News From the Principal

October 4th- Preschool & Childcare Closed

October 16th- Picture day

October 17th- Picture day

October 18th- NO SCHOOL OR CHILDCARE

October 31st- Halloween Parade- Details to come from your child's teacher.

November 1st- FALL BREAK- NO SCHOOL OR CHILDCARE

Thank you so much for your Mumkin purchases and your participation at Literacy Night!

A HUGE thank you to our PTO, parent volunteers, and staff who made Literacy Night and Mumkiin distribution so successful!

The following classes have their picture day on Wednesday, October 16th:

Mrs. Newman, Mrs. Dunlap, Ms. Monnin, Mrs. Worpenberg, Mrs. Dozier

The following classes have their picture day on Thursday, October 17th:

Mrs. Liesch, Mrs. House, Mrs. Frazier, Mrs. LesChander, Mrs. Askren

We need a few parents who are interested in joining the district's Teaching and Learning Council. This group meets five times throughout the year to hear about educational programs, hear proposals, and provide feedback. Meetings will be held on Fridays from 9:00-10:30 this year on the following dates:

• November 8th
• December 13th
• February 21st
• April 25th
• June 13th

If you are interested in being our schools parent representative, please reach out to me. I'd love to have a few of you join!

-Mary Beth

mfosse@kingslocal.net

Our big focus in preschool is working on developing strong phonological awareness skills. We are work on this every day in the classroom. You can help, too!

Why is phonological awareness so important? Difficulties with phonological awareness are at the heart of most children’s reading challenges and does not come naturally to all children. Building children’s capacity to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken language supports their ability to understand connections between sounds and letters and written words when they get older. Strong phonological skills help children decode later when encountering unfamiliar words.

Your child's teacher is your best resource to go to when you have questions or want activity ideas to do at home to help build your child's phonological awareness skills.

The video below can help provide some background on what phonological awareness is and what you can do at home to help your child become a successful reader.

The 7 Phonological Awareness Skills with Activities

As Fall is starting to arrive, so is the cold and Flu season and we wanted to send along some reminders to parents. Please make sure you are following our illness guidelines before sending your child to school each morning! If they have had a fever, vomited or had diarrhea in the last 24 hours they can not go to school! Even if you gave them medication and they are feeling better they are still contagious! If you have any questions you can email the nurse at dshassere@kingslocal.net or call Nurse David at (513) 398-8050 #10704.

Please remind your children to be diligent with Hand washing, covering coughs and sneezes with the elbow/sleeve, not touching the nose/mouth/eyes, etc. We do our best here at school to reinforce that practice but it is important to teach it at home as well. Most students who return to school too soon from an illness not only risk others getting ill but they usually don't feel well to learn and risk getting a secondary illness from their immune system being down. Thank you!

To learn more about the Influenza (The Flu) click on the links below:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pdf/treatment/flu-guide-for-parents.pdf

Lebanon, Ohio – Union Township, Warren County, Ohio – Columbia Road and Mason-Morrow-Millgrove Road will experience long delays during the construction of a compact roundabout beginning Monday, October 7th, 2024 for four (4) weeks, weather permitting. The compact roundabout will be constructed of recycled materials that are secured to the pavement.

The roundabout will be constructed by Barrett Paving Materials and the project is funded by the Warren County Board of County Commissioners and the Warren County Engineer’s Office through the Warren County Transportation Improvement District.

No detour will be posted and we recommend to avoid this intersection during construction.

For more information, visit http://www.wceo.us/ or contact WCEO at (513) 695-3301.

From 4C for Children:

If you have parents who would like a safe, supportive environment to share personal experiences, success stories and challenges, tell them about our virtual parent support group called Family Matters. This group usually meets on the last Thursday of each month from 7-8 p.m.

Due to holidays, the last three meetings of the year have moved. Here are the dates:

• Oct. 24

• Nov. 21

• Dec. 19

Join the Zoom here.

To learn more contact families@4cforchildren.org or 513-758-1330.