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Christ the King Community Daycare
68-02 Metropolitan Avenue,
Middle Village, NY 11379
718-417-6770
www.ctkny.org
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The month of September flew by so quickly! The teachers, children and families have all worked together and this has helped the children feel secure in their new surroundings. The teachers also helped the children develop social and emotional skills by learning about our families and friends. They talked about feelings and introduced words like happy, sad, angry and excited.
Our Back-to-School Nights were a huge success; we had a very good turnout. Thank you to all the parents for participating and taking the first step in forging a partnership with us in the care and education of your children.
We kick off our fall curriculum with learning about the beautiful season of Autumn. We will be on the lookout for changes in nature, such as the many different colored leaves that we see, and begin collecting, observing, and comparing leaves. This rich content is designed to be fun and exciting, and it will also help to foster and develop children's natural curiosity about nature and the world around them.
Our teachers encourage children to use their observations and knowledge from their everyday hands on experiences in day to day life, to help develop scientific concepts. The teachers build literacy skills by introducing new vocabulary. They will ask questions that will help build on the children's prior knowledge, and promote higher order thinking skills.
On Wednesday, October 12th, the children will go pumpkin picking at our very own CTK Pumpkin Patch (on campus). This will be followed up with lots of fun Art, Science, Math and Story-time activities focused on the themes harvest and farming.
During the last week of October, we will celebrate Halloween! The children will take part in many Halloween themed arts & crafts, stories. On Monday, October 31st, the children can come to school dressed in a costume. You will receive a separate email with more specific details about our Halloween Parades for the differing age groups on that day.
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- Please remember that all contract changes must be submitted two weeks prior to the 1st of the following month.
- Please call the daycare if you will be picking up later that your contracted time.
- When calling the facility, please keep in mind that calls should be ideally be made between 12-2pm while the children are napping. The daycare phone number is 718-417-6770.
- Please label all of you child's clothing, blankets and other belongings that you bring in.
- Please remember to make sure your child's cubby contains weather-appropriate clothing. We also appreciate all of our parents continuing to bring in diapers and a box of wipes twice each month on the 1st and the 15th.
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- Color(s): Orange & Black
- Concepts: Farms, Christopher Columbus, Opposites, Autumn, Halloween
- Shape: Octagon
- Letters: C, D
- Number(s):
Ages (1-2) # 2
Ages (3-4) #'s 3, 4
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Science with the Kitties
Happy October!!!!!!
Last month, the Kitties said good-bye to summer and hello to fall. We enjoyed making many projects and learning about the different September themes. One of our Science themes was Learning About Apples and how to make Applesauce. We looked at pictures of the apples in different stages. Then to make the applesauce, we mashed the apples in Ziploc bags. The children used their senses to observe the changes of the apples, as well as the smell and the feel of the applesauce. The Kitties were then offered a taste of the applesauce. Some of the children like it and some didn’t; either way we all had fun together making applesauce!!
Science with the Chipmunks
The Chipmunks are so excited to enter the new month of October. We have so much fun planned, including the Harvest Festival and a Halloween party. Last month the Chipmunks focused on Science. We focused on getting to know each other and observed the similarities and differences between teacher and student. The children had so much fun spotting what makes us unique. Miss Gina painted her hand-print on paper and put the child's hand-print next to it. The children used magnifying glasses to observe what was the same and different about our hand-prints.
As autumn was approaching, we discussed the different changes in weather. We talked about the different fall activities the children like to do with their families, such as, Apple Picking, Pumpkin Picking, Hayrides, Fall Festivals, and celebrating Halloween. This led to explaining about our first science experiment. The children got together in small groups to observe a chemical reaction. First, we cored an apple, leaving space in the center. Then we put baking soda into the apple. Finally, we added vinegar inside and watched what happened. The Chipmunks were all laughing with excitement as the foam came out of the apple. The children had a blast doing this experiment and cannot wait for us to do the next.
Science with the Turtles
For the month of October, the Turtles will be getting to know one another by sharing a little bit about themselves. One of our favorite subjects in the Turtle class is science! We will learn that science is all around us and almost everything involves science. One activity we will do is fingerprint observations. With this activity, we can compare and contrast our fingerprints so we could see that although we are different we are also very similar. We will have a chance to look into a mirror and speak about what we see; everyone has a face with eyes, a nose and a mouth. This is a wonderful observation to make since our theme for October is Our Five Senses! This month, we will even have the chance to go to our own, personal harvest festival full of fun activities including pumpkin picking, a bouncy house and face painting! I suspect we will really enjoy harvesting items like pumpkins and apples! We even have a scientific lesson planned for our cooking lesson; as a class, we will make homemade applesauce. The Turtles will understand that mixing things together is science on its own; by mixing apples, sugar, cinnamon and water, we get a tasty applesauce!
We look back at September with fondness and are happy that we were able to welcome everyone into our Turtle class this year! It was amazing to learn all about our new students and start the year off safe and healthy. We were able to complete some amazing projects and activities including putting together puzzles of our faces for math, making school houses for our cooking project and even painting our hand-prints to make a promise to our classmates that we will help one another! While September was a shorter month, we did so much together in such a small amount of time!
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Math with the Angels
Throughout September, we welcomed new friends to the Angel room and had a great start to the new school year! We had a great time last month making so many beautiful crafts. One activity that they especially enjoyed was stamping with apples and making apple prints. The teachers cut a yellow apple in half and dipped one half into yellow paint. Then we dipped half of a green apple into green paint and half of a red apple into red paint. As we stamped we counted how many apples we made. When our projects dried, we reviewed our numbers and counted how many apple prints we made in each color. The Angels had so much fun counting and had an even better time getting messy with the paint! Great job Angels!
Math with the Sunflowers
The Sunflowers were so excited to start school! We focused a lot on Math last month and the Sunflowers loved getting to practice their numbers during Circle Time. We have also been tracking the number of days we have been in school and they have loved seeing the number go up and count how many days we have been in school. We also focused a lot on patterns and sequences. We read a book about going to school and then we did patterns where we pasted home and school pictures. The students loved gluing and telling Ms. Danielle that when they leave their homes, they get to go to school and when they leave school, they get to go home. We also talked about how we get to school. We discussed that some students come to school in a car, in a bus, on a train or sometimes they may walk. We then did a tally and counted how many students traveled in each category. We are looking forward to having more fun with Math as we go into the next month!
Math with the Ducks
We welcome the month of October, the beautiful colored trees, and the crisp Fall air. We will study and learn all about our 5 senses this month. In
the month of September, we learned about “Our Community.” We first talked about our classroom and the community we are building together. As a class we worked on understanding, recognizing and creating AB patterns. The students were asked to create an AB pattern using pictures of a home and school. After the students created their AB patterns, we had a discussion about how this AB pattern appears in their everyday life. Every day we leave our home to come to school and then leave school to go back to our homes.
The second math activity we worked on was counting how many people are in our family. Students were given a picture of a house and people counting manipulatives. Students were asked to place the people counters in the picture of the house to represent the people who are in their family. Students were then asked to count the total number of people who live in their home.
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Art with the Bunnies
Welcome October, the month of Trick-or-Treating and pumpkins. This month the Bunnies have so much planned. We will be going to the Harvest Festival, full of games and activities. We will also be marching in the annual Halloween parade.
Last month, the Bunnies had fun doing various art projects and using dot markers. We used art to help teach the topics and themes of the month. When we introduced the letter B, we gave each child a letter to decorate. The children used the dot markers and stamped dots all over the letter, while the teachers pointed out what pictures were in the letter. Another project that we enjoyed creating was our yellow ducks. We crumbled up yellow tissue paper and the children glued the pieces onto their ducks. The children learned that the duck says, “quack,” and it reinforce the color of the month. We look forward to do many more projects, learning how to hold crayons and painting next month.
Art with the Lions
The Lions are giving a roaring welcome to the month of October, as we will celebrate the Harvest, and Halloween. We will have so much fun playing and learning this month.
Last month, the Lions focused on learning all about the classroom, the teachers and our daily routine. Getting to know the classroom is important for the children to feel comfortable in a new environment. One way the Lions got to know their classroom was by exploring the Art Center. The Art Center is filled with different materials including feathers, foam stickers, pom poms, googly eyes and much more!
For our first art project the Lions were able to use anything they wanted in the Art Center to create their pictures! A lot of the children loved using the feathers in their collages saying that it made it look like a bird flew by! The children also like all the different sized googly eyes too. By allowing the children to explore the art center on their own, it allows them to figure out what they like and what makes them feel comfortable and be excited to come to school!
Art with the Dolphins
Welcome to the Dolphin room and the month of October! We look forward to learning about our five senses in the month of October. I am looking forward to a science project that I think the kids will enjoy where we will use the sense of touch. Students will put their hands into the mystery box containing different objects and feel them without being able to see the object. They will then be asked to predict what they felt.
The theme for the month of September was “Welcome to Pre-K.” The children had a great time getting to know new friends and teachers as we have been exploring all the new centers and toys around the classroom. A big hit was the art center, where the children can express themselves freely through different mediums (paint, markers, play-doh, pom poms, etc.) and engage in sensory activities, as we encourage creativity and independent work. Art is incorporated into most lessons of differing subjects, as we have been putting an emphasis on examining ourselves and our families. Children have been tasked with examining themselves in a mirror and drawing what they see. The students were able to observe their features and talk about themselves while making a connection through art with markers.
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Music with the Snugglies II
The babies in Snugglies II love music throughout the day. At nap time we listen to soothing lullabies such as, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." We especially love singing during our Sing-A-Long Time in the morning. One of our favorite songs is “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.” We are learning how to use our fingers to act out the song. We creep them up as the spider goes up the water spout. We trickle them down as down comes the rain. Then we swish them as we washed the spider out. We cannot wait to learn more songs and finger plays throughout the year.
Music with the Monkeys
The Monkey class loves music! During the month of September, the Monkeys spent a lot of time learning new songs and singing each day. During Circle Time, we sing our ABCs and are learning each other’s names by singing our “Hello Song”. We love visiting the Music Room and playing different instruments! Since we are focusing on the letters A and B this month, we have had a lot of fun making up our own songs that have words that begin with A and B. For example, we might sing:
A is for apple
B is for Bear
A is for Ant
and B is for Bike
Each day, we make up words as we go along!
As we are walking in the hallway, we love to sing songs too! “We Are the Monkeys Marching” (sung to "We Are the Dinosaurs") is our favorite one to sing while we are walking to an activity. The Monkey class also loves dancing. “The Gummy Bear Song” is one of our favorite songs to dance to. We also love “Freeze Dance” and “We are the dinosaurs.” We often have music playing throughout the day and it helps soothe the students as well as it keeps them happy as we do activities!
Music with the Bears
Welcome to October! As we will begin to learn all about our Five Senses, we are looking forward to a fun science project that the children will do by using their sense of smell. The children will close their eyes and make predictions about what is in the cup that they are smelling.
Looking back on the Bear room in September, the monthly theme was Welcome to Pre-K. The children explored new materials that are throughout the entire classroom. The students were able to engage in many multi-sensory activities. During small group, the students used the smart board to look up all the different things we find in the classroom and discuss how we should use all the materials. The children discussed how we clean up and after playing, eating, and how we go and wash hands after eating, or coming inside from the playground etc. The Bears learned some new songs that aligned with our theme. The children had a great time learning all these songs. Here are a few of our songs that we learned.
Clean Up
Clean up, clean up,
Everybody, everywhere,
Clean up, clean up,
Everybody do your share.
I Have a Friend Named
I have a friend named (child name), (---) is her name.
Get up and dance (---), get up and dance, (---),
get up and dance (---) (---) go wash your hands.
(Each child gets a chance to get up and dance before going to wash their hands, getting their jacket, etc. You can sing to more than one child at a time to make transitions happen more quickly.)
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Gym Time with the Puppies
Last month, we had the pleasure of getting to know one another and exploring our new room and schedule. The Puppies had a great time moving their bodies and engaging in gym activities. They get very excited whenever the teacher says, “It is gym time!” The first thing they do is going straight to the door.
In the gym, the children select different toys to play with. On the roller-coasters and small bicycles, they are learning how to hold their balance. They also love to play catch and bounce the balls. Some of the children are walking independently and go in and out of the cars by themselves. Other children are using push carts to hold onto and practice walking. Another activity that the children enjoy is listening to music and dancing. We use songs like “Head Shoulders Knees and Toes” to help the children learn about parts of their bodies and following directions. As we are doing some of these activities more and more, we are really seeing progress in their growth and development.
Gym with the Bumblebees
October is an exciting month! We will learn about farms, autumn, and Halloween! This month Bumblebees are looking forward to making corn prints by rolling corn in paint and also our end of the month Halloween party!
Looking back on September, we gave a warm welcome to the school year. We went over classroom rules, got to know our new friends, and started to recognize our names! We also introduced our first numbers, letters, and shape of the month!
Being in a new class with new friends can be challenging, and we focus a lot on sharing and taking turns. In the indoor gym we have two kid-sized roller coasters. We use these coasters to host races for two children at a time! It is fun and also the perfect opportunity to practice taking turns! The Bumblebees also enjoyed playing catch, riding the bikes, playing in the boats and climbing the steps. It’s easy to see why the gym is one of the Bumblebees’ favorite specialty rooms.
Gym and Tech with the Pandas
Tune: A hunting we will go
To preschool we will go,
To preschool we will go,
We’ll learn and play and make new friends
To preschool we will go!
Last month the students were welcomed to their new classroom. They learned all about what it’s like to be in Pre-K and be a Panda! The Pandas enjoyed playing games in the soccer field and exploring in the school’s playground! They really loved using the rock climbing wall, the slides, and the climbing dome.
In the classroom, Ms. Krystal introduced the Pandas to our SMART board. The students learned to play fun and interactive games. They even enjoy following along to dancing videos and Kids Yoga! The children followed along to yoga and learned about mindfulness and what we can do to relax our bodies using breathing techniques. The children especially love the yoga stories of their favorite characters.
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The safety of our children and staff is our top priority. Please review our Health Policy. We ask for your cooperation to help us maintain a healthy environment.
On our Current Parent Page of our website you can find all medical/health forms you may need.
- Medical Form - Our center is licensed by the Department of Health which requires all children to have an up to date physical and immunization form on file.
- 504 Medication Administration Form – This form needs to be submitted for any long-term medical conditions such as asthma or allergies.
- Dietary Restriction Form – This form should be submitted to inform us of any dietary restrictions that we should be aware of. Dietary restrictions may include any dietary restrictions due to preference, allergies or medical requirements.
- Please remember to inform our center of your child's absence on a daily basis. Such absences include: reporting a contagious illness, children not feeling well or simply not coming in on their scheduled day. Reporting these absences are a Board of Health regulation.
Safety & Health Reminders
- We are a peanut-free school. Please help us to maintain a nut free environment by refraining from sending any such items (nuts, peanut butter, almond butter, any items containing nut oils, etc.) to school with your children.
- We are planning to celebrate Halloween during the month of October. Costumes may be worn to school as long as they are appropriate in length, in order to prevent any accidents.
- Please do not forget to get your flu vaccine and proof of documentation. It is mandatory by the Board of Health for all children 6 months to 59 months of age, attending daycare, 3K or Pre-K to receive the influenza vaccine.
Please contact the Nurse's office at daycarenurse@ctkny.org with questions or concerns you may have at any time.
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Angels
Angels
After nap we were having our snack at the table. One of our friends was coughing a little bit when Adeline told them, “You should drink some water.”
Bears
While the children were in centers playing Rory, Blake, Serafina and Mattie were playing on the pretend phones. Rory was calling all the girls on the phone asking them, “Do you like being in the Bear room with Ms. Kerin and Ms. Jessica? They have some cool stuff.” Blake said, “Hey let’s call Ms. Kerin and ask her if she likes the Bear Room?” Rory picked up the phone and said “Ms. Kerin I am calling you. Ms. Kerin I am calling you. Ms. Kerin I am calling you. Pick up your cell phone!” Ms. Kerin picked up her phone and Rory said, “Ms. Kerin do you like the Bear room?” Ms. Kerin answered, “Yeah buddy. I love the Bear Room.” Rory and Blake said, “Hey guys did you hear Ms. Kerin loves the Bear Room!”
Bumblebees
On the playground the climbing wall can be a challenge for some kids, but in the Bumblebee class we encourage the children to work on problem solving to build up their confidence! We often say things like "You can do it!" or "Where can you step next?" Deaglan had been practicing the climbing wall with us all week and once he tried it on his own we heard him telling himself "You can do it, you can do it Dex!" This brought us a lot of joy to hear and then we celebrated together when he finished climbing!
Chipmunks
We went to the playground one day and it had rained the day before so the teachers were wiping down slides. The children went to play while we did so. The teachers noticed all the children were sitting together. We asked them what they were doing and Zofia said, "We're doing the Hello Song at Circle Time!"
Dolphins
Aiden was sitting with Ms. Taylor doing an art project where they were asked to look at themselves in the mirror and draw what they see. As he was sitting, he began rubbing his eye vigorously until he was told to go get a tissue if he needed. When he returned to the table, he once again began examining himself in the mirror. When Ms. Taylor asked him, “What do you see?” he responded with, “I see that my eye is itchy.” In the same silly fashion while sitting with Julian and asking him the same question, he pulled his ears away from his head with both hands and made a silly face while responding, “I see that I have monkey ears.”
Ducks
The children loved making patterns counting how many people were in their family. Brody said, “I have my Mom, Dad, Blakey and me in my house. We also have Mr. Joe but he is only around sometimes.”
Kitties
Ms. Sara was serving lunch and asked the children, "Do you like pizza?" Audrina gave a big smile and exclaimed, "YES!!!"
Lions
Miss Melissa was playing Peekaboo with Kieran and after doing it several times over Kieran said to Miss Melissa, “One more time!” After Miss Melissa did it again the other kids asked her to do it to them too.
Monkeys
The children were outside, when a fly was flying near Rocco. Naia said, “Hey leave my friend alone fly!”
Pandas
In Circle Time, Ms. Krystal and the Pandas were sitting on the carpet reflecting on our lesson about fingerprints, and how each one looks different under the magnifying glass. Johnny turned to a friend and said, “I have a big fingerprint now because I’m 4 years old.”
Sunflowers
One of the students was climbing on the table to get a toy. Serina said to her friend, “Get off the table! We don’t climb tables in school!”
Turtles
While celebrating Sofia’s birthday party in the classroom, Justin announced out loud, “I am so happy! Having birthday cake in the Turtle class makes me smile!”
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