Newsletter - November 11th

Star Class News

Week of November 11th

Thank you to everyone who came to the parent/teacher conferences. It is always nice to be able to sit down with each family one on one and talk about how wonderful your kids are and our goals for the year. If you were unable to make your scheduled appointment, Teacher Jo would be happy to meet with you one day after school.

New Schedule

This week our schedule is going to change a little, so it may take a few weeks for out kids to get used to the new outside time and snack time. Class time will still begin at 9:00 and end at 11:45, but our day while in class is going to change slightly. We will have the new schedule posted outside of our class.

Like Little Acorn Preschool and Kindergarten on Facebook

Our facebook page is going to become another means of communication for our school. We going to use it to announce school events, fieldtrips, regularly scheduled days off, etc. So if you would like another reminder, this is a great way to stay in touch with what is happening at our school.

February Fieldtrip Sign up

February 12^th we are heading to NWCT to see Goodnight Moon. This year we are only going Wednesday, February 12^th, so everyone is invited to attend. The cost is $5.00 per person. We need to how many people will be coming before winter break starts, so we will be setting out the sign in sheet this week. After your child's name please let us know how many tickets you will need. Please remember our school policy is that the teachers do not transport or supervise the children during fieldtrips, so you will need at least one adult per family. We will start collecting the money after our Winter Break.

November Family Fun Night

This month our Family Fun night will be a holiday “Make and Take” craft night. It will be on Friday, November 22^nd from 5:30-7. This free event will include ornament making, reindeer food, cookie decorating, and photo booth. The whole family is welcome to come get a jump on holidays and spend quality time together creating crafts.

Bake Sale

November 25^th and 26^th we will have our annual Bake Sale during school hours. We will be taking baked donations to sell both days. If you aren't a baker, then you can come and buys some goodies for your family!

New Schedule

This week our schedule is going to change a little, so it may take a few weeks for out kids to get used to the new outside time and snack time. Class time will still begin at 9:00 and end at 11:45, but our day while in class is going to change slightly. We will have the new schedule posted outside of our class.

Winter Concert

Mark your calenders for Tuesday, December 10^th at 6:00. We will be putting on our Winter Concert with the Butterfly and Rainbow classes. We hope that everyone can come! We will have more details when the concert nears.

This week in the Star Class

This week we are continuing our fall theme. We are going to sort, explore, and decorate with leaves. We are also going to create fall trees to put in our portfolios. If the weather continues to stay as nice as it was over the weekend, we will also be going on a Fall Scavenger hunt.

Word Wall

This week the letter of the week will be Aa for Apple and August. Your child can bring in an item that starts with the letter of the week and we will write the word out and put on our word wall. They can put their item in our pelican on the end of or cubby shelf.

Important dates and events

November 12^th Tuition Due @ Noon

November 18^th Santa Breakfast Tickets go on Sale

November 20^th Kindred 10:15

November 22^nd Family Fun Night 5:30-7:00 (Holiday Take and Make)

November 25^th/26^th Bake Sale

November 27^th – 29^th Thanksgiving Break

December 2^nd Tuition Due

December 4^th Ticket sales end for Santa Breakfast

December 7^th Breakfast with Santa 8:00-10:00

December 7^th-13^th Book Fair

December 10^th Tuition due @ Noon

December 10^th Winter Concert @ 6:00

December 18^th Kindred 10:15

December 19^th/20^th Bowling Field Trip 9:30

December 23^rd-Jan. 3rd Winter Break

This weeks songs in the Star Class

Sorry but we will already be singing Christmas songs!! If you hear them at home, we know it is a little early but in order to have at least some of the kids sing at the Winter Concert we need to start singing them now. We won't put them in the newsletter so you can be somewhat surprised at the concert.

Classroom needs

Various Colors of Card Stock

Pictures if not in yet -

Cubby picture

 All About Me books

Newsletter - November 4th

Star Class News

Week of November 4th

Fall is our favorite time of year with all of the colors of the leaves. We could use some colorful leaves for our projects for next week. If you and your family are out and see some great colors of leaves, please bring them in! We will be doing several different projects and could use as many as possible.

Day Lights Saving Time

We hope that everyone remembered to turn back their clocks for Day Light Savings time November 3^rd. Enjoy the extra hour in your day.

Conferences

This is going to be a short week due to Parent Teacher Conferences. Monday we will put a reminder in your cubby for conferences! Teacher Jo is looking forward to meeting with everyone so we can discuss how wonderful your children are.

November Family Fun Night

This month our Family Fun night will be a holiday “Make and Take” craft night. It will be on Friday, November 22^nd from 5:30-7. This free event will include ornament making, reindeer food, cookie decorating, and photo booth. The whole family is welcome to come get a jump on holidays and spend quality time together creating crafts.

Bake Sale

November 25^th and 26^th we will have our annual Bake Sale during school hours. We will be taking baked donations to sell both days. If you aren't a baker, then you can come and buys some goodies for your family!

Winter Concert

Mark your calenders for Tuesday, December 10^th at 6:00. We will be putting on our Winter Concert with the Butterfly and Rainbow classes. We hope that everyone can come! We will have more details when the concert nears.

Santa Breakfast

Saturday December 7^th, is our annual Santa Breakfast from 8:00-10:00 a.m. Tickets will go on sale the week of November 18^th and are $5 per person. We will have more details coming soon.

This week in the Star Class

We will be beginning our Fall unit, talking about what happens to trees and leaves in the winter and what colors we start to see outside as the weather gets colder. We will be creating some fall leaves to decorate our class. We will continue our unit into next week since we only have three days of school!

Word Wall

There will be no letter of the week this week for word wall, instead your child can bring in something from home and we will see if we can make up or find a word that rhymes with it! Remember all sharing should be put in the pelican to keep it safe until sharing time at the end of the day.

Important dates and events

November 3^rd Daylight Saving Time Ends (Fall Back)

November 7^th No School – Preschool Conferences

November 8^th No School – (Church Event)

November 11^th No School – Veterans Day

November 18^th Santa Breakfast Tickets go on Sale

November 20^th Kindred 10:15

November 22^nd Family Fun Night 5:30-7:00 (Holiday Take and Make)

November 25^th/26^th Bake Sale

November 27^th – 29^th Thanksgiving Break

This weeks songs in the Star Class

Sorry but we will already be singing Christmas songs!! If you hear them at home, we know it is a little early but in order to have at least some of the kids sing at the Winter Concert we need to start singing them now. We won't put them in the newsletter so you can be somewhat surprised at the concert.

Classroom needs

Fall Leaves

Various Colors of Card Stock

Pictures if not in yet -

Cubby picture

 All About Me books

Newsletter - October 21st

Star Class News

Week of October 21st

It was great to see so many families out at the pumpkin patch. It was great to see so many yellow shirts! This week we will be going to Kindred (across the street) to sing to the grandma and grandpas on Thursday if your child would like to wear their yellow shirt that day.

Conference Schedule

There will be no school on November 7^th so that we can meet with everyone and discuss how wonderful your child is. This week we will be setting out a sign up sheet for conferences, most conference times will be on the 7^th but we will also have a few slots before and after school that week as well. We will also be sending home a paper for you questions and concerns, if we could get that back at least a week before you conference it would be extremely helpful.

Halloween Party

We will have a small Halloween party on Thursday Oct 31^st and Friday, Nov. 1^st. The children are welcome to wear their costumes to school that day and we will parade to the church office and Maria's office singing for a small treat after the playroom. Then we will head back to class for some Halloween treats. A sign up for our snack will be out this week. You are welcome to join us for our treats, although our class can get rather tight. Please let us know if you want to come in (if we have a lot of parents, we will see if we can get another room). We are not planning games afterward but instead will be following our normal class routine, stories...a short playtime then sharing.

October Family Fun Night

We would like to invite you to our October Family Fun Night on October 29^th starting at 5:30. Come in your Halloween costume and enjoy some of the teachers favorite stores, then stay for our Costume contest. We believe there are 5 different categories this year and the winner from each will receive $10 off of next months tuition. The categories are: cutest, best homemade, most creative, best family themed, and spookiest.

Trunk or Treat

You are invited to join in all the fun of the 4th annual Trunk-or-Treat. This safe, fun and free event is presented by the church on Sunday, October 27th from 2:00 – 4:00. There will be antique fire trucks, skeet ball, candy at every trunk and light afternoon snack. If you would like to hand host a trunk contact the church office at 693-5881. The church is also accepting gently used or new costumes for families around the area that may need them.

This week in the Star Class

This week we are going to be exploring pumpkins as we pound on them, paint with the stems, look and feel the inside and create pumpkins of our own. We will also be doing my a project around our favorite pumpkin song. We will also be making some pumpkin dip to try on Thursday and Friday.

Word Wall

This week the letter of the week will be Ff for Farm and Fun. Your child can bring in an item that starts with the letter of the week and we will write the word out and put on our word wall. They can put their item in our pelican on the end of or cubby shelf.

Important dates and events

October 24^th Kindred 10:15

October 29^th Halloween Read-in & Costume Contest 5:30-6:30

October 31^st/Nov. 1^st Halloween party!

November 1^st Tuition Due

November 3^rd Daylight Saving Time Ends (Fall Back)

November 7^th No School – Preschool Conferences

November 8^th No School – (Church Event)

November 11^th No School – Veterans Day

November 18^th Santa Breakfast Tickets go on Sale

November 20^th Kindred 10:15

November 22^nd Family Fun Night 5:30-7:00 (Holiday Take and Make)

November 25^th/26^th Bake Sale

November 27^th – 29^th Thanksgiving Break

This weeks songs in the Star Class

Star Class Song

5 Little Pumpkins

5 little Pumpkins sitting on a gate

The first one said “oh my its getting late”

The second one said “there's a chill in the air”

The third one said “but we don't care”

The forth one said “I'm ready for some fun”

The fifth one said “Let's run and run and run”

Then ohhhh went the wind and out went the lights

and the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Classroom needs

Various Colors of Card Stock

Pictures if not in yet -

Cubby picture

 All About Me books

Newsletter - October 14th

Star Class News

Week of October 14th

 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!

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Our pumpkin patch field trips are this week on Thursday, Oct 17^th and Friday, Oct. 18^th. We will meet at the pumpkin patch at 9:45 and start exploring the different areas at 10:00. They are very strict that we stay together as a group and move from one area to another together. It is sometimes hard on the kids to not want to climb while we are waiting but if you get there early you can check out the store or hang out by the picnic tables.

Each child enrolled in our preschool gets one visit through the preschool, if you come both days you are welcome to join us both days but you will need to pay for the 2^nd day. We will have a sign out this week to learn which day you will come. The pumpkin patch has asked that only one adult attend with each enrolled child. Extra adults are welcome to attend. They will just need to pay at the patch. Younger siblings are welcome as well, children 1 year or younger are free, children older than 1 year will need to pay at the patch. The cost this year is $5.00 per child/$8 per extra adult. The price includes: visiting the animals, mini-maze, hay pyramid, covered hay ride to the patch and a pumpkin. Children will again receive a bag for their pumpkin. Children must be able to carry their pumpkin from the patch without adult assistance. Parents may purchase extra pumpkins at the patch for the going rate per pound.

Parking can be very tight this time of year, so you might want to carpool. Remember this is a rain or shine event, dress in layers and wear boots. You want to have an extra change of clothes ready for the car if it is muddy.

T-shirts

All t-shirts have been put into your child's cubby. We hope that they are all willing to wear them at the pumpkin patch!

Conference Schedule

There will be no school on November 7^th so that we can meet with everyone and discuss how wonderful your child is. This week we will be setting out a sign up sheet for conferences, most conference times will be on the 7^th but we will also have a few slots before and after school that week as well. We will also be sending home a paper for you questions and concerns, if we could get that back at least a week before you conference it would be extremely helpful.

This week in the Star Class

This week we are going to get ready for our farm field trip! We are going to read some of our favorite books about farms, play animal charades, and build activities that help us think about the different things we might see on the farm.

Word Wall

This week we will NOT be having a letter of the week. Instead the children are welcome to bring in items that they might see around a farm!

Important dates and events

October 17^th & 18^th Bizi Farm Fieldtrip 10:00

October 24^th Kindred 10:15

October 29^th Halloween Read-in & Costume Contest 5:30-7

October 31^st/Nov. 1^st Halloween party!

November 7^th No School – Preschool Conferences

November 8^th No School – (Church Event)

November 11^th No School – Veterans Day

This weeks songs in the Star Class

Star Class Song

Old McDonald Had a Farm

Old McDonald had a Farm, EIEIO

and on his farm he had a cow, EIEIO

with a Moo Moo here, and a Moo Moo there

Here a Moo there a Moo, Everywhere a Moo, Moo

Old McDonald had a Farm, EIEIO

cont. with different farm animals like a rooster, horse, chicken, goat, pig....

Volunteer opportunities

Classroom help – in class between 9:30 and 10:00 each day...sign up will be outside of class until assessments are done

Classroom needs

Various Colors of Card Stock

Pictures if not in yet -

Cubby picture

 All About Me books

Newsletter - Oct 7th

Star Class News

Week of October 7th

Thank you everyone that came to the Carnival on Friday! It was fun watching the kids play the bean bag toss and the Angry bird game! We hope you all had fun and thank you to everyone who helped out setting up, playing games, cooking food, and cleaning. We couldn't have done it without you!

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Our pumpkin patch field trips are next week on Thursday, Oct 17^th and Friday, Oct. 18^th. We will meet at the pumpkin patch at 9:45 and start exploring the different areas at 10:00. They are very strict that we stay together as a group and move from one area to another together. It is sometimes hard on the kids to not want to climb while we are waiting but if you get there early you can check out the store or hang out by the picnic tables. We will put maps out this week in your child's cubby and we hope you all can make it!

Each child enrolled in our preschool gets one visit through the preschool, if you come both days you are welcome to join us both days but you will need to pay for the 2^nd day. We will have a sign out this week to learn which day you will come. The pumpkin patch has asked that only one adult attend with each enrolled child. Extra adults are welcome to attend. They will just need to pay at the patch. Younger siblings are welcome as well, children 1 year or younger are free, children older than 1 year will need to pay at the patch. The cost this year is $5.00 per child. The price includes: visiting the animals, mini-maze, hay pyramid, covered hay ride to the patch and a pumpkin. Children will again receive a bag for their pumpkin. Children must be able to carry their pumpkin from the patch without adult assistance. Parents may purchase extra pumpkins at the patch for the going rate per pound.

Parking can be very tight this time of year, so you might want to carpool. Remember this is a rain or shine event, dress in layers and wear boots. You want to have an extra change of clothes ready for the car if it is muddy.

T-shirts

The T-shirts are purchased and ready for tying and dying. If this is something that you have done before or would like to help out with, let me know. This would count towards your volunteer hours and would need to get done this week.

This week in the Star Class

This week we are going to explore the alphabet using Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the mixed up Alphabet! We will be creating and talking about letters in our names, decorating letters, and cooking letters toward the end of the week. We will also be watching Chicka Chicka Boom the movie with our snack (letter biscuits) on Thursday and Friday.

Word Wall

This week the letter of the week will be Hh for Hat and Hippo. Your child can bring in an item that starts with the letter of the week and we will write the word out and put on our word wall. They can put their item in our pelican on the end of or cubby shelf.

Important dates and events

October 10^th Tuition due @ NOON

October 11^th ASQ's Due back

October 17^th & 18^th Bizi Farm Fieldtrip 10:00

October 24^th Kindred 10:15

October 29^th Halloween Read-in & Costume Contest 5:30-7

This weeks songs in the Star Class

Star Class Song

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

A told B and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree."
"Whee," said D to E, F, G, "I'll beat you to the top of the coconut tree."
Chicka chicka boom boom, Will there be enough room?
Here comes H up the coconut tree.

And I and J and tag-along K-All on their way up the coconut tree.
Chicka chicka boom boom, Will there be enough room?
Look who's coming-it's L, M, N, O, P, And Q, R, S, and T, U, V.
Still more-W and X, Y, Z.

The whole alphabet's up the...Oh! No!
Chicka chicka Boom Boom! Skit, scat, scoodle-doot,
Flip, flop, flee. Everybody running to the coconut tree.

(There is more but this is what we will sing at song time, check http://www.lyrics85.com/1012859/nusery-rhymes/chicka-chicka-boom-boom-lyrics.html for the entire song)

Volunteer opportunities

Classroom help – in class between 9:30 and 10:00 each day...sign up will be outside of class until assessments are done

Classroom needs

Various Colors of Card Stock

Pictures if not in yet -

Cubby picture

 All About Me books