Just a few reminders for our upcoming week:
- Our theme this week is APPLES. Your child will bring home a note on Monday, asking if they can bring an apple to school for Tuesday. We will be observing and comparing the different apples, discussing their life cycle and on Friday, we will be making apple sauce with our apples that they can then sample. Please send an apple to school on Tuesday if possible. Thank you!
- On Monday, your child will also bring home a form that reminds us that it is PHOTO DAY on Friday. It will ask you to select a background and a pose for your child so PLEASE indicate what you would like, write your child's name on the form and please return the following day. If we do not have your form, they will do a standard pose and background. Please note that they do their best to capture a great photo but if needed, there will be a re-take day (to be announced.) Students should be in complete uniform on Friday, including their red sweater. I will try to see if we can have our photos taken right after Mass, BEFORE recess, as to keep ourselves tidy:o) Thank you for returning the photo forms as soon as possible.
- On Tuesday, it is our traditional Meet the Staff Night but this year, we are trying to do something new with having a BBQ and making it more of a meet and greet with the entire school community. You are invited to come with your family, explore the school, visit with the staff, look through the classrooms (especially our own) and enjoy the company of our other school families. PLEASE ENSURE YOU VISIT OUR CLASSROOM TO PICK UP YOUR PARENT PACKAGE FROM YOUR CHILD'S TABLE. This package explains our routines and expectations for the year and includes a Scholastic Book Order form, as well as two magazine forms. There will also be a Phone/Email List for both Kindergarten classes attached so that you have contact information (and can set up those ever popular playdates:o) We also sent home a form seeing which families are attending so we have a better idea on how much food we need to please send back your response by Monday morning so we can order the Hot Dogs and chips. We are praying for good weather so we can enjoy some outside time but if we do have any rain, we will just bring our fun indoors. Thank you and see you on Tuesday night from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
- Scholastic Book Order Forms come home every month and will have the due date for the order written on the front page. Scholastic often has a great variety of books at a great price. (I think I have ordered something from Scholastic every month for the last 10 years!) PLEASE do not feel obliged to order anything but depending on how many orders we get, Scholastic will send free books and gifts to our classroom. Most of our classroom library are free books from Scholastic so for a teacher, it is a wonderful program and, of course, anything to promote reading:o) OUR FIRST SCHOLASTIC ORDER FORMS ARE DUE BACK ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th. Thank you!
- Chirp & Highlights are two magazines for children who send order forms to schools to see if families are interested in purchasing a subscription for the year. As a perk for teachers, who pass out the forms, they offer to send free gifts, depending on how many forms are returned from families. You do not need to order anything but if you return the forms-even if they say no to the subscription-they will send us free gifts. As a teacher, anything free is exciting:o) So PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN BOTH MAGAZINE FORMS (even if you say NO to them) by Friday, September 13th so we can get some free things for the classroom. THANK YOU!
- We are also looking for a few families who may be interested in donating or making play dough for us. I have a good recipe that makes great dough... 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, 1 cup of water (and feel free to add some food colouring as well) and then add a little cooking oil (NO PEANUT OIL). The oil is the thing to watch and is the ingredient that will prevent the dough from hardening. It will not need more than 1 Tbsp of oil but often, it needs much less so please check the texture as you knead it and add the oil as needed. Then place in an airtight container (an old yogurt or margarine container works well) and send to school. This is a great item to get in some time for work lieu hours and also a fun activity to do with your child. They often feel very proud when we use THEIR play dough during our centers. PLEASE do not feel like you MUST make play dough...this is only if you would like to at this point. We accept play dough throughout the year so anytime during the year that you would like to make or send any, please feel free. Thank you for your time and generousity.
- We also are looking for donations of any lego figures as well as dress up costumes, particularly community helper costumes. We do not need any animal costumes and we have limited space to store our costumes but if you have an old firefighter rainjacket that you no longer want, a Cinderella costume that needs a new home or a cape that needs a superhero, please feel free to send it to school for us to use in our classroom. We also accept pieces of fabric that students may use their imagination with to create a costume. Again, PLEASE do not feel you need to send anything but as we get ready for the costume season (or even after Halloween when no one needs their costumes anymore), please know that we also enjoy new additions to our dress up center. THANK YOU!
