Registration Process

In order for your child to attend CDC next year, you need to register them in person on Monday, Feb 2nd. You need to be here by 8:00 AM prompt. We will give you a 1/2 a lottery ticket and keep the other half. After everyone has been give a ticket, we will start drawing #'s. Once your # is drawn, you will register your child in the CDC office. This is the fairest method to register your children. There is not enough availability in some classes for eveyone to get in. For instance, our MWF 3 year old classes fill up very quickly! We used to have people "camping out" all night the night before our first day of registration until we changed this last year. There is no advantage to arriving early now. Simply be here BY 8:00 AM and we will have you out of here within an hour!

Open House

Asbury Child Development Center
Open House
Saturday, January 24th
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Asbury Hope Building
980 Hughes Road
Madison, Al 35758

If you are not familiar with our program, please stop by and see what we are all about!!! This is a wonderful opportunity to view the curriculum & talk to the teachers.
If you are not certain what next school year brings for your currently enrolled child, please come and visit the next age group classes!
Bring your neighbors, your friends and all your questions!
Registration will take place in February.

Winter weather policy on school closings!

As most of you are aware, it is extremely hard to predict snow and winter weather accurately around here. There may be no need for this reminder, but we will go ahead and remind everyone of our weather and school delay policy. Once again, we follow what Madison CITY Schools do. If Madison City Schools close for the day, so does Asbury CDC. If Madison City Schools open 1 hour late (9:00am), we open 1 hour later than they do(10:00). That would mean car line and everything would operate the same, just one hour later. If Madison City Schools open 2 hours late (10:00), we will be closed. Please watch the news channels early any morning that we have winter weather for school delays or closings. Hopefully we will have gotten through to report our closing to them for display on your TV screen. You can also call the CDC phone # 837-0394. The latest information should be recorded on our voice mail.

Toys for Tots & Upper Sand Mountain Mission

Now it is time to bring in a toy! We finally have boxes for the Toys for Tots! Each child gets a sticker for every toy they bring in. Please have your child take their toy to their classroom first. The teacher will take them to put it in the box! We need enough toys to divide between these two wonderful missions, each of which will ensure that children will receive new toys this Christmas who might not have otherwise! Our goal is for every child to bring in a toy! Thank you all and may you continue to be blessed through all these missions!

Shoebox Mission

We ended up collecting 115 shoeboxes for needy children! I received a card from Mike Hurley who headed this up and he wanted me to thank you guys!

Dear Rosemary,

On behalf of Operation Christmas Child, I want to thank you and all the CDC families for your generosity and support of this mission project. Your donation of 100 + boxes was, to put it mildly, fantastic!! You all's support of this project will bring the love of Jesus to many needy children around the world. Please thank the CDC families for me.

God Bless,
Mike Hurley

Wow...

Operation Christmas Child Shoebox mission ended today and out of your generosity and effort, CDC was able to donate 101 shoeboxes!!!!! Mike and Janet Hurley, who are heading up this effort for Asbury, were blown away by the number of boxes. Thank you so much for all you parents did! God is soooo good!!!

Reminders....

Tis the season with so much going on!!!!! We feel so blessed and thankful to be a part of Asbury and a member of the family of God!

Operation Christmas Child Shoebox mission ends this Friday, Nov 21st. Thank you so much for all the boxes that have already come in! You parents are great...fabulous...awesome!!!

If the falling economy hasn't hit you directly and you are able, let's keep giving for the less fortunate. Starting next Monday, Nov 24, bring in a new unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots and Upper Sand Mountain Mission! Every child will get a sticker for every toy they bring in and the teachers will be talking about this in their classrooms.

News!!!

Ms Barbara and Ms Kim's 4 year olds won on MWF with 13 Holiday Boxes!

Ms Robynn and Ms Cind's 3 year olds won on T/TH with 9 boxes!

You parents all did a fabulous job bringing in the food and also, complete boxes! We broke out record of last year's 75 boxes!!!

Now, please consider putting together a shoebox for our Operation Christmas Child Mission. Your child will enjoy being a part of this!

And also, starting the week of Thanksgiving, we will be collecting new unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots and Upper Sand Mountain Mission. We'll do this through Dec 12th! We are so excited to be fortunate enough to participate in these worthy missions.

A couple of reminders

CDC closed Tuesday, Nov 11 for Veteran's Day! Enjoy!

ImagineNation Book Fair - Is nearing it's end on Thursday, Nov 13th! We are seeing children with some large orders! Yea!!! Please consider ordering for Christmas presents and CDC will benefit from it! Check with your child's teacher for their "Wish List" if you want to donate a book to your child's classroom! We will have a special award for the individual Top Seller!

Holiday Food Boxes - CDC collected a total of 90 boxes!!!!! Woohoo!!!!! I have not announced yet which classes won the Ice Cream party. I will announce this on Wednesday!

Correction to Book Fair dates

I'm sorry but the dates for the start of the book fair are wrong. We started the ImagineNation book fair on Monday, Nov 3...not Dec 3rd!

Election Day - Tuesday, Nov 4

Asbury UMC is a voting location and we are anticipating large crowds, possible long lines for voting and a congested, crowded parking lot! Even though this will all happen in a separate building, we want you to be aware that we will move the car line that morning as quickly as possible and extend it up until 9:30 if the demand is there. Please keep this in mind when you are planning your morning and when you go vote, please allow enough time to pick your child up on time! Thanks so much!!!

Book Fair - Postponed

Due to us not receiving the correct order forms and waiting on the new ones, we will not start the book fair until Monday, Dec 3rd. It will now end on Nov 13th

Imagine Nation Book Fair!!!!!!

We will be sponsoring an upcoming Book Fair which will benefit CDC in free books. It is called Imagine Nation books and features a beautiful selection of Christian and secular books. Your child will receive a catalog to take home on Monday and Tuesday, October 27 and 28. It will end on Thurday, November 6th. The children will receive token prizes based on the amount of books they sell. Our school will benefit with beautiful free books which will be used in your child's classroom! Ask your child's teacher if they have a wish list based on the books offered in the catalog and you can buy and donate a book to them. You can be assured that those books will stay in your child's classroom! This is a great opportunity to do some Christmas shopping and benefit CDC at the same time!!!

School Pictures

If you have not received your school pictures and want to stop by the CDC office tomorrow, Oct 3rd, we have them here! We'll be here between the hours of 8 am & 1:30 pm. If you don't pick them up before Fall Break, then we'll give them out after the break. The deadline for ordering is now Thursday, Oct 16th.

Have a safe and relaxing Fall Break and we'll see you back on the 13th or 14th!!!

Veggie Tales Tickets!!!

Way-Fm will be at Asbury CDC tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept 16 from noon - 1:30 to sell tickets for the Veggie Tale production God Made You Special. The Veggie Tales will be at Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville on Oct 14th. Tickets are only $10!

School Pictures!!!

Your child's individual school picture will be taken next week on Tuesday - Friday, September 16th - 19th.. Please check with your child's teacher as to what day their picture will be taken. Siblings may or may not be on the same day. Shoes may show. There is a sample of the background posted outside the CDC office. If your child is sick the day of their picture, you can bring them in another day to have it made!

Water Day

It looks like we might get to play in the water on Thursday and Friday of this week! CDC Water Days are August 28 & 29. We will be playing with lots of water including sprinklers and bubbles and each child will have a popsicle after their play time!! The toddlers will have a small wading pool! Please check with your child's teacher as to exactly what they are asking for in the way of bathing suits. Of course, everyone will need a towel and sunscreen applied before they come to school!!!

Open House

Don't forget about Open House on Monday, August 11th.

See the post below for times!!!

Backpacks or no Backpacks?

This school year our 4 year old Preschoolers will not need a backpack. Please just bring a change of clothes in a gallon sized ziploc bag to leave in the classroom. Your 4 year old will bring home a folder every day which you will need to return the next school day! All other preschoolers will bring a backpack, tote bag or diaper bag! We would love for our Kindergarteners to bring a tote bag but if you do send a backpack, please no rolling ones! They take up so much room!

Save the Date!!!!

August 20, 2008 - CDC will once again participate with Asbury UMC in sponsoring the Back to School Bash! This is an amazingly fun event with tons of inflatables, food, games and music!!! You don't want to miss it! It will be about a week after school starts on Wednesday, Aug 20th from 4:30-8:00. Be on the lookout for more info as it develops!