WE ARE CLOSED for Vets Day

WE ARE CLOSED for Turkey Day

WE ARE CLOSED for the day after Thanksgiving

It is a good thing to help those in our area who are less fortunate, namely children in need of healthy meals and nutrition.  Let your child help donate to the food bank bins in the hallway. These will be available until 11/3.

Each month the tuition is due on the first of the month.  If you are absent or out of town, you may mail or drop the check by in advance.  We really do not want to charge you the $25 late fee, but will have to if the payment doesn’t reach us by the fifth.

After nearly six years at ACLC, Cheryl Evans has announced that she will be leaving 11/30/07.  She was a contributor to the NAEYC accreditation effort and we will miss her.

Thanks to all the parents who supported our Book Fair and also have ordered books monthly through the Scholastic book order forms. ACLC has been able to get many books for children for our library.  THANKS!

EXPRESSING FEELINGS
Some things don’t always go the way we expect.  Frustration, crying, anger over little things that just don’t go our way, fill our day.  What can parents do to defuse hot-button issues, reduce the sad feelings, and increase the happy ones? The tools and techniques we can pass along will reflect our feelings, too…
Give Kids the Vocabulary
To identify their feelings.
They need to know that feelings change, and that feelings are different from actions.

Come up with Solutions
Can you think of another way to better express your anger? The book, Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day, by Jamie Lee Curtis helps kids explore their ever-changing moods—from cranky, excited, to sad.  The cardboard face and dial-an-expression face lets children show how they’re feeling.  Maybe a warm hug will console a child feeling sad, lonely, or just plain out of control.

PUT YOUR BEST FOOT AHEAD
Make it easier for your child to remain steady in his socks or footed pajamas by painting grips onto the bottoms.   Purchase puffy fabric paints from the art store.  Make designs kids choose or their names!  It’s simple!

MAKE A TRAIL
Have you noticed that children naturally love to follow trails?  Make an outdoor trail by placing stones around trees, over the sandbox, behind the swing set, etc…Make an inside trail with yarn or crepe paper.  Place it down the hall, around the sofa, and under the kitchen table.

PERFECT SWEET POTATOES
     3 ½ lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
     6 T. butter
     ½ tsp. salt
     3 T. frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
Simmer sweet potatoes in water until soft.  Drain and mash or puree in a blender.  Add butter, salt, and orange juice concentrate.  Whip to combine.  Place potatoes in baking dish. Place topping ingredients in a small bowl and mix together.  Sprinkle topping over the potatoes, and bake 45 min. at 350.
Topping:
     2 T. each flour, brown sugar, and melted butter
     2/3 cup sweetened coconut

TIPS FOR BOOSTING LANGUAGE AND READING SKILLS
1.  Get a library card for every member of the family.  Check out books every week…
2.  Read every day to increase comprehension skills and broaden their vocabulary…
3.  Make books together. Homemade books can be elaborate or simple…
4.  Use a tape recorder and tape your child singing, reciting poems or stories…
5.   Talk to your baby during routine times like diaper-changing.     
6.  Play the “I wish” game. Start with a sentence that uses interesting words and let the child make a wish next…
7.  Label objects and toys in your child’s room.  This is another way to help connect words and objects.
8.  Become a family of storytellers.  Tell the story of when they were “little”…
9.  Make bookmarks.  Let kids decorate them…

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