September 2021 ~ Newsletter & Songs

September Curriculum
For September’s Curriculum, we will be focusing on the beginning of Fall/Autumn, Back to School, Farm Animals, Apple Harvest, and North America. We will also have new songs to sing, and books to read. In the mornings we will begin working on fine motor skills. Each day students will have the choice to work on their folder papers with their individualized writing boxes. This will include letter and number writing, and coloring/painting.

September Covid-19 Update
Due to the unprecedented spread of Covid in Placer county as we are just about to enter the Fall season https://www.placer.ca.gov/7521/Placer-County-Public-Health-issues-new-C, I strongly urge all students to please begin wearing masks to preschool to safeguard themselves and their friends. We do not want a school closure, and we do not wish for any of our friends to become sick with this virus. If you do not have a mask for your child, PCOE has provided disposable child sized surgical masks for us to use daily for our students. I am including a required Covid-19 Policies and Protocols in the email sent to you for September. Licensing is requiring we have an updated document that each family acknowledge they have read, so we are all on the same page with the information our preschool is providing for Covid-19 documentation compliance. 
Please remember- all children with fever, runny nose, chest congestion, cough, sore throat, vomiting and/or diarrhea cannot attend school and must remain home until they are symptom-free for a period of at least 72 hours, and 10 days if they test positive for covid. We must know immediately if a child tests positive for Covid-19 so we can alert the other families so they too can safeguard their loved ones.

Update on Front Yard
Our new paver patio is scheduled to be installed Labor Day week through mid-September. We will alert all families as soon as we are notified which exact days we will need to block access to the front entry and create a secondary drop off and pick up point for all children, most likely through the garage into the family room, through to the classroom temporarily. Once the patio is installed we anticipate all the landscaping will be placed by mid-October, and we are hopeful the fencing and gates for our courtyard can be installed by the end of December. Once the front yard is completed, we will have a lot more space for families to stage for drop off and pick up times 6 ft apart.

Reminder - Yearly Material Fee & Wipes Due
The $90.00 material fee per child, will be due with the September tuition payment. This material fee helps cover the cost of new classroom materials throughout the year to maintain our indoor and outdoor environment. We appreciate you providing this yearly Material Fee. In addition, we will need each family to bring a refill package (about 200 wipes) with each child enrolled in our program. These wipes are due every September, December, March, and June. They can be any brand as long as they are unscented. Thank you for your support as we begin our 25th school year!

September School Portraits Postponed
For the second year, as an extra measure of caution, I have decided we will not be having Teddy Bear Portraits come to our environment in the Fall to take photographs of the students. I will be taking the students portraits in our classroom or during the holidays as we did last year. If we are able to get good pictures of each child, we will create our own school collage of the students, and print them up for you.

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September Curriculum Songs ~ Woodcreek Montessori School
Look Who Came to School Today
Sing to: “Mary had a little lamb”
Look who came to school today
School today, school today
Look who came to school today,
_________(child’s name) did.

Little Children
Sing to: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
Little children, how are you?
Keep a smile all day through.
Come to school to dance and play,
Paint a picture of your day.
Little children sing along,
Keep a smile all day long.

We Welcome You
Sing to: “Mary had a little lamb”
We welcome you to school today,
School today, school today.
We welcome you to school today,
Please come in and play.
We’re glad to have you here today,
Here today, here today.
We’re glad to have you here today,
Yes, it’s a special day.

I Like to go to School
Sing to: “Farmer in the Dell”
I like to go to school, I like to go to school,
Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,
I like to go to school.
I like to sing new songs, I like to sing new songs,
Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,
I like to sing new songs.
I like to play with friends, I like to play with friends,
Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,
I like to play with friends.

Farm Sounds
Sing to: “Wheels on the Bus”
The cow in the barn goes:
Moo, moo, moo
Moo, moo, moo
Moo, moo, moo
The cow in the barn goes:
Moo, moo, moo
All around the farm.

Other verses:
The pig in the pen goes oink, oink, oink...
The hens in the coop go cluck, cluck, cluck...
The lambs on the hill go baa, baa, baa....
The ducks on the pond go quack, quack, quack...
The rabbits on the grass go hop, hop, hop...
The cat on the ledge goes, meow, meow, meow...
The rooster on the roof goes cock-a-doodle-do...
The dog in the yard goes woof, woof, woof...
The tractor on the dirt goes vroom, vroom, vroom...

Here Is The Barn
Here is the barn (Form a roof shape with your hands)
Where I like to go (Walk in place)
It’s as tall as a tree (Point overhead)
And cozy, you know (Hug body with arms)
Here is the barn (Make a roof shape with your hands)
I’ll go there with you (Walk in place)
To pet a sweet lamb (Pretend to pet a lamb)
And cuddle it too! (Pretend to hug a lamb) 

Apples
Sing to: “Twinkle, twinkle”
Apple, apple tree so tall,
I can hardly wait for fall!
When your apples I can pick,
Fill my basket eat them quick.
Apple, apple tree so tall,
I can hardly wait for fall!
Apple, apple tree so fair,
What do I see growing there?
Green and round and plump and sweet,
Soon they will be good to eat.
Apple, apple tree so fair,
What do I see growing there?

Old Mac Donald
Old Mac Donald had a farm, E I E I O.
And on this farm, he had a pig, E I E I O.
With an oink, oink here, and an oink, oink, there.
Here an oink, there an oink,
Everywhere an oink, oink.
Old Mac Donald had a farm, E I E I O.

Other verses:
Cow - moo, moo
Horse - neigh, neigh
Duck - quack, quack
Sheep - baa, baa
Chick - cheep, cheep
Bird - tweet, tweet
Turkey - gobble, gobble

I Wiggle my Fingers
(A Movement Rhyme)
I wiggle my fingers,
I wiggle my toes.
I wiggle my shoulders,
I wiggle my nose.
Now no more wiggles
Are left in me.
So I can sit as still as can be.

Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Way up high in the apple tree
Two little apples smiled at me
I shook the tree as hard as I could
Down came the apples
Mmmm, they were good