Director Miss Sally’s Message Think about this- there are only three months of school left for this year! Hopefully, the rain we have been experiencing won’t ruin our fun! There is lots more of that ahead- fun, that is!

Many thanks this month go to:

Clare Stedman and Brooke Bohnhoff for getting registration for next year up and going!

Jane Torres and her committee for Family Fun Day planning.

Meegan VonBargen and her committee for getting raffle prizes for our FFD raffle!

All the wonderful parents who brought in breakfast casseroles for the Daddy & Me Breakfast!

All the extra walkers to the post office field trips!

All those who gave us our fabulous valentine treats!

Ninh-Kieu, Rochelle and Brooke for helping out in the office so we could work on Accreditation.

Rochelle and her husband for fixing the shade sails that fell down!

Jessica Lynch for the new, beautiful scrip box!

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Director’s Message Pages 1-2

Maintenance & Housekeeping Pages 3-4

Miss Micky Groups 1 & 3 Page 5

Miss Kelly Group 2 Page 6

Miss Sally Group 4 Pages 7-8

MARCH 2019

Jumping Jack Journal Newsletter for Fullerton Community Nursery School

Registration for 2019/20

It’s happening NOW- This week begins new student enrollment for new families. First come, first served. If you haven’t signed up yet, there is still time! If you have any questions about which class your child should register for, please ask your teacher or me. We will be happy to help you figure it out! Four year old slots are getting close to full!

Open House/ Family Fun Day- Sunday, March 3

Thank you to Jane Torres and her committee for planning Family Fun Day. It’s looking like a fun day is in our future, Check out the schedule of events. We have music, magic, reptiles, and a donut eating contest! It looks like lots of fun. If you know of anyone that may want to join our school for next year, be sure to invite them with a Family Fun Day flyer. Also, post it on your Facebook timeline or if you have the Next Door app for your neighborhood! We sure could use full enrollment for next year!

See’s Candy Fundraiser

We will be doing another See’s Candy fundraiser for Easter. Easter is later that usual in April, so not exactly sure when that will get started- but watch for the flyer in your child’s cubby.

OCCPPNS

Just a few short weeks from now Micky, Kelly and I, along with some other FCNS parents will be attending the Meet, Play, Love Parenting convention at the Great Wolf Lodge in Garden Grove. I certainly wish more of you were able to attend. Some of the speakers include topics about The Art of Roughhousing, Speech and Language, the Root of all Learning, Young Engineers- STEM and Language learning, Meeting Seven Emotional Needs, Brain Development Through Play, Active Learners, The Opposite of Worry, Fixed and Growth Mindset, and Temperament- Nature and Nurture. Sound interesting? I’m going to have trouble deciding which to attend. The website to check it out is ocparentingconvention.com. There is still time to register, either online or even that day in person. The OC4U code is still offering $10 off for co-op members. The cost is now $85 for the day, including continental breakfast and snacks. Use the code and it should be $75. There is a luncheon for $35 you can attend as well. Saturday night we are going on a bus tour of three of our south county co-op schools, where dinner will be served. That is $25, if it sounds like fun to you! We teachers love it! The hotel is sold out, so no more deals for that. I sure hope a few more of our families can take advantage of this great opportunity to get parenting advice in a warm, friendly environment! You will go home feeling inspired and enthusiastic to be the best parent you can be!

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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE CONTINUED MARCH 2019

HOUSEKEEPING & MAINTENANCE MARCH 2019

Maintenance & Housekeeping MAINTENANCE Thank you to the following families for completing their maintenance duty in February: Visnic, Lee, Castaneda, Freilich, Murashige, Reta, Massaro, & Sayao. Thank you for making sure our kids are playing in a clean & safe yard!

If you forgot your scheduled day, please check the Sign-up sheet in the hallway. Remember that missing your maintenance day is a $150 fine.

BELOW IS THE SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT TWO MAINTENANCE DAYS Saturday, March 3rd from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Burcell (Grp 4), Rungsarangnont (Grp 1), Mulay (Grp 4), Montez (Grp 4), Nguyen (Grp 1), Petropolos (Grp 1), McCann (Grp 1), Kim (Grp 1), Ward (Grp 2), Chen (Grp 3)

Saturday, March 23rd from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Deanda (Grp 4), Joyce (Grp 1), Ridge (Grp 2), Anderson (Grp 3)

Thank you,

Rochelle Burcell, Lee/4 & Colt/3

Maintenance Chair

r.burcell@yahoo.com

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MAINTENANCE & HOUSEKEEPING CONTINUED MARCH 2019

Maintenance & Housekeeping HOUSEKEEPING Everything is running smoothly with not anything to report. I’d like to thank the families that completed their housekeeping duties last month. There are a couple of openings coming up so if you have not yet signed up please sign up using the schedule in the hallway. 

NEXT MONTH WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE SCHEDULED: March 15th

Group 3 Meegan VanBargen, Kristal Melendez, Jazzlyn Phan, Becky Anderson

Group 4 Sarah Casas, Diana Saltzman, Sonia Montez, (Opening for one more)

Thanks!

Bianca Lee

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MARCH 2019

Miss Micky Groups 1 & 3 What a great way to start the month of February than with celebrating the New Year. Thank you Sloan, Emi, and Emerson’s family for helping us learn about this celebration with traditional food, traditions, and meanings and for the red envelopes. Thank you.

Thank you for all the LOVE . I hope you enjoyed your Valentines . The kids were so

excited about all theirs. Thank you for participating. And a BIG thank you for all the help with walking with us and assisting with the stamp purchase and placement. 

We will end February with our space exploration. Thank you for those moon cakes we had for snack Emerson and family. We are using our imagination to think about the planets around us and learning about aliens and reading some stories about robots too.

March will be a time for us to start out with a ROAR!!! We will talk about dinosaurs. I am sure I have some kiddos who will be teaching me a thing or two about them. We will be digging for dinosaur eggs and bones. If you can think of some dinosaur snacks please feel free to bring them in. We will using words herbivore and carnivore and finding out what kinda dinosaur we would like to be. 

We will start our big egg unit too. I can't wait to teach the kids about what comes from eggs. I would normally ask to cook eggs for snack but since we have allergies we will pass. 

Let's wear our jammies to school on on Monday the 18th and Friday the 22nd, right before we go on spring break. Can we have breakfast items for snack on the days, please.

If you have a celebration or tradition that you would like to share with us, please let me know.   

Love,

MISS MICKY

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MARCH 2019

Miss Kelly Group 2 Winter greetings group 2!

Hope this finds you warm and cozy by a fire! I can “ heart” ly believe February is almost over. So much love in the air with our birthday and Valentine celebrations in class. We have so much love and friendship to be thankful for! I asked the kids what they love and the responses were entertaining to

say the least- unicorns, family, pizza, kitties were a few of my favorite responses! Our walk to the post office was a big success and I hope you all received your valentines! Thank you for the flowers, chocolate and gift cards too! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I’m sure you have heard your children humming the words to our dinosaur friends songs, “Bertha Brontosaurus” as we have embarked a few millions years back in time with dinosaurs. We are putting on our paleontologist hats as we go for a dinosaur dig looking for bones and baby eggs. We will be using string to show the approximate size of dinosaurs and I will have a large T-rex mouth made out of tape on the floor. One of my favorite activities is the dinosaur stories. We will be

building a land out of die cuts and the children will create a story based on their art. We will also be making fossils with salt dough and I  have my good friend Paleontologist Dr. Bonuso from CSUF making a visit in class with her fossils from around the world.

After dinosaurs we will blast off into our space unit!

We are in the home stretch of our school year and I can’t help to feel a little sad. This class holds a big space in my heart and I will miss them. I have learned so much from them and about myself as teacher. We have the strawberry patch field trip to look forward to and spring has lots in store for us at FCNS!

Hope to see you all at family fun day on March 3rd and perhaps at the OCCPPNS conference at the Great Wolf Lodge on March 9th.

Best,

Miss Kelly

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MARCH 2019

Miss Sally Group 4 Thanks to the extra parents who helped us walk to the post office. I hope all your Valentines have arrived! It’s a good time to teach your child their address, if you haven’t already done so!

Thanks so much for all the delicious treats for Valentines Day. I’m glad you all know that I love chocolate-

especially dark chocolate! Yummy! And wine is good, too . The kids sure loved handing out all those great valentines to their friends. Some of the kids are trying to read nametags so it might be fun to let them try to read the signatures on their valentines. They were pretty excited to read the little heart book we made also. It’s very empowering to start getting that reading connection!

Thanks so much to Annie Haberman for celebrating the Chinese New Year with us! We had egg rolls and fried rice for snack- delicious for those of us who were not afraid to taste it! We love to learn about cultures and traditions!

We have just finished talking about dinosaurs and trying to learn those difficult names! We have made Dinosaurland (a mini replica of what the world might have looked like in the time of the dinosaurs) and hunted for bones. We have graphed our favorite dinosaurs and hunted for eggs, cracking them open to see what kind of baby dinosaur we got. We made up our own dinosaurs and gave them some form of defense. Lastly, we had a few kids write their own dinosaur story!

We will be writing more stories as we move on to talking about space, aliens, and planets, and then pets.

If you would like to bring in your child’s friendly pet on March 7th or 8th , sign up on the sheet on the class window. Don’t worry if you don’t have a pet because we always mention all the reasons families don’t have pets as well! You can send in pictures if your pet doesn’t travel well. You can come in at the beginning or end of school with your pet. Some pets could stay all morning- rabbit, tortoise, gecko, etc.

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Saint Patrick’s day is on Sunday this year, but we will be setting a trap and hope to catch a leprechaun anyway! We will also talk about rainbows. If any snack parent on March 13-16 wants to make green eggs and ham with the class, that’s fun, too!

The week of March 20-22 we will start talking about seeds and plants After spring break we will begin our spring units on insects, frogs, etc. Lots of science going on! We will visit Tanaka Farms for strawberry picking on that first week back from Spring break- Friday, April 5.

Holy moly, it’s so close to summer! Our class is getting along so nicely together. There are a few squabbles here and there, but it is a lovely group! One of my favorite things in life is four/five year old conversations. They believe in magical thinking which makes them adorable to listen to! One of our boys, who shall remain nameless, said to me, “Thanks for wiping my butt, Miss Sally.” Fabulous, adorable children.

Miss Sally

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