Clyde’s Corner | December 2025

Welcome to Clyde's Corner

🎄It's Jesus' Birthday Month!🎄

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:

• Thank you for helping us build our BRB family 🧡We could not create our BRB dream without you! Thank you for going the extra mile to build family connections, for giving grace to your coworkers, and for loving every heart that walks through our doors 🧡
• Extracurricular Captions: 
  • Please make sure you are using the proper captions for extracurricular activities! Our teachers and admin work very hard to create these captions in addition to the activities...please use what you are given 🙂
    • Extracurricular Activities that you create your own captions for:
      • Tiny Tots Dance with Tippie Toes
      • Music For Munchkins with Altitunes
      • Storytime with the Librarian
    • Extracurricular activities that captions are pre-written and posted on your classroom's google docs:
      • Fun with Faith
      • Creative Critters
      • Running Rascals
      • Silly Scientists
      • Simply Spanish
• Preparing for Extracurriculars:
  • Please make sure you are respecting the time of our Extracurricular teachers/guests. Make sure your class is prepared for the extracurriculars to begin BEFORE your start time. We have had a lot of classes late for these start times--please reach out to admin if you need help with time management or transitioning your class to ensure your class is on-time and ready!
• BRB Clothing Lists
  • To help us keep track of the BRB clothes that students borrow, we have placed BRB clothing lists in every classrooms. If your give a kiddo school clothes, please write their name, the date, and the type of clothing provided. When parents return the clothes, you can erase their name from the list 😁
    • Please make sure you are messaging parents to remind them to return BRB clothing until they are returned!
• Conscious Discipline Implementation Plan 
  • Thank you so much for sharing photos of your friends and family with us! It was so special to hear about everyone's "whys"! We will be creating a board for all these photos in the staff room so we can always be reminded, even on the hard days, why we do what we do. We love and appreciate all of you! If you have not yet sent photos, admin will be reaching out so we can have everyone on our board!
• Winter Morning and Nights
  • Now that winter is fast approaching, our mornings at the barn are cold and our nights are very dark!
    • Mornings: 7:30-8:30 am 
      • Morning drop off time can be enjoyed outside if it is warm enough, but mornings can also be spend inside our classrooms on the cold mornings
    • Evenings: 4:45-6:00pm
      • Now that our days are shorter, every child must be inside our building by 4:45 pm to avoid traveling with students in the dark!
• Sacking Chairs
  • This is an important reminder that chairs can not be stacked FOR ANY REASON while children are in the classroom. This applies to every classroom no matter the age. It is only ok to stack chairs when a room is completely shut down when no kids will be present for the rest of the evening.
  • Please also make sure to unstack chairs FIRST THING in the morning. This should be the first thing you do when arriving to make sure the chairs are not stacked when children begin to arrive.
  • THANK YOU!!!
• Combining Classes in the Evening: 
  • Toddlers:
    • Toddlers cannot combine outside until the combined total of students in Porcupettes and Ducklings is 10 or less
    • Toddlers cannot combine inside the Duckling classroom until there are 9 students total.
  • Llamas and Roosters:
    • Max number of kids that combine on the playground/grass is 20 students---please evaluate which kiddos are present to customize this number to ensure the safety of your kiddos. Llamas and Roosters should not combine before 4:45pm to ensure each classrooms has their designated outdoor time with their own class.
    • Combining inside:
      • Now that we are coming inside by 4:45 pm. We may or may not be able to combine together at 4:45 pm depending on numbers. Please get admin or the closing teacher's permission before combining classes inside so we can assess the energy and which kiddos are present to create a safe and calm closing classroom.
        • We generally will wait until there are 7-8 kids total depending on which llamas and roosters are present!
  • NEW LISCENSING RULE!
    • We can now combine all ages in the last hour of operating (5-6pm). For our school, we will allow all classes to combine in the Duckling classroom starting at 5:30pm. Students can only go down to a younger classroom and teachers must follow the youngest (toddler) ratio of 5:1 
• Teacher Coupons
  • Our admin team is looking for opportunities to give teachers special "teacher coupons"! If you have received a coupon, you can cash it in whenever you want 🙂
• Walkie-Talkies:
  • Please make sure you disconnect your tablet's Bluetooth from the speaker BEFORE leaving your classrooms. We have noticed that teachers are not hearing our walkie-talkie calls while outside because they are playing through the speakers in the classrooms.
• Draw a Christmas Tree and give it to Jenny or Alicia to prove that you read this month's newsletter!🎄
• Visitors at the Front Door:
  • To ensure the safety of our teachers and kids, please DO NOT let anyone into our school without admin permission. Anyone who should be inside the school has a door code. If there is a visitor/deliver person without a door code--please DO NOT let them inside. Have the visitor wait by the picnic table and contact admin to meet them outside. 
• Delegating Cleaning
  • If you cannot clean up a mess with the teachers available to you--CALL ADMIN! We need to make sure that our school is clean and sanitary for our BRB family.
    • If you are rushed and cannot clean up snack fully--CALL ADMIN
    • If there is an accident and student behaviors are intervening with cleaning--CALL ADMIN!
    • If you rushed and cannot sweep up the access sand by the sandbox before exiting the grassy field--CALL ADMIN!
    • If you are responsible for mid-day cleaning of the bathrooms but cannot complete it--CALL ADMIN! We cannot skip our cleaning routines throughout the day, especially in the bathroom upstairs. If you cannot complete your cleaning duties ADMIN WILL HELP!
• Snowy Weather Prep❄️: As a reminder, we follow Jeffco public schools for weather related closures. If Jeffco is closed, so are we. If they have a late start we open at 9:00 am and if they have an early release we close at 3:30 pm.

Upcoming Student Birthdays!🎂

Jayden | 12/2        Selah | 12/4       Emma | 12/5       Brooks | 12/21