JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009
Direct From the Director
Jan DeNichilo

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a great holiday.  December was a very exciting month.  Our holiday party was a great success.  Thank you to all the parents who brought in a dish to share with everyone.  Santa came and all the children were happy to receive their gifts.

I want to extend and extra special thank you to Mr. Latore, one of the fathers for being Santa, no one knew who he was and everyone was happy.

Every classroom had a holiday party on December 23rd and that was a huge success.

January will also be very busy.  On January 12th, our progress reports will be given out to all parents.  Conferences will be on January 15th and 16th.  If you need to talk to your child’s teacher, you can sign up for a phone conference on one of those days between 12noon and 2pm.

January 26th is the beginning of the Chinese New Year.  “Year of the Ox”.  Our children will be learning about this important Chinese holiday in their classrooms.
                      
February is a month all about Presidents.  We will be closed on Monday, February 16th.  February 13th is our Valentine’s Day celebration in the classrooms, look for sign up sheets.

All extra activities such as Kinderdance, Computers and Happy Piano will resume in January.  Please check our January and February calendars for special days.

Winter has arrived!!  Please remember to send in hats, scarves, boots and mittens for your children, we try to go out everyday as long as the weather permits.  If the temperature goes below 32 degrees, the younger children will not go out, but the older children 3’s and up still go out.

Prime Time tries not to close for inclement weather, but, if we have a heavy snow or ice storm we will try to tell parents by phone or on our web site what our plans for closing are.  We will also leave messages on our phones at the school.

PLEASE EMAIL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO YOUR DIRECTOR SO SHE CAN MAINTAIN A CURRENT LIST FOR QUICK GROUP COMMUNICATION.
    THANKS

Reminder!!  Starting January 1st due to our nations economic troubles, Prime Time is offering a 5% discount to anyone paying by check; we are also increasing the sibling discount to 15%.  When you make a payment in January we will adjust your payment and rewrite your contract.  All Tuition Express parents can switch to automatic payments from their checking or savings accounts.  Come to the office for paperwork.

We at Prime Time hope this is some help during these pressing economic times.

Tax season is here!  Tax ID #22-3007562
     
Spotlight Teacher “Brontos”

Ms. Tracy and Ms. Sherry are our Brontos teachers.  The Brontos are older 3 year olds that miss the cut off date for them to go to kindergarten.  These children will be our next Pre-K class.  Ms Tracy was a Pre-K assistant teacher and she asked that when the opportunity came if we would consider her for a lead teacher.  Ms. Tracy and Ms. Sherry are doing a great job preparing the children for
Pre-K.  They follow age appropriate curriculum and incorporated many fun activities.

The Brontos are always active during school doing activities such as circle time, story time, science, reading readiness, math and of course lots of play time.  Playtime helps them with their language and social skills.

The Bronto teachers work very well as a team and the children enjoy going to school because of this wonderful environment.

Prime Time is very fortunate to have such dedicated women on our staff.  Thanks for all of your hard work.
Ms. Jan & Ms. Yasmin

Question of the Month
“What is Love?”

Tais - “When you love somebody from the bottom             
 of your heart.”
Layla - “Caring”
Guy - “It means you love someone.”
Ryan - “Hugging”
Maximo - “Kiss”
Kohei - “Means friends”
Giuliana - “Have fun and play with friends”
Chaira - “Hugging someone”
Dana - “Mommy”
Johnny - “When you really like someone”
Samantha - “Sharing”
Emma - “That means sharing”
Alexander M. - “Loving our mommies”
Isabel - “To live in your heart”
Brandon - “To hug my mommy”
Alexander A. - “A family”

Children’s Anniversaries

Elliot Baines 4 years
Guy BenSadigh 4 years
Alexander Blumenthal 1 year
Nikhil Bovell 1 year
Gabrielle Capalad 2 years
Simon Dalton 2 years
Ria Ferriera 2 years
Oliver Figuero 2 years
Max Herrera 2 years
Karen Kawase 1 year
Oliver Gitierrez 1 year
Seryn Lee  1 year
Brooke Locastro 1 year
Marianna Moura 1 year
Ela Muftahi  1 year
Shugo Nanjo 2 years
Seiji Nanjo  2 years
Jason Perry  1 year
Dakota Pinero 1 year
Jonathan Policastro 1 year
Tais Ramos  1 year
Nicolas Ruggiero 1 year
Kristian Sekulocvski 2 years
Hugo Soto  1 year
Isabella Sterling 2 years

Teacher’s Anniversaries

Jacqui Feher 3 years
Nicole Iafelice 1 year
Ines Guvenc 1 year
Nicole Natal 1 year
Elsa Trelles 2 years

Children’s Birthdays
January
Giselle Petra Acosta 1/19/2005
Philip Alexopoulos 1/26/2006
Elliot Baines 1/14/2004
Kayla Brito 1/16/2004
Amanda Fukui 1/25/2007
Louis R. Garcia 1/21/2005
Connor Hurleigh 1/24/2004
Susie Lee 1/17/2006
Tagore Nanavati 1/1/2007
 
February 
Danial Alley 2/5/2007
Evan Auerbach 2/26/2008
Joshua Baek 2/19/2006
Nikhil Bovell 2/21/2006
Amanda Campos 2/9/2006
Nina Gruteser 2/22/2005
Chiara Kruithof 2/21/2004
 
Teacher’s Birthdays
January 
Yira Castillo 1/21
Penninah Drakeford 1/8
Rhiannon Reinert 1/31
 
February 
Teuta Aliu  2/7
Ines Guvenc 2/21
Margarita Marmol 2/22