Hello CCP Families,
We loved seeing the big blue Chapel Hill fire truck on Tuesday! The fire fighters asked me to make sure you have a meeting place for your family in case the unthinkable happens and you would have to leave your house due to fire. It could be a tree, the mailbox, or a neighbor’s porch. Please talk about your plan with the whole family and check the batteries in your smoke detectors. If your house has gas, please also have a carbon monoxide detector. Teach your children to go to the family meeting place to find you if there is a fire, and go TO the fire fighters if they are looking for you - they are kind and they are helpers. Use this language to make the fire fighters more approachable. This is fire fighter Brooklynn showing how she would look if she came to help your family:
Fire Fighter Brooklynn is a helper! Her oxygen tank makes a little air noise. It is giving her fresh air to breathe.
Next week has so many great opportunities for you! Hope you can join us for:
TRUNK OR TREAT - Sunday, Oct. 27 at 4:00 in the church office parking lot. Come in costume for games, candy, and fun!
PARENT’S BOOK DISCUSSION - Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 9:30 in Ascension Hall. Please feel free to invite other parents even if they don’t attend CCP. Pastor Lee will give us a summary of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and then we can discuss together what we face as parents. You can come in your comfy clothes & bring your babies, strollers, etc. We will have some toys available for the kids and some coffee for the adults! I’m very excited about this opportunity!!
HALLOWEEN PARADES - Read your teachers’ blogs for details. The 2’s and 3’s usually parade in the building and the 4’s parade (with lots of parents) on Market street just to wave at everyone and show our costumes. A note on costumes: nothing too scary and no weapons, please.
SPIRIT DAYS - Wed/Thurs, Nov. 6 & 7 - Wear your CCP shirt or you class color - green frogs, red ladybugs, blue whales, yellow ducks.
Please remember we currently have room for another 3 year old and another 4 year old at CCP! Please send your friends our way.
CONSCIOUS DISCIPLINE MOMENT: “Missing or emerging executive skills are at the root of what we call ‘discipline problems.’ Historically, children have been punished for not having these skills at certain ages. When there is conflict, we can choose to see a misbehaving child OR we can choose to see a child who needs help to learn a skill.”
At CCP, we try to see a child who needs to learn a skill. For example, if a child grabs the red crayon from another child. We use the phrase, “YOU WANTED____” Here’s how it may sound….You wanted the red crayon. You may not grab. Hold out your hand and say, “May I use the red crayon when you’re finished?” Or for a younger child….You wanted the red crayon. You may not grab. Hold out your hand and say, “Red crayon, please.”
This Saturday my neice is getting married outside. Sounds like it will be a beautiful day with lots of family fun!
Hope you have a lovely weekend, too! I wish you well.
Debbie