Seastars

Hello parents this week is fire safety week. Today the children were practicing their stop drop and roll. We're also learning the firefighter song which we'll continue to practice so we can try to perfect it. Tomorrow John the fire truck will be visiting us at coastal and the kids are looking forward to it!! The kids chose their jobs on Monday. 

Andres- snack helper Seth- line leader

        Chris- book collector Cartor- classroom help

Sydni- flag holder Eli- table cleaner

Taylor- calendar Christian- snack helper

Jackson(mwf)/Chase(tth)- sweeper Brandy(mwf)/Kaylin(tth)- line leader

Abbie- classroom help

Well I hope everyone has a good week and I'll see you in the morning.  :)

MONDAY MEMO

Hello everyone! I want to say THANK YOU again for attending "Back to School Nite" last Thursday. It was a good turn out! This week is a busy one...Since this week is all about Fire Safety,"Big John" (the interactive fire truck) will be visiting our school on Wednesday, October 1 at 11am. The children will get a chance to go in the firetruck, learn about STOP, DROP & ROLL and what could happen if children played with Matches. If this is not your child's regular day your child may come as long as they are accompanied by a PARENT/GUARDIAN.

I sent out the PUMPKIN PATCH Permission slips today. Please make sure that the slips & money(CASH ONLY) are turned in by Tuesday, October 7.

I also have posted a Sign up sheet for our First "PARENTS NIGHT OUT" for this Friday, October 3'08 from 7-10:30pm

I will also have another Sign up sheet for Master Marshall's TAE KWON DO! Hopefully we get at least 6 students to start. =)

There are flyers about Permanent Impressions for you to take. If you have any other questions feel free to ask me. They will be here on thursday, October 9. Again, if this is not your child's regular day, he/she may participate as long as a PARENT/GUARDIAN is present.

Make it a GREAT WEEK!

This week (seahorse class)

Hello everyone in the seahorse class. I just wanted to let you know a bit about what we will be up to this week. Our theme for the week is based on fire and fire safety. Your kids will be learning about fire and how dangerous it could be. we will also be discussing our safety and what we should do if we are ever in a fire emergency. I hope your all ready for this week I'm sure you will be having a lot to talk about with your child this week. Anyway i will have more to come so stay with me. I'm sorry for not posting last week but things got a bit crazy for me with school and all. sorry =) If you ever have any questions please talk to me at school Tues-Friday or you can always e-mail me =D. Take care and good night!
~Ms Krystal

This one's for you Miss Kristin!!!

Colter B. finally fell asleep. He turned from one side of his mat to the other and still the not went with him. This was by far the sweetest thing ever!!! haha. Hope you enjoy this picture Kristin because Colter really enjoys getting those notes! =0)

some extra pictures for your enjoyment...

Stephen, our little pack-rat, searching the yard for his next treasure. =0) Donovan, Christian, and Christopher playing soccer. It's the afternoon tradition when they get on the yard.
Donovan just caught the soccer ball between his feet! yesssss...nice.
Owen and Luke row, row, rowing the boat while waiting for a change.
Colter B. trying to get to sleep and refusing to let go of a note from mama that he got in his lunch.

fall week!

Mikel and Cameron on a Pirate boat! ARGGGGH matey...look at that pirate face on Mikel. haha. Owen, Ashlee, and Hunter racing cars around the track.
Colter B. popping out of the log cabin for a quick snapshot.
Riley and Bennett putting out fires in the house...what would we do without them?!
My man Dylan...He's blowing the horn on this operation...haha. ;0)

Last week was so much fun jumping into fall. The class had a lot of fun learning new songs, creating art for the walls, learning new words, and dancing!!! Next week we will be learning all about fire and fire safety. Don't forget that BIG JOHN will visit to teach us some important facts about fire safety. Last year was a big hit.

I want to thank all the families that made it to Back to School night. It was great to see you and have a non-kid moment to talk. hahaha. Once again...I am very excited for the new school year! I hope that you all had a fantastic week and I will see you all on Monday.

Take Care,

Miss Kat

Back to School Night!

A big THANK YOU to our COASTAL Parents! Last night was a success. I hope that all your questions were answered. We will have a full and busy school year but I guarantee that the children will have fun learning at school. I will continue with my Monday Memos which will mostly consists of reminders for the upcoming week. Any questions or concerns that you may have... you know where to find me. Have a great weekend!

Thursday Update!

Hello Everyone! I'm back from my vacation and I did have a BLAST! Vancouver, Canada is beautiful. Lots of trees, fresh air and the scenery is just pretty. I really enjoyed my visit.....Back to bussiness! I do have a BIG Reminder: Tonight is "Back to School Nite"! We will promptly start @ 6:30 so please be there on time and I will do my very best to get everyone out by 7:30.We will talk about the plans we made for this school year and you will also get a chance to sit with your child's teacher while she goes over the goals that she has set out for your child. This night will also be a good oppurtunity for parents to meet other parents. =) We hope to see you tonight! Thank You!!!

Seastars

Hello parents hope this week is going good so far. As i'm sure you know we've got back to school tomorrow and the kids have been working hard on getting things ready. This week we've been talking about leaves and the beginning of fall. On friday we will be talking about the shape, circle. We will be doing an art activity with circles and on friday for share day I would like the kids to bring something round, circular, and that has no end. I will try to post some pictures soon because for some reason I'm not able to retrieve them. Well have a good night and I'll see you in the morning.

miss shona :)

final pictures for the night!

Jordan digging and dumping!
Cameron and Elijah...partners in crime. The gals just hanging around. It's cooler up there...great place to take a break after some hard running around. hahaha.

Thanks for keeping up to date with our bloggs! yaaaay...

some extra pictures to enjoy!!

The boys row, row, rowing their boats!

Charley getting some H2O!

Miss Ella also getting some H2O and smiling BIG for the camera.



Miss Ashlee pulling her dump truck happily! la deee daaa la deee daaa! =0)

wooohooo monday!

Isaiah, Luke, and Jack working on painting their leaves with tree bark. Jack REALLY got into it! haha.
Colter and Bennett making their farms. And smiley Charley waiting for Mom and Dad @ nap time. =0)

Elijah, Colter, and Ella digging up a storm... or at least making a dust storm. haha.

Miss Ella chasing after her shoes down the slide...

So welcome to the first day of our week. It was a busy and fun day. It was our first day of fall so we kicked it off with making leaves! The Jellyfish had an awesome time painting with tree bark. After we wrapped that up we hit the carpet to make stairs. haha. Totally different from fall theme, but it was soooo much fun to watch the kids figure out how to stack.

Some more things to look forward to this week is Leaf Printing, Cereal Trees, Fall Time Book and new songs to learn. You'll be able to catch up with your child's art work at Back to School Night! It's going to be fun to meet with all you families and answer any questions you may have. I'm excited!! yaaaaaay.

Outside the Jellyfish played monster! Guess who was the monster?? (that's right...me!) hahahaha. They really know how to wear me out. wheeew. hahaha. So much fun. Some other activities we did were...drawing pictures and names with chalk...dump trucks (one of Jacks favorites)... and soccer (Isaiah's game!).

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and I will see you all in the morning. Take care...

Miss Kat

Back To School Nite

Back to School Nite is this Thursday, September 25th from 6:30 - 7:30pm. This is a special night for the parents to interact and meet with the teachers, director, and owner. This event is only for the parents. It is a great way to meet the children's parents and get to know them a little better and you may even find out that you live down the street from another family. Parents of our school family get to chit chat and get to know what their child is learning and what are plans are for the future. The student's school work will also be up for display. This is going to be a fun night and also a nite for the public that would like to get to know our school a little better. It is open to those who are looking at our school for their children to attend too in the future or even now. So welcome everyone and hope to see you there.

-Ms. Eileen

Pictures

Hello Seahorse families i just got some pictures uploaded on my computer but not all of them. I hope to have some for open house night. Just a reminder Please bring in your child's baby picture so we can post it up. They really like looking at them =p Also please send in or tell me your child's grandparents names. This is a small family tree project that we will continue to work on next week. =)

Anyway Time for the few pictures i have. Enjoy!

^The kids all love the water table. The task i gave them that morning was to "give the cars a bath." Everyone wanted to help =D ^Cody and Riley (behind Cody) pulling Mikel in a dump truck =p

^Cody playing fireman =D

Just a few pictures of the seastars

Eli and Jackson playing horse.

Kaylin and Cartor playing cars and next they moved to the train table.
Sydni just being silly.
Christopher's tower and I asked him to pose and he did.  
Andres painting during our class time.

thursday all day...

Hi families. Just for an end of the week update...we've been working really hard on building vocabulary. Some homework for you parents...come up with 2 words to use with your jellyfish at home and bring it in to school to share with our friends. I'll be sending home any new words they use here on your daily check reports.

We've also been finishing up our class book called "My Favorite Place to go is...". It's been fun listening to each child describe their favorites or jumble to push out the words. This week Math has been the highlight. We got some new counting materials and they get lost in them for all of group time. hahaha. It's very exciting to hear them count beyond the number 10. I am so proud of how hard they all have been working!

Get ready parents...next week is BACK TO SCHOOL!!! yaaaaaaaay...it's going to be fun to have a moment to catch up with all of you. I hope you can all make it. This week has been fabulous for me and the Jelly's...I hope you all have had a fantastic week and take care.

=0) Miss Kat

miss abbie she's so cute and loves having her picture taken.

welcome to coastal cartor.

Taylor coloring in the outline of her body.

seth tied his rope to the side so he could climb up.

       Hello Seastar families happy wednesday I can't believe we're already in the middle of the week. This week has been nice and busy. We have a new friend in our seastar class named Cartor. He's a sweet boy who's fitting right in and he loves those bunnies. Everyday he asks me if we can play with the bunnies and now his new thing is the yahtzee game we played yesterday. Welcome to coastal Cartor. Also this week we've been talking about our grandparents and about ourselves. On Monday we made a card for our grandparents which will be sent home in the art files on Friday. Today we talked about our fingerprints and did an art activity in which they traced their own hands and put each fingerprint on the tip of their fingers. This was not easy to do for them but they did a good job. I had to help some of them with their left hand but the main idea was to work on their fine motor skills. Tomorrow we will be doing a project called, the long and short of me. For friday share day the kids can bring 3 of their favorite items since this week is all about them.  Well I hope you have a great rest of the week and I'll see you tomorrow.

tuesday news

Hello seahorse families!! I just wanted to update a little early this week. We have two new friends starting with us in the seahorse class. So i just want to say welcome Ashlee and Aiden. They have settled right in with the other children and have already become good friends with their classmates. Emilu and Ashlee spent the day drawing pictures together with sidewalk chalk and the boys all took part in dump truck races and snake chases by Hunter and Mikel. They have been using the jump-ropes as snakes and chase the others around. =D

This week i'masking for baby pictures of your children for a special picture board that we are putting together for back to school night. The kids are really getting a kick out of trying to figure out who is who so please bring a baby picture in by friday. It's homework!! haha

On monday we started reviewing and talking about ourselves. We reviewed body parts such as our head, neck, back, ankles, knees and etc. We had a song to help us go over the basic parts which the kids enjoyed because they also got to move. After that we talked about our heart and veins. We looked for and felt our pulse and heart beat which Hunter came up to me today and said " Ms. Krystal I feel my heart beating!!"

Today we worked on The long and short of me project. I traced each child's leg, foot, arm, and hand/ thumb print. Cameron Couldn't stop laughin because "it tickled" when i traced around his leg and foot. Tomorrow we are going to get a ruler to measure and count how long/ short each body part is.

Thursday we are going to start talking about grandparents and our older friends. We will be making a special picture for them that will be sent home for the children to give to them. So i'm sorry but more homework please send in the names of grandparents/older friends. This will also help with the family tree that we will be working on. =D

Thank you everyone. I'm sorry i don't have time to post pictures tonight but i will try tomorrow because i have some good ones =p Good night!

~Ms. Krystal

these are the last of em for tonight!

Luke seeming like he doesn't want to nap but, .......zzz zzzzzzz zzz zz zzzzzz! haha.
Isaiah is out faster than you can say N A P!
Oh yeah! I'm twirling. Watch me!!!

Some other pictures you might enjoy!

Charley made a space rocket! Boy was he proud.
Colter wanted to show off his BIG smile! Oh what a smile. =0) And he is so fast with his dump truck! Watch out moms and dads...haha.
Jack really enjoyed shaking up our science tubes and mixing the colors to make new ones. This is a huge hit with all my friends.

Isaiah hard at work to make the bike go! weeeeeee!

Happy Monday Jellyfish Families!

Bennett trying to figure out why the tongs don't work the same as the magnet. haha.
Charley counting colored keys. We're working on putting the number of keys we count on a ring.
Little Miss Ella...going down the slide slowly but surely. haha. I think her shoes are getting in the way of speed!! ;0) silly.
They flock to water! It's a crazy zone. hahaha. SOOOO much fun!
Isaiah playing baseball. He never gets tired of it! And he never gives up! It's not always easy hitting a small ball with a small bat. hahahaha.

Hi everyone! Today we started our "All About Me and Grandparents" week. We'll be doing a lot of fun activities. We started out our group time with our usual Circle Time doing calendar and songs. When we split into group time they had their bodies traced for creating their own portrait of themselves. They'll be given a mirror and they will be asked to look at themselves and their features. After a long hard look...they'll draw it on their body cut out. Be sure to look around for your child's cut out. They'll be conveniently located on the floor. hahaha. Can't miss em! We will also be creating our own library. They will draw pictures of favorite things and places and tell about it at the bottom of the page. At the end of the week I will put those pages together to create our very first book! yaaaaaaaaaaay!! Be sure to check our the lesson plan sheet to keep up with what we're doing all week. You're welcome to join in.

Today's Comment: Luke "My shoe go on my foot! Pleeeeease? Thank you Miss Ka." hahaha. his vocabulary is picking up and fast! I am soooo proud of him for working so hard at using his words. yaaaaay!

I would also like to send out an overdue WELCOME to Ella, Charley, and Dylan! It is so exciting to add new friends to the group and they've all been so brave coming into this experience. So far they are doing awesome jumping in and being a part of the group.

I hope you all had a fantastic day and I will see you in the morning! Take care.

Miss Kat

MONDAY MEMO

Good Morning! Hope everyone's weekend was fun and relaxing like ours. We celebrated a little w/ Ms. Shona for her birthday last night and had dinner with Erril(my husband), Gabe(Ms. Shona"s boyfriend) at Buddah"s Favorite(owned by Masaki & Miko Yoshitsuka - Kona's parents). We had a great time! The sushi and the service was EXCELLENT!. We loved the crunchy roll & the lobster roll. If you are out in Newport Beach and would like some delicious sushi with a nice view by the water, this is the place to go. Thanks, Miko...for the Special FRIDAY TREAT you brought. Those "cream puffs" were YUMMY!.....Ok, lets get to the school stuff. Last week's theme about APPLES was a big hit! Here is the verdict..... The Seastars favorite project was The Apple Tree M&Ms, The Seahorse's was the Apple Tasting and the Jellyfish favorite was making "Applesauce". Hmmm... I detect a pattern here! It all covered: Science, Math, Cooking and more! Really love this theme! The theme(s) for this week are " ME, MYSELF & I" and "Grandparents". The children will not only get to know a little bit more about their friends and Grandparents but they will possibly discover something new about themselves or something they really like about themselves. What a great way to start off this week!

REMINDERS:

"BACK TO SCHOOL NITE" is next week. Thursday, September 25.
6:30-7:30 pm. PARENTS ONLY!
School will close at 5:30 pm to prepare for this nite!!!

I will be on vacation, from WEDNESDAY, September 17
through next week, TUESDAY, Septmber 23.
I'm going to Vancouver, Canada. I'm really excited! =)

PEANUT ALLERGY: We are a PEANUT FREE school! Please make sure that NO food with PEANUTS / peanut ingredient are at the premises. We have several children that are SEVERELY allergic to PEANUTS. If your child comes to school with peanuts(ex; peanut butter sandwhich, granola, etc.) in their lunch, We will gladly make a Peanut free Lunch for your child. It will be free of charge the first time and then a $5.00 lunch fee will charged in your account the next time. We truly appreciate your support and cooperation with this matter.

Birthday(s) for this week : 9/20 - Christian Ramirez (Seastars)

Have a wonderful week! I will see you when I get Back!

picture updates from today!

hahaha...HURRRRAAAAAAY! Bennett was super happy for Cheerios's and milk.
Cody and his friend Riley climbing on the tunnel. Little Daredevils. hahaha.
Oh Dylan...you can run, but you can't hide! hahaha. What a tiring game of hide and go seek (which quickly turned into TAG!) haha.

Our science center is full and ready to be experienced. Parents, please feel free to take a moment or five to sit down with one of the activities and experience science with your child. There are bugs to be scoped out, sea creatures to meet, and colors to combine. The science and math center is conveniently located next to the cubbies on the wood shelves. I'm always there to guide you if you find yourself lost, though. hahaha.

I hope you all had a fantastic day and I will see you all in the morning. Take care!

Miss Kat