Newsletter Week of October 11, 2015

Room 100 Newsletter

Week of October 11, 2015

This week we will continue our lessons of the lifecycle of a pumpkin: seed, sprout, vine, flower, green pumpkin and orange pumpkin. The Big Super Heroes will use the sequencing cards made in school to demonstrate our knowledge of this lifecycle. Look for them to come home this week and ask your child if they can use them to tell you how pumpkins grow!

We have a friendly witch who has been visiting our classroom and her name is Candy! She reappears daily in a new spot place in our classroom. She is watching all we do and say! Candy is asking us to bring in some of our Halloween candy after we go Trick or Treating. She uses candy as fuel for her home during the winter months. She promises to leave us some new toys for the classroom in exchange some of our Halloween candy!

Religion

We will talk about the Blessed Trinity and relate it to a candy corn. We will identify the 3 colors in the candy corn (orange, yellow and white) to one piece of candy just as there are 3 persons in one God, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We will color a candy corn page and display them in the classroom with a poem.

Daily Lessons

Letter- T t

Number- 3 three

Color- orange

Shape- oval

Nursery Rhyme- Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater

Yoga- table pose and telephone pose

Stories

Letter T t Book

Number 3 Book and Song

Max and Ruby: Happy Halloween by Rosemary Wells

Clifford’s Halloween by Norman Bridwell

What is Halloween by Harriet Ziefert

Activities

The Big Super Heroes will use Crayola Model Magic and form a pumpkin with a stem and vine. We will let it dry over night and then paint it orange and green.

They will also use a small tree branch and glue fall colored tissue paper in it to create a decoration for your home. I hope you display it for all to see!

Journal- draw a candy corn and write or trace the words candy corn.

The Little Super Heroes will make a candy corn person to display on our hall bulletin board for Halloween!

REMINDERS!

Wednesday, October 14- Music and gym classes! Please wear sneakers!

Thursday, October 15- Please return all library books since we will be on our

class trip tomorrow!

Friday, October 16- Class Trip to Ramsey Farm!

Please arrive at the farm by 8:50am. Dismissal for half day students is with you from the farm at 11:30am. If your child is a full day student and they are going home with you, dismissal is with you from the farm. If they are a full day student and are returning to school, you will need to drive them from the farm to school for a noon to 3pm session.

CHANGE OF CLOTHES!!!!!

Please send in a fall/winter set of clothes for your child in a ziploc bag with your child’s name on the bag! The clothes were due last Friday, October 9 and we have only received a few so far!!!!!! Thank you to those who sent them in! You will need a pair of pants, a long sleeve shirt, a pair of underpants and a pair of socks. We will send home the summer clothes once we receive the fall/winter items. Even if your child is fully potty trained...you never know when an accident will occur! Other than bathroom accidents, there are times of spills during snack and recess as well as paint, mud/dirt from outside play. Without a change of clothes in the classroom, you will be called to come pick up your child an accident occurs!

Thank you for your cooperation!

ARRIVAL

Doors open at 7:50am and will now be closing at 8:00am!

If Mrs. Skros is no longer outside, you will need to drive around to the front of the building, park and walk your child into the main office to get a late slip to enter the classroom!

DISMISSAL!

If someone other than the parents of children are picking up, I need a written note to release your child to that person! I am aware some of you have regular babysitters and grandparents who who pick up your child and I already have written notes for the year allowing me to release them. If there is a last minute emergency please call the office and notify them of any change and they will notify me!

DAYS ABSENT !

Please call the office and let them know if your child will be not be attending school for any reason! You can also email me but the protocol is to inform the office first!

**** EVERYONE should have the school office phone number: (610) 399-8400