College Heights Connection

Dear Families,

I hope you are having a great week. Here are a few quick notes regarding enrollment for the 2025-2026 school year. Students currently enrolled in our 0-3 tuition paying program will receive 2025-2026 enrollment packets in January. This includes Pre-K enrollment and Pre-K after school program enrollment. Students transitioning to Kindergarten will automatically be enrolled. However, I do encourage parents who will need after school care for kindergarten to reach out to their home school in January/February.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Principal Garland

In preparation for the 2025-2026 school year, City Schools of Decatur needs accurate information on your child's Kindergarten home school placement. Please complete this quick survey by December 1. If you have already completed the survey there is no need to resubmit.

Kindergarten Home School Survey Link

Monday, December 2 through Friday, December 13

Teachers are looking forward to partnering with you at our fall conferences! They will discuss your child's social-emotional development, classroom transition, and set learning goals for the second semester. Your input is invaluable as we work together to support your child's success. Please see teacher and classroom communications for conference sign-ups.

Please help support our school-wide service project. Students love to help, and service projects can teach them about their role in their community and the importance of helping others as well as compassion and a sense of social responsibility.

Details are included below. We will collect items through December 6.

Pre-K students checked out books for the first time this past Monday. For the next few weeks, they will practice checking out books to read in their classrooms so that they will be ready to bring their books home in late January.

This Week's Books

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen

Today is Monday by Eric Carle

The Cars and Trucks Book by Todd Parr

Duck & Goose: Goose Needs a Hug by Tad Hills

Sometimes You Get What You Want by Meredith Gary, illustrated by Lisa Brown

Little Free Library

The College Heights Little Free Library is empty! Do you have any books to share? Please help us restock this resource.

Date: Friday, February 7

Time: 8:30 a.m.

Location: College Heights Library

SAVE THE DATE to join Ilene Zeff, Media Specialist at Winnona Park Elementary School, and other families from our school community as we start a conversation about digital wellness. After sharing information about digital wellness and the impact of screen use on young children’s brains, we will reflect on screen use within our own families and discuss strategies to begin to better manage the technology in our lives. If you have any questions, please email Ms. Zeff at izeff@csdecatur.net.

¡Hola families! The students and I are having a lot of fun in Spanish and, hopefully, they come home and "teach" you what they have learned that day (at least that is their assignment!). You may have noticed them singing snippets of songs and playfully using Spanish. Their Spanish vocabulary is growing as new topics are introduced. Our current unit is Mi cara y mi cuerpo. In addition to learning the Spanish words for some colors, numbers 1 to 15, basic greetings, and common actions, the kids are studying body parts this month. Our fun songs include a silly monster face song ¿Qué es?, Mi cuerpo hace música and Cabeza, hombros, rodillas, pies (head and shoulders).

The December Spanish unit is La familia. We will learn about families and family seasonal celebrations. We plan to learn the Mi hombre de nieve song (Frosty the Snowman in español). Feliz día de acción de gracia!

Gracias, for your support!

Linda Duque, aka Lita

Pre-K friends Petra, Tristian, and Darcy enjoy some social time after breakfast

We had Thanksgiving lunch today and it was yummy!

Ms. Phillips and Ms. Sanders, Pre-K teachers, are so excited to start using our new Mat Man kits that were purchased through a Decatur Education Foundation grant. These kits will help students with body awareness, drawing and counting skills, and letter formation.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 7 p.m. for the College Heights Auction!

In addition to marking your calendar, the auction committee is seeking donations from our community. We have an ambitious fundraising goal this year, and each company sponsorship, in-kind donation and item will make a difference for our school.

If you respond 'yes' to any of the following questions, we hope you'll consider supporting the auction!

• Do you own or work at a company that would sponsor our event at any level?
  
• Do you have a personal or professional skill or service that could be donated to the silent auction like photographer, landscape architect, interior design etc.?
• Do you know a person, business or organization that you'd be willing to connect us to for the auction?

Feel free to email collegeheightsauction@gmail.com and thank you in advance!

Your 2024-2025 Auction Committee,

Stephanie & Daniel Cho, Lauren Baker, Kat L, Chris Warfield, Amber Womble

College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center cultivates an atmosphere where children take their first steps in building an authentic love of learning through developmentally appropriate practices in an environment that fosters family and community involvement.

November 11 - December 6 - College Heights Service Project item collection

November 22 - Early Release Day (Pre-K)

November 25-29 - Thanksgiving Break (Pre-K/Preschool special education)

November 27 - School closed at noon (0-3 program)

November 28-29 - Thanksgiving Break (0-3 program)

December 2-13 - Fall Parent Conferences