Dear Parents,
Our field trip is fast approaching! We will see you at 9:00 on October 31! We will return at 12:00. Please be sure to feed your child a good breakfast and toilet them before walking into the classroom. If your child gets car sick, let the teacher know ASAP. If you said you would volunteer we ask you to please be sure you make it to the trip on Monday. It can be an unsafe situation when parents sign up to volunteer but do not show up the day of the trip. When this occurs, we do not have enough adults to keep the students safe and we would have to cancel the trip. If you say you can come, please show up. This trip is outdoors, please dress your child appropriately. We beg that no student wears a costume because it easily can get dirty at the pumpkin patch. There are some very small rides and loose fabric (like capes) can make using the fun rides unsafe. This week we will explore pumpkins by dissecting them, counting the seeds and making observational drawings of what we see. At the end of our pumpkin unit we will also be creating something called a Mind Map after our field trip. Children are given a topic (pumpkins) and instructed to think of pictures and important words that describe the topic. The children are then instructed to draw lines (so that people know that people know that pictures are connected to the topic). This graphic organizer helps children organize their thoughts through pictures and recalling comments. Our younger students (3 year olds) are only expected to a few pictures about what they remember about pumpkins while the staff does dictation. Our students who are heading to kindergarten next year, are expected to help sound out their words and create many detailed pictures about what they learned about pumpkins. Many parents were kind enough to donate some fall/Halloween decorations. We will be using what we have to decorate a big box in the annex for the kids to play in at the end of the week. Thanks for all of the donations! Our color of the week for 10/24 is black and our color for 10/31 is white. Please send in your small color pictures for our collage by Thursday of each week with your child’s name on the back. If your last name starts with F-J please bring in your supplies. We are out of many things and need more supplies. -2 containers of Clorox wipes -1 bottle of lysol -2 boxes of kleenex -1 bottle of hand soap -1 ream of computer paper -2 rolls of papertowels -1 sm box of Ziplock bags -1 large box of ziplock bags -1 3in black folder We will be asking you to fill out a ASQ form in the next 2 weeks. PLEASE be sure to fill this out and return it the following day. Thanks! Have a wonderful weekend!
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Teshera (Maia AM)
10/26/2016 05:27:43 pm
Thanks for your weekly updates.
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