Newsletter May 19-20, 2009

Last Week
We continued at Ali's house this past week, enjoying some nice weather. The children played a lot on the roof, with animal finger puppets, and forming a circle around the map of a flower singing "Ring around the Rosie". They identified the various parts of the flower, such as paddles. This tied in nicely with wathing the "plantation" growing. A new regimen was added after snack- and lunch time: washing the table and clean up. The children also played a lot of dress-up games and sang "Baa Baa Black Sheep".

This Week
**IMPORTANT: New Locations. We are changing locations this week, as Ali and family are away on vacation.

TUESDAY: we are at Abe's house, at 209 18th. Street, (between 4th and 5th Ave.) Ring the bell up the stoop and Emily will open the ground floor door for strollers to come in. Remember to put sunscreen on the kids, as the weather might be nice-- we certainly hope!

WEDNESDAY: we are at Alise' and Carl's house: the address is 215 17th Street, (between 4th and 5th Ave.) The phone number is 718-499-5233.

Thanks for Emily and Alise for volunteering to host this week!

Audrey is planning to introduce more games around the themes of water/fish/ocean so certainly the sunny weather would be nice to have for that.

Below is the volunteer schedule. Please let me know if anyone needs to switch days.

Tuesday May 19 Amber
Wednesday May 20 Krisztina

Tuesday May 26 Emily
Wednesday May 27 Deepa

PLEASE BRING:

*Labeled sippy cups
*Diapers or change of clothes we've used the ones we have

* Drop-off time still 9:10 am - Pickup at 11:45 am.