist's hypotheses are correct but sometimes not. The children have been excited to hear about all the different areas of science. We studied the air, water, land, clouds, weather and the water cycle and tested out sink vs. float. We used our 5 senses for a Fall walk in this beautiful weather. We reviewed germs and how to keep our bodies and teeth healthy. We worked together to make healthy posters for everyone at MAP. We learned about light with shadow puppets and different types of sound. The children loved testing out what was magnetic or not and force & motion with cars & ramps! We ended Science month with some crazy experiments- Mentos & soda, vinegar & baking soda, hot cocoa, cornstarch & water, and yeast & hydrogen peroxide. What a month of learning and fun! Look for a science packet to come home showing all the fun! 

Afternoons at MAP - Jump Start & Kindergarten
October has been a month of experimenting, hands-on learning, and making messes! We have explored Earth Science, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. Some of the highlights were exploding volcanoes, playdough earth layers, our Human Body books, magnets, force and motion using cars and ramps, and learning about density with our layered liquid rainbow. We also ended the month with some Mad Science activities, like glow in the dark artwork and crazy color mixing!

Please Help Spread the Word!
MAP is offering a Holiday Workshop Club on Mondays beginning November 27th. We would love to have some new friends come to try out MAP, so please share this exciting news with any preschoolers or half day Ks you think might be interested! For more information or to register: www.medfieldafterschoolprogram.com or in the school's Thursday Packet.
Session 1 CLUBS are Wrapping up…
last week 10/30 with an optional week 11/6
MONDAYS
Halloween Prep Club with Jodi – Halloween Prep club has been busy getting ready for the big day! We've been having some spooky snacks (Check out the muddy pumpkin patch pudding cups we made) as well as making some fun decorations to spook our families and friends! This group of children has been a blast to work with, and we will all surely be ready for Halloween fun!


TUESDAYS
Painting Palooza Club with Jeanne - Painting Palooza Club has been creative, messy, and most of all fun! We have created beautiful fall trees using the three primary colors . . you guessed it, red, yellow, and blue. The children wondered how they could make brown for the tree trunk and discovered that when you mix all three primary colors together, voila!, you have brown. Beautiful shades of orange, yellow, and green were made as the artists mixed and painted. The children enjoyed using glue, salt and liquid water colors to make beautifully colorful designs. Scratch art was created and in celebration of Halloween the artists created Line Monsters using different types of lines. It so great to work with children who are interested in learning, creative, and most of all love to paint! Looking forward to more painting fun in the weeks ahead!

Superhero Club with Mike – Our heroes have met each week in our secret lair to discuss what defines heroes. We have also learned how to draw a few of our favorites, done some training exercises, and tested our knowledge of superhero symbols.


WEDNESDAYS
I Love Fall Club with Trish - I love Fall Club has had some wonderful weather to celebrate in!! We have gone for walks and observed the trees. We are planning a walk at the end of club to observe the changes. We took a photo of ourselves and put it in a Fall scene. And my favorite was learning the 5 Little Pumpkins poem and designing a fence for those pumpkins!! Next up - Halloween! I Love Fall club is doing such a great job! 

Storytime (not Bedtime) Club with Terri -In “SNB” club the kids and their “Stuffies” got to hear Johnny Appleseed read by a special guest -the best custodian in town, Mr. T! The kids asked and we moved our reading into the school library. We’ve read Good Night Moon, Arthur, The Cookie Fiasco with elephant and pig. We met Louise and went on adventures with her! (She’s a chicken!) Halloween was celebrated with a spooky story on CD and vampire/Frankenstein masks for all! Every meeting started with a little scavenger hunt, we’ve searched for Clay moons and pictures of our story time characters. It was a delight to see the kids get so excited when it was time for coloring our story time characters each week!


THURSDAYS
Fall Sports Club with Scott - The month of October has been surprisingly warm and Fall Sports club has been taking full advantage. We started off with the normal classic games such a football, soccer, hockey, and basketball. I’m excited to introduce a couple new sports games over the next few weeks. So far the children have shown how wonderful their teamwork can be and their constant communication during game play encouraging each other in a positive way has been exciting to watch and hear. 

Beadie Club with Kim - Beadie club was a lot of fun and the kids were excited every week! The kids had a lot of fun creating fuse beads, pony beads pumpkin and snake and also a spinner made from fuse beads. They wanted to have a say in what we did every week. There were so many suggestions!!


FRIDAYS
Beach Club with Megan S. 
Beach Club has been very lucky to have warm and beautiful weather this fall. The kids have been able to enjoy beach ball hockey played with pool noodles outside. We even tried to see if we could keep the beach ball off the ground as a team. Our top score was eight bounces in the air before it hit the ground! The kids did a great job working and playing as a team. We have been able to do some identifying of seashells and really got a close look at some different size horseshoe crabs. The kids were shocked at how small a baby horseshoe crab was compared to a big grown-up one. The kids last week made seashell frames and all of them came out great! We hope to put photos in the frames of something the children did or saw over the summer, and then share it with the other children in the club. The remainder of the weeks will try out some boat racing and other fun beach actives.   

Session 2 Clubs: Children will sign up for new clubs the week of 11/6. Session 2 clubs will begin meeting the week of 11/13.

MONDAYS
Let's Make Sense Club with Trish - Love to experiment, touch, feel and play? Come on in for a super hands on sensory club! 


TUESDAYS
Glow in the Dark Club with Kim
This is going to be a super fun club! I have so many Glow in the Dark activities for us to do. One week we may paint and another week we may make do a couple of science experiments and another week we will make glowing slime! So fun!!

Clay Club with Jeanne
If you like to roll your sleeves up, and sculpt with clay then this club is for you! Our time together will be spent exploring the many ways you can create with clay. Unique texture tools will be used to add character to your clay creations. Pinch pots, coil pots, and fish dishes, are just a few fabulous items we will make in CLAY CLUB .   


WEDNESDAYS
Space and Alien Club with Terri -where we will make creatures from out of this world and explore the great universe! Sorry we can’t afford space shuttle trips this session! (Although we may eat as if we were astronauts.) We will make comets, alien spaceships and moon sand! A club to join to explore and imagine what you would look like with four 👀 eyes 👀 !!

Pinkalicious Club with Megan S. - In Pinkalicious club, your favorite color doesn’t have to be pink to be in the club. It can be any color of you could imagine! But when I was little, pink would have been my favorite color. Can you imagine having everything you eat be Pink? Or everything you wear to only be your favorite color? In this club we will make jewelry boxes and or any type of special box you can think of and decorate them. Have fun playing dress up and have a tea party. Make wands, a pinkalicious cupcake sensory bin, fizzing cupcake experiment and I bet you can guess what color that might be… if you guessed pink your right!   


THURSDAYS
Holiday Shop Club with Meghan - Holiday Shop is a small store at MAP where children get to experience the joy of selecting, paying for, wrapping, and giving some special gifts during the holiday season. The children who sign up for this club will help me set up our shop, organize and price merchandise, and then help run the shop during the holiday season. All MAP children will be invited to bring in money to do some of their holiday shopping at our store, and more info will be sent home about MAP’s Holiday Shop soon.

History Club with Mike - We will explore some major turning points in history in fun and engaging ways...our young historians will cross the Delaware with George Washington, dump tea into Boston Harbor, and more!


FRIDAYS
Holiday Club with Jodi - It's the most wonderful time of the year! But it's not all about Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah! Did you know November 17th is "Take a hike day"?, or that December 1st is "Eat a red apple" day? Or even better, December 8 is "National brownie day"?!  On Fridays we will be having some fun with traditional.....and some not so traditional holidays!  
MAP NEWS

Afternoons at MAP continue to be filled with creativity, fun, and laughter. The children are engaged, creating with recyclables, building incredible car ramps, playing games, participating in clubs, or getting a good workout in the gym. We've been fortunate to spend so much time outside on the playground - lots of Monkey Bar mastering has been achieved with few blisters to show! A new “Noodle Beach Ball” hockey style game was great fun on a windy day!

The MAPsters helped decorate Memorial's cafeteria with bats and ghosts on spooky trees. And of course, the most popular place to be in October would be dramatic play. Mike has worked hard creating a spooky (but not too spooky) place for the children to have fun. They are gearing up for one of their favorite holidays . . . HaLlOwEeN, and we look forward to celebrating with them!
Special Thanks to MAP @ The Pfaff!
The 4th-6th MAPsters came to Memorial to put on a spooky, haunted show for us on the day before Halloween. They told creepy stories and performed a zombie dance! It was so much fun to have them share their creativity with us, especially since so many of them were Memorial MAPsters not so long ago!
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Annette Gallagher, M.Ed.                Gaye Shannon
K-1 Program Director                                      Executive Director
508.359.2165                           508.359.0003
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