Owners:WELCOME ALL NEW FAMILIES!
The owners of Tiny Hoppers Riverside South’s goal is to create a second loving and safe environment for your child just as they
experience at home.
Director:OCT 11 – Our annual Thanksgiving lunch for our
children and teachers
OCT 14 – We will be closed on Monday October 14th for Thanksgiving.
OCT 21 – The last scholastic book orders will be due back.
OCT 25 – We will be visiting Millers Farm on Friday Oct 25th at 2:30 pm. Please make sure you pick your child up at the centre by 2:15 pm latest to make it in time. The wagon will leave for the pumpkins at 2:40 pm. If you are not attending please let me know what your plan is with your child that afternoon (leaving early or staying at the centre) (all permission forms are due back
with cash payment by OCT 16 to Kayla)
OCT 31 – The children will be trick or treating to stores within the plaza- you can dress them up in their Halloween costumes!
Infant:IT’S GOING TO GET MESSY! This month we will have a variety of art and sensory activities (including Halloween activities) for the children to explore! We will be exploring with our senses (touch, feel, smell, taste and hear). Please bring extra clothing as these activities may get messy! We will be trick or treating around the plaza on Oct 31. Please bring in your child’s
costume! Please come dressed with these specific colors on the following dates: • October 10 – Purple
• October 17 – Blue
• October 24 – Black & White day
• October 31 – Halloween costume
Toddler 1&2: Week 1: Food theme – We will be exploring colorful spaghetti (Sensory), rolling plastic eggs (Gross Motor), pretending to be chefs (Dramatic Play) and many more activities.Week 2: Pumpkin theme – We will be making knuckle print pumpkins (Art), matching pumpkin faces (Cognitive), exploring pumpkin soup (Sensory) and many more activities. Don’t forget
to wear the color orange on Thursday Oct 17th! Week 3: Ghost theme – We will be making cotton ball ghosts (Art), doing melting ghosts experiments (Science), feeding ghosts (Fine Motor) and many more activities.Week 4: Monster theme – We will be sorting monster eyeballs (Cognitive), exploring slime (Sensory), making hand print monsters (Art) and many more activities.
*Don’t forget to wear your Halloween costumes on Oct 31st!
Preschool 1&2: October is an exciting month of transitions and celebrations. We look forward to our annual tradition
of celebrating Thanksgiving with a delicious turkey lunch and tasty treats. As we transition to cooler weather we would remind you to bring weather appropriate clothing for your child. Layers are a good solution this time of year when the weather can be
unpredictable. There are still some families who have not brought in their family photos. We hang these photos on our family tree and the children are very excited and happy when they go over and see them. This helps them develop a sense of belonging and connect their world between home and daycare. It helps children communicate to the teachers and peers about their family and their special family outings. This month we will be discussing and watching the Fall season change. Our literacy program has many new books about the colored leaves falling. We also have been working hard making a few new flannel stories
with apples and pumpkins. Watch out for the hungry monster. The children will have a chance to feed the silly monsters some rocks, beads, sticks and pom poms.We are excited to see their fine motor skills put to good use. With the approach of Halloween we will be creating creepy but fun art. We will also be adding pumpkins, spiders and ghosts to the parachute games.
Sensory play is perfect at Halloween and will get messy and very silly. The children will develop language and explore their senses. We can’t wait to see all of you at the farm to pick a pumpkin and have fun on the wagon ride. Don’t forget our annual trick or treating to the stores in the mall. The children just love this adventure and showing off their costumes. Last month we had a real fire drill practice and the children did amazing. They stopped everything and walked to the door. They were quick and calm. We are so proud of them.
