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Family Newsletter ~ September 2016
POPs Meetings!
September brings with it
the start of our monthly
POPs Meetings again!
These “Parents of Preschoolers” meetings are
held each month here at
our school and we offer
free care for children enrolled at our school for
parents to attend these
meetings.
The topic this month was
“ Learn about Chesterfield Academy’s Enrich-
ment Program” and was
hosted by Ms. Kristen,
our Enrichment Teacher!
“Food and Nutrition in Early Childhood”, and many
more!
We encourage our families to look through our
school calendar to find
the POPs Meetings that
interest them and attend
as many as possible!
Topics include: What
Will My Child Learn in
Preschool?”,
“Incorporating S.T.E.M
Learning in Preschool”,
This year when you attend a POPs meeting,
your name will be entered
into a drawing for your
child to receive one
Enrichment class FREE
for an entire MONTH!
Grandparents Day Celebration
At Chesterfield Academy
we love to celebrate
the people that are
special to the children! For Grandparents Day we invite
grandparents or other
special people to
come in for story time
in the classroom!
Grandparents can
bring in a book to read We know the special
or read one we have
bond that is shared
here.
between children and
their grandchildren
We invite grandparents to
and we are glad to
stop in between 9:30these events!
10:30am the morning
of September 12th for
a visit in the classroom
and a special story
time.
Dates to Remember:

September 5th
Closed for Labor
Day

September 6th-20th
Read-A-Thon!

September 8th
POPs Meeting

September 12th
Grandparents Day
Celebration!
Inside this issue:
Notes from Nurse Jen
2
Healthy FUNdamentals
2
Signing In and Out
2
Adventures in Enrichments
3
Scholastic Books
3
Spanish Newsletter
3
Picture Page
4
Page 2
Notes from Nurse Jenn
Quick Tips on Choking Prevention for
Infants
Children should not eat when walking, riding
in a car, or playing.
(remember peanut butter can stick to the roof
of a child's mouth and form a glob).
Never leave a small child unattended while
eating. Direct supervision is necessary.
Cut foods into small pieces, removing seeds
and pits. Cook or steam vegetables to soften
their texture. Cut hot dogs lengthwise AND
widthwise.
Think of shape, size, consistency and combinations of these when choosing foods.
Children should sit up straight when eating,
should have sufficient number of teeth, and
the muscular and developmental ability needed to chew and swallow the foods chosen.
Remember, not all children will be at the same
developmental level. Children with special
health care needs are especially vulnerable to
choking risks.
Children should have a calm, unhurried meal
and snack time.
Model safe eating habits!
Pay particular attention to those foods, toys
and household hazards mentioned that pose
choking hazards to ensure child safety.
Offer plenty of liquids to children when eating, but solids and liquids should not be swallowed at the same time. Offer liquids between
mouthfuls.
Become familiar with life-saving techniques
such as child CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and abdominal thrusts (Heimlich
Maneuver).
Use only a small amount of peanut butter
when the child is ready and use with jelly, or
cream cheese on whole grain breads
Healthy FUNdamentals
This month in Healthy FUNdamentals, I will be reading Me and
My Amazing Body by Joan
Sweeney. This book is a playful
introduction to anatomy that explains all the important parts of
your body, what they do, and why
you need them in order to breathe,
work, and play. We will also play
fun games to help us learn the
names of new body parts.
Later in the month, we will be
learning about healthy foods; always vs. sometimes foods, what
food groups are, and where they
belong on the food pyramid. We
will read a book about healthy
foods and what they do for our
bodies called Good Enough to Eat
by Lizzy Rockwell.
Signing In and Out
Located in front of the office is
a Sign In and Out book.
Please be sure you are always
signing your child in for the
day and out when you take
them from Chesterfield Academy, as well as initialing by the
time. These daily recordings
of the children’s comings and
goings are documents required
by the state of Missouri and
they must be kept up by the
families in order for us to be in
compliance with state regulations.
We appreciate your cooperation!
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Adventures in Enrichments ~ Ms. Kristen
Hi CA families!! Since the start of the school
year, our little learners have been hard at work
in their Enrichment classes. The Phonics classes have been concentrating on learning their
letter sounds through the Zoo Phonics program. There are even some kiddos who have
started reading with our Reading A-Z books,
which is so exciting! In Math we are really
focusing on learning how to read a clock, recognizing numbers 1-30, and learning odd and
even numbers. We’ve also been making lots
of yummy treats in Cooking class! We just
recently made our own bread and boy was that
delicious! Our Super Scientists have been
having a BLAST making their own lava
lamps, exploring fizzy moon dough, and
building bridges. Science class is always a
good time! Our little mover and shakers have
been having lots of fun in Music and Movement. We had a Beatles day where all we did
was sing songs by The Beatles. Our favorite
was “Yellow Submarine”!
I am so excited to have some new friends in
my classes! Here’s some pictures showing a
few of my new students having lots of fun in
Enrichments!
Also, Congratulations to Max Franklin for
winning the drawing for one month free of
Enrichments because his Mommy attended a
POPs Meeting! YAY!!
Scholastic Book Club!
At Chesterfield Academy, we are delighted to share that we love participating in Scholastic Book Clubs! The
same amazing book flyers that you
remember as a child are available today too! Over the years, Scholastic
has grown and their book selection is
enormous! You are not limited to
what you see in the flyers that come
home each month, either. By going
online you can access all the books
that are available through Scholastic.
You can simply search for a specific
title or you can select a flyer for any
age between preschool up to sixth
grade. Each time you purchase books
for your child using our school/class
activation code (LL4GG), you help
Chesterfield Academy earn points!
The points our families have helped
us earn in the past have allowed us to
purchase over 1,000 books for our
school library & helped update class-
room libraries each year!
Be sure to watch for the Scholastic
Flyer that will be coming home in
your child’s cubby each month with
detailed instructions on how to order!
Spanish Newsletter ~ Ms. Manuella
¡Hola!
Welcome to a new school year!
My name is Manuella, I have
been teaching Spanish at Chesterfield Academy since 2012.
If your child is in the 3's, 4's or Pre-K room,
he/she has 30 minutes of Spanish with me
twice per week, and I will be sharing the
highlights of the previous weeks in the
monthly Chesterfield Academy newsletter!
We always start with our "Buenos Días"
song based on the "Are you Sleeping?" song
melody.
"Buenos días, buenos días
¿ Cómo estás? ¿ Cómo estás?
Muy bien, gracias. Muy bien, gracias.
¿ Y usted? ¿ Y usted?"
Ask your children about it, they enjoy singing it!
The first theme of the school year was " All
About Me". We practiced how to say our
name in Spanish. We also do that when a
new student joins the class! We made up a
little song that we sing to each other clapping our hands:
¿ Cómo te llamas? ¿ cómo te llamas? ¿
cómo te llamas tú?
Me llamo...
Another big hit, particularly with the 3's, is
this finger play song "Saco una manito".
"Saco una manito, la hago bailar,
La cierro, la abro y la vuelvo a guardar.
Saco la otra manito, la hago bailar,
La cierro, la abro y la vuelvo a guardar.
Saco las dos manitos, las hago bailar,
Las cierro, las abro y las vuelvo a guardar."
¡ Gracias!
Ms. Manuella
Picture Page
Children at Chesterfield Academy learn through hands on
experiences that don’t always result in a project to take
home. Below are some pictures that show the learning
taking place in our school!