Clyde’s Corner | December 2024
Welcome to Clyde's Corner
🎅🎄 December 🎄🎅
Wowza, December ALREADY?!?! I can not believe we have made to our first anniversary of operation! You all have blessed my life in so many ways and The Big Red Barn is better than I could ever imagine because of you all❤️





Monthly Updates:
- Thanksgiving Dinner Sensory Style was a hit! Thank you all for helping make this such a fun event for our students and parents!
- Our Halloween costume winners are.......... Winnie the Poohs and Piglet! Congrats Jenny, Alicia, and Hailey and thank you all for making Halloween a a fun event! All the costumes looked great!
- Our Staff Christmas Party will be held on December 21st🎄 Time and location TBD, Significant others are welcome!
- The Big Red Barn library mural will be up for the entire month of December! Make sure to stop by to see all your hard work come to life! Thank you everyone for helping create amazing art that truly embodies what we are all about. I am so excited to show it off to our Lakewood community!
- The Christmas Recital🦌 will be held on December 7th at 2:30 pm. We would love to have you all attend and help support your children through the recital, but this is not a requirement. Please let us know if you will be able to make it! If possible, staff are welcome to come by around 2:00 pm to help with set up. Thank you Ms. Dom for all your hard work in organizing this!
- Location: 9142 W Ken Caryl Ave, Littleton CO
- We will be CLOSED December 25th - January 1st for our winter break. We will also be closing early on December 24th at 3:00 pm. Merry Christmas and enjoy your break! Just a reminder, you have to be with us for 90 days in order to get paid for holidays or school closures. If you call in the day before or the day after a closure, your forfeit your holiday pay.
- Classroom Christmas Parties will be held on December 24th from 10:30 am - 11:30 am. We will have a special visit from Santa Claus himself🎅
Expansion Updates
Due to a few permitting issues, The Little Red Barn expansion has been slightly delayed. We hope to still be open by February, but it all depends on the city and how quickly they process things. We will be in touch with any new big updates, but for the time being we are on a slight hold. On a more exciting note, Ms. Jayna is coming back to prepare for the expansion and Ms. Dom will begin her transition out of the classroom! We will have a lot of transitions over the next few months and will need all hands on board to make it go smoothly! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns

Reminders:
- Please make sure to shake ALL FOOD off of plates and bibs prior to placing them in the dirty dish bins. This will take a few seconds in the classroom, but will help significantly for the staff member who is cleaning the dishes. Please also make sure all milk cups are poured out prior to placing in bins as well.
- Laundry schedule reminder (we as admin will also start being better about brining laundry bins up on these days). Laundering soft toys will help reduce germs and hopefully get this sickness out of The Barn!
- Monday - TODDLER soft toys
- Tuesday - PRESCHOOL soft toys
- Wednesday - PRE-K soft toys
- Thursday - all INFANT laundry (soft toys and sheets)
- Friday - Sheets and blankets for Toddlers, Preschool, and Pre-K
- Please do your part in helping keep our staff bathroom clean. We all use it, so we can all play our part! We have cleaning supplies in the bathroom at all times, so even it it is just a quick wipe down of the toilet seat or sink it will help a great deal when we go to deep clean! Also, if you notice we are low on toilet paper, paper towel, or soap please help us restock. Thank you!
- Please make sure all material bins get put back nightly in the correct alphabetically ordered spot!
- If you have read this newsletter please bring Alicia a piece of red paper.
- Make sure playgrounds are being disinfected nightly, so we can keep up on germs outside as well as inside our classrooms.
- Make sure to keep up with checklists WEEKLY and save examples of work WEEKLY to make sure we are staying on top of conference items. This will save you all in the long run and make it easier the next time parent teacher-conferences come around
- Please do not let anyone inside The Big Red Barn that you do not know! If there is someone walking in at the same time, or you see someone at the door when walking past, please make sure to grab someone from the Administrative team. There have been times that people sneak in with classes or staff members and then are left waiting at the front desk. NO ONE that we do not know should EVER be left alone in our building AT ANY TIME.
- Also, popcorn is now outlawed at The Barn (thanks Kathleen!)😂



Upcoming January Events:
We will be closed January 1st, Happy New Year!🍾



Staffing Updates
Meet our new additions! Ms. Maddy (Toddler), Ms. Denise (Preschool/Pre-K), and welcome back Ms. Jayna (Infant)!
Upcoming Student Birthdays!🎂
Jayden | 12/2 Emma | 12/5 Bennett | 12/20
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST | 12/25
Clyde’s Corner Tidbit
The best way to see Christmas in through the children's eyes.
Keeping Christmas simple and remembering the true meaning,
in turn, will take the stress away.
