Barnyard Bulletin | April 2026

🌸 April at The Little Red Barn 🌸

Thank you for your continued effort and care each of you bring into the classrooms every day. As we move into April, our focus is on intentional engagement and classroom consistency!

Let’s continue to show up with purpose and energy for our babies!!

>>🏷️ Labeling, Labeling, Labeling

As teachers, it is your responsibility to ensure that everything in the classroom is properly labeled at all times. This includes bottles, food containers, personal items, crib name tags, classroom bins, and Water bottles. Please take a moment throughout the day to double-check all items are clearly labeled and up to licensing standards.

>> 🖌️Storage Room Materials

Please make sure that any materials taken from the storage room are returned at the end of each day. I’ve noticed items being left in classrooms, which causes things to get lost. All classrooms need to have access to what they need!

REMINDER: Before posting photos on Playground, please double-check that faces are clean.

>> 📲 REMINDER: Playground Expectations

Sunscreen:
Every application must be logged in Playground | We should be putting sunscreen on kiddos every time they go outside.

Name-to-Face:
ANY time you transition infants:

• Leaving the classroom to go to play area
• Returning from outside

You must log Name-to-Face in Playground!
This is not optional and ensures safety and accurate ratios.

>> 🫧Deep Cleaning

As a reminder, deep cleaning is a Weekly responsibility—not something that only happens at closing. Please be intentional about using downtime throughout the day, especially during nap time, to tackle your classroom cleaning tasks.

• Sweeping and Mopping Crib Area
• Cleaning underneath shelving, THE FRIDGE, and hard to reach spaces
• Using hot, soapy water bucket and a sponge to clean high chairs, tables, chairs

All cleaning checklists should be actively followed and marked off each day/week to ensure nothing is missed. A clean classroom reflects the level of care and pride we take in our work✨

>> 🍎 Daily Classroom Expectations

• 📱Playground Photos and Captions: Aim for 2-3 photos per child daily! One of these pictures needs to be curriculum! Add a short learning caption (doesn’t need to be long, just meaningful!)
• 📚 Don’t fall behind on Portfolios: Remember to start completing anecdotal observations and developmental checklists for Spring Conferences!
• 🎨ART: Make sure you are doing an art project once a day! You should be saving art for portfolios and hanging some in your classrooms – this looks great for incoming parents! Product art is ok, process art is HIGHLY encouraged!!!

>> Outdoor Play🌻 : Please prioritize taking kiddos outside!

• Make sure infants are dressed appropriately for weather!
• Piglets | REQUIRED that you go outside AT LEAST once a day, weather permitting
• Cuddly Calves | REQUIRED that you go outside 2-3 times a week | daily if possible – weather permitting