Clyde’s Corner | April 2025
Welcome to Clyde's Corner
Hello April and Hello Spring!🌸🐣
Needing some prayers? We got you! If you would like our Big Red Barn Prayer Team to pray for something specific, you can submit prayer requests here! Remember no prayer is too big for our God and with community in prayer, anything is possible❤️



Monthly Updates:
- Natural Playground Donation Update🌿: We have almost made it to our goal! So far, we have raised a total of $7,567! With this amount we have hit the ground running and have started many of the needed projects and even completed our sandbox! However we still have some projects to go, so if you haven't already and can, or if you would like to donate more to help us hit our mark, please do so by April 4th as we are looking to purchase and begin installing sod the second week of April. Once again, we appreciate all your support and con not wait to see the finished space!
- Parent's Night Out for April will be held on Saturday, the 12th from 4-8 pm. Please RSVP using this survey.
- Expansion Update: Our project is finally underway! As we recieve inspections and move forward we will reach out with our grand opening date! Stay tunned as it will hopefully happen later this month, or the very beginning of May!
- ACTION NEEDED: Only a couple of families filled out our Schedule Change and Graduation survey last month. Please, if your child is graduating to kindergarten this Fall fill out this survey to let us know your plans. As we head into Spring🌸, we would like to get an idea of Summer and Fall Enrollment. Summer and Fall are our busiest times when it comes to disenrollment due to graduation and summer vacations. This survey will give us an idea of students who will be graduating, and will help give us a clear idea of what enrollment will look like in the next coming months. Please also fill out that same survey if you are needing or thinking about switching your schedule (Part time to full time or vice versa, or switching part time schedules) in Summer of Fall of this year. With this data we will hopefully be able to get everyone on a schedule that worst best for their family.
- UPK Reminder: Universal Pre-K only pays facilities for the school year months (August-May). If you are a family currently participating in UPK, please know that for June and July, your tuition will go back to the full preschool rate. Please let me know if you have any questions!
- Our Annual Easter Egg Hunt🐰🐣 will be on Friday, April 18th from 3:30 - 4:30 pm! We will need some parent volunteers to help with supplies, parking lot safety, and hiding eggs! Please fill out this survey if you are interested in volunteering
- Spring/Summer Clothes Reminders: With the warmer weather coming in, we will be spending as much time as we can outside! This is a reminder to make sure to still bring a small jacket with your kiddo as mornings can still be a bit crisp and we go out first thing! Also, as our summer outfits start to make their way out please remember that if your child is wearing a dress, they must have shorts or leggings on underneath. We do a lot of active gross motor play here and want to make sure are kiddos are prepared for any activity throughout the day! We also advise against sandals as they are much harder for children to run around and play in. Please let us know if you have any questions, we are so excited for the change in weather!🌞



Upcoming May Events:
- May Parent's Night Out will be hosted on Saturday May 17th from 4 pm - 8pm. Fill out this form to sign up!
- Teacher Appreciation Week is May 5th-9th! Teacher Appreciation Week is a special time dedicated to honoring the hard work, dedication, and impact of educators in shaping the lives of your child(ren). It's an opportunity for our families to express gratitude and recognize the individual role our teachers play in fostering learning and growth in your little on. Similar to last year we want to go big to help show our teachers how appreciated they are! If you would like to donate a meal or snack for the week please sign up here. We also would love to create appreciation letter books for each of our staff members. We would love if all the parents could write a brief letter to their child's teachers and email them to [email protected] it would be greatly appreciated! Please have your letters submitted no later than Wednesday April 30th.
- Mother's Day Celebrations will be held on Friday, May 9th from 3:30 - 4:30 pm!
- Parent Teacher Conferences will be held the week of May 26th, mark your calendars as you are not going to want to miss these!
- The Big Red Barn will be CLOSED Monday May 26th in observance of Memorial Day



Staffing Updates
Meet Our New Additions!
Ms. Maria | Lead Toddler Teacher
We are so excited to announce that Ms. Maria has officially taken over for Ms. Alicia and is our new lead toddler teacher in our Porcupette classroom! Check out her Bio here.
Ms. Silvia | Lead Toddler Teacher
Ms. Silvia's first language is Spanish and is an incredible educator. We are so excited to welcome her to the toddler team as we patiently await the opening of our new toddler classroom. Check out her bio here to learn more about her.
Ms. Alicia is finally stepping into her fulltime role as Director this month! Please feel free to reach out to her with any questions ([email protected]), we are so excited to watch her grow into this role!🥳
Upcoming Student Birthdays!🎂
Greyson | 4/8 Julian | 4/8 Lincoln | 4/9
Upcoming Staff Birthdays!🎂
Ms. Sam | 4/23 Ms. Cheryl | 4/26