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August 2017
Thank you for being part
of our Ladybug family.
Ladybug teachers are
pleased to create this
monthly newsletter for
you because you are
important to us and we
truly appreciate you.
Please feel free to share
this newsletter with
friends and family.
Happy reading!
Mark Your Calendars!
Mission
At Ladybug Child Care
Center, our mission is
to provide a joyful
learning experience for
your family that em-
powers your children to
reach their
educational and person-
al potential while loving-
ly nurturing their self-
confidence and self-
esteem.
LADYBUG NEWS
Educating and Car ing For Your Chi ldren For More Than 3 6 Years
August 24th
Preschool
Graduation
September 4th
Ladybug is Closed
September 5th
First Day of School
Join us…..
Chaska Cubs vs. Victoria Vic’s
Friday, July 28th
At 7:10pm
Athletic Field in Chaska
(725 W. 1st ST.)
Just mention you are a Ladybug family and admis-sion will be free. Please have your child wear their
Ladybug field trip shirt.
We hope to see you there!
LADYBUG PRESCHOOL
LEARNING CENTER AND ADVENTURE-
CENTRE 306 Lake Hazeltine Drive
Chaska, MN 55318 952-448-7202
www.ladybugcc.com
Management Team
Julie Kauffmann [email protected]
Katie Klover [email protected]
Corporate Office Connie Kraus—President
Michelle Kraus- Vice President [email protected]
Stephen Kraus- Vice President
Julie Kauffmann - Accounting Associate
Katie Klover- Client Services Manager [email protected]
At Ladybug Child Care Center, we will prepare your child’s heart, mind, and body to ensure
their success as a life long learner.
End Of The Summer Wrap Up
We can’t believe that August has come
and it’s time to think about the 2017-
2018 school year. Here are just a few
reminders for our wonderful families!
If you are interested, ACH payment
is a convenient and easy way to pay
your tuition. See Miss Katie if you
would like to sign up.
Preparations for fall are happening!
If you have a schedule change with
the start of school please remember
to provide Ladybug with a two-week
written notice of the change.
Ladybug will be closed on Monday,
September 4th to observe Labor
Day.
Pediatricians
Promote Play
“Play is essential to the
social, emotional, cog-
nitive, and physical well
-being of children be-
ginning in early child-
hood. It is a natural tool
for children to develop
resiliency as they learn
to cooperate, overcome
challenges, and negoti-
ate with others. Play
also allows children to
be creative. It provides
time for parents to be
fully engaged with their
children, to bond with
their children, and to
see the world from the
perspective of their
child.”
From garden to table!
The kids are really enjoying the garden this year. We’ve al-ready harvested some beans and summer squash. Mr.
Hunter made a wonderful sautéed spinach and vegetable salad for lunch one day. It was delicious.
Nursery
Nursery E-mail: [email protected]
For The Love of Children~ Miss Lera
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Learning How To Communicate:
Signs we are learning this month!
August Fun
Large motor: scooting, overhead leg stretch and respiratory movements
Small motor: face socks, reach out and touch and squeeze toys
Lang: family pictures, Gotcha, and po-ems
Sensory: ribbon bracelets, tickle time, find the bell
Here is some activities you can do at home with your little one:
Small Motor: Where is Baby’s Hands
Play a hand-clapping game with your ba-by. Sit on the floor with your baby fac-ing you. Lay a blanket over your lap and recite this poem as you clap the baby’s hands.
Clap your hands, one two, three, play a clapping game with me.
I love Sand
By: Susan Hodges
(sung to: Three Blind Mice
Sand, sand ,sand
Sand, sand, sand
I love sand
I love sand
It’s fun t o squish it
Between my toes
Or build a mountain
As high as my nose
Or dig a tunnel
That grows and grows
Cause I love sand.
One more summer month to enjoy! It’s hard to believe that August is here.
Our pretty little Fayth will be enjoying sensory
play while watching bubbles.
Grayson and Edward will be mastering jumping
-jacks in the Jonny Jumper.
Trygve will continue strengthening his core
while sitting.
Emmett continues to flirt and talk whenever he
sees a face by him!
Ford is enjoying his independence while sitting
and playing with toys like a big boy!
Playroom
Playroom E-mail: [email protected]
For The Love of Children ~ Miss Jody
Jumping into August
During the month of August, we will be discovering what things are found at the Circus. I am so excited to create all these different art projects to represent things that we see at the circus. We will be creating artwork such as clowns, lions, cotton candy and elephants and etc. As always, there will be many new songs to sing, such as bring in the clown, elephant fun and the roaring lions.
In recreating the circus, we will be using our sense of smell as well. As we are using our sense of smell, we will be making different sensory bottles to represent the different scents that we smell at the circus such as cotton candy, peppermint, popcorn and lavender. With this theme, we will be having a lot of fun while trying new things through play and guided fundamentals. We are sure to have a blast this month!!
Reminders:
• Please remember diapers and wipes for your little bugs. If your child needs anything it will be under the notes section on tadpole.
• Also please make sure that you are cleaning out our cubbies, we send a lot of art work home and send out reminders.
Goals and Concepts we will be working on in-
clude:
Music and Movement:
We will be working on helping the children with crawling and walking skills. Language:
We will also be adding new sign language this month. We will be learning, “eat, more, sorry and pot-ty” we will be reading stories and looking at pictures of the differ-ent things that we see at the cir-cus as well.
Activities we have planned:
• We will walk in sandy paint to make seals. • We will paint colorful cotton candy pictures with ice cubes. we will paint with our hands and feet
• Textures – exploring through our sense of touch. (bumpy, scaly, smooth, sandy, etc.) • Actions – learning what each animal can do. (jump, swim, splash or blow bubbles)
Let's All Go to the Circus
Today
Sung to: "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
Let's all go to the circus today,
The circus today, the circus today,
Let's all go to the circus today
And watch the animals play.
Other Verses: See the lions jump through the hoops. See the big seals spinning balls.
Five Big Elephants
Five big elephants - oh, what a sight, Swinging their trunks from left to
right! Four are followers, and one is the
king. They all walk around in the cir-cus ring.
Toddler A
Toddler A E-mail: [email protected]
Reminders
*Make sure to label all clothing and shoes! We are all about the same size and like a lot of the same things so some belongings are very sim-ilar and it is very easy to get things mixed up!
*Please clean out your child’s cubby every day! All Toys and Blankets from home need to stay home or go to work with Mom or Dad our cubbies are getting very crowded.
August i s here !
The month of July was a splash! We had a lot of fun getting wet on our water days. It was fun to see all of the children enjoying the water, espe-cially splashing in the puddles. We also did a lot of fun art projects, learned a lot about the things that live in the water and loved exploring the seashells!
For the month of August, we will again be doing a month long unit entitled “Send In the Clowns”. We will spend a lot of time clowning around. I am so excited to get the kids all excited for the fair season by learn-ing all about the animals that they will be seeing and all the fun things that come with the circus and the clowns.
For The Love of Children ~ Miss Anne
Here is how we will be learning and
playing this month
Music and Movement: Like I said, “we will be clown-
ing around!” We will dance around the room being as
silly as we can. We will also be pretending to be the
different animals by moving around like they do and
making the sounds! When we sing our songs during
group time we love to act out the movements!
Language: We have some great songs to sing to ac-
company our movements and those include things
like “I’m a little monkey,” and “Be a clown” We will al-
so be trying out some new rhymes including, “At the
circus” and,” My little horn.” We will also be reading
stories about the circus and clowns as well as the ani-
mals and also the train that brings the circus into
town!
Art: We are going to be making all kinds of clowns
and animals! We will be gluing the features onto a
blank clown face, we will make a circus tent by paint-
ing with marbles and making all the colorful animals
with paint, crayons and colored construction paper.
Get ready for a paper circus in our room!
Dramatic Play: We are going to be spending a lot of
time in our dress up and house this unit! We have
some fun new options to try in the dress up area and
we love to get into the house and cook up a pretend
storm! I just love to see these cute little ones all
dressed up and ready to prance and dance!
Toddler B
Toddler B E-mail: [email protected]
For The Love of Children~ Miss Cortney
Look what we are learning in August….
Here are some of the things that will be doing in Tod-dler B to help us learn:
Math: We all know that the circus is one of the most colorful and creative places to go so will be brushing up on our color and shape identification with all kinds of pictures and flash cards that are circus themed. We will also be counting and making patterns with things like elephants and peanuts and monkeys and bananas. This always makes math lots of fun.
Art: Here is where we really have some fun. We will be making clown faces of all shapes and sizes and with as many different things as we can. Like pasta, paint, and paper and with every color under the rainbow. We will also be making some clown hats to wear and making animals in every way that we can.
Music: This should be a lot of fun!! We are going to make up a band and play all the in-struments that we can so that we can march in a parade around the room. We will also be singing some fun songs like, “I’m a little monkey” and “Did you ever see a clown” to help us develop some of our language skills
Language: In addition to the songs we will be singing, we have lots of fun stories to tell all about clowns, animals and the people at the circus. We will be trying to repeat these one line at a time and also Miss Cortney will be asking questions about our favorite things and what we saw in the pictures of our books that we read.
Parent Reminders:
-Please call by 9:00 A.M. if your child will not be attending or will be late coming in.
-Don’t forget to come in and see what we have on the Toddler B parent board. All our fun activities coming up or any other important information will be posted here.
- Please put sunscreen on your child before dropping them off in the morning.
Proddlers
For The Love of Children~ Miss Stephanie
Proddler E-mail: [email protected]
This month we have a lot of fun things going on, as usual. Our theme is Summer Fiesta! We will be doing a lot of summer and
beach activities, such as making popsicles, graphing our favorite ice cream flavors, making our names out of ice cream themes,
and making flip flops with our footprints. Some other fun activities are tossing bean bags into a sand pail, painting with lem-
WE HAVE SO MUCH TO
LEARN IN AUGUST!
Math:
• Pattern objects in ABCA
patterns
• Measure Volume-full,
empty and half
• Counting 0-40
• Identifying first, middle
and last
Language Arts:
• Recognize our name in
• Recognize letters
• Making up stories
Music:
• Sing short songs
• Sing, play, move and
create music expressive
of individual imagina-
tions
Personal & Social Growth:
• Practice hand washing
• Review manners
• Practice playing short
games
• Work on passing cups
and napkins
Other:
• Work on drawing lines
and connecting the dots
• Practice catching a ball
and bean bag
Summer Fun
Our theme this month is Summer Fies-ta and we will be celebrating all things asso-ciated with summer. We will make fun cool treats and enjoying the nice summer weath-er!
We will be doing a lot of summer and beach activities, such as making popsicles, graphing our favorite ice cream flavors, making our names out of ice cream themes, and making flip flops with our footprints. Some other fun activ-ities are tossing bean bags into a sand pail, painting with lemons, observing (and tasting) a lemon, and watercolor painting with Kool-Aid.
During this theme we also will be making projects such as sun catchers, making night sky pictures and will also have a week of ice cream everything!
Here are some activities we will be doing this month!
Making Popsicles
Cereal Necklaces
Night Sky with Stickers
Color Mixing
Sunflowers
Kool-Aid Painting
Barefoot Painting
Handprint Watermelon
Hamburger Cookies
Homemade Blended Ice Cream
In a powerful blended add…
1 cup of milk
1 tsp vanilla
2-4 tablespoons of honey
2 ½ cups of your favorite fro-zen fruit
Blend until thick and creamy
Yum!!!
100% Fruit Juice Jell-O
Warm up 2 cups of 100% fruit juice of your
choosing. Dissolve 1 package unflavored
gelatin into warmed juice. Add cold fruit
juice and refrigerate
Preschool
Preschool E-mail: [email protected]
For The Love of Children~ Miss Jenna and Miss Alyssa
LOOK WHAT WE ARE
LEARNING IN AUGUST!
Math:
--The children will demon-strate an understanding of the knowledge that numbers are used to tell how many numbers there are in a set.
--The children will know that a written symbol for a num-ber is called a "numeral".
--The children will under-stand that ordinal numbers designate an object's posi-tion in the set.
--The children will be able to label an object's position in a set using the correct ordinal number.
--The children will be able to successfully identify set siz-es from one to five, using the correct numeral for each.
Language Arts:
--the children will discover three principles about writing forms:
-Recurring Principle-idea that writing consists of recur-ring figures and moves
-Generative principle-idea that, with a limited number of letters combined in differ-ent ways, one can generate an unlimited number of words
-Flexibility Principle-idea that the same letters can be writ-ten in different ways, but that there are limits to the acceptability of letter recon-figuration
August fun has arrived!!!
Parent Reminders
*Please call by 9:00am if your child will be gone or coming in late. This
is VERY IMPORTANT especially on field trip days.
*Please read up on Tadpoles, the white board next to the cubbies, and check the black parent cubby daily. There is information about your child’s day, upcoming events, activities your child might have done that they would like to share with you (sometimes a note from the teacher’s too).
Preschool Graduation is August 24th at 6:30 pm.
Congratulations to the following:
Oliver S. Emmalyn H. Mariam B.
Mya M. Jackson K. Hannah M.
Sophia D. Jamal O. Laila E.
As we leap into August, we will start a few new themes called, Down on the Farm and Summer Fiesta! We will talk about different kinds of farm animals, play fun games like animal hide and seek, horsey says, farm bingo and farm animal memory. Our dramatic play will become a barnyard and our sensory table will have dirt and toy tractors in it! For Summer Fiesta, we will learn a few rhymes like, Sunshine Fingerplay, Summer Sun and The Rain Cloud! We are so excited for this fantastic month!
AdventureCentre
THE SCOOP
School Age E-mail: [email protected]
For the love of Children” Miss Sade
Here comes August…. In the week of Under the Sea we will be exploring all of the sea animals combined with a few camps that we will also be doing such as the jelly fish camp, where we will be creating our very own jelly fish and to top it all off making our own homemade soup.
County fair, in the week of the county fair we will be focusing on activities that are centered around fair like activities! We will be milking the cow, having pillow case races and last but not least going to the Waconia County Fair!
Let the games begin! In this week we will be kicking all of this week off with Games, Games and more games. We will be playing games
such as Bean Boozled, Watch yah Mouth, Punch it, Stinky Pig, Poopy Head and lastly Doggy Doo! This week will be a week to remember!
Lastly is the week of Fun in the Sun! This week we will be ending our summer with a bang while scrap booking our most precious memories! We will also be having our annual talent show and our annual wise guy Valley Fair trip!! This week will be the last piece of Ladybug for some of us
Last month we had a blast celebrating
Uncle Sam’s birthday and learning facts
about Independence Day! We also en-
joyed a fun parade in the parking lot in
light of the fourth of July. We explored
zoo animals at the Como Zoo and had a
fun filled day of face painting, during our
week of zoo doings! Last month was
more than enough fun, so we can’t wait
for what’s to come next month!
We will be going full force in to the
month of August and ending with a
BANG! We have a few fun themes that
will surely capture everyone’s attention.
Reminders-
• Please remember to check the parent’s board daily as there are frequent changes every Thursday and Friday!
• Also, we will be having the tal-ent show coming up on August 24th be sure to sign your child up if they would like to be a part of the show.
