We're incredibly grateful for your support and involvement. Your dedication makes our community thrive. During this holiday season, we hope you find time to relax and enjoy precious moments with loved ones. Happy Holidays!

Although we want your pre-k little here at Algonquin as much as possible, we know that Winter brings germs and sickness, and we want everyone to stay healthy!

This is a reminder that families are asked to keep the child home for 72 hours following vomiting, diarrhea, and /or an elevated temperature and to notify the school office as soon as a diagnosis of a communicable disease has been made.

• Please remember that our doors open at 7:50 for AM drop-off. Breakfast is served in the gym from 7:55- 8:15.
• If you arrive to Algonquin later than 8:20 please sign your child into the office.
• If you need Childcare Services to fit your schedule, please contact our Family Engagement Team for resources.
• If you need to pick up your child before the 2:45 dismissal time - call the office before 2:30 PM that day so we can make sure your child is ready and waiting. Every minute of learning counts. so please try to limit early pickup if possible.
• We are building partnerships between school and home so attendance at school is very important. Our goal is to have 95% of our little scholars here every day. If your little can not be in school please call Ms. Lacy at 708-668-9250 to report an absence.
• If you are visiting you will need to sign in at the front office, present an ID for our safety check and wear a visitor lanyard. Visitors are expected to follow the visitor/parent code of conduct in the 24-25 Parent Student Handbook.
• If you need to visit a classroom or teacher, as a courtesy to the teachers ,we ask that you make arrangements at least 24 hours ahead

• December 3 10:45 Early Dismissal
• December 11 Holiday Show 9:30 AM and 1:30 PM @ Algonquin Gym
• December 16 Board of Education Meeting @ 7:00 PM Meet us there with your Prek little to showcase one of our Holiday Songs!!
• December 17 - Parent Action Committee Movie Night @ Algonquin 5:30-6:30 PM
• December 20 10:45 Early Dismissal
• December 23- January 5 Winter Break No School
• January 6 Back to School

A big thank you to Logan and Golden's family for the Christmas Tree Donations - we are still looking for old Christmas trees to decorate outside for the Winter !!

What Can Adults Do to Make Kids More Responsible?

As an adult with influence on young children’s upbringing, here are some things that you can do to set the stage for teaching preschoolers the importance of responsibility:

• Start small: Even preschoolers are old enough to shoulder some responsibility – but not for an entire “project”. For instance, if you want to eventually hold them responsible for cleaning-up their rooms, then start by putting your preschooler in charge of putting away his/her toys each day when playtime has ended. Gradually, expand that role by delegating the responsibility for cleaning-up everyone’s toy’s – all their siblings, visiting family members, or play-date friends.

from mccaedu.org

In a preschool setting, teaching "determining importance" could involve activities like asking a child to pick the most important item needed for a specific scenario, like choosing between a hat, a toy car, and a coat for a rainy day, explaining that the coat is most important to stay dry; or selecting the essential ingredients for a simple recipe, like deciding which is more important: flour or sprinkles for making cookies, where flour would be considered the key ingredient

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