The Little Engine that Could and Green Eggs!

Week of October 31-November 3


Sound of the Week - E
Book of the Week - The Little Engine that Could
Mom of the Month - November (Laura Mansfield)


Reminder: Wednesday, November 2nd is LATE START!  9:30.


Thanks to Chris and Meredith Burns, our outstanding October Parents of the Month.  Even though our Wednesday was pretty Wacky last week, the kids loved having you Chris!  


I enjoyed meeting with you this week in conferences.  I continually am amazed by the hearts of the parents in this class.  No wonder your children are wonderful!


E Week is Exciting!  The Little Engine that Could is a favorite of all.  We plan to eat Green Eggs and Ham on Thursday (let me know if we need an alternative for your child).


Please see photos on the right of our Wonderful W week.


Remember to send a jacket or sweatshirt for your child.  We will play outside as long as it is not pouring rain.


Have an awesome week.  So glad that I get four days with the students this week.

Looking forward to a "W"onderful Visit from the "W"ool Lady!

Week of October 24-27


Sound of the Week - W
Book of the Week - Warm as Wool
Mom of the Month - Meredith Burns


Reminder - No School on Thursday, October 27th as we will meet for individual conferences.
I will send a reminder email about your conference on the day prior.


Tomorrow the "Wool Lady" will visit from Atlanta History Center.  She provides a awesome presentation as she actually spins sheep wool into yarn.  She also shares many household items that were used during the same time that our BOTW takes place.


You should have received information about Veteran's Day Service in early November.  We will discuss at conferences, but please return Stars with family and friends who are Veterans as soon as possible.


Please, please return your book of the week the night after your child brings home.  There were two families that were not able to have the book of the week last week as two were not returned.


We are enjoying having Joshua's grandfather read on Tuesdays and loved having Diane Parsonnet, Cooper's grandmother, read on Wednesday.  See photo to the right.  Cooper talked about his "Mimi" all morning and even named her visit as a PRAISE on Wednesday morning.  This group of students LOVES to have parents and grandparents read to the class.


I love your precious wonders!  They are a joy!

K Week - Kapok Tree

Week of October 17-20


Sound of the Week - K
Book of the Week - The Great Kapok Tree
Mom of the Month - Meredith Burns


Looking forward to another action packed week in kindergarten.  Our book this week, The Great Kapok Tree, is full of colorful, rich pictures that depict the beauty of God's creation in the Rain forest.  I do feel that I need make our parents aware that this book is written from a secular/save the earth perspective.  I think the book itself is fine, but there is a letter at the back of the book that reads "save mother earth".  I plan to black the mother earth in this letter.  I know the author writes from the secular perspective of saving what we have, and Genesis 1 shows us that God asks us to "care for what He has given." Both of our verses this week are from Genesis...God made the plants and the animals....all of them AND God set man over His creation to care for it.  I believe the book is valuable but didn't want this book to come home without explaining our concerns.  


We had three exciting visitors to our classroom last week.  Joshua's grandfather, Jon Colcord, visited and read our book of the week Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.  Vin's grandparents, Bill and Kathy O'Toole,  who live in Arizona, and returned on Wednesday from a trip to Israel, visited on Thursday.  Kathy read Maybelle, another wonderful book by Virginia Lee Burton about the San Francisco cable cars.  She and Vin also presented gifts to the class of olive wood crosses that she purchased in Bethlehem just for our children.  She shared that she prays daily for our class (which was an incredible blessing to this teacher).  To end our S packed week, our dad of the month, Chris Burns, visited and celebrated the students' awesome shape machines and then prepared Ice Cream Sundaes!  See pictures of all three and visitors to the right!  


As we only have 3 days in this school week, please return our book of the week, the next day. I plan to send the books home as follows.  
Tuesday - Kyra, Vin and Iris
Wednesday - Jacob, Sarah Kate and Hudson
Thursday - Joshua, Gavin, Cooper and Hughes


Also, please sign up for conference times for Thursday, October 27th.  Sent email last week with available times.  Thank you!

S Week - Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Week of October 10-13
Sound of the Week and Book of the Week - (in title)
Mom of the Month - Meredith Burns

A huge thanks to April Rodell, Lauri Bradley and Danielle Boos for a great Service Project Day.  The children were in great hands and I know the fireman felt very loved and appreciated.

Thank you to Alan Thomson for the great photo above from our Apple Orchard trip.  Look for an email tonight that includes the shutterfly link to get to Alan's photos.

We enjoyed Cynthia Rylants book When I Was Young in the Mountains last week.  It was so special to have Barbara Mansfield, Sarah Kate's grandmother, come and read this book and then tell us about how things have changed since she was young.  The kids were very interested to hear that there were no TVs and cell phones years ago.  (see photo)

The week before, Jon Colcord, Joshua's grandfather, came and read How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World.  Joshua grinned the entire time that his grandfather was here.  The students love to have guest readers, especially grandparents.  Look forward to meeting Vin's grandmother from California who will be guest reader this Thursday.

Thanks so much to Rachel Brubaker for being our awesome September Mom of the Month.  It was a very busy month and Rachel served so graciously.  Thank you...especially for your time in planning our Apple Orchard trip.  (see photo of our Nature Walk with Rachel)

This Week will include sponge painting, scribble art, Marching to Sousan, slithering, stomping, swaying, skipping, swinging and many other great S activities.

This weeks book, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, is another outstanding Caldecott award winner.  Be sure to check out ALL of Virginia Lee Burton's books.

Will send a sign up email very soon for our Conferences scheduled the last week of October.