Clyde’s Corner | November 2025

Welcome to Clyde's Corner

🍂Turkey Day is Coming!🍂

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:

• We are SO thankful that God has brought everyone of you to the barn! Each of you bring a special blessing into our classrooms and we are PUMPED to have you apart of our team.🥳
• Backpacks:
  • We are now actively using our new drop-off/pick-up strategy. Please let admin know which parents are continuously not checking their kiddos in so we can make sure students are safe.
  • If students do not have backpack, leave the student's items in their cubbies. Parents do not have to participate in using backpacks. However, if they do not, then they are responsible for retrieving their child's belongings from the classroom.
  • For llamas and Roosters, it is the student's job to pack their bags NOT yours. Use this as a teaching opportunity to instill responsibility and ownership! (You will still need to help and double check their bags before leaving the class)
  • Toddlers, please have your students be active participants in packing their bags in preparation or the pre-school program and to introduce the importance of taking care and responsibility over our things.
• Parent Teacher Conferences
  • This is a reminder to make sure all portfolios and checklists are complete! Conferences have begun and will continue throughout November. Let admin know if you need extra time to prepare for conferences!
  • Conferences are held in the staff room. When the sign is on the door, please enter respectfully to not disrupt conferences- Thank you💙
• Google Calendar:
  • Lead teachers, please make sure you are continuously looking at our google calendar to see when supply lists are due! 
• Staff Call Outs
  • We need every staff member scheduled to show up for work to be able to provide the proper support for every student and teacher. We are a team! We understand that life tends to throw curve balls and sickness happens but we need EVERY teacher present to provide the BRB difference for every teacher and kiddo!
  • Tis the season of sniffles and fevers...... please make sure you take care of yourself and prioritize your health this season so we can have healthy teachers 🙂
  • Incentives: 
    • We have decided to make things a little more interesting! We are now making our "late-arrival incentive" a competition! 🏆
    • Teams:
      • Porcupettes (Sage, Emily)
      • Ducklings (Yay, Paige)
      • Llamas (Kitty, Abby)
      • Roosters (Whitney, Bethzy)
      • Floats (Silvia, Tiana) 
    • NEW Incentives: 
      • 2 weeks without a late arrival (based on individual teams) = a sweet treat! 🍩
      • 1 month without a late arrival (based on individual teams) = Breakfast Burritos🌯
      • If ALL teams go 2 months without a late arrival, then all teams will have a BRB staff day paid by the barn!🥳
• 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 😁
• Conscious Discipline Implementation Plan 
  • As a continuation of our 4 year plan, this month we asking all of our staff to send photos of their friends and family in the Group Me with a brief description. This not only will allow us to get to know each other better and make work feel more like home, but we will also be printing these out to create a staff family wall. At the end of the day we all love our jobs, but the real reason most of us work are for the people we love so this will act as a good daily reminder of why we do what we do!
• Please write down 3 things you are grateful for and give it to Alicia or Jenny to let us know you read the entire newsletter!
• 'Tis the Season for Sweaters and Sniffles!
  • It is getting a wee bit chilly!🥶 Please make sure BOTH you and your kiddos are properly prepared and dressed! If students do not have proper clothing, we have extra jackets/coats and pants so that your class can still enjoy the opportunity to explore and play in all types of weather!
    • Please be very aware of what clothing parents bring for their kiddos. If parents bring warm clothing, rain gear, or snow gear they expect their kiddo to be wearing that clothing! We ask parents to bring their kiddos fully prepared for all weather and it is only fair if we put in the effort to ensure they are wearing the clothing that parents bring.
• Outdoor Play in the Cold!
  • Advocate for your kiddos! If you see your kids have runny noses, red hands, etc. please take your students inside. We want our students to explore their environment in all types of weather, but they are still just little babies!
  • Encourage your more "weather-sensitive" kiddos to find the joy in exploration in cold weather 🙂
  • Stay in tune with your students so you can be inside before the big emotions from the cold begin (for your own sanity and the comfort of our students)
  • When is it actively precipitating, please do not stay outside for longer than 15 mins-- unless students are happy and not too cold!
  • Now that it is getting REAL CHILLY, the designated outdoor drop-off times (7:30-8:30am) can also be used as indoor free play. If you are unsure if you should go outside...just ask admin 🙂
  • It is now DARK by 5:00 pm so all students must be inside no later than 5:15pm!!!!
    • Llamas and Roosters please do not combine inside until you have permission from admin! We want to ensure the safety of our students, so it is best if admin can evaluate which kiddos are present and therefore the amount of kiddos that should combine 🙂
• 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 🙂
• 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!🎂

CeCe | 11/4        Faye | 11/12       Savannah | 11/15       Rory | 11/28

Upcoming Staff Birthdays!🎂

Ms. Sage | 11/2       Ms. Yay | 11/3       Ms. Emily | 11/13