Clyde’s Corner | January 2025

Welcome to Clyde's Corner

🎉Happy New Year!🎉

Welcome 2025, We are so excited to see what you have in store for us!

Monthly Updates:

• Our Staff Christmas party was a blast, thank you everyone for coming and have a good time!
• Throughout the next couple of months we will be revamping our Extracurricular programs! These 8 different extracurriculars were always meant to be a staple at The Barn and something that sets us apart. That being said, we are finally in a position to create more structure around these. We will be bringing on more professionals for each of these programs and will begin to offer them daily, instead of sporadically throughout the months. This will be a process as we find the best fit professionals so be on the lookout for more updates. We are also in the midst of creating new classroom schedules to accommodate these daily. Over the course of this month, teachers will be trying out new schedules and we will send finalized ones once we find what works for the center as a whole.
• In order to help keep our furniture in good condition and to last longer, we are asking that all teachers refrain from sitting on tables or shelving units. Please only use chairs to sit on and if you need more to accommodate, please let admin know.
• We will now be deep cleaning our tables and chairs nightly with a bucket of hot soapy water and a rag prior to sanitizing them for the night. This will help get off any leftover gunk from lunch, snack, sensory play, and art. Please make sure to fully wipe down all tables and chairs top, bottom, front, back, and sides. There is a bucket in the cleaning closet and you all know where the rags are, let us know if you have any questions!
• Closing playgrounds: Please make sure that when we are closing playgrounds we are making sure that we are leaving them neat and clean. The below items are what should be completed nightly to properly close these down:
  • Sanitize all toys
  • Cover all shelving units and close sensory bin lids
  • Park all cars
  • Put away ALL toys
  • Lock gates
• Our next MANDATORY staff meeting will be held on Tuesday January 28th from 6 - 8 pm. Please let Ashley know if you have any conflicts.
• It was so much fun to display your student's artwork at the Belmar Library and if you did not get the chance to stop by and see it, you can check it out below!

Expansion Updates

We are set to submit for permits within the next 2 weeks! While this is an exciting first step, we will still not have an opening date until we hear back from the city. Fingers crossed it is a smooth and quick process. In other news, our Little Red Barn website is live! Check it out at www.littlerredbarnnursery.com!

Exciting News!

As many of you know, Ms. Alicia has been working very hard over the course of the past 6 months to gain her credentials and some experience on the administration side of ECE. A few months back she received her Large Center Director Qualification and has been taking classes to gain more knowledge on coaching ECE teachers. She is an incredible educator and I am trilled to announce that she will begin to make her transition into the fulltime director role at The Big Red Barn. This will be a slow transition as we find the best fit replacement within the Porcupette room to partner with Ms. Emily, and do not worry Ms. Alicia will never be far from our classrooms. Please make sure to give her a big congratulations the next time you see her as this has taken a lot of hard work and dedication.

Upcoming Student Birthdays!🎂

Mateo | 1/7         Philip | 1/8         Nora N. | 1/17

James | 1/19         Cohen | 1/24         Eloise W. | 1/25

Upcoming Staff Birthdays!🎂

Ms. Hailey | 1/19