From the Director…

Dear Parents,

We are off and running at Hope Parent’s Day Out and Preschool!

The children are adjusting to the school day and their new

schedules. It is delightful to see them moving from one activity to

another and hearing their joyful voices throughout the hallways. A

huge thank you to the volunteer parents who have been staying to

help make the transition smoother for the little ones! Your help is

invaluable.

Thank you for coming to our Open House… we were thrilled to have

you come with your children and meet their teachers. We loved

seeing you all and our hope is that the morning helped ease the

transition into school and raised your comfort level in leaving your

children in our care.

Did you know that we have fire drills each month? This helps to

keep our children safe, ensuring they know what to do in case of an

emergency. To build bridges with our community helpers, we are

having visits from Greenwood Village Police and South Metro Fire

on September 30th and October 1st and 2nd. While seeing their

vehicles is the highlight of their visits, the children also learn what to

do in an emergency and learn that these community workers are

here to help us. We also have Tornado Drills and Lockdown Drills

each month.

Did you know that 15 hours of In-Service training are required

annually for all who work in early education? On Friday, October

4th, Hope will be closed so the staff can attend a full day of classes

and training. It is a wonderful way for us to keep on top of new

ideas and become better-informed educators.

Picture week is October 7th. We will be having class and individual

pictures throughout the week. We will send more information home

soon.

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Hope PDO & Preschool October 2019

In this issue:

Nursery Rhymes…….4 - 6

Calendar…………….8 - 9

Volunteers……………..10

Meet the Staff…...11 - 13

Final Thoughts and

Announcements……..14

Director’s Letter (continued from page 1)

All our before and after school enrichment activities are off and running! Our Monday and

Tuesday Jump Bunch kids are busy moving, and Miss Kim has our Dancers off to a great

start. Nicole Conry is busy teaching Spanish. Muy buen! Mrs. H and her PEP (Preschool

Enrichment Program) kids are busy learning and having fun every day after school. We still

have a few openings on some days in each of these activities. Let us know if you are

interested. There are forms outside of the office as well.

~So many thank yous~

We had our first delicious staff breakfast September 6. A BIG thank you goes out to Julie

Orton. What a treat!

We had a successful Scholastic Book Fair last week. A huge thank you to Debbie Kadlec for

chairing this event. Thank you to Jennifer Gibson and Tarin Trobec for helping set up and to

all of our volunteers who covered a shift! What a blessing this community is! Thank you!

~Noteworthy and Newsworthy~

• Thank you for your help with sunscreen! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

If you want your child to get some vitamin D each day, please come by the office and

check the “exempt” box for sunscreen. If you want your child to have sunscreen each

day before playground time we are asking you to please supply a sunscreen stick

labeled with your child’s name. Sunscreen sticks will make it easy for the staff to apply

sunscreen to so many children. Sunscreen cannot be kept in totes, so please be sure it is

with your child’s teacher.

• Thank you for signing up for your emergency volunteer days. You will receive a reminder

email from Sign Up Genius a few days before your day, and there will be a list of monthly

volunteers in our newsletter. If you need to double check the day you signed up for or

change your day, the link is https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4facaf23aaf85-

emergency2. If it is your day to be our emergency parent, please come and check in

with the office that morning. Remember to keep your calendar open for the day, just in

case. We greatly appreciate your help.

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Director’s Letter (continued from page 2)

• Halloween is just around the corner! To celebrate, we have a fun sing along and

costume party with our preschool, Pre-K and JrK children on Wednesday and Thursday,

October 30th and 31st. We will start at about 9:45 upstairs in the Fellowship Hall. Parents

are welcome to join us for the fun. The children parade in a circle by class, and then we

do a group sing along. If your child does not come on those days, you are more than

welcome to join us! (Bears and Hedgehogs will celebrate in their rooms.)

• Fall Break is October 14th - October 18th.

• Please remember that we follow the Cherry Creek School District for holidays and school

closure days. If Cherry Creek Schools are closed, so are we. If they are on a delay, we

have a 30-minute delay, with school starting at 9:30.

• King Soopers has a NEW, more convenient way to give back to Hope. To enroll, register

your King Soopers loyalty card online, then connect your account to Hope PDO and

Preschool. Once you have selected Hope, you are done! Each time you make a

purchase and scan your SooperCard or alternate ID, a percentage will be given back to

our school. Fliers with additional instructions are available outside the office. Thank you to

all parents who are shopping at King Soopers and contributing to Hope.

• Please remember to sign your child in and out each day with your full signature. Initials

do not satisfy the state requirements for these papers which are legal documents. We

ask that you please remember to sign your child out of any enrichment that they attend

as well. Thank you!

• Please remember that school hours are 9:00-1:00 each day. Please do not leave your

child in their classroom until the teacher is in the room. Thank you!

• At each of your child’s well visits, ask your doctor for new, signed Health and

Immunization Forms for our records. You can pick up Hope’s specific Health Form in the

office or use the general Health Form from your doctor’s office. State regulations require

updated forms annually. Thank you for helping us keep our files up to date!

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Director’s Letter (continued from page 3)

• If you have any changes regarding your information, please let us know. We need up to

date phone numbers, addresses, and lists of people who are allowed to pick up your

child.

• The healthy lunches and snacks that we are seeing are wonderful - thank you so

much! And thank you for bringing those full water bottles each day. It is so important for

the children to have easy access to water throughout the day.

• We have posted playground rules outside for all to see. We appreciate your help in

following these rules when you are outside with your children, as this makes it easier for us

all to be consistent. Thank you!

• If you have papers in your child’s tote for us, please be sure to tell us as we don’t check

the inside of totes regularly.

• We already have a few items in the lost in found, including a pink scooter and helmet.

We thank you for choosing Hope for your young children’s early childhood experience. We

are very excited about the school year and all the fun, love and learning that is already

happening! It is a blessing to work with your beautiful children.

Serving Him with love,

Robyn Maxum

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Nursery Rhymes In keeping with our belief that kindergarten readiness begins at birth, we will be stressing several

nursery rhymes each month. Children love Mother Goose because “she enchants the ears and

knows how to make words sound wonderful.” This is a big part of phonemic (the sounds that letters

make) awareness and is a necessary pre-reading tool. Help your children learn these rhymes and

have fun! The nursery rhymes we will be using are taken from Mother Goose: A Treasury of Best-

Loved Rhymes illustrated by Tim and Greg Hildebrandt and edited by Watty Piper.

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September Mary Had A Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb,

It's fleece was white as snow;

And everywhere that Mary went

The lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school one day

Which was against the rule;

It made the children laugh and play,

To see a lamb at school.

And so the teacher turned him out,

But still he lingered near;

And waited patiently about

Till Mary did appear

"What makes the lamb love Mary

so?"

The eager children cry;

"Why, Mary loves the lamb, you

know,"

The teacher did reply.

Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey diddle diddle,

The Cat and the fiddle,

The Cow jumped over the moon,

The little Dog laughed to see such

sport,

And the Dish ran away with the

Spoon

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September Teddy Bear

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Turn around!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Touch the ground!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Jump up high!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Touch the sky!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Bend down low!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Touch you toes!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Turn out the light!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,

Say good night!

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory Dickory dock,

The mouse ran up the clock,

The clock struck one

The mouse ran down,

Hickory Dickory dock.

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October Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater

Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,

Had a wife and couldn’t keep

her.

He put her in a pumpkin shell

And there he kept her very well.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider crawled up

the water spout.

Down came the rain, and

washed the spider out.

Out came the sun, and dried up

all the rain,

and the itsy bitsy spider went up

the spout again.

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue, come blow your

horn,

The sheep's in the meadow, the

cow's in the corn.

But where is the boy, who looks

after the sheep?

He's under a haystack, he's fast

asleep.

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October 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Letter: Ee Theme: When I Grow Up Rhyme: Little Boy Blue

Letters: DEF Color: Orange Shape: Square Themes: Fall & Halloween

Review: ABCDE Theme: Fall

Letters: DEF Color: Orange Shape: Square Themes: Fall & Halloween

NO SCHOOL ~ NO SCHOOL ~ NO SCHOOL ~ NO SCHOOL ~ NO SCHOOL

Letter: Ff Themes: Family & Friends Rhyme: Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater

Letters: DEF Color: Orange Shape: Square Themes: Fall & Halloween

Letter: Gg Themes: Halloween & Spiders Rhyme: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Letters: GHI Color: Brown Shape: Rectangle Theme: I Am Thankful For...

NO SCHOOL

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November 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Letter: Gg Themes: Halloween & Spiders Rhyme: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Letters: GHI Color: Brown Shape: Rectangle Theme: I Am Thankful For...

Letter: Hh Theme: Hibernation Rhyme: The Bear Went Over The Mountain

Letters: GHI Color: Brown Shape: Rectangle Theme: I Am Thankful For...

Review: FGH Themes: Harvest & Thanksgiving Rhyme: 1,2 Buckle My Shoe

Letters: GHI Color: Brown Shape: Rectangle Theme: I Am Thankful For...

Letter: Ii Theme: Thanksgiving Rhyme: Two Little Black Birds

Letters: GHI Color: Brown Shape: Rectangle Theme: I Am Thankful For...

Review/Thanksgiving

GHI/Brown/Rectangle/Thankful For...

NO SCHOOL ~ NO SCHOOL ~ NO SCHOOL

Emergency Volunteers The volunteers for each day should check in at the office. If you’ve saved a different day, please

see Robyn.

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October & November Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Kelly Steinke

Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Claire Mccoy

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Lindsay Richards

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Jessica Mckague

Thursday, October 3, 2019 Kelly Steinke

Thursday, October 3, 2019 McKenzie Porteus

Monday, October 7, 2019 Tessa Johnson

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Robin Andersen

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Catarina Alisiani

Thursday, October 10, 2019 Lenna Loveridge

Friday, October 11, 2019 Catherine Jay

Monday, October 21, 2019 Kim Cotton

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Julie Orton

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Kelly Villalobos

Thursday, October 24, 2019 Hannah Nelson

Friday, October 25, 2019 Valerie Degaetani

Monday, October 28, 2019 Jaclyn Stolze

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Eleanor Brocato

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Tara Hoffmann

Thursday, October 31, 2019 Ashleigh Anderson

Friday, November 1, 2019 Vanya Hecht

Monday, November 4, 2019 Valerie Degaetanj

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Eleanor Brocato

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Paula McAtee

Thursday, November 7, 2019 Carissa Farrell

Friday, November 8, 2019 Kendra Berney

Monday, November 11, 2019 Gina Draudt

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Molly Bump

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Daniela Kirmse

Thursday, November 14, 2019 Dani Herman

Friday, November 15, 2019 Daniela Kirmse

Monday, November 18, 2019 Julie Holt

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Genelle Beerbower

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Tara Terella

Thursday, November 21, 2019 Lisa Piantanida

Friday, November 22, 2019 Kendall Forbes

Monday, November 25, 2019 Heather Thompson

Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Elizabeth Porter

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Meet the Staff

Name: Ashley Izaguirre

What class do you teach/assist? Assist MWF in the

Foxes and Bluebirds

How long have you worked at Hope? First year

Tell us about your family: I have two children:

Maddox is 4 and Landen is 9. My husband is David,

and we have been married nine years. We have a

dog named Ellie. Our family moved here three years

ago from Georgia.

Where did you grow up? Chatsworth, Ga.

When you were a child, what did you want to be

when you grew up? Hair stylist

What do you do in your free

time? Work out, hike,

Poshmark, thrift, craft

with vinyl machine.

What is one of your hidden talents? Lick my elbow

Favorite dessert? Cheesecake and red velvet cake

Favorite snack? Acai bowl

Favorite restaurant? Zaxby’s

Favorite place to shop? Marshalls

What is your favorite Starbucks drink? If not

Starbucks, what do you like? Caramel macchiato

What’s the coolest thing you did this summer?

Visited Maroon Bells with family

Name: Ashley Hastedt

What class do you teach/assist? Teach Turtles in

the Pre-K

How long have you worked at Hope? 14 years

Tell us about your family: I have two kids – Haley

is 17 and Landon is 11.

Where did you grow up? Maine.

When you were a child, what did you want to be

when you grew up? I always wanted to be a

teacher.

What do you do in your free time? I like to work

out, mostly running.

What is one of your hidden talents? I love DIY!

Favorite dessert? Anything chocolate!

Favorite snack? Cheese and pretzels

Favorite restaurant? Piccolos, of course.

Favorite place to shop? Nordstrom rack or online

What is your favorite Starbucks drink? If not

Starbucks, what do you like? Skinny vanilla latte

What’s the coolest thing you did this summer?

Went to Estes Park and stayed at the Stanley

Hotel and did the ghost tour.

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Meet the Staff

Name: Denise Connor

What class do you teach/assist? Music

How long have you worked at Hope? 1.5 years

Tell us about your family: Married 41 years. Four

adult kids: three girls and one boy. One grandson,

Cruze.

Where did you grow up? Denver native

When you were a child, what did you want to be

when you grew up? Olympic Swimmer

What do you do in your free time? Read, take long

walks

What is one of your hidden talents? Talk and sound

like a baby

Favorite dessert? Dark chocolate covered cinnamon

bears and cake donuts with no icing

Favorite snack? Potato chips and pistachios

Favorite restaurant?

Los Chingones and Seasons 52

Favorite place to shop? Ann Taylor

What is your favorite Starbucks drink? If not

Starbucks, what do you like? Lavender Latte

What’s the coolest thing you did this summer?

Played with baby Cruze and made hm laugh out

loud.

Name: Dawn Coleman

What class do you teach/assist? MWF teach Pre-K

Owls and TTh aide Pre-K in Giraffes

How long have you worked at Hope? 9 years

Tell us about your family: Married to Brian - 22

years. Son Owen (20) lives in L.A. as a musician.

Daughter Grace is 16 and a junior in high school.

Where did you grow up? Virginia

When you were a child, what did you want to be

when you grew up? A teacher (of course)

What do you do in your free time? Watch Grace

dance, go to the movies, read and go out with

girlfriends

What is one of your hidden talents?

Speed walker – ha ha

Favorite dessert? All of them. LOL

Favorite snack? Chocolate covered pretzels

Favorite restaurant? Anything Mexican or Italian

Favorite place to shop? Nordstrom and Target

What is your favorite Starbucks drink? If not

Starbucks, what do you like? Nonfat Chai. I love

Starbucks!

What’s the coolest thing you did this summer?

Visited two cities I’ve never been to: San Francisco

and Salt Lake City.

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Meet the Staff

Name: Jane Baker

What class do you teach/assist? Assist in the

Giraffes

How long have you worked at Hope? 8 years

Tell us about your family: Dan, husband; son Beau,

daughter-in-law Marni and granddaughter Aubree;

daughters Brooke and Natalie

Where did you grow up? Aurora, Colo.

When you were a child, what did you want to be

when you grew up? Married with children

What do you do in your free time? Exercise and

gardening

What is one of your hidden talents?

Staying married - hahahaha

Favorite dessert? Cheesecake. Anything really!

Favorite snack? Cheese Popcorn

Favorite restaurant? YaYas

Favorite place to shop? Costco

What is your favorite Starbucks drink? If not

Starbucks, what do you like? Mocha

What’s the coolest thing you did this summer?

Went to the DaVinci exhibit at the Museum of

Nature and Science

Name: Denny Bahn

What class do you teach/assist? Pre-K aide with

Mrs. H on Mondays and Wednesdays

How long have you worked at Hope? 13 years

Tell us about your family: Tom, husband of 40

years; Two sons, Turner and Evan, and daughter

Hilary. Five grandchildren, Riley, 16; Mila, 9; Cora,

4; Holland 3, Reya 2.

Where did you grow up? Ohio

When you were a child, what did you want to be

when you grew up? Teacher

What do you do in your free time? Scrapbooking and

read

What is one of your hidden talents? Making

Halloween costumes

Favorite dessert? There’s not a dessert I don’t

like!

Favorite snack? Cheese popcorn

Favorite restaurant? Seasons 52

Favorite place to shop? Target

What is your favorite Starbucks drink? If not

Starbucks, what do you like? Vanilla Latte

What’s the coolest thing you did this summer?

Went to my happy place …

the beach.

Hope Church Trunk or Treat

PDO Families - you are invited to Hope's annual Trunk or Treat! It will be held

on Saturday, October 26th from 4-6pm in the Hope parking lot. Trunk or Treat

is a fun Halloween activity where kids can dress up and safely trick or treat

from decorated vehicles in our parking lot. We also have crafts and a cake

walk on the lawn. We will need people who are willing to decorate their

trunks/vehicles and are also looking for donations for the Cake Walk. We ask

that you sign up if you're going to attend so we can be sure to have enough

food! A light dinner will be served. You can sign up here https://

www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044fa8a728a1fa7-trunk3 or on the poster near

the Welcome Center, which will go up in early October. Please contact

Kate at kate.stapleton@hope-umc.org if you have questions.

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Final Thoughts and Announcements