July 2025 Newsletter
Welcome to the 2025- 2026 school year! The first day is September 8th and 9th. We would like to welcome new families to our school and give special thanks to all our returning families for their continued support in our program and staff. The 2025-2026 school year promises to be filled with exciting events and new enhancements to our curriculum. We welcome children into an engaging environment that provides varied learning experiences throughout the day. Our preschool is licensed by the State of Michigan.
Open house: We will have open house on Wednesday, July 30th. This is a chance to come in, with your child, to meet their teachers as well as their classmates. Party sign up sheets will be available at the open house. Tuesday & Thursday classes should come between 10:00 and 11:00. MWF classes should come between 11:15 and 12:15. We ask that you bring a copy of your immunization and health checkup, if you do not have it on file. The first tuition payment will be due on this day. Please bring a check or cash to secure your fall spot.
Paperwork: We will need the following paperwork completed each year before the start of school. All paperwork will be provided at open house.
Emergency card. Please remember that your child cannot be released to another person UNLESS they are on your emergency card. Identification will need to be presented when the child is picked up. All lines of the Emergency card must be filled in (state requirement).
School contract dated and signed.
Audio and field trip release form
A copy of updated immunizations
Health appraisals must be filled out and returned to school by October 1st, 2025. An updated copy must be filled out by your doctor each year.
What you need for school: Your child will need to bring a backpack and lunch to school each day. Please make sure to label both with your child’s name. Inside the backpack should be a bag of back up clothes in case of a spill or accident. School Supply List: Clorox wipes, paper towels, hand soap, face wipes and toilet paper can be brought in at the open house or on the first day of school. Each child will need a pencil box with a pack of washable markers, crayons, glue bottle, glue sticks, and scissors. Colored pencils are optional; however, the children have shown a strong preference for using them. The pencil box should be labelled on the outside with your child’s name. If you have one at school, you can bring replacements to the open house or take it home to fill.
Names please: As cooler weather sets in, please make sure that your child comes to preschool with a labeled coat. We often have duplicate coats and lunchboxes. Please make sure the backpacks are labeled as well.
What takes place in school: Art: You may have heard this tip before, but it is worth repeating. Art with preschoolers is about the PROCESS not the PRODUCT. It is important that they feel the dough, see the color, touch the textures, and improve their fine motor skills while learning to glue, build, use scissors, and draw or paint detail. Whether they create a fine sculpture, or a magnificent masterpiece is not the point. Learning and creating activities for preschoolers should be engaging. Monday and Tuesdays we work on free end art, which allows our children to decide what they want to design. This includes messy paintings. Wednesday and Thursdays we do a project that helps teach the children to follow directions and allows the children to express their creativity. On Fridays we make a letter page for the letter of the week. We ask you to keep each page at home so that you can make it in a book from A-Z. If your child misses a day, please remind us, we will send home supplies so they will have a complete book at the end of the year.
Learning: Our children learn through hands-on fun. We play games, do workbooks, experiments, and other learning activities. The most important thing that we teach our children is confidence and self-esteem. Remember each child grows at a different level and has different individual talents. On Monday and Tuesdays, we work on numbers and math. Wednesday and Thursday we do journals and letter recognition. Fridays we do a letter page.
Book orders: Scholastic book orders will be going home with your child every other month. You are under no obligation to purchase books, but it is worth the time to see if any of the books are of interest to you. They are good quality books and are reasonably priced. Orders are usually back within 2-3 weeks after being sent in. Please write checks out to Scholastic.
Snack: Snack is provided on a rotation basis by the parents. Snack calendar will come home at the beginning of each month. They are also posted on our website petiteschool.org. Tuesday and Thursday class needs to bring in 24 snacks and MWF class needs to bring in 24 as well as juice boxes or water. The snack person is also responsible for bringing in cups, napkins, paper towels and spoons if needed. Popular choices include goldfish, cheese and crackers, animal crackers, and fruit. If you miss your snack day, please send in a back-up.
Practicing our names: When working with your child on writing their name, please do so with one capital letter, followed by lower case letters. This will make it much easier for them to learn to write their name correctly from the beginning. It is hard to convince a child to write with lower case letters if they have been taught otherwise. If your child will attend a private school for kindergarten, please let us know at the beginning of the year since they use a different style of letters than the public schools.
Late Fees: If tuition is paid after the 10th of the month, a $25 late fee will be assessed. Please be considerate when picking up your children. If you will be late, please call and let us know. If you are more than 10 minutes late, a $10 late fee for every 10 minutes will be billed for every occurrence.
Fundraisers: To keep tuition low, we do two fundraisers a year. We ask that each family participate in both.
Questions, Concerns, Comments: If you have any questions, concerns, or comments please e-mail them to petiteschool@gmail.com . We also have a website, petiteschool.org., which we update weekly. You will find ask me about my day on the website which provides you with information about your child’s week. The snack calendar and newsletter are also posted. We look forward to a great school year!!
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