ECDC December Newsletter 2019

Important Information Family Christmas Chapel

We are very excited to celebrate Jesus’s birth with our ECDC families! Chapel will be in the Sanctuary this year so we are able to accommodate grandparents and parents. The four-year-old classes will be preforming a Christmas song and the three-year-old classes will perform Jingle Bells together. Dr. Pat Sparks, the Senior Pastor at St. Peter’s, will narrate the Christmas story. You don’t want to miss it!

ECDC December Mission Outreach

ECDC will collect underwear, socks, and pajamas for the Clothed By Faith Ministry. They are in need of undergarments and pajamas for men, women, and children. We want to continue to teach our children the blessing of giving this time of year as well as helping those in need. We will have collection boxes outside of the ECDC office for donations.

A Glimpse Into the Classrooms… Toddler Classroom

In Ms. Anne’s Caterpillar Class they will be working on fine motor skills by unwrapping presents. They love to tear the paper off of boxes! Ms. Helen’s pandas are learning to squeeze paint so they will be making a festive holiday wreath with Q-tip bundles.

3-Year-Old Classroom

In Ms. Becky’s Monkey Class they will be writing with cinnamon on sandpaper in the writing center and working on fine motor by making a candy cane with a pipe cleaner and beads.

4-Year-Old Classroom

In Ms. Schneider’s Moose Class they will create and decorate a class Christmas tree out of boxes. In Ms. Berte’s Squirrel class they will explore magnets in their sensory table discovering if jingle bells, pipe cleaners, and rice are magnetic.

Important Dates

December 7

Breakfast with Santa

8 am

Treasures in the Attic

9am

December 16 & 17

Family Christmas Chapel

9:30am in Sanctuary

December 19

Early Release 11:45-12:15

December 20-Jan 7th

Christmas Break

Classes resume Jan 8

January 8-22

2020-2021 ECDC Registration

Forms sent home on tote bags after Christ-

mas and forms available in the office for siblings not currently attending

ECDC

January 22nd

Registration forms are due by 2:30pm

Specials Classes Music and Motor Skills with Ms. Rachel This month the children will play reindeer games and have a snowball fight in motor skills. Ms. Rachel is also teaching the children all of the traditional Christmas songs we will be singing in Family Chapel. The kids love ringing the jingle bells! December Challenge - Practice throwing a ball underhand and overhand.

STEAM Lab with Ms. Andrea & Ms. Shelby In the STEAM lab, the children will be focusing on shapes. They will be using various building materials to create shapes, build a Christmas tree,

and snowman. They will also launch snowballs!

Spanish with Ms. Gualy Feliz Navidad! This month the students will learn words associated with Christmas and winter clothing. Ms. Gualy will also introduce pets with the words perro, gato, raton.

Chapel In chapel we will be learning about the Christmas story and celebrating the beautiful gift of Jesus. The memory verse is “God has given a son to us” Isaiah 9:6 The character trait is generosity. Christmas is the perfect time to practice generosity by giving to others.

Thank You For The Teacher Appreciation Breakfast!!

The teachers loved the wide variety of breakfast items and drinks. We want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of the parents that donated money and food.

Building catapults and launching balls to knock down “Humpty Dumpty in

STEAM!

ECDC November Mission Outreach

Thank you for donating canned goods to the St. Vincent DePaul Food Bank. This year’s donation was the largest we have ever made!

Council Corner Greetings from the St. Peter’s ECDC Council

December 2019 The ECDC Advisory Council is the decision-making body of the school, reporting to the St. Peter’s UMC Church Council. The Advisory Council is responsible for organizing fundraisers and overseeing and approving all school policies, programs, activities, fees, tuition rates and operating budget.

ECDC Advisory Council Members

Advisory Council terms run on a calendar year. This means that in January a new class of Advisory Council members will be ready to start their three-year term. Please join us in welcoming Kaitlyn Cole, Beth Harr, Katie Lindsay, Caylor Travers and Liz VanNatta.

This also means that it will be time to say goodbye to those third-year members who have served their terms tirelessly with creativity, dedication and love. To say these four have generously given their time to this school is an understatement! Our heartfelt thanks to: Victoria Clites (2019 Council Chair), Laura Barbier (2019 Fall Fest Chair), Jennifer Hester, and Amy Richards. You were all irreplaceable and valuable members of the Advisory Council! You will be missed!

Continuing members of the Advisory Council include:

Carrie Cowen

Michelle Potts

Amy Hunt

Marcie Strang

Krista Muller

Taylor Koehne

Jennie Chon

Stacy Barnes

Courtney Pham

Shannah Porter

Jessi Schaefer

Danielle Olson

Emily Weir

ECDC Advisory Council Members at Fall Fest

WHERE IS THE MONEY BEING SPENT?

We had some gracious fundraising efforts this year, which could not have been possible if not for our amazing ECDC staff and parents.

Our Fall Family Festival hit a record high, raising over $16K. The Finance Committee has been busy deciding where that money will be best used. Council is holding onto some money for long-term projects for the school, including a new iron safety fence around the exterior of the school/playground in the near term. However, some money is being put towards items you and your kids will see as improvements now! The sandboxes on the playground have been replaced, new sensory tools are being purchased for classroom use, new equipment for indoor play (rainy day activities), as well as some gifts and wish list items for our fabulous teachers. Fundraising money will also be used to allow our wonderful Music/Motor Skills teacher to further her certification to include early childhood fitness, which will be an amazing benefit for all of our children!

A huge thank you to all who donated food items or monetarily to our Teacher Appreciation-Committee. Those donations allowed us to provide a “Welcome Back” breakfast for all the ECDC staff on their first day back after summer vacation as they were busy preparing for our children to return for the 2019/2020 school year. We were also able to provide an appreciation breakfast to the staff during the Fall semester and we will host another in the Spring.

Thank you for all your support and monetary funding to continue to help this preschool grow, improve and meet the needs of our students and teachers.

Carrie Cowen

2019 ECDC Advisory Council Vice-Chair

2020 ECDC Advisory Council Chair

Fall

Fest 2019