Summer News:

Summer came and went in the blink of an eye! We had an amazing Summer Camp with exciting Summertime themes. The children began with celebrating the 4^th of July by learning the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner, making firework art and the American Flag. Our Underwater Adventure was definitely a crowd favorite. The children made ocean creatures out of a variety of materials, even an underwater reef out of an egg carton! The Out of This World, Outer space theme brought so much creativity as well with edible constellations made from pretzel sticks and marshmallows, telescope crafts, jet packs, and water bottle galaxies. For the very first time the children were able to enjoy 4 fun-filled days of our very own private waterslide. We all enjoyed a Bubble Show, Magic Show, Reptile Show and school carnival with a Petting Zoo! Thank you, parents, for volunteering at our school carnival it was so much fun to see you get silly with the games and interact with all the children.

We have had a few new additions to the school that we are excited for you to see. We have a Rock Garden Riverbed out in the playground inspired by our “Only One You” theme week, where the children each picked out their own rock, painted it, and put back so that everyone could enjoy. This will be one of Belltower’s new school traditions and as children enroll to our school, they will be able to leave a little piece of themselves there. We are also very excited to share with you are new school library! We hope that the children enjoy this new addition and you can always stop by, pick out a book and volunteer to read to your child’s classroom.

June Recap:

June came and went in a blink of an eye. First and foremost, we would like to thank our families for an amazing academic year! It has been an honor having your children be a part of our Belltower family. Our graduation ceremony was a huge success the children were beyond excited and we could not be prouder of all their academic achievements. The children performed beautifully and blew our expectations out of the water! We would also like to send a big thank you to our staff for all the hard work, dedication and love they give the children all year! We are very grateful for the group of wonderful ladies we have that come to work everyday and put their 100%, Thank you! Our celebration for Father’s Day, “Donuts with Dad” was so heartwarming. The children were so filled with love and could not wait to share their gifts with dad.

Enrichment was just as exciting in the month of June. We closed out the school year learning about our home state of California and what makes us so special and unique. The children practiced All-American favorites like, “The Star-Spangled Banner”, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, and Surfin USA by the Beach Boys! In Cooking, the children made fresh parfaits and learned how to make ice cream from scratch! In Art the children replicated the flag of The United States and learned why there are a certain number of stars and stripes and what they symbolize. We ended our year with a Luau Party for the entire school! The children danced and sang and had delicious food and yummy snacks! To all of our kids who are staying and joining us for July and August, we have an exciting Summer filed with new materials and themed based weeks!

May Recap:

May was a busy month full of love love, gratitude and appreciation. We would like to thank all of our amazing parents for being so generous and giving during Teacher Appreciation Week, we are truly grateful! Our Mother’s Day Tea Party was a beautiful event and we hope our mothers enjoyed their Mother’s Day card and special craft, the children put a lot of time and thought into them.

The Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success, thank you parents and scholastic for your generous donations, our classroom libraries are overflowing with new books! It was great to see so many of our parents at Parent-Teacher Conferences, your participation is key for success in your child’s education. Our focus was South America and the children and staff showed so much enthusiasm in curriculum planning and Enrichment activities. We made jeweled clay pots, rainforest feather masks, Nazca Lines and Brazilian bracelets for art class. The children learned many new recipes in cooking including Banana Cereal Pops, fresh tropical fruit smoothies and healthy cucumber style tacos. They danced to the beat in music class and were introduced to new musical instruments like Maracas! They also brushed up on their Spanish skills by learning popular Spanish phrases, colors and even filing in their family trees! For fun videos of enrichment each week please follow our social media pages.

April Recap:

We would like to start off by extending a HUGE thank you to all of our parents that came in and participated in our Easter Hunt and Week of the Young Child! The children had such a fun filled month celebrating with friends and family. Our Open House turn out was amazing, the children could not wait to showcase all of their hard work for parents to see and take home! We experimented all month with EXPLOSIVE volcanoes in each one of our classrooms and took a look at the exciting culture, art and species of Australia! The children hopped and danced to Australian inspired music during music and movement and learned many new springtime inspired Spanish vocabulary during Enrichment!

March Recap:

March was a month full of culture and excitement. Our Dr. Seuss spirit week was a blast and so many of our children and wonderful staff dressed up the part! We want to extend a HUGE thank you to our parents in the Elementary classroom that helped put together the children’s Family Trees! The children’s eyes lit up when talking about there family’s, it was truly heartwarming to see. We are so proud of the children’s open mindedness to try new foods and languages this month in enrichment and eagerness to explore new materials for art. Our younger children really enjoyed making their own moves to African Tribal music during circle time. Our plants flourished in the month of March because of our Primary classrooms putting in that extra hard work and love into our gardens!