13613 Avondale RD NE

Woodinville, WA 98072

(425)882-1981

director@shyneschool.com

Family Newsletter

We want to thank ALL THE PARENTS THAT VOL-UNTERED THIS YEAR THANK YOU! You make our programs great!

June 14th we end our fall session and school will let out for the Summer. On the next page you can read about the fun we have planned for those attending summer.

Some of our friends will be leaving The Shyne School for summer and will return for fall and others will leave to start on their adventures in elementary school leaving in June or August!

Ms. Luda will be leaving us for her own new adventure at the end of the school year to continue to work on her Masters Degree in Social Ad-ministration and move to Spokane. We are very sad she is leave after 9 years with us, but wish her all the best!!

Ms. Colleen Brooks in Rain-bow will be taking the sum-mer off to give birth to baby Carter, we are so excited for her and can’t wait to meet Carter in person. She will return in the fall, just morn-ings to start back in Septem-ber for three weeks to build up to full time.

We hope you have had a positive experience at The Shyne School and will con-tinue to love to learn, play and make friends. We would love to hear about your ex-

periences so we can continue to improve so please take time to fill out the school survey in parent pockets or e-mail me directly. I will have forms in the front lobby, you can e-mail me. All information is anonymous and will be kept confidential and used in a positive way to improve the quality of our school.

If you will be ending an en-richment class remember to give the instructor a two week notice. You contract with them for the classes.

Saying good-bye to families is the hardest part of our jobs!!!

Working with your families is the reason I come to work each and every day with a smile. What better job is there? I love working with children who give you smiles and hugs when you walk into a room, or need com-fort and love. I love listening to their stories and watching their work. Each child that attends The Shyne School leaves me with memories of all the joy they have brought me over their short time here.

This year 9 of our graduat-ing Pre-k, Sunshiner class started as Waddlers in

the Dewdrops Class. Many have been here since Toddlers in Rainbow and some a year or two.

If you will not be returning after June 14th please pick up your emergency kit! We will recycle the ones not picked up. June 15th we will be closed so we can get set up for the changes summer will bring.

Some students will move to a new class on June 18th. We ask all students to clean out their cubby and art file so they can take all their treas-ures home. This is a great time to change out extra clothes for new sizes that will be weather appropriate. Any items left behind or in lost and found will be donated to charity the following week.

I also want to thank all the parents that have shown me, and the staff, appreciation during the year and during Teacher Appreciation Week. Thank you for your notes, gifts and other treats! Your generosity is appreciated and tells us we have done a good job connecting with you and your families.

My door is always open so let me know if you have any questions or concerns you need to discuss!

Katrina Brooke, Director

The End of The Year from the Directors Desk

The Shyne School

May/June 2018

Dewdrops Coleen Warriner, Lana Khomchuk & Nancy Tyler

Rainbow Gang

Janeth de Niz, Lexi Harrison & Zoe Fine

Busy Bee’s (Stargazers)

Katy Conley, Zoe Fine & Prudence Alexander

Butterflies (Sunshiners)

Anita McHarg & Rachel Horne

Substitutes Kris Perkins Beth Bishop, &

Krystal McClellan

Cook Prudence Alexander

Director Owner

Katrina Brooke Bill Shyne

Summer Staffing

Dates to remember:

Last day of School

June 14th

June 7th 6:00 Picnic at Cottage Lake Park End of Year and Honor Fathers

June 14h, 2:30 PM Sun-shiner Graduation, Barn

CLOSED JUNE 15th

Teacher Work Day

First Day of Summer

June 18, 2018

Closed Fri, July 4, 2018

Closed August 28th

Teacher work Day.

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Important Dates:

MAY

13 Happy Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Tea’s

10 Rainbow 10:30 AM

14 Stargazers 10:30 AM

15 Dewdrops 12:15 PM

16 Sunshiners 10:30 AM

28 CLOSED for Memorial Day

June

1 to 13 New families and students moving up have transition visits

7 School Picnic to Celebrate the End of the Year, family picnic, and Honor Father’s with special games 6:00 PM at

Cottage Lake Park

14 Last Day of School, our Pre-K Graduation is at 2:30 in the Sunshiner classroom. Parking will be full 2:15 to

3:30 PM

15 CLOSED for a Teacher Work Day

17 Happy Father’s Day

18 Summer Session Begins— a few students move to the next class

July

4 CLOSED for 4th of July—Independence Day

August

20-23, 28-31 New families and students moving up have transition visits

24 Last Day of Summer Session—Party 10:30 to 12:30, parents can join us for activities and lunch, if it is not your

regular day you and your student can join us. RSVP for additional people to regularly scheduled students.

27 CLOSED for Teacher Work Day

28-31 Summer Break—Care for current full day students only.

September

3 CLOSED for Labor Day

4-7 Summer Break—

7 First day of School for Full Day students only

10 First Day of School for Only and Plus Students

End of The Year Picnic

Rain or Shyne we will be at Cottage Lake Park Friday, June 7th from 6:00 to

7:30 to celebrate the end of the School year and we will play games to honor

our Dad’s! Everyone is welcome this is a family picnic!

Games: All are welcome! Siblings love to joining in too! Kids will participate in a 50 yard dash and the Dads will run the 100 yard dash

Ping Pong Ball Relay Race—Dads start at the finish line with a ball on a spoon and run to their kid on the

starting line. (Hand behind their back and no thumbs on the ball! They will relay the spoon and ball to

their child and then the child will race across the finish line.)

Potato Sack Race—Traditional three legged race (Please bring a old pillow case for this game!)

Balloon Race—Dad and child stand on staring line together. Dad has a deflated balloon. On GO Dad

blows up the balloon, ties it and then places it between his forehead and his child’s forehead and then races

to the finish line. With the height differences you may need to improvise!

Over and Under Race –Dad and child stand on staring line together. Child crawls through Dad’s legs and

Dad goes over child until they reach the finish line.

Cookie Machine—Dad’s lock right arms to left arms and stand shoulder to shoulder very tightly in two

lines across from each other. Ask each child if they want to be a cookie. If they say “Yes” ask them what

kind of cookie they want to be. An adult tosses a child up on the “machine” and dads bump the child along

as they say the kind of cookie the child wants to be. An adult at the end of the cookie machine lifts the

“done cookie kid” off the machine. Kids laugh and giggle as they bump along. Make sure the “cookie

kid” doesn’t bump off the machine and if they are not enjoying the experience, please put them down on

the ground immediately, of course.

Moms and teachers will position themselves along the finish line to help cheer on the Dads and kids. Some

moms and/or teachers may participate in place of Dad so be ready to play!!

Each class will have a different finish line, so that the Dewdrops don’t have to go as far as the Sunshiners!

Each class has been color coded to help keep everything straight.

Dewdrops are BLUE

Rainbows are RED

Stargazers are PURPLE

Sunshiners are GREEN

REMEMBER TO BRING:

1. Picnic dinner (self contained)

2. Old pillow case for Potato Sack Race

3. Wear old clothes and prepare to play!

4. First Aid supplies for “enthusiastic” Dads/Moms

Each family will be responsible for their own picnic dinner.

The Shyne School will have dessert!

There will be no prizes, just fun and enjoyment!

We will have such a good time and the weather is predicted to be nice!!

Katy Conley 425-280-4659 stargazers3s@gmail.com

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Our Curriculum focuses on three primary topics of study; Science, Structures and Things that go! We have different visitors each summer and fun activity days like Wet & Wild Days, Things that go Day, and an End of Summer Party. We also do more field trips during the summer for Preschool and Pre-K/school age, but need parent help to take trips away from the school so we have lower ratios.

SCIENCE (June 18th to July 6, 2018) We will work on documenting the things we see through drawings, charts, notes, stories, sculptures and art. The whole month will be devoted to the study of science. Topics of study may include but will not be limited to animals, dinosaurs, and bodies of water, ice cream, volcanoes, growing things, environments, climates, bubbles, and insects. How do you make ice cream? Why does ice melt? What is the make up of a bubble? Why are dinosaurs gone? What kind of bug is this? These are just a few of the questions we hope to find the answers to. We enjoy watching butterfly larva form their chrysalis!

July 4, 2018 The Shyne School is CLOSED!! Please let us know if you will be taking additional days off this week so staff can take days off if we are low.

For HOT DAYS! Wet N' Wild DAYS. Bring a bathing suit/trunks, water shoes and water toy or super soaker!!! Be-cause we can’t predict the weather plan on leaving them at school for the whole summer. Water proof foot wear is best with wood chips! We have towels, please do not bring them and the kids dry off very quickly.

STRUCTURES (July 9 to July 27th, 2018) Structures are everywhere, in fact you would not be standing without the structure inside of you. Did you guess what it is? Your skeleton!! Some activities you will see are forts, cages, tents, theater sets, costumes, boxes, and 3-D Art. We will be taking a look at the construction and blue prints of

buildings, vehicles and the internal structures of animals and humans. You will still see Science projects, because they

flow together.

THINGS THAT GO (July 30 to August 17, 2018) This is all about movement! People (exercise, dancing, travel, Olympics...), Transportation (planes, auto, trains, buggy, bike, tricycles, scooters, boats...), Animals (horses, camels, ox, elephant, dog sled...) and anything that moves with our help, electricity or batteries! Some things we may experiment with could be Yo Yo’s, pendulums, pulleys, skateboards, scooters, jump ropes, fans and different sprinklers! I bet the kids can think of even more things!

Our Favorite activities in Review! (August 20 to 24, 2018) All the activities we loved during the summer we will do again!!! End of Summer Party and Last Day of Summer 8/24/18!

August 27, 2018, CLOSED for a Teacher Work Day Summer Break for Only and Plus students August 28 to September 7th We will plan special visitors and field trips related to the children’s study projects. Parents are notified before a visitor comes or field trips. Parents sign an overall consent form for field trips and medical care at the time of enrollment. We will let you know what to provide for each trip and if there is an admission fee. We will need parent chaperons to make trips happen!

As we transition into fall, children will visit in the group with their new teacher through out the summer and at the end of August. We work hard as a teaching team to ensure your child’s needs are being met on all levels of development for a smooth transition. Make sure you stop in and visit so you also feel your needs are being met and you have a smooth transition too!

Transition visits for new students and returning for fall 8/20-23, & 8/28-31 and Sept 4-7, 2018. Current Students here for the summer will visit their new classroom through out August to prepare for their move.

Current Full Day Students attend 8/28-8/31/18 in their summer class and Move to their New Classrooms 9/4/18.

Only and Plus students return from break and start in their new class on 9/10/18

CLOSED, Monday, Sept 3, 2018 Labor Day

Summer Fun 2018