Monday 12/1 – Registration Begins for 2026-2027 School Year
Monday 12/1 – Second Semester Tutition Due
Monday 12/22 – Monday 1/5 – School Closed – Winter Break

What fun we had with your 2s on Halloween! We could not believe they kept their costumes on the whole time, even masks! This month we will talk about Thanksgiving and the things that we are thankful for. The children will be busy with art projects as we make harvest corn pictures, pumpkin pie magnets and turkeys using leaves. The school will smell delicious because we will be making corn bread, homemade applesauce, and mini pumpkin pies. Your kids are wonderful, and we are having so much fun with them!

We had so much fun celebrating all things fall and Halloween! We are looking forward to beginning our unit on nocturnal animals and giving thanks this month. Students will learn about nocturnal animals such as owls, bats, and racoons and their daily habits and behaviors. We will continue to build fine motor skills through sensory bins and pre-writing activities as well as practice letter and number recognition. We will move into focusing on gratitude, kindness, and friendship through some turkey-themed experiences. We wish you and your family a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

After enjoying some spooky Halloween fun, we’re diving into a unit on nocturnal animals. We’ll explore the differences between nocturnal and diurnal creatures, focusing on bats, owls, and raccoons along with their habitats. Our activities will include enhancing fine motor skills, letter recognition, and counting as we “feed” letters to a raccoon and create a nighttime number line. We’ll also have fun with shadow play and puppets to discuss light and dark. As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, we’ll shift our focus to gratitude and friendship, with a bit of turkey-themed fun included. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!

After the excitement of Halloween, we’re moving into a new unit talking about farms and the fall harvest, the perfect lead-in to Thanksgiving. We’ll be learning about barnyard animals, crops, and farming vehicles. Our sensory center will feature corn for hands-on play, while we work on sorting, fine motor skills, and letter and number recognition. This unit connects with our Thanksgiving theme, where we’ll focus on the path from farm to table, gratitude, family, and our classroom friendships. We’ll continue to explicitly learn the letters and letter sounds I through K while we review all the letters we’ve already learned. We’re looking forward to talking with you about how much your children have grown at our parent-teacher conferences. Wishing you a warm and family-filled Thanksgiving break!

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to remember how fortunate we are. We thank you for choosing Dulaney Day Preschool to join in the journey with your children. We adore them and appreciate the support from our parents!