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Welcome to all our new families!

Happy February! We are happy to welcome back some familiar faces: Ms. Holly (Room 1) is back on a full time basis, Ms. Kelsey (Room 1) is back with us on a substitute/ part time basis, Ms. Nena (Room 4) is back on a full time basis, and Ms. Anne (Room 5) is also back on a full time basis. Welcome back, Ladies! February is a wonderful month. We celebrate by showing love for our family and friends. Classroom Valentine’s Day parties are scheduled for Friday, February 13th at 2:30 pm.

CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER

EDUCATIONAL DAY CARE WITH A PURPOSE

CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE STAFF

Lisa Gomez Director

Julie Millsap Assistant Director

Ashley Conkins Center Opener/ Closer

Diana Price Kitchen Manager

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25473 Bulverde Road San Antonio, TX 78261

210.494.9200

[email protected]

www.ChildrensLighthouse.com/BulverdeRoad

CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE

LEARNING CENTER

FEBRUARY 2015

FEBRUARY 2015


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:

ALINA – 4TH

EDWARD – 6TH

MYLES – 6TH

OLIVIA – 13TH

ROHAN – 16TH

AURORA – 17TH

WILLIAM – 21ST

KATELYNN 22ND

ETHAN – 27TH

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO:

MS. LISA

MS. JULIE

MS JACQUE

Because we have a large number of families in our group now, we have several

methods of communication to keep information flowing so all our families are

well informed of announcements, activities and programs. This monthly

newsletter and our monthly calendar are always posted on our web site

(www.ChildrensLighthouse.com/BulverdeRoad).

Additional Resources to stay informed about activity announcements and

reminders:

LIKE us on facebook

(Children’s Lighthouse – Bulverde Road)

Follow us on twitter

(@CLBulverdeRoad)

We also put reminders on your Sign-in screen at the front desk.

SPRING BREAK 2015

(It is our SNEAK PEEK

for SUMMER CAMP)

WILD KINGDOM WEEK!

NEISD Spring Break: March 9 - 13

Comal ISD Spring Break March 16 – 20 Please contact the front desk staff fo

1. To save a place for your child

2. Additional information and schedule

3. Pricing

BIRTHDAYS AND

ANNIVERSARIES

Experience the Lighthouse Difference

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http://www.childrenslighthouse.com/BulverdeRoad

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FEB 2 - GROUNDHOG DAY &

KIDS ON COURSE GOLF &

BRICKS – BYTES – BOTS (B3)

FEB 3 - 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL! &

SOCCER SHOTS

FEB 4 - COMAL ISD EARLY RELEASE &

LITTLE AMIGOS

FEB 6 – DRESS LIKE A COWBOY/ COWGIRL

FEB 9 - KIDS ON COURSE GOLF &


FEB 10 - SOCCER SHOTS

FEB 11 - LITTLE AMIGOS

FEB 13 - COMAL ISD SCHOOLS CLOSED

CLASS VALENTINE’S DAY

PARTIES 2:30PM

FEB 14 – VALENTINE’S DAY

FEB 16 – PRESIDENT’S DAY &

COMAL ISD SCHOOLS CLOSED &

NEISD SCHOOLS CLOSED

KIDS ON COURSE GOLF &


FEB 17 – NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY &

SOCCER SHOTS

FEB 18 - LITTLE AMIGOS

FEB 21 – SPRING BREAK

REGISTRATION ROUND UP

BREAKFAST

9:30 am to 11:00 am

FEB 23 - KIDS ON COURSE GOLF &


FEB 24 – NEISD EARLY RELEASE &

SOCCER SHOTS

FEB 25 – NEISD EARLY RELEASE &

LITTLE AMIGOS

FEB 26 – NEISD EARLY RELEASE

FEB 27 – PAJAMA DAY

EVENT CALENDAR

Announcing:

ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

We are pleased to announce the following enrichment programs soon available Monday through Friday at our center:

BRICKS - BYTES – BOTS http://www.wholechild.com/info-bricks-bytes-bots

Engineering, technology and robotics

SOCCER SHOTS http://www.soccershots.org/sanantonio/contact-us/

Shots is a high-energy, FUN and age appropriate soccer enrichment program

KIDS ON COURSE GOLF ACADEMY Classes starts February 2, 2015

http://www.kocga.com /

A developmental golf program

LITTLE AMIGOS (Spanish) http://www.wholechild.com

Spanish language enrichment


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http://www.wholechild.com/info-bricks-bytes-bots

http://www.soccershots.org/sanantonio/contact-us/

http://www.kocga.com/

http://www.wholechild.com/



FEBRUARY 2015 VOLUME #3 ISSUE #2

PLEASE DRESS YOUR CHILD ACCORDING TO THE

WEATHER.

ANY ADDITIONAL CLOTHING SUCH AS SWEATERS &

JACKETS SHOULD BE LABELED.

*** PLEASE RETURN LOANED OUT EMERGENCY CHANGES

OF CLOTHING ***

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INCLEMENT WEATHER

INFORMATION Children’s Lighthouse – Bulverde Road

follows

Comal ISD

announcements for

Delayed School Openings & School Closings For Example:

1) Should Comal ISD Schools announce a 2 hour delayed opening due to weather, Children’s Lighthouse – Bulverde Road will open with a 2 hour delay as well. Instead of opening at our

regularly scheduled time of 6:30am, we would open at 8:30am.

2) Should Comal ISD Schools announce a closing for the day due to weather, Children’s Lighthouse – Bulverde Road will be closed that day as well.

CONGRATULATIONS TO

OUR JANUARY 2015

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

ANGELA FOX

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ANNOUNCING

MS. JULIE’S PROMOTION

TO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

CONGRATULATIONS

MS. JULIE!

Parent Referral Program Earn FREE Tuition by referring your friends, co-workers or family member to us! If

you provide us with their name, email address and phone number, we will make contact with them to share information about Children’s Lighthouse.

As the referring family you will be credited a FREE week of tuition for your oldest child

after the new family has been with Children’s Lighthouse for four (4) continuous weeks.

Please see the Front Desk or Ms. Lisa for information about our Parent Referral Program.

SUPPLY REPLENISHMENT

CONVENIENCE SERVICE

On the rare occasion that a child runs out of toileting

supplies (diapers or wipes) and a parent cannot

immediately replenish supplies. We will now offer

parents a temporary supply replenishment

convenience service.

The convenience fee for one (1) diaper and wipes

will be $2.50 per occurrence.

The fee will be added to the following week’s billing

ledger.

HOURS OF OPERATION ARE

6:30 AM TO 6:30 PM

Parents, your children must be picked up by the close of business.

Per the Children’s Lighthouse Parent Handbook, a LATE PICK UP FEE will be charged to

your ledger/ account if children are picked up later than 6:30PM (based upon our clock)

LATE PICK UP FEES ARE: 6:30 pm to 6:40 pm –$10.00 flat charge

For every minute past 6:40 pm - an additional $1.00 per minute will be charged






CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE

LEARNING CENTER – BULVERDE

ROAD

2015 Holiday Closings

January 1 (Thursday) New Year’s Day

May 26 (Monday) Memorial Day

July 3 (Friday) Independence Day

September 7 (Monday) Labor Day

November 26 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day

November 27 (Friday) Day after Thanksgiving

December 24 (Thursday) Christmas Eve

December 25 (Friday) Christmas Day

2015 Early Closing - Closing at 2:00 pm

December 31 (Thursday) New Year’s Eve

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CONGRATULATIONS

SPRING BREAK 2015 Pricing and activities are set! See

front desk for registration and

pricing.

Spring Break is our sneak peek for

our fantastic summer camp – join us

for Wild Kingdom Week!

Tell your friends, join us and register

for our:

Spring Break Registration Round Up

Breakfast

Saturday,February 21

9:30 am – 11:00 am

2015 – 2016 SCHOOL YEAR

Enroll by submitting Curriculum

Fees. Due by April 30, 2015.

SUMMER 2015 Pricing and activities will be

announced soon.

ROOM 1 MS. LAUREN, LEAD TEACHER

Hello Parents!

February is the month of LOVE. We are so happy to be a

part of each of your children’s lives. We welcome some new

friends to welcome to lass this New Year. We are very happy to

have you join our class!

This February our curriculum focus will be on “Windows,

Walls, Doors, and Hallways”. Here are other curriculum

focuses this month:

This month’s shape: Heart

This month’s Baby Signs: “Cereal” & “Cookie”

This month’s Color: RED

This month’s Songs: “Go In And Out The Window”

This month’s Ryhme: “I See The Moon”

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to discuss

them with us.

Sincerely,

Ms. Lauren


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ROOM 2 MS. MELODY, LEAD TEACHER Hello Parents!

This month we are learning about love (sharing and

caring.

Our new curriculum focuses this month are:

This month’s shape: Heart

This month’s Baby Signs: “Cereal” & “Cookie”

This month’s Color: RED

This month’s Songs: “Going Out The Window”

This month’s Rhyme is: I See The Moon”

Look forward to a lot of Valentine’s Day art coming

home from your baby!

Happy Birthday Aurora & William.

Ms. Melody




ROOM 3 MS. MICHELE, LEAD TEACHER

It is February already! We are off to a great start for the new year.

This month we will be busy learning about “Windows, Walls, Doors

and Hallways”. The color of the month is RED. The song of the

month is “Go In And Out the Window”. The shape of the month is

Heart ♥. The rhyme of the month is “I See the Moon”. Lastly, our

sign language signs are “Cereal” & “Cookie”.

We will be using props from our classroom to introduce new

concepts. We learn to help clean up and put toys away. We will

continue Circle Time singing, reading books and using flashcards.

Our arts projects will be about the month of love.

Thank you,

Ms. Michele




ROOM 4 MS. JACQUE, LEAD TEACHER Room 4 is off to a great start in 2015. We welcomed Deckland, Arden, Avery, Gage, Logan & Kristopher. We are also very happy to welcome our new assistant teacher, Ms. Chantelle. And, Ms. Nena is back too! This month we will be learning about the

Sky, the color red, and the shape heart ♥.

We will also be learning the song “Rainbow colors.” The rhyme is “I Wonder Where All the Clouds Go”. Our sign language words of the month are “cookies” and “cereal”. Sincerely, Ms. Jacque

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ROOM 5 MS. ANGELA, TEACHER MS. ANNE, TEACHER

Dear Parents,

We wanted to wish you all a happy February! Ms. Anne has returned to the Children’s Lighthouse family and joins us in Room 5!

We are very excited about the theme of TRANSPORTATION. It is always a fun theme for the children as transportation. There are so many examples of the different modes of transportation that our children see every day. We will explore many fun educational activities that relate to transportation!

Our planet, EARTH, and the concept of OUTERSPACE are additional themes that we introduce to the children in February.

In Science our focus is on birds. We will learn about bird body parts: wings, feathers, and beak.

Our February character value is Loyalty!

Happy birthday to Olivia!

Sincerely,

Ms. Angela & Ms. Celeste




ROOM 6 MS. MEAGHAN, LEAD TEACHER

Hello Parents! TRANSPORTATION is our theme this February. We will be doing all kinds of activities that include all types of transportation: cars, trucks, airplanes and more.

Our curriculum focuses are: Science: Shadows Nature: Birds Language: Rhyming Pairs Math: Counting and Identifying Numbers 1-20, & Geometric Shapes

The character value of this month is Loyalty.

Thank you, Ms. Meaghan



ROOM 7 MS. TERI, LEAD TEACHER Greeting Room 7 Families!

We ended January with our Letter Writing exercise and our “field

trip” to the Children’s Lighthouse mailbox to send to our homes.

February is going to be a very busy month. Please bring a coat for

your child every day, our Texas weather is constantly changing and

is unpredictable.

. February 2nd – we will be talking about Groundhog Day

. February 3rd – we celebrate our hundredth day of school

. February 6th – we will host a Cowboy/ Cowgirl Breakfast – DRESS

LIKE A COWBOY/ COWGIRL

. February 13th – we have our Valentine’s Day Party at 2:30pm

. February 16th – we celebrate President’s Day

The theme for January is TRANSPORTATION and OUTERSPACE;

Nature and Science focus will be BIRDS and SHADOWS; our

Character Value for the month is LOYALTY: The letters we will be

introducing are: W, U, and N.

During Circle Time activities and reviewing the letters that we

learned in September and November: A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M,

O, P, R, S and T. We are learning to write and identify our numbers 1

through 10 and continue to practice writing our names and

practice precision scissor cutting skills.

Please continue to check your child’s folder every Friday and take

home their artwork projects. During cold, flu and allergy season we

ask that on Fridays you take home nap time blankets and pillows

for washing. We continue to encourage students to cover their

mouths when sneezing and coughing and to wash hands often.

If you have any questions or concerns, please visit with me. It is my

goal to make learning a fun experience for your child.

Ms. Teri


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ROOM 8 MS. CLAUDIA, LEAD TEACHER

We welcome February – the month month of Love and Friendship. We welcome two new friends to class: Katelynn and Addyson. Our overall themes this month are TRANSPORTATION & OUTER SPACE. Other focuses are: Character value - LOYALTY Science - SHADOWS Nature - BIRDS. Ms. Claudia


ROOM 9 MS. EMILY, LEAD TEACHER Hello Parents! We start February off with our “100th Day of School Celebration.” The 100th day of school is February 3rd. We will be doing a lot of 100 themed activities. February isRodeo month in San Antonio. February 6 is Rodeo Day – come to school dressed in your rodeo best! Our themes this February are Transportation, Outer Space, Birds and Shadows. We will continue to learn different word families as well as begin basic addition. We are excitied to have Ms. Taylor join our class. She is a wonderful addition to our room and we are excited to have her. REMINDERS: Valentine’s Day Party is Friday, February 13th at 2:30pm. More details to come. Happy Birthday Myles.! Ms. Emily & Ms. Taylor




DIRECTOR’S CORNER

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JANUARY 2014



SCHOOLERS MS. PRISCILLA, LEAD TEACHER

Hello Parents!

We’ve had a January in Room 10.

We learned about the Civil War. The

students enjoyed learning some of the

“slang terms” from the late 1800s!

February is a busy month and we

have a lot of fun activities planned.

Don’t forget to reserve your child’s

spot for Spring Break 2015. The

theme is WILD KINGDOM. Ask the

staff at the front desk for more

information. We plan on visiting the

new San Antonio Aquarium and having

some exotic animals visit us in Room

10!

Sincerely,

Miss Priscilla


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DIRECTOR’S CORNER Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone. !

I would like to congratulate Ms. Julie who has accepted the position of

Assistant Director. Ms. Julie is celebrating her 1 year anniversary here

at Children’s Lighthouse! Many of our staff celebrates their 1 year

anniversary – Ms. Jacque and me! I would also like to welcome back

some of our teachers – Ms. Holly, Ms. Kelsey, Ms. Anne and Ms. Nena.

Ms. Yolanda will be leaving us in February to pursue her second

Masters Degree!

Parents of School Agers - please let us know if your child will be

attending Spring Break 2015. Stop by the front desk any time to register.

We have a very week planned for your children. The theme is WILD

KINGDOM! We have a Spring Break Registration Round Up on Saturday

February 21 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am. Let your friends know!

Lisa Gomez

Ms. Julie Ms. Ashley Ms.Diana

Ms. Lisa

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