Day Cares

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General Information for Day Cares

Welcome to the Dancing Lights Ballet School 2010-2011 program. The Dancing Lights Ballet School is designed to enhance your child’s creativity in a noncompetitive environment. With a fairytale tone, children are inspired to dance, sing, laugh and act theatrically proving a strong individual focus on their own achievements, abilities and coordination.

Instructors Kristin Pontius (Miss Kristin) and Heather Ley (Miss Heather) will work together as a team providing a fun-filled, exciting program. Dancers will experience and learn graciousness, kindness and good attitude through dance. Be sure to ask your dancer about her dance classes! The girls are having a great time doing Dancing Your Dreams, Swan Princess, Jessie the Cowgirl, etc.

Dance Attire

Dancers are required to wear leotards, tights and pink leather ballet shoes. Hair should be pulled back into a bun or ponytail off of the face and shoulders. Please be sure to send your child to school with their ballet clothes on and their street clothes on top. There is no class time to change students.

Closings

There are no make-ups for inclement weather and holiday closings. Inclement weather closings will be posted on our website. Holiday closings are also listed on our website.

Handbook

Please be sure to click on our Hand Book tab. It explains all of our policies and procedures.

If you are not at the daycare on these days, you may bring your child in just for their 45 minute dance class or you may try another class at our dance school.

More than two inclement weather closings will result in a make-up class at the availability of teachers. Your tuition will be refunded if your child does not continue with classes.

We are offering a 5% discount for paying the annual tuition in full. There is a $10 discount for each additional family member. A costume fee of $85 is due by November 5^th by separate check. This is for the Spring Recital. There may be a second costume fee. This will be determined at a later date.

Registration

There is a $25 family registration fee. This is a per year fee. If you have already paid this during summer session, you do not need to pay again. Class cancellations may occur if a class fails to reach the minimum number of required students. Classes begin on October 5, 2011. Classes end in June 2012.

Recital

Participation is optional and non-competitive in all performances. A costume fee of $85 is due by November 5th by separate check.

Payments

All check should be made payable to: Dancing Lights Ballet School. Or you can pay online using PayPal.

Payments may be sent to: P.O. Box 63, Odessa, DE 19730.
All checks should be made payable to: Dancing Lights Ballet School. Payments may be dropped off at the dance school and placed in “The Box” or sent to: P.O. Box 63, Odessa, DE 19730.

JANUARY 2012 NEWS

Closures

These are our only scheduled closures:

November We will be closed the week of Nov. 21 – Nov. 25, 2011 for Thanksgiving Break.

December We will be closed the week of December 22 – January 1 for Christmas Break.

March We will be closed the week of April 6, 2012 – April 13, 2012 for Spring Break.

May We will be closed on May 28, 2012 for Memorial Day.
These dates are already planned into our dance schedule. There will be no make-up classes.

We will provide makeup classes for teacher illness cancellations and other random cancellations due to power outages, heater problems, etc…

We will only provide makeups due to inclement weather, after two inclement weather closures have been necessary.

Recital Costume

The 1st Costume fee for the Spring Recital is due with your November tuition. The 1st Costume fee is $85. We do realize that do to the economy you may need some extra time to pay the 1st costume fee. If this is the case, you need to contact Miss Kristin directly to make payment arrangements. We need to know, by December 5, 2011, if your child does NOT intend to participate in the Spring Recital. We will need a partial payment to confirm your commitment for the recital by January 1, 2012. The Spring Recital is being held on June 2, 2012 at Middletown High School. The week prior to recital, we will have two Stage Rehearsals (Tuesday – May 29, Wednesday – May 30) and two dress rehearsals (Thursday – May 31, Friday – June 1).

Contact Information

Please be sure that we have your correct email address and current phone number.
We will be emailing all New Letters

DADDY DANCE

You and your family are cordially invited to join us for Daddy Dance. It will be held on February 27th, and February 29th starting at 4:30 pm. Our performance location will be at Alfred G. Waters Middle School, in Middletown, DE. Your child’s exact day and time of performance is listed below. There is no ticket fee for this event. Your class tuition covers any fees. Please remember that there will be no classes held at Dancing Lights, Green Acres, or TLK during this week, unless otherwise notified.

Daddy’s During the week of Valentines Day, February 13th – 17th, 2012, and the week of February 20th – 24th, 2012, you are invited to attend a practice dance session with your daughter. Please arrive 20 minutes prior to the end of her dance class for a quick instructional period during these two weeks. This is not required, but a fun time for all. Daycare parents, we understand that this is during the workday! If dad is not available, moms make a wonderful substitute. We ALWAYS go over the dances and do a practice run-through on stage prior to performing!

Attire Our dancers are asked to wear their favorite dress. Please be sure to bring their ballet shoes, as they will be needed for their performance. Daddy’s can wear what they would like. We have had very casual (jeans), military dress, to full out tuxedo!

Flowers – All ballerinas love to receive flowers! This is a traditional way to show the ballerina in your life that you truly enjoyed her performance. In the past, most of the parents have given flowers to the ballerinas. Inevitably, there is always a little ballerina who does not receive a flower and feels left out. Even a single flower with a bow will make your ballerinas hearts soar!

Monday – February 27, 2012
Performance Time
4:30 Monday 12:30
5:00 Monday 4:30
5:30 Monday 5:30
6:00 Monday 6:30
6:30 Friday 9:30
7:00 Friday 10:30
7:30 Wednesday 3:45

Wednesday – February 29, 2012
Performance Time
4:30 Wednesday 4:30
5:00 Wednesday 5:30
5:30 Wednesday 630
6:00 Green Acres
6:30 TLK Middletown
7:00 TLK Smyrna
7:30 Friday 4:30
8:00 Friday 5:30
8:30 Friday 6:30

Reminders

Write names inside all ballet & tap shoes. Label all/any personal belongings your dancer may bring into class (dance bags, stuffed toys, jackets). We have noticed that a lot of our students are wearing hand-me-down shoes. Some of which are too large. Please note, that socks can be worn to aid in the fit of the shoe. Make sure that your daughter wears the socks with her ballet shoes. This will speed up the changing of shoes and not take away from class time. Please remember to knot (several times) your daughter’s ballet shoes and cut off the excess.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Daddy Dance – February 27, 29, 2012 – Alfred G. Waters Middle School
Mommy’s Moment – Early May 2012*
Picture Day – Late May 2012*
Stage Rehearsals (Tuesday – May 29 and Wednesday – May 30) – Middletown High School
Dress Rehearsals (Thursday – May 31 and Friday – June 1) – Middletown High School
Spring Recital – June 2, 2012 – Middletown High School
* Exact date to be announced

Communication

Your registration form also serves as our emergency contact sheet. If you have not turned in your form, please do so immediately. Please be sure that we have your correct email address. We will be emailing all New Letters.

If you are in a family with two separate households, please provide us with the contact information for both households. This will enable both sets of parents to receive the proper information in a timely manner.