Dragonfly News
October 14th, 2013
Just a note
In case you are new to our school or were unaware parents are required to transport and stay with their child during our field trips. It’s a great time to meet and visits with other families!
Blue Tie Dye Shirts
If you purchased a class t-shirt we will be sending them home Monday and Tuesday so they will have them for the Pumpkin Patch. If you haven’t paid for them please do so this week. Please wash them separately for the first 2 or 3 times.
Pumpkin Patch
Our field trip to the Pumpkin Patch is this week! We will meet at BiZi Farms on Thursday & Friday (Oct. 17th & 18th) at 10:00 for the morning classes and Thursday at 1:30 for the afternoon class. We like to meet about 15 minutes early if you can. Little Acorn pays for each child that is enrolled for one trip to the pumpkin patch with one adult.(Extra Adults attending are asked to pay $8 at the Farm) If siblings are joining us the cost is $5.00 for each extra child. You can pay for siblings in the store on the day of the field trip. The owners of the farm ask that your child be able to carry the pumpkin that the take home, they provide a bag for easier carrying. It can be a little muddy (if it rains between now and then) so boots are a good idea and towels for car can never hurt! The price includes: visiting the animals, mini-maze, hay pyramid, covered hay ride to the patch and a pumpkin. Remember to bring some quarters for grain to feed the goats!
Class Parties
We are having our class parties on Thursday October 31st. There will be sign-up sheets out for party treats. For the morning class, if your child doesn’t attend on Thursday we invite you to join us with your child around 10ish to play games and PARTY!! The children are invited to wear costumes if they want and we will parade around the school before the party.
Conferences
There is a signup sheet for conferences. I will be sending home a paper for questions and concerns, if I could have that back before conferences it would very helpful! There is not school on November 7th so that we can meet and discuss how wonderful your child is!
This week in the Dragonfly Class
This week in the Dragonfly Class we will be talking about Farms. We will be reading The BIG Red Barn and doing activities that go with it. We will be talking about what we will see at the farm we are going to be visiting and we will play animal charades!
Word Wall
The letter of the week will be Ff or Ii. The children love to bring items into share and this is a great way to have them start to think about beginning letter sounds so we encourage you to help your children find something they can bring in that starts with the letter of the week. The items go in a container at the beginning of the day and then after they have been shared they will go home.
Letter of the Week
Oct 21st Ee
Important Dates
Oct 17th BiZi Farms 10:00 and 1:30
Oct 18th BiZi Farms 10:00
Oct 24th Kindred 10:15 & 2:00
Oct 29th Halloween Read-In & Costume Contest 5:30-7:00
Oct 31st Halloween Party @ 10:30 and 2:00
Nov 7th Parent Conferences
Nov 8th No School (Church event)
Nov 11th No School Veterans Day’s
This week’s songs in the Dragonfly Class
Five Little Pumpkins
Five little pumpkins sitting on the gate
The first one said “Oh my it’s getting late!”
The second one said “There’s a chill in the air”
The third one said “But we don’t care”
The fourth one said “I’m ready for some fun!”
The fifth one said “Let’s run, run and run!”
Oooh went the wind and out went the lights
And the Five little pumpkins rolled out of sight
Upcoming Themes
Pumpkins/Scarecrows
Real or Pretend
Classroom Needs
Copy Paper for creative art
Thank you for sharing your lives with us!!
~Denise & Mikayla
