November 2014

Directors Corner Director Mrs. Gabrielle Cassidy

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Hello Everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. First of all I
would like to thank all the parents for their wonderful support during the
Fall Carnival. Thank you to all of our volunteers and everyone who
participated and made it a great success. Well done to the AC board for
organizing and running it as well. We had lots of Halloween celebrations
in our school culminating with our frighteningly fantastic Halloween
parades!! All the children looked spookily spectacular in their
costumes....as did the staff!! I am sure Mr. Bennie will be putting up a
slideshow. Now Halloween is over Thanksgiving is coming up so the
classrooms and school will be putting up their Fall decorations and
completing lots of seasonal activities alongside the academic curriculum. I
understand this is a difficult time with the proposed fee rises but please
know we absolutely appreciate your continued help and support, so once
again thank you.

Address: Siedlung 19B,

Mackenbach 67686

Assistant Director Mrs. Misti Leonard

Website:
www.clamackebach.webbly.com

Its the month of being Thankful for everything we have.

Here at CLA we have a lot to be Thankful for.
Improvements around the school and the excellent staff
we have make coming to CLA for me and my son a joyous
one. I will be spending a lot of time with the before and
after care programs, and want you to know that there
are a lot of fun things coming up.
Mark your calendars for November 26th. Before and after
care will be putting on a Thanksgiving skit and parents
will be invited to attend. Scholastic book orders are
going home next week. Books can be a great present to
give over the Holidays. Every dollar spent on the book
order is money for our school. Book orders are due before
Thanksgiving. If you lose your book order, dont worry I
have many more in the front office.
I am excited for all the upcoming events at CLA and look
forward to another month at CLA.

Email:
cla.mackenbach@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES
3-7 Nov

Parent Teacher Conferences

11 Nov

Veterans Day (CLOSED)

18 Nov

General Membership Meeting

24 Nov

Auction Baskets & Bake Sale

25 Nov

Fisher House

27 & 28 Nov

Thanksgiving (CLOSED)

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Childrens Learning Academy

November 2014

LIMITED CARE
Limited Care will be available on 17 & 18 November. To sign up, please send an email
to cla.mackenbach@gmail.com or place your name on the sign-up sheet located by the
front computer. If you have any questions please contact Mr. Bennie.
Thank You!

Moms Day Out

By Mrs. Rachel Webb
Hello MDO families! It is hard to believe but the holidays are already upon us! This is an extremely busy time
for not only our class, but the entire school. I hope to see all of you participating in as many Holiday activities
as possible. This month we will learn terrific tools. Anything can be a tool, and we will be exploring not only
tools that fix things and exercise motor skills, but less conventional ones as well. The number of the month is 3,
the color is yellow, and the shape is the triangle. Please practice these at home with your little ones.

Transition I
By Mrs. Jenny Sixto
In November Trans 1 will be learning from the Sensational Senses curriculum. Without trying children endlessly
use their senses to explore there ever growing world. The topic of senses provides children with opportunities to
use their senses in ways that they may not have yet considered. We will learn all about our five senses and that
we all have different preferences and everyone has their own ways of sensing things. Each week we will explore
and learn all about a different sense, what fun it will be! In November we will also learn about Thanksgiving and
the different things we are thankful for. The class will be making themed crafts and have a thanksgiving party at
the end of the month. Trans will also be learning about the color Brown, the Triangle shape, numbers 5 and 6
and letters G H & I.

Transition II
By Mrs. Maria Ferry
This month we will be learning about Sensational Sense! Children endlessly use their senses to explore. We
have lots of fun activities that we will explore using our eyes, mouth, nose, ears & hands. We will also be
learning about the color blue and the number 3. This months shape will be a Triangle. We will also be making
thanksgiving art and our ABC book
Parent teacher conferences will be on Nov 4-8. I will put the signup sheet on the bulletin board. Please sign up
for the date and time that will be best for you. If none of the times will work with your schedule, please let
me know. We can reschedule it. Thank you.
We are looking forward to an exciting month.

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Preschool I

November 2014

Mrs. Krystalynne Nelson

Hello Parents, we have had a speedy few months, I cant believe its already November. This month our main
focus will be studying Buildings. We will have the opportunity to learn about how buildings are constructed,
be able to use varying tools, and build something of our own. The holidays we will be celebrating this month will
be Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. The students will be learning a little bit about the Native American culture as
well! I cannot wait to see how much they will grow this month, as they are always surprising me and keeping me
on my toes.

Preschool II

Mrs. Megan Saunders

Can you believe that we have been back to school for over two months now? Wow! Preschool two had a
wonderful month, with our field trips to the pumpkin patch, our Halloween parties and the learning we have
done this month! We dissected and carved a pumpkin, talked about skin as our unit for the month was Skin
covers everything. We went on a nature walk to look for tree skin as well! In handwriting, we spent the last
month perfecting Mat Man some and reviewing our colors.
Next month, we will be studying Buildings as our monthly unit as well as studying Thanksgiving. Our class pets
will continue to come home - they have had quite the adventure so far this year!

Pre Kindergarten I

Mrs. Elizabeth Futch

We had a great month of October in Pre-K I! We not only celebrated Columbus Day with books, songs, and
crafts, but we also celebrated the many wonderful things about fall! We visited the pumpkin patch on our field
trip and celebrated Halloween as a class. In October, we learned about the letters U, V, L, K, and H, the sounds
the make, how to write them, and how to identify them. We also continued to master our numbers 1-10 through
counting, one-to-one correspondence, and writing them. We also learned two important sight words - "see" and
"and"! In November, we will learn all about building objects from our curriculum, High Reach Learning, and the
letters W, X, Y, and Z. Our class loves reading books, learning about dinosaurs, and singing our everyday songs.
We are looking forward to an equally excellent November!

Pre Kindergarten II

Mrs. Joanie Bass

Our topic this month is Building. This is such a fantastic opportunity to introduce physics and engineering
concepts to the students. We have some fun activities planned for designing and building houses. For math we
are developing our understanding of data collection and graph construction. Stop by the classroom to see what
we have completed and ask your child to explain what the graph means.

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Childrens Learning Academy

November 2014

Advisory Council
Dear families and staff,
Thank you to everyone who participated, invited their friends and neighbors, gave donations, and especially
those who gave their time to help out with the Fall Festival! It was so fun to see our little witches and super
heroes, dinosaurs and princesses celebrating together! Original Works was also another success.
With all these fundraisers, we are happy to report that we are using the funds to support staff to buy supplies for
classrooms, support staff through Holiday Cheer and Teacher Appreciation Week.
This month, we will hold our quarterly General Meeting on Wednesday, November 19th at 6:15 PM. Please plan
to attend. We will be voting on the mid-year tuition increase for January 1 as well as amendments to the
constitution. We will need 20% of the membership to be present to make the tuition vote valid. We will be
offering childcare for a limited number of children (sign-up sheets will be available on our board the week
before). If you are not able to attend this meeting please speak with a board member or let us know via email.
If you have any questions or you would like to help with any upcoming events, please feel free to contact us at
CLAPTC@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Your Advisory Council Board
Sue Elkins, President
Desiree Rosch, 1st Vice President
Megan Berkes, 2nd Vice President
Eryn Eline, Secretary
Lauren Labra, Treasurer
Rachel Bliss, Volunteer Coordinator