LNPD Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Jacy's birthday is being celebrated Monday and Tuesday. 12/9 and 12/10. Her actual birthday is Monday. Please have your child make a homemade card to give to her, so we can shower her with special love!!!🎂🎉

Please send your child with a jacket and a full change of clothes that are all weather appropriate. Please make sure all their coats and clothes are LABELED. Kids at ages 3-4 do not always recognize their own jackets and this makes it helpful for the teachers to get the correct coat to the correct student. (Please click on the image to see the jacket flip video)

Remember to send in PJ's for our Pajama drive and help to supply PJ's for kids that do not have them. Also, please send in your brand new and wrapped books for our Winter party Book Exchange. If your child comes all 5 days, they will need two books to exchange.

Sign up Genius went out today for Winter party help. Please sign up if you are able to contribute to the party fun!

Weekly classroom images are found in the gallery below and on your teacher's websites.

3's classes with Mrs. Angie and Mrs. Stephanie were learning all about letters with their Chicka-Chicka Boom week. There were tons of letters in the water table, Chicka-Chicka magna tiles and letter matching Chicka boom trees. They also completed an alphabet puzzle with all 26 letters and practiced writing letters and the number 7 too.

Mrs. Dede and Mrs. Yolanda's class is all about Camping. Wait until you see the awesome lanterns they made in art this week. They also had mini tents and smores at their carpet area. I think the kids loved counting with pretend marshmallows and putting the correct letter on the sleeping bags. They did a great job putting together camping puzzles too and circling "Cc" words found in a camping paragraph.

Mrs. Celesa and Mrs. Cynthia class began their travel Around the World. They started their week making passports in art, so they can begin their travel for the next few weeks. This week they went to China, Mexico and the United States. They had rocket ships and astronauts in the sensory table, bamboo building blocks for Stem building with Panda's from China, and writing long words like United States and Washington D.C. They got to use the McDonald's playdoh set and watch some fun videos of the Chinese Dragon, a rocket launch, and Pandas at the zoo.

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 last day of the 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 11/15 via email from Eleyo.

December tuition is due no later than 11/28 by midnight.

January invoices will go out on 12/13 and will be due by 12/28.

https://allenisd.ce.eleyo.com/

Our BLUE December newsletter and calendar went home for this month. 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.

December 2024

12/2 Scholastic Pajama Drive begins

12/3 Scholastic Book Orders due

12/9 and 12/10 Celebrate Mrs. Jacy's Birthday (all classes 12/9 actual bday)

12/12 and 12/13 Celebrate Mrs. Stephanie in the 3's classes (12/23 actual bday)

12/13 January Tuition invoice emailed

12/16 and 12/17 Celebrate Mrs. Cynthia with her students (12/15 actual bday)

12/18 Winter Parties for MWF and M-F classes

12/18 Scholastic Pajama Drive Ends

12/19 Winter Parties for T/Th and M-F classes

12/20 Student Early Release (Carpool pick up 10:50-11:05am)

12/28 January tuition due

Our waiting list for 2025-2026 began on 10/1 and is ongoing until August of 2025....get in fast, so you reserve a spot!

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.)

Learn ‘N Playday is partnering with Scholastic Books to collect NEW pajamas in sizes infant to size 18 and Scholastic will donate a book to a child in need for every set of pajamas we collect. Our drive begins December 2nd-December 18th. We will donate to a group in need in Collin county. For more information about the program, you can visit www.pajamaprogram.org

Let’s help those in need this holiday season and earn our kids a PAJAMA PARTY at Learn ‘N Playday!!!

Please call our LNPD number at #972-396-6932. If I do not answer and it is not an urgent needs, please leave a message and I will call you back as soon as possible. If you arrive late, please call the LNPD number first and let me know you are at Door #10. If I do not respond, your second step is to call the Anderson number 972-396-6924 and let them know you are waiting at Door #10. Me or one of the teachers will come out and retrieve your child after the Anderson staff makes us aware you are here. Please also send an email to your child's teachers and copy Mrs. Denise. We have access to email when we are not in our classrooms or office.

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.

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.

Ongoing registration for our 2024-2025 school year…if you know of any Allen friends looking for a preschool, please direct them to our website: www.allenisd.org/learnnplayday , my phone# 972-396-6932 or e-mail: lnp@allenisd.org

• 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

Holly Jolly Celebration

Saturday 12/7 from 4pm-8pm

Downtown Allen

Featuring the 1mile fun run, 5k run, light displays, the lighting of the City of Allen Christmas tree, and a drone show.

https://www.cityofallen.org/parksindex/events/holly_jolly_celebration_tree_lighting.php

Allen Rotary Christmas Parade

Sunday 12/8 beginning at 2pm

Bring bag to hold candy thrown from floats and a chair to sit on if it is wet.

The parade route will begin at North Cedar Drive and St. Mary’s Drive and proceed south to the Main Street. The parade will head west on Main to Allen Drive and then north on Allen Drive to the traffic circle at St. Mary’s Drive. A grand prize will be awarded along with “best of” awards in eleven different categories.

https://visitallentexas.com/event/allen-rotary-club-christmas-parade/

Grinch Market and Movie

Wednesday 12/11 from 5pm-9pm

at The HUB

Shopping, snacks and watching the classic holiday film.

Movie starts at 6pm and again at 7:30pm

https://hubofficial.com/allen/events/

North Pole event

Saturday 12/14 from 9:30am-2:30pm

at Joe Farmer Rec Center

Join Santa at his workshop and visit the North Pole. Have breakfast with Santa, shop, take photos, make crafts, and more.

https://dallas.kidsoutandabout.com/content/north-pole-joe-farmer-recreation-center or use

https://anc.apm.activecommunities.com/allentxparks/activity/search/detail/27804?onlineSiteId=0&locale=en-US&from_original_cui=true

Annual Father/Daughter Ball

Saturday 12/14 time slots vary by age of child begins at 4pm until 9:30 pm

at Allen High School Cafeteria

Sign up for this AMAZING and MEMORABLE event for Daddy's and Daughters

(4-5pm recommended for pre-school age)

Sign up via Eleyo at allenisd.ce.eleyo.com

Come cheer on your Allen Eagles as they take on the North Crowley, at the Mansfield Vernon Newsom Stadium at 2pm. Also come watch the Allen Eagle Escadrille and Tallenettes perform at halftime. I hope to see you all there!!! A-UP!! (image and title linkable to purchase tickets)

Mrs. Denise 🙂

Denise S. Chapman

Director

Learn 'N Playday

Office: 972-396-6932

305 N. Alder, Allen, TX 75002

www.allenisd.org/learnnplayday

A tuition based program for 3-5 year old children, that was created for residents of Allen ISD and housed currently at Anderson Early Childhood School. The program offers 2 day and 3 day classes for our 3 year old students and 2, 3, and 5 day classes for our 4 year old students. Children must be either 3 or 4 by September 1st and have up-to-date immunizations. We follow the Allen ISD calendar, so we have the same holidays and vacation days as any of your AISD older children. A great Allen program. Check out our website and see all the fun things we do at LNPD!!

Email: lnp@allenisd.org
Website: www.allenisd.org/learnnplayday
Location: 305 N. Alder Drive, Allen, TX, USA
Phone: 972-396-6932