FCCC NEWSLETTER

Inside this issue:

Care Bear News 2

Bear Cub News 2

Cuddle Cub News 3

Baby News 3

Puddle Jumper News 4

Triangle News 4

Quad News 5

Upcoming Events 6

Announcements &

Reminders

6

School Closings Dates 6

School Closing Policy 6

Allergy Info & Health Policy

7

Website Information 7

Meet our Staff 7

Director’s News (continued)

8

Fundraising 9

Bake Sale 9

Contact Info 10

Play to Learn, Learn to Love

Summer activi-ties are in full effect and there is lots to share. Classes have already begun weekly visits to Sister Cities Park for story hour with Mama Carla from the Free Library of Phila-delphia. Mama Carla returned the favor and brought sto-rytime to us for all to enjoy. Hot days are

Director’s News

certainly more tolerable in the fountains at Dillworth Park in City Hall pla-za. Campers and Quads plan to visit Art Splash at the Philadel-phia Museum of Art on Fridays. http://www.philamuseum.org/artsplash Admissions are free for chil-dren under 12yrs. *Please bring in

a towel and swimsuit to keep at school for the week. This year, we do not have access to the pool at 14th & Arch due to facility turn-over and subse-quent closures, so we will find alternative wa-ter activities for our little ones. In addition to water activities and walks, we are happy to

JULY 2017

Summer is here and we could not be any more excited!! First we would like to welcome all of our new babies who started with us the end of June and the ones that are starting this month! We are so happy for you to be apart of the Care Bear class-room. If you may have any questions or con-cerns you can contact Markita via email mar-kita_glenn@yahoo.com or any of the other

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Care Bear News

teachers via telephone 215-241-7013. With the weather being so nice and the sun shining so bright it is very important that your child/children have sunscreen on. Please ap-ply sunscreen on your child each morning be-fore school. The teach-ers will reapply again for the afternoon, also please remember a sun hat each day.

Bear Cub News

crabs, fish, octopus, jelly-fish etc. We also will con-tinue having fun splashing in the pools and water ta-ble. We are happy to report that our new Bear Cubs are adjusting to their new class, routines, teachers and friends. We still have some tears in the morning during drop off but other-wise everyone is doing well.

Summer is officially here, and the Bear Cubs are ready to have some Sum-mer Fun. Our theme for the month of July is Sum-mer Fun. We will be focus-ing on interesting things at the beach and in the ocean. We will try to create a beach scene with various objects that can be found at the beach. We will try to create a ocean scene by creating different kinds of ocean animals such as

Please remember to wash your child's hand and your hands each day when entering the class-room. Siblings visiting our classroom must wash their hands also. Please remember your child needs at least two extra outfits incase they need their clothes changed. All of the children's items need to be labeled with their name and or initials.

Reminders: Please label your child's belongings and please be sure to apply sun-screen on your child before arrival to school. We will re-apply as needed Wish List: Sand and water toys ( pails, shovels, beach balls etc.). Herb plants. Have a fun and safe Sum-mer!

the playground. Maybe we'll even get to go on the carousel! We will take walks to the li-brary to pick up inter-esting summer themed books and allow the Cuddle Cubs to ex-plore the library. Our theme for July is "Summer Fun". We will be reading books about summer and working on projects revolving around ask the fun things that come along with the summer. We will also be doing lots of out-door water.

Summertime is here and life is good in the Cuddle Cubs! I'm happy to say that all of the kids have settled into their new class very nicely. We still have a few tears here or there during drop off but other-wise, all is well. This month we will be taking trips to Sister Cities Park and Dil-worth Park to splash in the water spouts and also Frank-lin Square to play in

Cuddle Cub News

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Be sure to keep your child's cubby stocked up on swim diapers and sunscreen and maybe even a pair of water shoes or cross. Happy 2nd Birthday to: Sam on July 21st Happy Fourth of July to everyone! Have fun, be safe and stay cool!

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ocean front with sand, rainbow fish, boats, and seashells.

Science and Math: Making an ocean bottle and counting the ob-jects we add to it; creating a rain-bow in a jar using different shades of food coloring; making a graph and charting which items float and which things sink; ob-serving ice (tinted with food-coloring) as it freezes and melts; and watering the garden in the court yard.

There are so many books to read with a Water theme. Some reads on our July list are “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister, “Octopus’s Garden” by Ringo Starr, “Ellie” by Mike Wu, and “Lucy Loves Sherman” by Cathe-rine Bailey.

Our dolls, toy people, animals, and dinosaurs will enjoy a bubble bath. A car wash is also on our agenda as we make it our goal to clean all of the wheeled vehicles in the play yard.

The Triangles are excited about the month of July and our theme, “All About Water.” We know that water is vital for hygiene, clean-ing, drinking, vegetation growth, and providing a place for animals to live. By “learning through play,” the Triangles will discover the many uses of water…and have fun, too!

Our July lesson plan calls for water play outside every Fri-day! Please add swim wear, a tow-el, and appropriate shoes (no flip flops). We will play under the sprinkler, use the water hose and spray bottles to help us stay cool! Also, please remember to apply sunscreen before your child ar-rives at school. Teachers will re-apply before outdoor activities.

Activities will include:

Art: Creating art with wet chalk; outdoor easel painting; eye drop-per art with food coloring; bubble art; and painting outside with wa-ter. We will design a beach scene painting by creating a summer

Puddle Jumper News

We finally made it to July!!! The Puddle Jumpers Theme for this Month is "Under The Sea" We will be getting crafty turning our classroom into the ocean. From hanging jellyfish, to swimming sting rays, crabs crawling in sand, foil fish floating around. The PJ's will be super busy coloring, painting, gluing, and stringing all these pro-jects. We also will

Triangle News

spend some extra time in our sandbox in the play yard. We will spend time outside reading and talk-ing about the ocean and what lives underneath. The PJ's will turn into scuba divers themselves as we start our water play outside this month. This Month we also cele-brate the "Independence Day of the United States" also known as Ju-ly 4th.

We’ll drink plenty of water to quench our thirst and make popsi-cles to stay hydrated during out-side play. July promises to be busy with lots of wet fun while discovering the value of water and its many uses.

It wouldn’t be July without doing projects to honor our nation’s birthday. To celebrate Independ-ence Day, we’re designing fire-works using our handprints – and red, white, and blue “star people”!

A reminder that Friends Child Care Center will be closed on Tuesday, July 4th. We wish eve-ryone a safe and happy holiday!

Finally, a “Happy Birthday” shout-out to our Triangle friend, Ed-ward, who celebrates his birthday on July 15th!

Reminders: -Please remember to ap-ply sunblock on your child before or when arriving to school. We will reapply for the afternoon. -Make sure your child has enough extra clothes in his or her bin. -Don't forget to wash hands during drop off in the morning. Its im-portant we keep the germs away! Also please remember to sign in and out!

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Quad News

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Art activities will include drawing, painting and mak-ing collages of different modes of transportation and traffic signs. Language activities will in-clude singing songs in Eng-lish and Spanish about dif-ferent modes of transporta-tion, talking about how some people, animals and insects get from one place to anoth-er. Dramatic play will in-clude taking trips to different places and packing a suit-case with clothes based on the weather. Math activities will include counting the number of steps or the length of time it takes to get from one part of the court yard to another, count-ing and sorting cars, trucks and buses etc.and finding shapes on transportation ve-hicles

Cooking activities will in-clude using shape to create and bake modes of transpor-tation cookies, using fruit and vegetables to create a transportation themed snack, transportation sandwiches and pancakes. We will also make smoothies and fresh squeezed lemonade Science activities will in-clude observing things that sink or float and building in-clines to race cars and trucks and making bubbles solution and making kites. Writing activities will in-clude writing words for some traffic signs and chil-dren practicing to write their name.

The Quads theme is Trans-portation. From here to there, from one place to an-other, the Quads are going to walk, run and ride will travel on SEPTA to get from one destination to another. They will walk to Reading Termi-nal Market and the Dollar store to shop for cooking in-gredients, Suburban station to look at destination signs, listen to the trains hear the announcements, Vine Street Library to listen to check out books, Sister City Park to listen to Mama Carla tell stories and then create crafts and have water play. They will also walk to Von Colln playground for a picnic and play ground fun.Towards the end of the month, we will take a bus ride to Penn’s Landing to eat a picnic lunch and watch and the boats and barges go up and down on the river.

School Closings:

August 31st– In Ser-vice Day

Upcoming Events

Announcements & Reminders

Every Wednes-day is pizza day.

˚Check chil-dren’s mail slots every day.

˚Friends Child Care Center is on Facebook. Check us out for upcoming Fundraising Events.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-Child-Care-Center/197767671575

˚Resource Library: CHECK IT OUT

Parents and teachers are wel-come to borrow books from our resource library in the B space

alcove. Please complete the bor-rower’s form and drop it in the right side slot. Please return borrowed materials in a timely fashion, so that others have an opportunity to borrow as well. Visit www.librarything.com, Username: fccc, Password: 1501cherry for a list of books in our library.

˚Additional Parking Placards are available in the FCCC Office, 2nd Floor of the C space.

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School Closing

In the event that FCCC is closing for snow or any other emergency, our school num-ber is 3005 and will be an-nounced on KYW News radio 1060 AM, as well as KYW 1060 website, at cbsphilly.com/schools. You can also call the KYW school closing line at (215) 925-1060. FCCC will close for the day if Friends Center (215) 241-7000 closes.

The Director and Office Manager will call the Lead Teachers who will divide the list amongst the Assistant Teachers and all families will be called.

If the public schools close, FCCC will automatically open at 9:00am to permit staff time to arrive to work safely. You will not receive a phone call for this procedural clos-ing. If, due to inclement weather, FCCC needs to close, you will be notified by email and telephone. You may call the main office number to check on the school’s sta-tus.

Meet Our Staff

Floaters: Subs: Gail Centola Administration: Raechel, Susan, Deneeya

Classroom Allergy Alerts:

NUT FREE CLASSROOMS:

CUDDLE CUBS AND PRE-SCHOOL

»Please be sure to check the expiration dates on your child’s epi-pens (and all other medi-cations). All medications should move with a child into their new classroom when they transition.

»Please be sure to wash both you and your child’s hands im-mediately upon arrival into your child’s classroom.

Illness Policy:

It is in the best interest of the

children and staff that everyone participates in reducing the spread of illness and maintaining a healthy environment. FCCC bases its health and wellness policies in accordance with DPW Regulations and the American Academy of Pediatrics Caring for Our Children Performing Standards. Please call to inform us whenever your child will be absent due to illness. Your child may not be brought in for child care unless she/he is able to participate fully in all activities including outdoor play. You will need a back-up plan you can use when your child is sick.

Please be alert for pre-illness symptoms such as lethargy, glassy eyes, diarrhea, fever, etc., and keep your child home if she/he seems to be coming down with something.

When a child has been diagnosed with an infectious (contagious) illness, FCCC issues an Infec-tious Disease alert via email to the affected classroom. If mul-tiple cases occur throughout the Center, a center-wide notifica-tion will go out via email. The identity of the child will not be given and personal information will be kept confidential.

Allergy Information & Health Policy

FCCC Website Information

Be sure to visit our website at www.friendschildcare.org to download forms, check out calendar events, and visit the classroom portal to see what is happening in your child’s classroom. Parent Password is ‘letmein.’

Thank you for helping to make FCCC the best it can be.

Preschool Teachers: Teresa, Cordella, Missy, Bjay, Shaquae, Kenyetta

Care Bears Teachers: Markita, Erica, Kyra, Nathalie, April Bear Cub Teachers: Michelle, Linda, Andrea Cuddle Cub Teachers: Shannon, Barbara, Ericka, Ashley, Anayah Puddle Jumper Teachers: Lea, Zakiyah, Renee, Shanice

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Director’s News (continued) have Jillian Van Balen (grandmother to Sky-lar in Triangles) come in to teach spanish to our Puddle Jumpers, Triangles, Quads and Campers on Wednes-day mornings. She reads familiar stories in both English and Spanish, sings and teachers songs, rhymes and fin-gerplays during inter-active sessions. FCCC’s camp program is running out of Friends Select School this year. The kids are loving the change of scenary and being in a big kids school. It is a terrific pathway into kinder-garten citizenship for the Fall! Bjay, Cat, Roshawnda and Corey are doing a fantastic job keeping the kids engaged through arts & crafts, enrichment activities and weekly excursions/events. Here’s the link to a brief video of the 1st

week’s activities. https://quik.gopro.com/v/OzJkg0J5Qk/ Thank you to all who donated to the dia-pers and wipes drive for The Baring Crisis Center. Your contri-butions and support will help many fami-lies in crisis over the next few weeks. If you did not get a chance to contribute as time did not allow, it’s not too late. Bring the items in and I will arrange a pick-up. Your kind-ness and generosity is greatly appreciat-ed! Thank you to all who supported June’s bake sale. We raised approximately $460 over the week and this is hugely due to parent participation and support from the community. Our Friends Center ten-ants love entering

the building to the smell of fresh brewed coffee and tasty breakfast or lunch treats. I look forward to extend-ing morning greet-ings to you during the next bake sale! Congratulations to all the families with new editions! Milner family Foxwell family– Duffy Foxwell on 7/7/17 Milner family– Larkin Milner on 5/26/17

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Bake Sales

Fundraising at FCCC

Throughout the year, par-ents will be asked to sup-port fundraising through volunteerism and participa-tion. There are many ways in which you can be sup-portive.

Provide baked goods for bake sales.

Actively seek donations and company sponsorship for annual auction event.

Volunteer to be a fund-raising cheerleader for your child’s classroom.

Seek to meet minimum family participation levels for small fundraisers held throughout the year.

Fundraising Events:

If you have any suggestions on Fundraising ideas, please don’t hesitate to let us

know. Also, if you are in-terested in volunteering on the Fundraising Committee, please notify the office. We would love your help!

FCCC runs semi-annual bake sale fundraisers throughout the year to help offset program-ming costs. We look to our families to volunteer to help with these events. Upcoming 2016-2017 Bakes Sale Schedule: week of Families are asked to sign up to bake goods to be sold in the Friends Center Lobby to building

tenants and visitors. Bakes sales run from 8:00am-3:00pm daily. Please provide a list of in-gredients in order to maintain safe options for all those with food aller-gies. Parents are also needed to help table-sit during these bake sales. We appreciate your sup-port.

Opportunities:

T-shirts purchase T-shirts $14

Bake Sales man the tables, bake goodies

Annual Appeal donate di-rectly to FCCC, ask for matching fund from employ-er

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1501 Cherry Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

(215)241-7011 (tel)

(215)864-6973 (fax)

www.friendschildcare.org

Office (215) 241-7011 fcccoffice@friendschildcare.org

Director (215) 241-7108 fcccdirector@friendschildcare.org

Finance (215) 241-7011 fcccfinance@friendschildcare.org

Care Bears (215) 241-7013 carebears@friendschildcare.org

Bear Cubs (215) 241-7012 bearcubs@friendschildcare.org

Cuddle Cubs (215) 241-7027 cuddlecubs@friendschildcare.org

Puddle Jumpers (215) 241-7012 puddlejumpers@friendschildcare.org

Triangles (215) 241-7012 triangles@friendschildcare.org

Quads (215) 241-7007 quads@friendschildcare.org

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