Dates to Remember

10/3 Book Orders Due

10/8 Columbus Day
10/11 Dr. Durbal Visits @ 9:45am
10/17 Chapel w/Mrs. Jen @ 9:30am
10/31 Monster Mash @ 9:15am

Dear Parents,

This fall we will be part of an
exciting reading campaign called
PAWS for READING. For every
20 minutes you read to your
child, Scholastic will donate a
book to a child in need.
More information will be attached
to your sign in sheet.

We welcome back Miss Amanda,
who will be working in the Infant
Center, and Miss Neysa, who will
be helping in the Pre-K room in
the afternoons.

As the leaves fall your children
will be raking it in with awesome
fall activities. We always look
forward to Dr. Durbal's visit on
October 11th @ 9:45am. He
brings super information on how
to take care of our bones and
bodies.
Mark your calendars for a
Monster Bash on October 31st @
9:15am. Your child may wear a
favorite monster or Halloween
shirt (please, no costumes). We
will have a monster good time!
Tips to Skip Bedtime
Struggles:
1. Be Consistent-set a specific
time for bed and stick with it.
2. Give a warning-give your child
advance notice that the day is
winding down.
3. Offer a snack -a small snack
with carbohydrates and
protein will help induce sleep
and help them stay asleep.
Be sure to brush teeth before
bed.
4. Warm bath-a warm bath is
soothing and will help your
child relax
5. Pajamas-wearing comfortable
pajamas that are not too hot
or too light.
6. Story time-read a story
together. This is a very
comfortable part of the
bedtime routine for toddlers,
especially when they start to
recognize a familiar or favorite
book.
7. Bed Friends-make sure your
child has something to cuddle
with when they go to sleep.
8. Keep goodnights brief-say a
goodnight prayer, end with a
kiss and leave the room while
your child is still awake. Stay
calm and do not return right
away if they call for you.
Disaster Sign-Ups:
We are needing a few more
names to help us out . Please
sign up on the front of the sign-in
book.
Important Consumer Refund:
Notice from the Federal Trade
Commission - Did you buy
Disney or Marvel Children's
Multivitamin Gummies or Tablets?
You may be eligible for a refund.
Visit www.ftc.gov/vitamins for
more information.
Reminder:
Infant Center Hours:
7:30am-5:25pm
Children under the age of two
or children in diapers:
7:30am-5:25pm
All other preschoolers:
7:00am-5:40pm

/HWVDOOKDYHDQ
UNBE-LEAF-ABLE
month!
Foothill Preschool & Infant Center

October 2012
10/2 Madison
10/7 Claire
10/9 Arion
10/17 Nathan Se.
10/21 Miss Natalie
10/27 Lily
10/30 Jasmine
10/31 Miss Neysa
*Monthly Discoveries*
Themes
After Dark
Animals
Bones
Friendly Monsters
Colors:
Orange & Black
Shape:
Square
Numbers: 0-10
Letters: D, E, F
Bible Verse:
Praise ye him, sun,
and moon: Praise
him, all ye stars of
light.
Psalm 148:3
Happy Birthday to . . . .
PARENT PARTICIPATION & FUNDRAISING
Parent Participation:
10 hours per family, per
year.
Cartridges for Kids:
empty ink cartridges,
usod coII honos, IA`s,
DVD, Digital Cameras
and Laptops. Box is
located in the hallway.

E-SCRIP: Sign-Up Today!
1. Go to www.escrip.com
2. CIIck on SIgn !.
3. Follow the instructions.
4. Group Name: Foothill
Preschool and Infant
Center.
5. Group I.D.#151855752.
CnrIy (JnsmIno`s Mom) for InnfIng
bean seeds in the Intermediate class.
Schimke Family for the water table
donation.
Each family that donated in their
chIId`s cInssroom.
FPS parents for keeping current
wIfh your chIIdron`s ImmunIznfIons.
Thank You!
Looking for parents to help with fundraising,
please sign-up on front of the sign-in book

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cusing on the colors orange and black, and looking at
all the fun things fall brings, from leaves changing
colors to pumpkins and squash. We also are looking
at body parts, the five senses, and after dark ani-
mals.
This month we also have the privilege of welcoming
back Ms. Amanda! Ms. Amanda previously worked
at the infant center, but took a break from teaching
to spend time with her precious daughter. She will
now be working full time, and we are so excited to
have her!
We also are welcoming Finley to our class this
month! Finley is almost one, and is a lively boy in
our class of girls. Welcome Finley, we are so excited
to have you! This month also brings goodbyes as both
Owen and Erik have moved over to the toddler class.
We will miss you both!

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Madison is walking more and more each day! She
can take a few steps at a time now, and is cruising
around the class quickly. She also enjoys reading the
books in the classroom and is working on the sign for
'nII dono` nf monIs.
Darcy is also cruising around the classroom sides,
getting closer to walking. She is very busy, and en-
joys spending time near the fun toys on the shelf.
She also really loves watching and popping bubbles!

Aubrey is working her army crawl into a rapid crawl!
She loves laying next to her friends and smiling at
them each day. And she also enjoys squishing and
shaking the plastic bottles to hear them rattle.


Kynzie is rolling all around the room! She is also
very stable when she is sitting up, and prefers to sit
like this so she can see everything. She loves chew-
ing on toys, and rolls eagerly to what she wants. She
also now has joined us for lunch!

Olive is talking up a storm! She loves babbling and
talking to everyone around her, and is also rolling
more and more to get what she wants. She enjoys
spending time on her tummy eating toys, and also
has joined everyone for lunch and breakfast!

Isabella is getting bigger by the minute! She loves
spending time looking at herself in the mirror, and
often smiles at herself. She recently has found her
hands, and enjoys chewing on them as well as the
toys. She is happiest when she is talking and smiling
at all of her friends and teachers!
Infant Center: Miss Lauren, Miss Natalie, Miss Amanda, Miss Paige
Toddlers are off to a fabulous start this year. We are getting
to know our new friends and having a great time with each
other. I would like to give a big thank you to all the parents
and families who donated to the classroom. It made our dress
up and other activities wonderful. We are off to the fall
months and can't wait to get going. The next few months are
going to be busy and full of fun activities. We start off with
the month of October and it is busy.
We start off with learning about our bones and
our skeleton. We will be making pretend x-rays of our arms.
In our sensory table, we are going to treasure hunt for bones.
On Wednesday the 3rd is black and white day so make sure to
wear those colors. We will do everything with the colors black
and white that day.
Our friendly nighttime animals are waiting for
us to explore with them. We will read several books on bats,
spiders and owls. In the block area we will have spiders and
bats with our blocks so we can build caves. For art we will do
handprint bats and spiders to hang from the ceiling. For
music and movement this month we will dance with our capes
and pretend bat wings.
Make way for the royal toddler court. Our royal
court will be holding a tea party on the 16th. We will decorate
crowns and placemats for our tea party. Please wear your best
prince and princess attire that day. The royal photographer
will be taking pictures to place in picture frames that we will
make on that day. Throughout the royal week we will make
dragons and knights in shinning armor.
What is orange, round and all different shapes
and sizes? Yep it's pumpkin time. We need a parent to
donate seven mini pumpkins to decorate on the 24th. We
would like a large pumpkin donated. We want to carve the
large pumpkin on the 23rd so we can play in the pumpkin
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medium pumpkins to use for other projects in the class. We
are going to make pumpkin muffins on the 25th for afternoon
snack. Throughout this week we will be making several
pumpkin art projects. We are going to play with pumpkin
scented playdough and of course paint with pumpkin scented
paint.
To end the month, Mrs. Esther and Ms. Court-
ney would like to throw a Monster Mash Party on Halloween
for the Toddlers. We are going to send out info on what to
bring and what we are planning. on doing. We will have
dancing and games all to do with friendly furry monsters. We
are not doing anything scary, we promise. The toddlers that
day can wear black and orange. No costumes. Thanks. We are
making masks and hats to wear so we have the costume part
taken care of. We can't wait.
Again, thank you to everyone for your donations
and all your help in the classroom. We would like to welcome
Owen form the infant center, we are glad you finally made it
over.
Toddler Room: Mrs. Esther, Miss Courtney
Beginner: Miss Anitra
Ghosts are visiting us this month. As you
walk into Intermediate watch for our ghosts
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first week we will be talking about Candy
Corn and Candied Apples. We will have many
different ways to make each of these for art
including puffy candy corn. Candy Corn
counting and Candy Corn matching are just
two of the fun activities we will do. We need a
donation of apples and caramel, so we can
sample our own candied apples. If you can
help out with this, please let me know. We
will then move into the week about bones and
skeletons. Watch for our bones in our science
table where we will be digging them up.
Shape skeletons, q-tip skeletons, and x-rays
are just some of the art we will be making.
Next we will get to talk about friendly mon-
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scene from Where the Wild Things Are. We
will have trees, vines and a boat we will get to
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You guessed it after dark animals is our
theme for this week. Be watching for our cool
spider webs, handprint spiders, and much
more creatures from the night. In our science
table we will have spiders and bats to play
with. Our last week is the most exciting week
of the month because we will be having a
Monster Bash on Oct. 31st. This will be a
party for the whole school. We will have
games, tattoos, art, and special snacks. We
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Monster grub while watching it. We will
make haunted mansions, pumpkins and
Frankenweenie.
Thank you to those who donated in Sept. It
made our month that much more FUN!
Happy Halloween!
Pre-K: Mrs. Jen, Miss Kristie, Miss Hannah and Miss Neysa
What an amazing beginning to our new
school year. Learning about birthdays,
shapes, and all about us and lets not forget
getting to know all our new friends. We had
so much fun in September we are sad to see it
go, but hold on to your orange and black hats
because what we have planned for October
will be "Spooktacular"!!
Our first week we are going to be
talking about things that go bump in the
night. We will all work together to make a
giant spider web and for inspiration we will
hunt for real ones outside. Our artwork will
include bats on a moon, big eyed owls and
even a spooky house. Look for the bats we
will be hanging around the room. We will be
collecting leaves for leaf rubbings that look
like spider webs. On the 4th we will have a
special share day so bring in your favorite
night time animal.
Our second week we are going to
look to our friendly monsters to teach us all
about our feelings. We will be talking a lot
about things that make us happy and what
we can do when we get mad. We will be rein-
forcing these feelings with felt stories and the
book Glad Monster Sad Monster. We will also
be making all different monsters including
everyone's favorite from Monsters Inc.
For our third week we will be learn-
ing all about our bodies and bones with our
skeleton unit. We are going to have a life-size
skeleton to take apart and explore, we will
also be tracing our bodies outside. Our dress
up will be transformed into Foothill Medical
Center where we can become doctors and
nurses. We will have lots of artwork that will
show our bones and we'll be making some
tiny skeletons with Q-tips. Also this month
we will be getting a visit from Dr. Bones, who
is going to teach us all about keeping our
bones and body healthy.
Our fourth week we will be explor-
ing pumpkins and making them into Jack-o-
lanterns. We are going to cut open some big
pumpkins and check out the insides, and
maybe even bake the seeds for snack. We will
have a pumpkin to hammer nails into and
pumpkins to paint. Be sure to check out the
pumpkin patch and all our artwork around
the room too. We will have lots of pumpkin
books. We are going to be making Jack-o-
lanterns and we will make them glow.
For the final week, Halloween, we
all have been working hard to put together a
"spooktacular" monster mash bash on
Wednesday, October 31st. We will have
everything from games, to face painting, and
dance off, even a special morning and after-
noon snack. We will be watching a fun movie
in the afternoon and the fun will continue
throughout the day. Parents, if you would
like to be involved keep an eye out for our
monster mash bash sign up sheet. During
this week we will be making lots of fun art
projects and we have fun activities planned
too. We want to wish Jasmine a very Happy
Birthday on October 30th, and a big thank
you to her mom, Carly for helping us with
planting our beans. We want to thank all our
families for the time and donations. We could
not do all this with out you.
Intermediate: Mrs. Sara, Miss Jessica & Miss Kayla

























Fall is officially upon us and Pre-K couldn't be hap-
pier to celebrate the new season! September was a
great start to the new school year and we are
thrilled with the progress our friends are already
making. Pre-K did a great job learning all the new
rules and routines, and most of us can either write
our full name or most of the letters. We are recog-
nizing our names at Circle Time and we had lots of
fun decorating our names during art. We also
learned when our birthdays are and got to decorate
the block area with lots of festive decorations. Pre-K
was fascinated by counting how many people are in
each of our families, and we made a huge friendship
mural for our classroom. What great teamwork! We
practiced good manners during our afternoon tea
party, so everyone knows to say "please" and "thank
you" and to wait patiently for our turn. October is
going to be a great month filled with Halloween
shenanigans and learning more about this spooky
season.
The first week of October will be spent
learning about body parts and our five senses. In
the afternoon we will spend one day on each of the
five senses. We will try and guess what items are by
using only one of our senses, such as listening to a
sound an object makes or by touching an object
without looking. We will have a taste test to discov-
er how our taste buds identify different flavors:
sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. We will also smell
some different scented candles and decide which one
is our favorite scent.
During the second week of October our
themes will be No Bones About It and Jack-O-
Lanterns! We will learn about the different bones in
our bodies and meet some not-so-scary skeletons.
We have lots of silly skeleton stories to read and fun
art projects to look forward to in October. In the
afternoon we will make jack-o-lantern decorations
for our classroom and we will even carve a real
pumpkin so we can see what's inside! If anyone
would be willing to donate a large pumpkin for us to
carve, that would be awesome! Halloween is Mrs.
Jen's favorite holiday so we will continue the spooky
fun during the third week of October by discovering
Whooooo's Up All Night? There will be bats, black
cats, and more nocturnal friends to meet in both the
morning and afternoon.
By the fourth week of October our room is
sure to be in the Halloween spirit and we will be
having a "Monsterously" Good Time! We will meet
some silly ghosts, mummies, and monsters that are
not scary at all. During the afternoon we will in-
dulge our sweet tooth with a week with candy corn!
There will be candy corn art, candy corn sorting, and
even a candy corn prayer for us to learn. The morn-
ing theme for the last week of October is Dia De Los
Muertos, or Day of the Dead. This is a celebration in
Mexican culture where families honor their loved
ones who have passed away by feasting and celebrat-
ing and making beautiful crafts to display. In the
afternoon we will be back in Medieval times where
we can pretend to be princesses and knights and
play in our castle dress-up area.
Halloween is on Wednesday, October 31st
and the whole school will be participating in a Mon-
ster Bash! Intermediate as well as Beginners are
going to join us in the fun!!!! It will include a groovy
ghoulies dance party.....fog or bubbles included.
Monster manicures and tattoos will also be available
to get our friends in the mood. Outside we will have
all types of sensory items to keep our friends trans-
fixed for hours. Have you ever seen colored cooked
spaghetti? Looks like monster hair!!! And we are
going to cut it and swirl it and squish it. There will
also be sensory bags with items inside them for our
less adventurous friends. We'll make marshmallow
print monsters and make a monster munchie mix to
go with our afternoon movie.....TBA. As you can see
we are going to be very busy that day, Halloween
wear and monster t-shirts are the designated attire
for the day..... please no costumes....we want the fun
to be unfettered!!!
Some of the other classroom news to let you know,
this month we will be starting our new ABC's of the
Bible. It has great songs and snacks and art activi-
ties for every letter of the alphabet. I will be asking
each family to donate snack items for one of the
letters during the year, I will let you know what to
donate. I am so excited, the kids love the bible sto-
ries and can retell the stories when they see the
pictures in other Bibles. Pre-K will also be starting
our Whooo's Got Character? As you may have seen
we have gone with an owl theme here in Pre-K. We
want our friends in Pre-K to be as good as they can
possibly be....we hope Owly the wise owl can help
them to remember how to raise our hand, be respect-
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month that we will memorize and practice putting
the words into action.
A HUGE thank you to all those who
donated items for September, we could not make all
these fun things happen without your donations.
You are all awesome!!!!!!