East Early Childhood Center

Our second BIG fundraiser for PTO is coming soon November 4-15! Flyers were sent home this week, and you can submit the bottom of the flyer to obtain a box of chocolate bars! This year the bars will be larger for $2.00 and there will be 30 bars per box. Sales start next Monday! Thank you for participating in our chocolate bar sales! See the cool prizes in the flyer, my favorite is the King and Queen of Chocolate! I get to enjoy a breakfast or lunch with these students!

Thank you so much for sending your family pictures for our ‘We Are A Family’ board in the foyer. We still have room for more family pictures, so email me your family picture soon: jhadler@jr2mail.org

We will have a shirt sale before the holidays in case you'd like to use this for a gift! Here is a sneak peek at our shirts offered. Both shirt options will be in adult and child sizes and will have a short sleeve and sweatshirt option. An order form will be coming home this week and these sales will be open until November 15th!

Thank you for making our Fall Party so much fun! It was amazing to see how everyone decorated their vehicles and to see so many of our families participate in this experience with their children. We appreciate our volunteers for donating candy, vehicles and their time during this event. If you have any suggestions for future fall parties please let me know. We are always trying to make this an enjoyable experience for all!

Check our our Facebook Page "East Early Childhood Center-Jackson R-2" (EECC) for more pictures of this event!

Take a peek at the winning vehicles this year! These families received a copy of The Spooky Wheels on the Bus!

Help us celebrate American Education Week by having your child participate in our spirit week!

Coming to an EC near you... At our last meeting we voted to purchase 4 rugs for our classrooms in the biggest need! They are in and they are already such a blessing to our students! We are looking forward to our next meeting to vote on how to spend some of the money that we raised during our Kid Perfect-Dance a Thon! We have been looking at additional carpets, some awesome instruments, a new adaptive swing, and a few smaller ways to bless our students and staff since we ROCKED our fundraiser! Join us for our next meeting on November 12th to learn more!

Fundraisers for 24-25: During the 24-25 school year, we ask parents to participate in three fundraisers. We only have two remaining:

• World's Finest Chocolate (Candy Bar) Fundraiser (November 4-15). See the flyer for this Fundraiser above
• BINGO for our parents and our Online Auction with quality teacher experiences for our littlest learners!

Parent Teacher Conference Meals: On November 14th and 19th there is another opportunity to treat the educators in Early Childhood. PTO and The Bank of Missouri will be providing the main meal on these evenings, but we will be asking parents to contribute desserts, sides, paper products etc. Our teachers and staff are fabulous, so let's treat them to a great meal on two long nights. Just click on the link below to sign-up

PTO Meeting: Our next PTO Meeting is Tuesday, November 12th @ 5:30-6:30! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Families, thanks for volunteering to bring in food for our teachers most of our slots are filled up, but if you are interested their are still a few openings. If you signed up to bring food please have it turned into the office by either November 14th or 19th! THANK YOU!

We will have our Parents as Teachers and our Behavior specialist joining us during conference night. Please see the flyer and note that from 5:00-6:00 on the 14th our PAT ladies will also be in the pond discussing tips for potty training and the 19th from 5:00-6:00 they will be there discussing Technology and Screen time as well as the Parenting Academy courses.

• Please make sure your child is here by 8:00. After this is becomes difficult to secure a breakfast for your child and to pull paras from classrooms in a timely manner to get students while getting breakfast ready for students in the classroom. After 8:00 they are also considered tardy and should check be checked in at the office. We have a growing number of students arriving after 8:00 and this is causing a concern. Thank you for your help!
  
• Please walk your child ALL the way to the door in the AM. We have buses and other vehicles that are in and our of our parking lot and bus lanes and want to make sure that all of our littles are super safe!
• Payments for Little Indians and Extended Day are due by the 10th of each month. Late fees will be assessed after the 10th.
• Please make sure you are labeling jackets and coats at school. It is very easy for our students to misplace them when they take them off and other children may have the same coat, jacket, etc. We very much want to get the correct outerwear with each child. Please note we may use masking tape for your child's outerwear if we can't find a label

by ‘Ms. Jill’ Hadler

In November, we will be continuing to learn about feelings, ways to handle big emotions, and learning that people can have different feelings about the same event. This will lead us right into our work on friendship skills during counseling centers.

Friendship Skills for Preschoolers:

*Sharing *Taking Turns *Listening *Cooperating *Working through Conflict

Books about Friendship Skills:

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

How Do Dinosaurs Play with their Friends by Jan Yolen

My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems

You Will Be My Friend by Peter Brown

Llama, Lama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney

Clark the Shark Dares to Share by Bruce Hale

Should I Share My Ice Cream by Mo Willems

It’s Mine by Leo Lionni

The Boy Who Wouldn’t Share by Mike Reiss

Fun at Home with Friendship Skills:

• Providing choices of different play options: “Would you rather play cars or blocks?”

• Practice turn taking games like memory, tic-tac-toe, board games (Candy Land, Connect Four, and Chutes and Ladders)

• Teach your child to play cooperative games (Hide and Seek, Mother May I, Eye Spy, etc.)

• Practice sharing legos, blocks, cars, crayons…things there are multiple. “You and Johnny are sharing the cars.”

Need to Talk to the School Counselor?

Please feel free to email or call me if you have any questions: jhadler@jr2mail.org (573) 243-4323.

• Please continue to screen your child before school, and keep your child home if they are sick. Remember, our policy is 24 hours free of vomiting, diarrhea, and fever (without fever-reducing medication in 24 hours). Other symptoms need to be improving in 24 hours before your child can return. Please do not give Motrin/Tylenol to your child before school if they are not feeling well because it can mask a fever (the medication takes the fever away so it is unknown whether your child has a fever 4-6 hours after taking the medication). Jackson R2 considers a temperature of 100.1 or higher as a fever.
  
• Don’t forget to clean those water bottles daily (hot water and soap) to prevent strep infection! and continue to WASH YOUR HANDS (that is the BEST way to prevent infection)!!!
  
• LICE!!!!! We wanted to make sure everyone was aware that IF you would receive a notice, the dreaded lice letter, in your child's backpack to please check their head. Furthermore, it is also a good idea to periodically check your child for head lice (the earlier lice is discovered the easier it is to get rid of!). What if your child has it? Please alert the nurses, Tosha and Angie, so we can help! We want to prevent the spread of lice, and we can only do that if we are aware that your child has it. Click Here for JR2’s protocol on head lice.
  

The Jackson R-2 School District provides Christmas presents for families in need through the annual Hope 4 Christmas program. Over 350 students in our schools benefit from this program that helps families provide items for Christmas. Each school building participates by collecting items as part of our community service mission. Early Childhood will collect laundry items for this event. If you or your family can help by providing items such as laundry detergent or dryer sheets, please drop them off at school. Thank you for helping students in need have HOPE for Christmas!

If you are looking for another way to help, you may 'adopt a family' and help provide Christmas for families in need. If you are interested you may sign up using the link below.

#JR2StrongerTogether

Power Packs is a program provided to many families each week that include food items that help give students and their family nutritious and kid-friendly foods to help get them through the weekend. Some food items include cereal, canned soups, oatmeal, macaroni and cheese, and other similar items. By clicking this link, filling out the information requested, and submitting the form - your child can begin receiving these packs each Friday. For further questions, contact Morgan Hoffman, school social worker at 573-243-5271.

Every year around this time we are asked about staff information for gifts, etc. Here is a list of information that our staff has shared with us! Enjoy!

Professional Development/No School-November 1

Chocolate Sales-November 4-15

Shirt Sales-November 5-15

End of 1st Trimester-November 8

Veteran's Day-November 11

PTO Meeting-November 12 @ 5:30

Parent Teacher Conferences-November 14

Land of Smiles Presentation-November 15

American Education Week-November 18-22

A good night's rest leads to success! -November 18

Put your thinking cap on - Hat Day-November 19

Picture Retake Day-November 19

Parent Teacher Conferences-November 19

Our future is bright with education - Wear bright colors or tie-dye-November 20

Be a part of a learning team - Wear your favorite team jersey or shirt-November 21

Career Day - Dress as your future self-November 22

Thanksgiving Break - No School-November 25-29

Email: buchtman@jr2mail.org
Location: 455 North Lacey Street, Jackson, MO, USA
Phone: 573-243-5347