Dragonfly News
September 16th, 2013

Just a note
There are a couple of dates that I want to bring to your attention to that are coming up fast! We will be hosting a fundraising event on September 27th called Laps for LAPS! This is the first year that we are hosting this event but basically you sponsor and you ask grandparents, etc. to sponsor your child for each lap your child completes (which is a made up course in our parking lot). A flyer with more information will go home Monday and Tuesday.

Our Fall Carnival is also fast approaching! It will be held on October 4th this year and we will need your help! This is a great opportunity to get some of your volunteer hours that are required in. We need help set up and clean up as well as manning our booth, which happens to be the ever popular Bounce House! There is a signup sheet out for this.

Pictures
It’s not too late!! If we don’t have your pictures you can still send them in! 
We will be finishing up our projects with pictures this week We need a picture of your child alone, one of them doing something they enjoy and one of your family. Please send copies of these pictures as you will we keep them all year.

Snapfish Album
Our Classroom Album is created and ready for your viewing!! I have emailed you the link to the website and the unique classroom code. If you don’t have a Snapfish account then you will have to sign up for one and then join our password protected group room. This is a fun way for you to talk with your child about their day at school and you can have a snap shot of what their day looks like. 

Kindred Visit
We are visiting the grandma’s & grandpas at Kindred across the street Wednesday and Thursday this week for the first time this year. (Thursday for the Afternoon Class) This can be a little scary the first couple of times because it’s a new atmosphere and some of the residents are in wheel chairs and some are sleeping. I will prepare the children for this by talking about how we all have similarities and differences. If you could talk with your child with positive energy about this time we share there it would be very helpful. This can be a very rewarding and joyful time in sharing our smiles & songs and that’s what we want to focus on.

This week in the Dragonfly Class
This week in the Dragonfly Class we will finish up with our All About Me theme. We didn’t quite as much done last week as I thought we would so we will trace our bodies, share the what I like pages and our family pictures. We created a self-portrait last week that we will keep for our portfolios and this week we will work on one to send home. We still need to measure our height and weight so we can track how much we grow this year!


Important Dates
Sept 18th Kindred Visits @ 10:15
Sept 19th Kindred Visit @ 10:15 & 2:00
Sept 23rd ASQ’s go home
Sept 23-26th Class Pictures
Sept 25th PM Class Pictures
Sept 27th Laps for LAPS
Oct 4th Fall Carnival


This week’s songs in the Dragonfly Class　
The Rhyming Song
Cat and Bat are rhyming words, rhyming words, rhyming words
Cat and Bat rhyming words
Cat and Bat!! (Continue with other rhyming words)




Upcoming Themes
Friendship

Classroom Needs
1 inch white binder with clear cover

Thank you for sharing your lives with us!!
~Denise & Mikayla