Halloween Agenda

Good Afternoon! The excitement for Halloween in our classroom is off the charts! We are doing H is for Halloween, Haunted House, and the Holy Spirit this week. This afternoon we are going to a special Halloween carnival our big buddies are throwing for us so your kiddo may be bringing home special treats and prizes this afternoon. Thanks to all of those who have sent in the items they signed up to bring and thank you for letting me know that the others are arriving tomorrow. Here is an outline of the schedule for tomorrow:
7:00-7:45: Students arrive at school in their costumes (even Miss Brittney will be wearing hers). Please have your child either wear their day clothes under the costume or send clothes along as we will be changing out of our costumes for recess and lunch.
7:45-8:10: Centers and crafts to calm us down a bit.
8:10-8:25: Jobs, dance time, bathroom break
8:25-8:30: Line up for parade.
**Parents meet us in the classroom at 8:25ish if you would like to do the Parade with us**
9:30: Wrap up parade, go to classroom, say good-bye
9:35: Change out of costumes, recess
9:50-10:10: Volgelweid Haunted House
2:15: Classroom parties-the other classes do not invite parents to the classroom parties. I am inviting parents to come but please do not feel like you have to come. I know that we are already having the parade but I want to leave an open invitation for parents to come if they would like.
Whoa it is going to be a busy day, so rest up families! We also had a fun afternoon with our big buddies!!!! See you all in the morning!
Miss Brittney

Busy, busy, busy

Hello, getting ready for conferences but wanted to take a minute to say, we did a lot of different and fun things today. Our gak worked today! (Thank you God for answering my early morning prayers today!) and we painted our feet, yes our feet and yes they are very ticklish so it was quite interesting... I will be seeing some of you at conferences either today or tomorrow but as always if you have any questions or concerns about your child, please email me, text me, stop in in the mornings or evenings, I will be happy to listen and try to help. Have a great afternoon, and we will see you after school.
Miss Brittney

Noontime News

Good Afternoon! Today we did some science and had a parent lunch day. Parent lunch day went great, thanks for coming! Brody and Murrow really enjoyed getting to eat lunch with you all. Our science went...not as great. We tried to make gak but the glue was not cooperating so we decided that that experiment did not work so we will try it again this afternoon. That's how science goes sometimes. So instead we made puffy paint using glue and shaving cream. It went a lot better! Hopefully our second attempt will be successful.
Tomorrow is the first day of parent teacher conferences, if you signed up but have not received a paper with your time on it, please let me know.
And I have just been hand delivered school pictures!! So those will be going home tonight:)
Have a great afternoon, see you after school.
Miss Brittney

Monday Message

Good Afternoon! We are having a spooky day so far in Preschool, we sang the song 5 Ghosts bouncing on the lake and now there are ghosts flying around my windows. But they are nice, friendly ghosts I have been assured. I have a feeling letter G is going to be a lot of fun...
We also recapped letter J by looking through the items that Olivia brought back in the letter bag. The Jenga block was a big hit! Thank you to Olivia's mom for helping her find all those J words.
This Thursday, we will be doing the Pledge of Alligence for KOMU 8 which will be televised at some point (I will be sure to let you know when you can see your cuties on TV:), if you would NOT like for your child to participate, please let me know and I will have some toys in the office for them to play with while we do the pledge. I told them that since they do such a great job of saying the pledge every day, we are having a movie made about us. I took them to the library where we will be set up on Thursday and we talked about things we will see when a movie is made (cameras, a director, so different people, lights, etc.). They seemed pretty excited so I hope we can keep that momentum until Thursday.
Thanks for sending back the assessments and the conference form. The conference schedule will be out later this week. If you have not sent it back yet, please do so as soon as possible. Thanks!
Parent lunch day for S-Z is tomorrow at 10:50 for our class.
That's it for today, see you after school.
Miss Brittney

Life's a dance, you learn as you go....

Good Afternoon! So I learned this morning that when making Jell-O Jigglers, you have to spray the mold before you pour in the Jell-O, so for all of you who may not have known this, well now you do, you're welcome :) It turned out ok though because the jigglers still looked like Jack-o-lanterns at snack and the kids really enjoyed eating them, and pulling on them, and jiggling them...This afternoon we are invited to Mrs. Dampf's 2nd Grade classroom for stories and snacks, they are pretty excited about it!
Assessments will be in the cubbies tonight, along with sign up sheets for parent teacher conferences. If you would like a conference please fill out the sheet and return it with the signed assessment on MONDAY, OCTOBER 23rd. Thanks!
Conferences will be October 25th and 26th so no after care and then no school on October 27th.
Next week we will be doing letter G for God (religion) and Ghost (Halloween). It should be a really fun time, I am looking forward to us using puffy paint for the first time...
Until next week, have a great weekend and we will see you after school.
Miss Brittney

Hear ye, Hear ye

Sorry for the title but I am listening to Disney Piano music at naptime and it seemed appropriate to go sort of Midevil...Anyhow, Happy Afternoon! We had a busy morning of pretending to be Jampires. We read a story about these cute little creatures that eat all of the jam out of everyone's doughnuts so we became Jampires and made peanut butter and jam cracker sandwiches for snack. Then we made jack-o-lanterns by ripping up construction paper, a skill that seems so simple but is actually kind of tough for these little ones. They turned out really cute, if not a little abstract.
Tomorrow, assessments will go home along with a sign up sheet for parent teacher conferences times. If you would like a conference, please fill it out and return it on Monday. Parent teacher conferences will be next week, Wednesday October 25th and Thursday October 26th, so there will be no after care on those days. This also means there will be no school on Friday, October 27th.
That is all for today, have a fantastic afternoon and we will see you after school.
Miss Brittney

Wednesday Wrap-Up

We are doing our first long term, multi-step project. We started this morning and will wrap it up this afternoon. They are being so patient while waiting for directions and for their turn to work on their 3D Jack-o-lantern that it makes me so proud of them! I thought doing letter J would be kind of tricky but its actually been a lot of fun, we have made a lot of cute Jack-o-lantern things and tomorrow we are going to read a funny book called "Jampires" and make a special Jam snack. On Friday I am going to bring in Jack-o-lantern Jello Jigglers, so it should be a tasty rest of the week.
Just a reminder that assessments will go home Friday and Parent Teacher Conferences will be next week, October 25th and 26th, with no after care on those days. We are also off of school next Friday, October 27th. Sorry for all the crazy scheduling, thus goes the school year. Have a great afternoon and we will see you after school!
Miss Brittney