Wonder Watch

The month of March is all about reading & literacy. Early childhood focuses on emergent literacy skills. Emergent literacy skills provides young children a foundation for later success in reading. There are many ways to teach emergent literacy skills while completing every day tasks. Taking time each day to read to your child, talk about print you see around you, and having conversations are all ways to promote early literacy. Something as simple as talking about stop signs while you are driving is developing pre-reading skills!

World of Wonder will be celebrating March is Reading Month by having family members read in classrooms, hosting Family Fort Night, and sharing the below activity calendar with families. A copy of this calendar will be going home with your child that includes daily activities to complete. This calendar was developed by the Genesee Intermediate School District Literacy Coaches.

Each family that completes all the activities OR reads daily to their child will receive a Culver's Coin to be redeemed for a free ice cream! Please keep track of the activities you complete on your calendar and turn the completed calendar in to your classroom teachers on April 3rd.

If you are interested in reading to your child's classroom - please reach out to their classroom teachers.

We had two changes to our World of Wonder calendar:

1. We are CLOSED on Friday April 7th for Good Friday. This includes all WoW programs. This was mistakenly not marked on the calendar given out to families.

2. Friday June 2nd we will be offering School Age Before Care ONLY. Preschool Programs & School Age After Care will not run. Instead, we will be having a End of the Year Family Picnic for all WoW families at Bicentennial Park. More information about the picnic will be released in May. Only families who attend School Age Before Care will be charged for this day.

We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any calendar questions, please contact Marissa Cobleigh, mcobleigh@fentonschools.org or 810-591-8354

• March 4th & 5th - Community Expo
• March 8th-10th - GSRP Conferences; No School GSRP Only
• March 14th: Family Fort Night
• March 23rd: World of Wonder Preschool Open House
• March 27th-31st: Spring Break; All Programs Closed

Are you returning to World of Wonder next year? Please join us for our upcoming open house! You can tour classrooms and meet more of our staff. This event is also open to the community - feel free to share with anyone who may be interested in attending our programs next year!

Thank you to all of our families that participated in the Hungry Howie's coupon sales fundraiser. With all of your hard work, Ellen St. Campus had a total of $5,020 in sales! World of Wonder will have $3,045 to use towards our program. Thank you again!

Each month I will share some of our program assessment data in my Wonder Watch. This month I will be focusing on the Language, Literacy, and Communication domain in honoring of March is Reading Month! This includes speaking, listening, comprehension, phonological awareness, alphabetic knowledge, reading, writing, and book enjoyment & knowledge objectives. COR Advantage, our assessment tool, decided these items are what research has proven to best prepare children for school success.

Below is a chart highlighting where our students are scoring based on widely held expectations for three and four year olds when it comes to language, literacy, and communication development. Teachers and myself review this data frequently to lesson plan, individual instruction, and add materials to our classrooms.

A strength of our preschool students is book enjoyment and knowledge! Having a lending library on site allows for each child to check out a book weekly to read at home. We feel that along with classroom experiences, the opportunity to bring home books weekly is positively impacting our students.

Our next PAW meeting is coming up on Wednesday March 15th at 9 AM in the Library. Below you can find the meeting agenda. We will be giving away Amazon gift cards to two lucky winners! We aim to have one parent representative attend from each classroom.

We have been working hard to finalize our preschool summer programming options. We plan to have everything ready to share with families prior to Spring Break. Families who have submitted the preschool survey (below) will be contacted first about placement. Our current families get first priority!

Any questions about summer options, please contact Marissa Cobleigh at mcobleigh@fentonschools.org

Looking into the new year and potential inclement weather days - World of Wonder will close if Fenton Area Public Schools closes due to inclement weather. No programming will run including all childcare. If you are signed up to receive notifications through the Instant Alert System and Mobile App, you will be notified with a phone call, text, and email. It will also be posted on the FAPS website, WoW Facebook page, and local news stations.

For the health and safety of other children and staff, a child should be kept

home if he/she has any of the following symptoms:

• A temperature above normal within the past 24 hours
• Earache, heavy nasal discharge, diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting, red or watery eyes, chills or fever, persistent coughing, undiagnosed skin rash, or sore throat
• Any diagnosed, contagious, communicable disease

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned of an unseasonal RSV and Influenza. Similar to COVID, please report any positive cases to our Office Manager, Amber Brown by call 810-591-8349.

COVID 19 Guidelines

Please monitor your child for the below symptoms. We follow the Michigan Safer School Guidance for isolating and quarantining. Please contact our office manager, Amber Brown (810-591-8349) when a student is quarantined or isolated for COVID or has tested positive for COVID.

Symptoms to Monitor For:

o Temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher

o Sore throat

o New uncontrolled cough (for children with chronic cough due to allergies or

asthma, a change in their cough from baseline)

o Difficulty breathing (for children with asthma, a change from their baseline

breathing)

o Diarrhea, vomiting or stomach ache

o New onset of severe headache, especially with a fever

Join PAW (Parents at WoW): This is our version of a PTO. A way to meet other parents and to help advise and support our program. We would love to have representatives from every classroom.

Help Support WoW's Community Share Room: Donate new or gently used clothing or household goods. Families can also come shop for FREE stuff!

Save Boxtops for Education and donate to WoW!

Stay connected! Like our World of Wonder Facebook page and join our PAW facebook group.

Email: mcobleigh@fentonschools.org
Website: https://www.fentonschools.org/o/escwowec
Location: 404 West Ellen Street, Fenton, MI, USA
Phone: 810-591-8349
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoWFAPS