Toy Box News
MAY
2017
News from the Office
May flowers are all around us as we welcome some warmer weather our way.
Parents, we ask that you please start to bring in a Spring change of clothes for
your little ones and take home their Winter ones. Also, you could pack some
sunscreen to be kept at school as the hot sunny days won’t be long behind us.
Remember to label everything brought into daycare. Parents, please be careful when taking items out of your child’s cubby, make sure that you are taking
the right items. If you are not sure about a jacket the staff is always here to
help you.
Wednesday, May 3rd, is McHappy Day...we are excited to enjoy a
kids meal! One dollar of every meal goes to support the Ronald
McDonald House.
Reminder to all parents that the centre will be closed on Monday,
May 22nd for the Victoria Day holiday and will re-open on Tuesday,
May 23rd for regular business hours. We hope that everyone has a
wonderful long weekend!!
We would like to take this time and say HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all the moms
at the centre. We will be celebrating with all the moms at our annual Mothers
Day “Mommy and Me” Movie, on Saturday, May 6th with doors opening at
9:45am and the movie starting at 10:00am. Please take a minute
and let Miss Sarah know if you are able to attend. We hope to see
all you ladies there!
A friendly reminder that the Infant rooms close at 5:30pm. There
will be a late fee of $10.00 for every 15 minutes or if your child is
here over 10hrs.
Parents, please check out our FACEBOOK page, The Toybox!
We are keeping it updated with upcoming information and pictures of your little ones. Lets see how many “likes” we can get!
Love: Miss Anna
Infant ONE
We are so happy the beautiful weather is here! We ask that you
please bring in sunscreen for you child and a hat, so we are
ready to get outside and soak up the beautiful sunshine.
Our walk days this month will be as follows:
Wednesday, May 3rd
Monday, May 8th
Thursday, May 18th
Friday, May 26th
Tuesday, May 30th
Reminder, that the centre will be CLOSED on Monday, May 22nd for the Victoria Day holiday. We will see
everyone back on Tuesday for regular hours.
Happy Birthday this month to Miss Tara on May 1st and
Adrianne on May 25th. We hope both you ladies enjoy
your day!
Special Days:
May 5th-Ice Cream Sundae Party
May 16th-Pajama Day
May 25th-Summer Colour Day
We would like to also say HAPPY
MOTHER’S Day to all our Mom’s in
the Infant room. We hope you all enjoy the day.
Love: Miss Jessica, Miss Sam, Miss Tara and Miss Megan
Infant TWO News
April showers bring May flowers, and this season they will grow! We’ll play
outside and go on walks, so the babies soon will know!
Now that the beautiful Spring weather is upon us, we’ll be spending lots of time
outdoors! Although it’s sunny, some days are still chilly. Please bring in labeled sweaters/spring jackets, sunhats and sunscreen. Remember to keep an eye
on our calendar to dress accordingly for our walks! We’ll be bringing lots of
Spring items and colours into our classroom. We’re planting flower seeds and
using a variety for sensory and craft time.
The babies are all working on their special Mother’s Day gift
that we hope you’ll love! To help celebrate, we have a
“Mommy and Me Movie” planned. See our posted notes for
more information. Remember to RSVP to Miss Sarah, as we
hope you all can make it! We hope you all have a very special
Mother’s Day.
Special Days
May 4th-Colourful Pudding Play
May 5th-WALK
May 9th-SillySock Day
May 10th-WALK
May 15th-Purple Day
May 16th-WALK
May 25th-WALK
May 26th-Hat Day
May 29th-WALK
May 31-Planting Flowers
Love: Miss Sherry, Miss Dayna and Miss Devan
Toddler One Newsletter
May is the month of sunshine and flowers, birds in their nests and
one or two showers. Games to play and kites to fly or just looking
at the sky. We could spend a year this way, if the year were made
of May.
Now that it is warmer outside please bring home any winter attire
to make room in the cubbies. Also, please bring in a spring change
of clothes along with sunscreen for your little ones, making sure
that everything is labeled.
Special Days:
May 4th-Favourite sport shirt/Jersey Day
May 9th-Favourite book Day
May 17th-PJ Day
May 26th-Potluck Day
May 29th-Glow Stick Dance Party
We would like to say Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mommies in the
room. We hope you have a wonderful day spent with your little
ones. Also we hope to see everyone at the “Mommy and Me”-Movie
on Saturday, May 6th.
Love: Miss Rachel and Miss Tammy
Toddler Two
Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun Please shine down on me. April
showers brought May flowers and lots of sunshine fun!
The toddler one room is so excited to be able to enjoy lots of outdoor activities this month; from planting flowers, to making pretty art with sidewalk
chalk. We just can’t wait.
Just a few reminders
*Please check your child’s cubby for anything that needs to go home.
*Also, if you could please take a minute to switch Winter clothes for a
Spring outfit, it would be appreciated.
*Bring in a bottle of sunscreen, labeled with your child’s name. As the
warmer weather will be here before you know it.
Our special day include:
May 3rd-McHappy Day
May 14th-Happy Mother’s Day
May 16th-Glow Stick Party
May 25th-Dirt Play-How to grow Flowers
May 29-Movie and PJ Day
We would like to say Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s
at the centre. We hope you have a wonderful weekend
with your little ones. Also, don’t forget
that our “Mommy and Me” movies will be
on Saturday, May 6th.
Love: Miss Kiki and Miss Crystal
Toddler 3 Newsletter
May is the month of sunshine and
flowers, birds in their nests and one
or two showers. Games to play and
kites to fly or just looking at the sky. We could
spend the year this way, if the year was made of
May.
Special Days:
May 4th-Wear a crazy Hat
May 6th–Mommy and Me Movie
May 8th-Flower Painting
May 14th-Happy Mother’s Day
May 22nd-CLOSED, Victoria Day Holiday
May 26th-Walk to the Park, please be here by
9am so we can get a head start on the day!
Notes:
*If you would like to start bringing in Summer
clothes to exchange with your child’s Winter ones,
please feel free to do so anytime.
*Please bring in a bottle of sunscreen to be kept at
daycare, to be applied before going outside.
*As a last thought, we also recommend bringing in a
hat for your child to kept at school.
Love: Miss Susan and Miss Maggie
TODDLER FOUR
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others
but whose place no one else can take.”
— Cardinal Mermillod
May is a month to celebrate all mothers at The Toy Box
and we will be hosting our annual mommy and me
movie day. This will take place on May 6th at the Devonshire Mall Cineplex Movie Theatre. Mother’s and there
little ones will be treated to the movie “Smurfs”. The
doors will open at 9:15am and the movie will begin at
10am. We hope to see all moms and their little ones.
With the nice warm and hot weather here your child will
need a summer change of clothes to be kept at school.
If you could bring that in as soon as possible that would
be very helpful. We will send home the winter weather
change of clothes at that time.
Happy 2nd birthday goes out to Sophia on May
29th. We hope you have an amazing day and get
lots of goodies. Also, Happy 25th Birthday to Miss
Lucie on May 2nd.
Special Days
Monday, May 1-Show and Tell
Tuesday, May 9- Crazy Hair Day
Wednesday, May 17- Wear your Favorite Sports Attire
Monday, May 22- Closed
Thursday, May 25-Sundae Day
Love: Miss Jeannie, Miss Lucie and Miss Michelle
Preschool ONE
April Showers bring May flowers! Spring is here and
we are asking all our parents to please take home all
your child’s belongings from their cubbies that are no
longer needed, ensure no items get misplaced or accidentally taken. Our Preschool one’s are very interested in their colours, shapes, their names, and the weather. We will be doing activities throughout the classroom to explore their learning.
We would like to have everyone start bringing in spring/
summer spare clothes and sunscreen to ensure we have
these item in time for those beautiful sunny days.
We are sending BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes to Madilyn on May 15th and
Damien on May 22nd, who are both turning 3. We hope you enjoy your special
day.
Special Days:
May 5th-Favourite Sports Team Day
May 8th-Comfy/Cozy Movie Day
May 18th-Crazy Hair Day
May 24th-Gym Day
May 30th-SuperHero and Princess Day
A very special WELCOME goes out to Miss Renee who will be
joining our classroom from Toddler Two downstairs. We are very
excited to have her join our class.
Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 14th to all the beautiful Mom’s
in our lives we hope you have an amazing day and get spoiled like
you all deserve. We appreciate you everyday of the year!
Love: Miss Brittnee and Miss Renee
Preschool 2 Star
April showers bring May flowers!
Our Preschool Two friends have been
very excited about plants and how they grow. Our
bean plant is in full bloom and beans have begun to
grow. We are looking forward to eating them. This
month we will be exploring more flowers, seeds, dirt
and getting our hands dirty doing some gardening.
Our annual Mother’s Day movie outing will be
Saturday, May 6th at 10am. Doors open at
9:15am. Come on out and enjoy the Smurfs
movie. We look forward to seeing you all! Happy
Mother’s Day!
The warm weather has arrived. We hope that it
is finally here to stay. Warm weather means
sunshine. Please bring in some sunblock for
your child and a sun hat.
Our special days this month:
Thursday, May 4th-We are going on a nature walk to explore the new flowers and tree’s in bloom.
Tuesday, May 9th- We are making fruity popsicle treats.
Wednesday, May 17th- We are planting flowers!
Monday, May 22nd- CLOSED! Victoria Day.
Friday, May 26th- Preschool Two is going for a picnic!
A very happy 3rd birthday goes out to Adleigh on May
3rd and Aubrey on May 13th.
Love, Miss Crissy and Miss Emily
Preschool 3 Newsletter
“If you come into our room and you see a mess, please excuse us as we are
learning and making memories.”
The warm weather is now here to stay. We’re going to do a swap of spare
clothes, spring cleaning we would like to call it! Out with the old
and in with the new. We kindly ask you to bring in the following…
1 pair of pants and or shorts
1 t-shirt
1 pair of socks
1 underwear
A bathing suit
1 bottle of sunscreen
Reminder: all items coming in need to be labeled with your little ones name.
This month in the class we will be working on our penmanship and
tracing letters. Our goal is to have everyone pretty much writing
their names before BIG school. We’ll encourage the children to work
on letter tracing worksheets and making letters with various items
around the room. We can’t wait! Big school is fast approaching!
Special Days:
May 11th-Movie Day
May 18th-Sports Day (We’d like to see all P3 dressed in active wear. This
day we will be learning about, and playing different sports)
May 20th-Picnic in the Park/Hat Day (We will be walking over to Jackson
Park with the other Preschool class, playing on the equipment and enjoying
a yummy picnic lunch. Don’t forget to wear your hat and runners.)
May 22nd-CLOSED, Victoria Day
May 31st-Favourite Treat Day (if everyone could please bring in a favourite
treat/snack to share with the class, (We will also be bringing in ours. Reminder all treats must be peanut free.)
Happy Mothers Day to all our Mom’s, we hope to see everyone at the Mommy and Me Movies on Saturday, May
6th. Make sure you let Miss Sarah know if you are able
to attend.
Love: Miss Rachelle and Miss Alicia
Preschool 4 Bulletin
“Spring is the first kiss of summer.”
The month of May will be filled with colourful art, learning
and growing activities. Our P4 class will get to explore and
express their creativity with planting flowers and finding bugs
in potting soil for our sensory bin!
We are also changing the art centre to a science centre this month. The children will get to explore and take a better learning look about..the life cycle
of plants, butterflies, and different types of bugs, ant farms, seeds, bird nests
and growing our own vegetables. We cant wait to get this month started!
Happy Birthday to…
Fatema-May 7th
Maliyah-May 16th
Jacob-May 29th
Langdon-May 30th
We hope you have a wonderful day!
Special Days:
Dance Party-May 1st
Movie Day-May 9th
Making our own snack (Dirt and worms)-May 12th
Tie-Dye T-shirt fun-May 23rd
Planting seeds-May 30th
Friendly Reminder: Please bring in labeled sunscreen for
you little one to be kept at daycare, along with a spring
change of clothes.
Love: Miss Shelly and Miss Jill
Preschool FIVE
Lately, our classroom has been getting inspired by the movies that we
have watched and have enjoyed at home. The movie ‘Trolls’ was a big
hit in our room, which led to Troll Week with the children taking part
in various activities each day. This time around, we have been inspired by the movie ‘Moana.’ We watched part of this movie already
and the children have taken an interest in learning Hawaiian dances,
songs and learning other names for Grandma and Grandpa. Due to
heightened interest, we have decided to host Culture Week! We want to
know what special practices, words and/or activities that our kids participates in with their families! Each day we will focus on a different culture – so
stay tuned for more details to come!
Important Notes:
It’s that time of year! It’s time to start bringing in sunscreen, if you haven’t already! Sunscreen will be applied for both morning and afternoon
outside times.
With spring in full swing, we need to get to some spring cleaning! The
cubbies have accumulated a lot of ‘extra’ items (some even have snow
pants still). Please take home things no longer needed at school.
Birthdays!
Zoey – May 7th
Parker – May 15th
Moira – May 29th
Special Days:
Tuesday, May 2nd: Spa Day – Be prepared for little toes and little fingers to be
pampered! Only the best for our P5 family!
Thursday, May 11th: Movie Day – Moana – Last time we attempted to watch
this, we had technical difficulties, so we are going to give it another try.
Monday, May 15th to Friday, May 19th: Culture Week – More details to come!
Wednesday, May 24th: Morning Brunch Outside – We are going to attempt a
picnic outside for morning snack! We will be outside promptly at 9am
(weather permitting)!
Love: Miss Carlen and Miss Taylor
Preschool Six
April was an action packed month! We went on a school
bus to the movies and saw Smurfs! We had a blast and the
kids were all very well behaved both on the bus and in the
theatre.
We also had a very special visit from the Easter bunny! The class was so
excited to sing our new song “April Clouds” to him. After lots of practice we also performed our song for each of the preschool classes. Everyone sang loud and clear and I was so proud of the wonderful performances they gave!
Picture day was a big success. Everyone came dressed to impress! We
have a class full of studs! We all smiled our best smiles and practiced sitting nice and tall!
In May, we look forward to enjoying the beautiful sunshine. We are going to pack a picnic for outside and enjoy some fun games!
In our class we are going to have a new paint centre. Be
sure to come and check it out. We will be displaying all of our works of
art around the room for everyone to see.
We have also been working hard to learn all of our sounds that the letters
make. We are practicing them a bit each day and are starting to recognize
most of them. We are working on matching uppercase and lowercase lettersas well.
Don’t forget to mark your calendars for our special days this month:
May 3rd-McHappy Day
May 12th-Picnic Day
May 17th-Crazy Hair Day
May 23rd-Stuffy and Tea Party
May 31st-Jersey Day, wear your sports gear
Love: Miss Jenn