CEEP Family Newsletter!

• Teacher Feature: Supporting Language Development in the Classroom
• Curriculum Unit: Trees

• First Safety Awareness Month: Family Tip

• Upcoming Picture Day
  

• Fire Prevention Week Photos

We are just about six weeks into the school year, and a lot of learning has been going on in the classrooms. This week I want to share some of the few ways that our staff support language development for all of our students.

Language development is at the core of many of our activities, from storytelling to songs and interactive read-alouds. We encourage students to express themselves through visuals, words, actions, and play. Our staff will be working on the core vocabulary words “Help” and “Want.” throughout the month. At home, families can support language growth by reading daily with their child, asking open-ended questions to stimulate conversation, or using sign language that highlight the core words "“Help” and “Want.”

• At-Home Activity: Start a family tradition of "storytime" every evening. Choose a new book or make up a story together, encouraging your child to add details.

Our classrooms are beginning a new unit of study in our curriculum. Students will be learning all about trees. They will be observing and comparing trees to learn about what lives in them, what they’re made from, and who cares for them. We hope this study will help children explore and appreciate nature. As they study trees, the teachers will use literacy, math, the arts, and technology to explore the topic in depth. Students will learn important social studies and scientific concepts through firsthand investigations.

If you are able to take a “tree walk” with your child, we would appreciate your help in collecting tree parts to investigate. If you can, please take a bag to a tree area and collect things that have fallen, such as leaves, bark, acorns, twigs, flowers, fruit, or cones. See below for suggestions of other tree parts to bring in.

CEEP Picture Day is Friday, October 23rd. Please see the pdf flyer attached below.

If you pay online, please make sure you inform your child's classroom teacher as well. In the past, the school and teachers were not notified of which students paid for pictures online, and some, unfortunately, did not have their pictures taken on that day.

Would you like to volunteer at CEEP? Parents will need to apply via the Colonial School District website. It takes up to 10 days for it to be approved.

https://www.colonialschooldistrict.org/parents-students/volunteer/

Once it is approved, you will show up on our school's volunteer list. You should apply for all of the schools because the approval list lasts for 3 years. When your child(ren) moves up or to another school, you will show up on the “new schools” list because you have applied for all of the schools. If you do not, you will not show up on the new school list and will have to sign up again to become a volunteer.

If your child is absent, please make sure you complete the attendance form on the day of the student's absence. You can find this link on the weekly family newsletter.

https://form.jotform.com/202313732094144

Parents' Right to Know Notice which states, “UNDER THE DELAWARE CODE, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO INSPECT THE ACTIVE RECORD AND COMPLAINT FILES OF ANY LICENSED CHILD CARE FACILITY. TO REVIEW A CHILD CARE FACILITY RECORD CONTACT: the administrative specialist, OFFICE OF CHILD CARE LICENSING, 3411 SILVERSIDE ROAD, CONCORD PLAZA ǀ HAGLEY BUILDING, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 19810, phone (302) 892-5800.

You may also view substantiated complaints and compliance review histories by visiting the Office of Child Care Licensing’s child care search at https://kids.delaware.gov/occl/search-for-child-care.shtml”