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Happy

Mother’s Day

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In May, the children will be learning about the ocean and flowers as our main themes.

Our garden is growing and the children are observing and measuring the progress of the plant life cycles they studied last month. Also in April, each class observed the butterfly life cycle – caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. It was an incredible life cycle to observe.

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CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER

EDUCATIONAL DAY CARE WITH A PURPOSE

CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE

STAFF

Angie O’Connor Owner & Director, Administration

Shelley Jones Director, Operations

Heide Holloway Opening Manager

Armina Iapichino Closing Manger

Jessica Martinez Kitchen Manager

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25473 Bulverde Road San Antonio, TX 78261

210.494.9200 / 830.980.6940

[email protected]

www.ChildrensLighthouse.com/BulverdeRoad

CHILDREN’S LIGHTHOUSE

LEARNING CENTER

MAY 2020

MAY 2020


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Care for School Aged Children During School District Closures:

With news of the local San Antonio area school districts extending their closure, we continue to offer full day care for school aged children. If your child will be attending please let us know. Space is limited. See our weekly rates in the section below.

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Rates and Charges During the COVID-19 Crisis

We thank all our families for the continued support during the COVID-19 Crisis. As we have been deemed an essential business and remain open, and in an effort for us to be able to continue to pay staff and cover operating cost during this time, we will continue to charge weekly tuition with the following changes:

Rooms 1-9 . If your child attends, regular weekly tuition is applied to your

ledger . If you decide to keep your child at home regardless of Part-

time or Full-time status, we are applying Absentee Credit to your ledger.

Elementary School Aged Children - ONLY Room 10 . If your elementary school age child attends, the weekly rate

we will charge is $180. . If you decide to keep your child at home, we are applying

Absentee Credit to your ledger.

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Experience the Lighthouse Difference

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Questers, Home Edition! Our goal is to keep our kiddos engaged when they are here AND when they are at home with you during the COVID-19 Crisis.

We are doing two live stream videos daily: Circle Time 9:00 am and Story Time at 12:30 pm. We hope you are able to tune in or to watch the post.

We also rolled out a pick up and take home project every Friday evening in April and May. We are calling it "Questers, Home Edition". The concept of this project is for your child/ren (Questers) to incorporate our curricula at home and earn badges along the way! We will announce our weekly Expedition by email Friday evenings.

If the "Expedition" sounds interesting to you, simply come by the center to pick up an "Expedition Packet". Expedition Packets will be in a bin by our front door on Friday evenings.

We know parents have had many stresses the past few weeks. We want to share and provide any ideas and resources we have available to help keep you kids active!

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JOIN US DAILY

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9:00 AM FOR CIRCLE TIME

12:30 PM FOR STORY TIME

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QUESTERS, HOME EDITION:

EXPEDITIONS ARE PUT OUT

FRONT FOR PICK UP EVERY

FRIDAY EVENING!

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DROP-OFF AND PICK-UP AT THE FRONT DOOR

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WE PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING:

KEEP 6’ APART, PLEASE

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Drop Off and Pick Up Procedures:

As we are complying with measures set by Child Care Licensing, HHS requirements and local and state orders to reduce exposure and minimize illness, all drop-offs and pick-ups each day are at the front door. Thank you for being patient while a staff member gets your child(ren) from their respective class(es) and brings them to you! We appreciate you mentioning the specific items you would like gathered from the classroom as well.

Also, we continue to check every person’s temperature before they are permitted to stay in the building. Children will have their temperature checked before they are brought to their classrooms. Staff also has their temperature taken prior to clocking in for their shift.

Everyone washes or sanitizes hands upon entry to the building and throughout the day.

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Our Continuing Disinfecting and Sanitizing Effort

We have completed a thorough deep cleaning of all classrooms and contents. Every single toy, bin, shelf, chair, table, light switch, door handle, wall, other hard surface, and soft surface has been disinfected this week. It was a daunting process, but we completed it!

We have implemented a new cleaning and disinfecting protocol by which our teachers maintain a constant cleaning and disinfecting process to keep the spread of germs to a minimum. Also, each area in the classrooms is assigned a day of the week to be deep cleaned.

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If your child has had a fever at or above 100.4 within the last 24 hours please seek medical attention. Please keep them home until they are fever free without the use of medications for 24 hours. We will require a doctor’s note confirming your child can return to school.

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Current Illness Policy: If your child has ANY fever, they must remain out of the school for 24 hours fever free without the use of medication. The use of all over the counter fever reducer medication will not be permitted during this time.

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The children have been taught to sneeze into their elbow, wipe/ blow their noses, and the importance of frequent hand washing is repeated often. All are reminded to wash hands throughout the day.

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2020 Summer Camp/ Child Care for

School Aged Children Dear Room 10 Parents, We have completed planning our “summer program” to the best of our ability. The COVID 19 Crisis has negatively impacted our ability to finalize scheduling our in-house and away field trips for our summer program, so we have kept the weekly tuition for our summer program for the school aged children at $180. The registration and summer camp kit fee will be $100 which excludes the fees for field trips. If/once we are able to schedule in-house and away field trips, we will notify parents of the participation fee(s). We are offering 2020 Summer Camp Packages:

1. 3 weeks – choose any 3 consecutive weeks



Or

4. 12 weeks/ full time

PRICING SUMMER CAMP KIT / REGISTRATION FEE: $100

WEEKLY TUITION: $180




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KEEPING INFORMED AND IN TOUCH Because we have a large number of families in our group now, we have several methods of communication to keep information flowing so all our families are well informed of announcements, activities and programs. Additional Resources to stay informed about activity announcements and reminders:

LIKE us on Facebook Children’s Lighthouse – 25473 Bulverde Road, San Antonio

Follow us on twitter Our Handle is: @BulverdeRdLighthouse

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** GENERAL INBOX EMAIL ADDRESS ** [email protected]

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Please label your child’s clothing as well

as other items they bring to school like

cot sheets, pillows, and blankets.

We have “Children’s Lighthouse Name

Tags available at the front desk for your

child’s backpacks/ bags.

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Please do not send your child to school in open toed shoes as it is a significant safety hazard. Shoes should be closed toe.

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PARENT REFERRAL PROGRAM

Help us spread the word about Children’s Lighthouse – Bulverde Road and earn FREE tuition! When you refer family, friends, neighbors, or co-workers to our Center, you will be credited a free week of tuition for your oldest child after the referred family has enrolled and attended our center for four (4) consecutive weeks! The referred family will also receive a credit toward tuition. The referred family will be credited the Enrollment Fee the first week tuition is charged. Thank you for your continued support of our Center. We appreciate our families!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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THE WEATHER IS GETTING WARMER, THE SUN IS SHINING BRIGHTER, AND THE BUGS ARE COMING

OUT.

SUNSCREEN AND BUG SPRAY REQUIRE AUTHORIZATION

FORMS.

PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN YOUR CHILD’S FORM TO A

MEMBER OF THE FRONT DESK STAFF

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ENRICHMENT CLASSES Returning Soon

MONDAY TUESDAY

BRICKS, BOTS & BEAKERS SOCCER SHOTS Vist website for enrollment and payment Vist website for enrollment and payment

www.bricksbotsbeakers.com www.soccershots.org

WEDNESDAY

MY GYM

Vist website for enrollment and payment

www.mygym.com/cibolo

THURSDAY FRIDAY

TEAMS OF TOMORROW KINDER DANCE Vist website for enrollment and payment Vist website for enrollment and payment

www.teamsoftomorrow.com www.kinderdancealamocity.com




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2020 Center Closings

Our Center will be closed on

January 1 (Wednesday) New Year’s

February 17 (Monday) In Service Day for

Teacher Training

May 25 (Monday) Memorial Day

July 3 (Friday) Independence Day

September 7 (Monday) Labor Day

October 12 (Monday) In Service Day for Teacher Training

November 26 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day

November 27 (Friday) Day after Thanksgiving

December 25 (Friday) Christmas Day

January 1 (Friday) New Year’s Day

Open with Early Closing at Noon

December 24 (Thursday) Christmas Eve

December 31 (Thursday) New Year’s Eve

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DIRECTOR’S CORNER

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Happy Mother’s Day!

JANUARY 2014

Ms. Angie Ms. Shelley Ms. Heidi Ms. Armina Ms. Jessica

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