Welcome back!!! We hope all our LNPD families had a safe and enjoyable time with your family and friends over the break. We missed our students and we are recharged and ready for the second half of our school year. We hope you found the songs posted by Mrs. Jacy helpful and that your kids have been practicing their coat flips.
NO SCHOOL Thursday or Friday due to the inclement weather! 🥶.
Pajama Days will now be on 1/16 and 1/17. If your child attends both days, they are more than welcome to wear PJ's on both those days.
If you didn't get a chance to partake over the break, Mrs. Jacy's music videos are still listed for you, to enjoy over the upcoming snow days.
Please also utilize these extra days to switch out your child's change of clothes to warmer ones and label all their belongings that are brought to LNPD.
https://www.allenisd.org/page/mrs-jacys-music-and-movement-page
Weekly classroom images are found in the gallery below and on your teacher's websites. https://www.allenisd.org/o/aisd/page/learn-n-playday
3's classes with Mrs. Angie and Mrs. Stephanie were learning all about WINTER 2 this week. The kids came back to snowflakes hanging from the ceiling and lots of winter activities on the tables that included mittens, snowmen and snowflakes. They had pretend snow with winter animals, snow mobiles and igloos in the sensory table, along with ice, penguins and slides in the water table. They practiced counting with numbers on mittens and writing the letter Ww for Winter and matched penguins with upper and lower case letters.
Mrs. Dede and Mrs. Yolanda's class focused on WARM IN WINTER this week. They had hot chocolate with marshmallows and scoops in their sensory table along with ice for ice fishing in their water table. They practiced writing sentences that said "Can I ask you a question?" and " The queen has a quilt." Qq was their letter of the week, so these sentences focus on that. The kids outlined numbers with white pompoms that looked like marshmallows and clipped clothes pins to match numbers on the snowmen.
Mrs. Celesa and Mrs. Cynthia's class had a REAL BEARS theme this week. They got to go over the brown bear and black bear, so far. Polar bear and Panda Bear will be the other two to learn about next. The kids were working on making 3 of their classroom projects, by decorating 3 or the bears in various ways during their art time. Their class also is focused on the letter Qq and practice writing Qq words, matching upper and lower case Qq's and writing Qq's too. The kids got to do a bear dot to dot, do bear patterning and count bears and bear paws.
Throughout the school year you are always able to update your status to auto-pay. However, if you choose to pay manually, you can make your payment at anytime in the two week period from the time of invoice, up until the 28th of every month without a $25 late fee. Any late payments will receive the late fee and it will be charged automatically on your next months invoice. I try to send several reminders to help you avoid these fees.
Families were sent an invoice on 12/13 via email from Eleyo.
January tuition is due no later than 12/28.
Our Light Blue January calendar went home this week. Please make sure you are making note of important dates and activities each month. We don't want any of our families missing out on all the stuff going on at Learn 'N Playday!!! If you ever lose yours, I post our monthly newsletter and calendar on our LNPD website. I will send a Newsletter/Calendar home at the beginning of each new month and they will vary in copy paper color.
January 2025
1/7 All T/Th and M-F classes return
1/8 All MWF classes return
1/9 Snow Day....NO School for LNPD or AISD
1/10 Snow Day....NO School for LNPD or AISD
1/16 Pajama Day
1/17 Pajama Day
1/20 LNPD closed for MLK Day
1/22 Muffins in the morning with LNPD parents (all MWF, TWTh, and 3's M-F students)
1/23 Muffins in the morning with LNPD parents (all T/Th and 4's M-F students)
1/28 February Tuition Due
1/30 Mrs. Yolanda' Birthday
Registration for the 2025-2026 school year will occur in January for existing LNPD families. More information to come soon.
Muffins in the morning will be for 2 family members. (children 2 and younger are welcome to join and do not count as one of the 2) More information to follow next week.
If you know of any Allen friends looking for a preschool for the 2025-2026 school year, please direct them to our website: www.allenisd.org/learnnplayday , and direct them to our Eleyo page to enter their information too. https://allenisd.ce.eleyo.com/child-care/2/learn-n-playday
My email is : lnp@allenisd.org
They must be either 3 or 4 by 9/1 and be fully potty trained.
We would love to have them in our program for next school year!
**If you are a returning LNPD student or a sibling of a current LNPD student, you will get to register before anyone from our waiting list, so no need to get on the waiting list for yourselves.
(The Learn & Play image is linkable to Eleyo too.)
If sick, your child must be:
1. fever free 24 hours
2. vomit free 24 hours
3. diarrhea free for 24 hours, all before sending them back to school
They also need to be medicine free at school. Giving Tylenol or other fever reducing medicines in the morning can upset their stomachs and also lead to fevers and vomiting later in the day or children falling asleep.
We have had a lot of runny noses and coughing at LNPD and a few kids have had strep and flu. Please be on the lookout for any of these things and keep your children home if they are within that 24 hours of being contagious.
Recess Information
If it is 90-99 actual temperature or heat index, we have a shortened recess time of 10 minutes
It is 100 or above actual temperature or heat index it is INDOOR recess only
35 or below actual or wind child, INDOOR recess only
36-40 degrees its shortened recess and all students must have appropriate jacket and clothing
Air Quality alerts are also shortened recess 10-15 minutes
Please make sure you have your child use the restroom before leaving your houses in the mornings. Also, please remind your children to tell the teachers when they need to go potty. Some of the accidents we are experiencing is because our students either wait too long to tell someone or they do not inform the teachers that they need to go. (Every LNPD class goes as a class at least 3-4 times per day)
Please have a full change of clothes in your child's backpack. Socks and shoes included and more than one pair of underwear and pants or shorts are always helpful too. Please also make sure your children's clothing items are labeled.
- Field trips and LNPD activities have begun. All parents must complete a background check prior to participating in any of these activities. This process may take up to two weeks to complete. I have included the link for easy access if you are interested in volunteering. https://www.allenisd.org/page/register-volunteer
- We are not using water fountains this year, so a water bottle is definitely needed. We have a touch free, filtered water bottle station in the LNPD hallway, so we can refill their bottles too.
Make sure to visit our LNPD website to view our monthly calendar and newsletter, find your weekly classroom news and pictures, music songs, links to Eleyo. www.allenisd.org/learnnplayday (4 year old's need to turn in their hearing and vision forms by Dec. 22nd)
- Visit our Allen ISD home page to find the latest information on the district. https://www.allenisd.org
- If you think your child needs to be assessed for any special services, such as speech, autism, hearing or vision impaired, cognitive, social or emotional development, etc..., please reach out to our Allen ISD Special Services department and then go to Child Find. Here is their direct link to get you started: https://www.allenisd.org/o/aisd/page/child-find
I hope your kids had a wonderful first week back and enjoy our snow days!!! ⛄
Mrs. Denise ⛄
Denise S. Chapman
Director
Learn 'N Playday
Office: 972-396-6932
305 N. Alder, Allen, TX 75002
AISD Learn 'N Playday Preschool
Email: lnp@allenisd.org
Website: www.allenisd.org/learnnplayday
Location: 305 N. Alder Drive, Allen, TX, USA
Phone: 972-396-6932