Dragonfly Class

Dragonfly News

Oct 27^th, 2014
 
Parent Conferences
Parent Conferences are scheduled for Thursday November 6^th (No School Thursday 11/6 or Friday 11/7).  There is a signup sheet out to meet and discuss how awesome your child is! If you have any questions or concerns that you would like to discuss please email me this week so I can give it my full attention before we meet. If you need a special time please let me know and we can arrange something.

Halloween Parties
Our Halloween Parties will be this Thursday & Friday.  The children are invited to dress up; we will parade through the classrooms and visit the grandma’s & grandpas across at Kindred.  We have a few games that we will play but always welcome more if you have any that you would like to bring and help out with. If you would like to come back for the party we will be starting games at 11:00ish.
 

This week in the Dragonfly Class
This week in the Dragonfly Class we will be talking about real and pretend.  We will talk about things that might scare us and why, we will talk about what is real and what is pretend.  We will take their lead in this and go from there.  We are going to read some favorite Halloween stories, The Halloweenier and The Little Old Lady That is Not Afraid of Anything!

Word Wall
The letter of the week is the letter Ee.  We encourage you to help your child find something that begins with the letter of the week.  This is a great way to get them thinking about beginning sounds and letter recognition.  The items your child brings in will be placed in a container until the last group time of the day where we will talk about the letter and sound. We will take turns sharing our items and then they will go home with them at the end of the day.
 
Important Dates
Oct 30^th & 31^st          Class Parties
Nov 6^th                   Parent Conferences/No School
Nov 7^th                   No School
Nov 11^th                 No School/Veteran’s Day
Nov 12^th                           Fire Drill

Upcoming Themes
Real and pretend
Fall
Families
Thanksgiving
            
Thank you
Thank you for sharing your lives with us!  We truly feel honored to share in your child’s life and want to thank you for including us!!

Please feel free to contact me by email at Drhodeshz@msn.com or by phone at
(360) 910-0982 if you have any questions or concerns.

Denise     

Dragonfly Class

Dragonfly News

Oct 20^th, 2014
 
Just a note
I hope everyone had a nice weekend and was able to enjoy this fall weather! We will be doing assessing this week and next preparing for Parent Conferences which are November 6^th.

I will have a sign-up sheet out this week for times, I will need to schedule some before class and some after class to fit everyone in.  I will be sending home a Conference Questionnaire, please turn these in before conferences so I can give any concerns or questions my full attention.  

Halloween Parties
Our Halloween Parties will be next Thursday & Friday.  We will have a sign up for items to bring this week.  The children are invited to dress up, we will parade through the classrooms and visit the grandma’s & grandpa’s across at Kindred.  We have a few games that we will play but always welcome more if you have any that you would like to bring and help out with.
 
This week in the Dragonfly Class
This week in the Dragonfly Class we are exploring pumpkins! We will be hammering golf tees into one pumpkin (a great fine motor skill), we will create pumpkins for our pumpkin patch, and we will investigate the inside of a pumpkin!  We are working on assessments this week as well but I want to assure you that this is low pressure, we frame it as a game and the kids are usually very excited about their turn. J

Word Wall
The letter of the week is the letter Dd.  We encourage you to help your child find something that begins with the letter of the week.  This is a great way to get them thinking about beginning sounds and letter recognition.  The items your child brings in will be placed in a container until the last group time of the day where we will talk about the letter and sound. We will take turns sharing our items and then they will go home with them at the end of the day.

Important Dates
Oct 22^ND                          Scentsy Fundraiser Ends
Oct 24^th                  Fire Drill
Oct 26^th                           Trunk or Treat
Oct 30^th & 31^st          Class Parties
Nov 6^th                   Parent Conferences
Nov 7^th                   No School
Nov 11^th                 No School/Veteran’s Day
Nov 12^th                           Fire Drill

Upcoming Themes
Real and pretend
Fall
Families
Thanksgiving                                         

Thank you

Thank you for sharing your lives with us!  We truly feel honored to share in your child’s life and want to thank you for including us!!

Please feel free to contact me by email at Drhodeshz@msn.com or by phone at

(360) 910-0982 if you have any questions or concerns.
Denise

Dragonfly Class

Dragonfly News

Oct 13^th, 2014

 

Just a note

 It’s Pumpkin Patch Week!!  We will not have school on Thursday & Friday, we will meet at the Vancouver Pumpkin Patch. As for all field trip parents must transport and accompany their child to the field trip. The Cost is $5.00 per child and includes a pumpkin! If parents would like to get a pumpkin they can pay $5.00 or .25 cents/lb for a pumpkin. We attend Rain or Shine (so let’s hope for sun!)  It is a good idea to bring a towel to wipe your pumpkin, hands, and whatever else might get muddy if it’s wet out.  A plastic bag for your child to carry their pumpkin is a good idea too.  We have never been to this Pumpkin Patch so I’m not sure is they hand out bags.  I thought it might be nice if everyone could bring a snack to share together after we get our pumpkins.  It’s a great time to get a group picture! J   Here is the address and information for the Field Trip, please plan to meet a few minutes ahead of your time.

 

Pumpkin Patch! 

We will be going to Vancouver Pumpkin Patch, at Velvet Acres. www.vancouverpumpkinpatch.com

18905 NE 83rd St, Vancouver, 98682

Thursday 10/16, 9:30 & 12:45  Friday 10/17, 9:30.

Cost: $5.00 per child, includes a pumpkin!

There will be a petting zoo, hay tunnel and hay rides. 

 

Fundraisers

LAPSK is a non-profit preschool; fundraising is an important piece to our program.  We have several fundraisers going on at the moment,  please don’t feel like you need to be involved in them all but we do Very Much Appreciate your continued support of our school.  We have a very special community here at Little Acorn and you are the reason why!  Our current fundraisers are: Kiggins Theater, Usborne Book eFair, Scholastic books, Scentsy and box tops.   We have a fundraising committee that oversees our fundraisers, if you have any questions or concerns about our fundraisers please see Katie.  I would also like to thank Karli Brown who is doing the Scentsy fundraiser! Karli donates 100% of the profits to Little Acorn from this fundraiser.

 
This week in the Dragonfly Class
This week in the Dragonfly Class we are reading The Big Red Barn as we talk more about farms, who lives on farms, why farms are important, and what grows on farms. We are also starting to do some assessing for progress reports.
 
Word Wall

Since this week is such a short week we will not have a letter of the week but your child can bring in whatever they want to share and we will talk about what letter it starts with.

 

Important Dates

Oct 6^th-15^th                     Scentsy Fundraiser

Oct 16^th & 17^th          Pumpkin Patch

Oct 24^th                  Fire Drill

Oct 26^th                           Trunk or Treat

Oct 30^th & 31^st          Class Parties

Nov 6^th                   Parent Conferences

Nov 7^th                   No School

Nov 11^th                 No School/Veteran’s Day

Nov 12^th                           Fire Drill

Upcoming Themes
Pumpkins & Such
Real and pretend
            
                                                   

Thank you

Thank you for sharing your lives with us!  We truly feel honored to share in your child’s life and want to thank you for including us!!

Please feel free to contact me by email at Drhodeshz@msn.com or by phone at

(360) 910-0982 if you have any questions or concerns.

Denise

Dragonfly Class

Dragonfly News

Oct 6^th, 2014

 

Just a note
Thank you for all your help in advance with the carnival, again I apologize for having to be away during this hectic time!   I hope that it’s a sunny evening and you all have a great time!
 
School Pictures  
Our Class pictures will be on Thursday Oct 9^th, we will have individual and class pictures this day.  If this is not your regular day to attend class please join us for pictures at 9:15 and then you may go about your day as usual J, if you are unable to join us this day your child can take pictures at 11:00 Monday or Tuesday of the same week. We will have a group picture first and then the children that are there just for the pictures will get their individual pictures and are then free to go about their day.
 
Pumpkin Patch! 

We will be going to Vancouver Pumpkin Patch, at Velvet Acres. www.vancouverpumpkinpatch.com

18905 NE 83rd St, Vancouver, 98682

Thursday 10/16, 9:30 & 12:45  Friday 10/17, 9:30.

Cost: $5.00 per child, includes a pumpkin!

There will be a petting zoo, hay tunnel and hay rides. 

 
This week in the Dragonfly Class
This week in the Dragonfly Class we are talking about Farms to prepare for our trip the Pumpkin Patch.  We will talk about what farms grow and who lives on farms.  We will not paint on the days that we take pictures, so feel free to dress your child in non play clothes.
 
Word Wall
The first letter we will feature is the letter Cc.  We decided to go in order so it would be easier for everyone to keep track of. We encourage you to help your child find something that begins with the letter of the week.  This is a great way to get them thinking about beginning sounds and letter recognition.  The items your child brings in will be placed in a container until the last group time of the day where we will talk about the letter and sound. We will take turns sharing our items and then they will go home with them at the end of the day. J

 

Important Dates
Oct 6^th-15^th                     Scentsy Fundraiser

Oct 9^th                             School Pictures at 9:30 & 12:45

Oct 16^th & 17^th          Pumpkin Patch

Upcoming Themes
Farms
                                                     

Thank you

Thank you for sharing your lives with us!  We truly feel honored to share in your child’s life and want to thank you for including us!!

Please feel free to contact me by email at Drhodeshz@msn.com or by phone at

(360) 910-0982 if you have any questions or concerns.

Denise