Barnyard Bulletin | October 2026

Crystal Alvarado on October 2, 2026

Welcome to the Barnyard Bulletin

🍂It’s feeling like fall 🍂

I’m so cute, even the leaves fall for me!

Monthly Updates:

🍁October at The Little Red Barn 🍁

This month, our infants and toddlers will celebrate Dr. Seuss and his wonderful children’s books while developing an appreciation for literature. We’ll explore books more deeply through reading and discovering their purpose.

This Months Theme: Dr. Suess

Weekly themes: Dr. Suess, Ball Holder, Color Me Happy, Feeling Blocks

Why is Early Literacy so foundational?

Reading aloud offers an excellent opportunity to provide exposure to rich language experiences and engage in fun activities to build language as part of a daily routine.

In addition, five early literacy skills were also moderately correlated with later literacy achievement, including teaching

  • concepts of print: knowledge of print conventions (left-right, front-back) and concepts (book cover, author, text)
  • print knowledge: a combination of alphabet knowledge, concepts of print and early decoding
  • reading readiness: a combination of alphabetic knowledge, concepts of print, vocabulary, memory, and phonological awareness
  • oral language: the ability to produce or comprehend spoken language, including vocabulary and grammar
  • visual processing: the ability to match or discriminate visually presented symbols

Here is an additional resource with instructional suggestions that support preschool, emergent literacy:

Welcome baby Roman!

Reminders:

>> 🍂 Fall Clothing Check

Colorado mornings can start getting chilly! Please be sure to send a jacket or sweatshirt daily along with appropriate walking shoes. Some kiddos may need some cooler weather clothes options, as the season continues to change. Teachers will be notifying you if your kiddo need different clothes.

Please ensure that your kiddo has closed-toed walking shoes

for outdoor play, if your child is mobile!

🏷️Friendly Labeling Reminder

Please make sure all of your child’s belongings are clearly labeled with their full first and last name! This includes, but is not limited to items such as:
• Bottles/sippy cups
• Food containers
• Water bottles/sippy cups
• Sleep sacks
• Extra clothes
• Backpacks and lunch boxes; personal belongings

Proper labeling helps us keep classrooms organized, ensures belongings are returned to the correct child. We highly recommend using sticker labels whenever possible, as Sharpie and Expo marker labels can fade or rub off throughout the day. 😊

>> 🤧 Cold and Flu Season is Coming Up!

We encourage you to help us keep your little ones and our teachers healthy by keeping your child home when they are feeling unwell and communicating any symptoms or illnesses with us. Just as a reminder children displaying fever (100.4+), with multiple symptoms are unable to attend, until 24 hrs. symptom free.

Please make sure you are washing your child’s hands upon entering their classroom each morning. Starting the day with clean hands helps reduce the spread of germs while building healthy habits from an early age. 🧼💛

>> 📲 Keep Us in the Loop

We want to encourage all parents to communicate changes in sleep, feeding, medications, routines, or anything happening at home that may affect your child’s day with their teachers. Even small updates can help teachers better support your little one.

Closures & Upcoming Events

📌School Closures

  • Early Release Day on October 20th | Staff Development Day | All students will need to be picked up by 4:00pm

🫖 Grandparent’s Day Celebrations– We wanted to thank all of our Grandparents who participated in the Grandparents day celebration. It was nice to see the kids interact with you. 💕

Sensory Crawl on October 30 — Students will explore a sensory activity in the spirit of the holiday. Because Halloween may be unfamiliar to young children, costumes and large celebrations can make the classroom feel unsettling and may trigger a fight-or-flight response. To avoid added pressure or sensory overload, we will keep their routine predictable while introducing a fun new sensory experience.

Because costumes and traditional Halloween activities may be unfamiliar to infants and toddlers, we do not encourage families to bring elaborate costumes. Students and teachers may play dress-up that day, but please keep in mind that young children often feel more comfortable with simple activities and a familiar routine.

Here is a link to view the October Calendar for LRB

LRB October 26.pdf

Staffing Updates

-Miss Jeanie-

Miss Jeanie is moving out of state. She has been part of the Barn family for several years, spreading her love and joyful spirit to all the children, staff and parents she comes in contact with. Miss Jeanie’s grace and love continue to push her through day to day, her work has never gone unnoticed, especially through your work at The Barn. We are so grateful you were able to give that to us! Thank you for being you and thank you for helping Gods love bleed all over LRB. From the kids to the parents to your coworkers, we all felt it! Her last day will be October 23rd. We will miss her, and wish her all the best in her new chapter of life.

Upcoming Birthdays! 🎂


Colbie | 10/18
Milo | 10/28