A Huge Thank you to everyone who made a Donation to the St. Jude Trike-A-Thon! We

had a blast raising donations for such an awesome cause! Here are some of our favorite

memories from throughout the week! Our classrooms did such an amazing job!

Columbine

Cadence Academy

6768 W. Ottawa Ave

Littleton, Colorado

Katie McKinzie

Director

Brandi Schaffner

Interim Assistant Director

Caitlin Trueblood

3rd in charge

September Memories

It’s that time of the year again and we are gearing up for our Annual Fall Festival !

Get ready for this fun time for the entire family.

Join us on Friday, October 19th from 6:30pm—8:30 pm, right here at Gateway Academy.

Bring the family in costume and let your little ones try their hand at a wide variety of exciting carnival games.

Each classroom will have a different activity or carnival game for the ch

Light refreshments will be served.

This year we will be doing a pumpkin patch to raise money for Local Military Families.

We are also trying to get raffle prizes for fundraising. If your company would like to donate please let us know!

We are trying for gift cards and we will be doing a free Parent’s Night Out and One week free tuition. Raffle tick-

ets will range $1-$5 depending on the prize!

As always, please feel free to bring along neighbors, relatives or friends to join in on the fun!

Watch your email inbox and the lobby for more details!

We are so very excited for our favorite month of all...October! The beautiful fall colors are beginning to show outside

and we have a month packed full of fun! Our Annual Fall Festival is planned for Friday, October 19th from 6:30 to 8:30

pm. We invite your family to join us for a night of fun, prizes and games. Here are some details of the event.

We encourage you and your children to dress in your best Halloween costumes for the festival! Since our Fall Festi-

val comes first, we are encouraging your child to wear Halloween colors the day of Halloween, saving their costumes to

be worn that night.

This year, we are going to fundraise for local military families. We really want to show our appreciation to the men and

women who have served or are serving our country. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask our management.

We are going to be putting on a pumpkin patch to raise money for the families, as well as a raffle. The pumpkin patch will

start in a few weeks and run through the Fall Festival. We are also looking for donations, gift cards, gift baskets, etc. that

families can buy raffle tickets for. The raffle tickets will range from $1-$5, depending on the prize. We will be giving away

one free Parents’ Night Out and one free week of tuition! If you would like to donate wrapped candy for trunk or treat, or

donate prizes for our raffle, we will collect these at the front office.

During the week of October 15th, we will have a pumpkin decorating contest! This is your time to decorate a pump-

kin with your child at home and bring it back to our school to share with their friends. Please feel free to take the pump-

kin home at the conclusion of the contest on Friday so you and your child can put it on display at your home! All contest-

ants will enjoy a prize. Please put your name on your pumpkin.

If you have not done so already, please take the time to change out your child’s clothing in their cubbies. As fall ap-

proaches and the weather gets cooler we would like to continue to take the children outside. Appropriate attire will be

needed in order to do this. We will continue to apply sunscreen to your child if the weather is permitting.

Our next family event will be Honoring our Heroes in November. We will be honoring everybody we know that has

served this country in military, first responders, etc. Please look for more information on this event as November draws

near.

Calista turns 1 on the 6th!

Peyton turns 3 on the 7th!

Adalyn turnd 1 on the 12th!

Evie turns 2 on the 13th!

Reese turns 7 on the 13th!

Syeer turns 1 on the 17th!

Destiny turns 6 on the 20th!

Henry turns 1 on the 25th!

Ms. Hannah turns ?? On the 25th!

Myra turns 1 on the 27th!

Mason turns 3 on the 28th!

The week of Oct 15th though Oct 19th we will have a pumpkin decorating contest for all

children, all ages. We will have our pumpkin patch available to all families who would like

to make a purchase for our fundraiser for local military families. Anytime this week, drop

off your decorated pumpkin in the front lobby with Ms. Katie or Ms. Brandi to be judged

on Friday, Oct. 19th by the children. Please be sure your child's name is somewhere on the

pumpkin. There are no rules and no boundaries! Just have fun with your child and enjoy

your time together during the activity. All children entering the pumpkin contest will get a

little prize bag. Please take your pumpkin home that Friday evening. Can’t wait to see

what you come up with!

Nursery A– William

Beginners– Brooklyn

Toddler A– Kenley, Carolina, Joseph, Greyson

Toddler B– Zoey, Grace

PreSchool 2– Claire, Eysan, Jaxson

PreSchool 5– Azra, Claire

School Age– Lily, Haven

Move "C" hand from

neck upwards as if

tracing the neck of a

Brush open hands down chest several

times.

Place thumb at forehead.

Move first two fingers back and

forth.

The children will also be

introduced to the

following signs (when

appropriate):

candy, dog, cat, bird,

duck, sheep, cow, turtle,

pig

Congratulations to Ms. Kimberly our

fabulous go anywhere teacher and our newly

toddler teacher who this month celebrates

her third Anniversary on Oct. 5th! We are so

happy that she’s a part of our Gateway family!

Congratulations on all of your accomplish-

ments! We cant’ wait for you to return from

your awesome 5 week course!! We wish you

luck and We miss you!

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All month, our Tod-

dlers & 2’s will paint,

color and learn and

experience everything

red, orange & yellow

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Fire Department

safety demonstration

10:00AM.

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Donations of

wrapped candy/

small toys are

needed for our Fall

Festival. Can you

help? Please NO

nuts!

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Library Visit: 9;45-10:45

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Beth Epley

10:30am

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Quiet classroom

parties today.

Please no costumes!