We will have a buys couple of weeks before Christmas Break! This week the Kids Korner shop will be at our school. You received a letter and envelope about it last week. If you would like for your child to participate, please send their money in that envelope any day this week. They will go shop after lunch!
We will also begin on our Christmas shirts too. If you have not sent in your child's 3 white t-shirts, please do so this week! We would appreciate any donations of red, green, and yellow fabric paint to make these shirts.
Next Wednesday we will have breakfast with Santa and our classroom Christmas parties. Room moms will be contacting you soon if you signed up to help with this party. Next Thursday your child can wear pajamas to school to participate in our Polar Express Day. School will release at 12:30 next Thursday.
Please send a seasonally appropriate change of clothes back to school with your child. Please put them in a bag labeled with their name.
We hope you all have a great week!
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
December 1 - December 5
Thank you to everyone who came to our field trip and our Thanksgiving lunch! We appreciated your help and the kids were so excited to show off their Indian outfits :-)
We will have Thanksgiving Break all next week. When we come back we will start with an AMSTI unit and begin Christmas.
When we return from Thanksgiving Break, please send a seasonally appropriate change of clothes back to school with your child. Please put them in a bag labeled with their name.
We will also be working on Christmas shirts in the coming weeks. If you have not sent in the three white shirts for your child please do so as soon as possible! We will also need red, green, and yellow fabric paint for our shirts. Any donations of fabric paint are appreciated!
We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a great time with your family!
Kindergarten Blue Pod Teachers
We will have Thanksgiving Break all next week. When we come back we will start with an AMSTI unit and begin Christmas.
When we return from Thanksgiving Break, please send a seasonally appropriate change of clothes back to school with your child. Please put them in a bag labeled with their name.
We will also be working on Christmas shirts in the coming weeks. If you have not sent in the three white shirts for your child please do so as soon as possible! We will also need red, green, and yellow fabric paint for our shirts. Any donations of fabric paint are appreciated!
We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a great time with your family!
Kindergarten Blue Pod Teachers
Sunday, November 16, 2014
November 17 - November 21
We had a great time at the GOTCHA party last week! We got to play some Minute to Win It games and cheer on our teachers and classmates. We will continue our Thanksgiving unit this week and continue work on our Indian shirts! We are excited to show these to you at our Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday.
If you have already paid for our upcoming field trip to the Alabama Nature Center on Wednesday, November 19...thank you! If not, please send the permission and money ($8.50) by TUESDAY. We can not take money or permission slips the morning of the trip. We need chaperones and we hope you can join us as a chaperone. If you are planning on being a chaperone, you will need to wear comfortable shoes and dress warmly. That applies to students also. We will be hiking, fishing, and digging in the dirt!
We will be having our CES Thanksgiving Feast on Thursday, Nov. 20. Parents are welcome to come eat with us. The cafeteria staff needs your reservation by Nov. 18 so they can prepare for the crowd! Cost for adult meals that day will be $3.75. You may pay as you go through the serving line. Please let us know by Tuesday if you will be attending lunch that day with your child.
There are a couple of other things going on during this busy week! The Student Council is having an Iron Bowl contest. They are selling strips of tape for $1.00 to tape our principal to the wall! Just send in $1.00 with the form you received last week and your child chooses their favorite team. Student Council uses the money they earn for various things during the year to help our school.
By now, many of you have heard about a little girl in our community, Raven, who was in a tragic accident two weeks ago. The PTO is collecting money to give to Raven's family. Please consider donating. You can send in loose change or make a larger monetary donation ($5 or more) and it will be sent to the PTO. On November 20th, the PTO will add all their money and give it to Raven's family.
Next week we will celebrate Thanksgiving! We hope you have a great week off with your family!
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
If you have already paid for our upcoming field trip to the Alabama Nature Center on Wednesday, November 19...thank you! If not, please send the permission and money ($8.50) by TUESDAY. We can not take money or permission slips the morning of the trip. We need chaperones and we hope you can join us as a chaperone. If you are planning on being a chaperone, you will need to wear comfortable shoes and dress warmly. That applies to students also. We will be hiking, fishing, and digging in the dirt!
We will be having our CES Thanksgiving Feast on Thursday, Nov. 20. Parents are welcome to come eat with us. The cafeteria staff needs your reservation by Nov. 18 so they can prepare for the crowd! Cost for adult meals that day will be $3.75. You may pay as you go through the serving line. Please let us know by Tuesday if you will be attending lunch that day with your child.
There are a couple of other things going on during this busy week! The Student Council is having an Iron Bowl contest. They are selling strips of tape for $1.00 to tape our principal to the wall! Just send in $1.00 with the form you received last week and your child chooses their favorite team. Student Council uses the money they earn for various things during the year to help our school.
By now, many of you have heard about a little girl in our community, Raven, who was in a tragic accident two weeks ago. The PTO is collecting money to give to Raven's family. Please consider donating. You can send in loose change or make a larger monetary donation ($5 or more) and it will be sent to the PTO. On November 20th, the PTO will add all their money and give it to Raven's family.
Next week we will celebrate Thanksgiving! We hope you have a great week off with your family!
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
Saturday, November 8, 2014
November 10 - 14, 2014
We had a busy week in the Blue Pod. Thanks for your support with the kids' first experience with the CES book fair. They loved getting to pick their very own books. Another book fair is usually held near Christmas and a final one in the Spring.
If you have already paid for our upcoming field trip to the Alabama Nature Center on Wednesday, November 19...thank you! If not, please send the permission and money ($8.50) as soon as possible. We hope you can join us as a chaperone.Let us know if you have any questions.
We will be looking toward Thanksgiving in the coming days and we will be asking for some help as we dye, paint, and bead Thanksgiving shirts for our CES Thanksgiving Feast on Thursday, Nov. 20. Parents are welcome to come eat with us. The cafeteria staff needs your reservation by Nov. 18 so they can prepare for the crowd! Cost for adult meals that day will be $3.75. You may pay as you go through the serving line.
In preparing our Thanksgiving shirts, we would welcome donations of fall colored fabric paint. The bottles you squeeze are helpful with our little ones as they enjoy painting their own Indian signs as much as possible. We could also use a few bags of pony beads for beading the fringe on our shirts. This is a fun time of preparation for the students as they not only learn about the history and traditions of our Thanksgiving in America, but they strengthen those fine motor skills with all the painting and beading!
Please remember we will observe Veteran's Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and there will be no school that day.
Have a great week! We welcome Mrs. Boyer back on Wednesday!!
Blue Pod Teachers
If you have already paid for our upcoming field trip to the Alabama Nature Center on Wednesday, November 19...thank you! If not, please send the permission and money ($8.50) as soon as possible. We hope you can join us as a chaperone.Let us know if you have any questions.
We will be looking toward Thanksgiving in the coming days and we will be asking for some help as we dye, paint, and bead Thanksgiving shirts for our CES Thanksgiving Feast on Thursday, Nov. 20. Parents are welcome to come eat with us. The cafeteria staff needs your reservation by Nov. 18 so they can prepare for the crowd! Cost for adult meals that day will be $3.75. You may pay as you go through the serving line.
In preparing our Thanksgiving shirts, we would welcome donations of fall colored fabric paint. The bottles you squeeze are helpful with our little ones as they enjoy painting their own Indian signs as much as possible. We could also use a few bags of pony beads for beading the fringe on our shirts. This is a fun time of preparation for the students as they not only learn about the history and traditions of our Thanksgiving in America, but they strengthen those fine motor skills with all the painting and beading!
Please remember we will observe Veteran's Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and there will be no school that day.
Have a great week! We welcome Mrs. Boyer back on Wednesday!!
Blue Pod Teachers
Sunday, November 2, 2014
November 3 - November 7
We had a fun and exciting week with the students this past week with our Red Ribbon/Drug Free Week activities. Thanks for participating by sending your children dressed for the theme day and we appreciate those of you who provided food for our special Halloween snack on Friday afternoon.
On Monday, we hope you will plan to join us for our 9th Annual Family Math Night. This is an opportunity for you tosee what is going on in your child's classroom as we strive to provide a strong foundation in mathematical concepts such as counting, making sets, demonstrating one-to-one correspondence and being able to record what they are doing mathematically. At 6 - 7p.m., we will be having you come to our classroom and your child will teach you! We will begin with moving directions in the cafeteria at 6 p.m.; we will be finished by 7 p.m. Hope to see you there; it is one of the most highly attended family events all year - don't miss out!!
You will also be receiving a field trip form in the folders today. We are going to the Alabama Nature Center/Lanark on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The cost is $8.50 per child and we welcome as many chaperones as we can get. We will be fishing, going on a nature hike, and experiencing a hands-on lesson with animal skins and skulls. This is a wonderful facility and we are so fortunate to have it close by. We will offer sack lunches from CES cafeteria at your child's regular lunch price or your can mark on the form that your child will bring their own sack lunch and drink from home. We will be gone from the school from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. As with our first trip, please return the signed permission form and money together. Thanks for your prompt attention to this; the quicker we get the forms back, the better for our bookkeeper and us!
This will be Mrs. McClain's last week with Mrs. Boyer's class. She has done an excellent job with the children and next week, the students will be welcoming Mrs. Boyer back to the Blue Pod!
Have a great week,
Blue Pod Teachers.
On Monday, we hope you will plan to join us for our 9th Annual Family Math Night. This is an opportunity for you tosee what is going on in your child's classroom as we strive to provide a strong foundation in mathematical concepts such as counting, making sets, demonstrating one-to-one correspondence and being able to record what they are doing mathematically. At 6 - 7p.m., we will be having you come to our classroom and your child will teach you! We will begin with moving directions in the cafeteria at 6 p.m.; we will be finished by 7 p.m. Hope to see you there; it is one of the most highly attended family events all year - don't miss out!!
You will also be receiving a field trip form in the folders today. We are going to the Alabama Nature Center/Lanark on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The cost is $8.50 per child and we welcome as many chaperones as we can get. We will be fishing, going on a nature hike, and experiencing a hands-on lesson with animal skins and skulls. This is a wonderful facility and we are so fortunate to have it close by. We will offer sack lunches from CES cafeteria at your child's regular lunch price or your can mark on the form that your child will bring their own sack lunch and drink from home. We will be gone from the school from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. As with our first trip, please return the signed permission form and money together. Thanks for your prompt attention to this; the quicker we get the forms back, the better for our bookkeeper and us!
This will be Mrs. McClain's last week with Mrs. Boyer's class. She has done an excellent job with the children and next week, the students will be welcoming Mrs. Boyer back to the Blue Pod!
Have a great week,
Blue Pod Teachers.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
October 27 - October 31
We had a great time on our first field trip to Hilltop Farm/Pumpkin Patch. The children were well behaved and we look forward to other trips with them. We hope to have another one right before our Thanksgiving Break. Watch for info to come as that develops.
You will be receiving information this week (if you haven't already seen it in your daily folders) on two important programs going on at CES. One is sponsored through our library program. It is the Read for Auburn/Alabama contest. This is a state wide program that encourages children to be read to at home. It is free and you can complete this in a six day time frame. Check your folder for full details.
The second event coming up next Monday, Nov. 3, is CES Family Math Night. This is a great way for you to see what your child is doing in math. Plan to bring your child at 6 p.m. and they will teach you how math is done! You are encouraged to visit other classrooms so you can see the connections from one grade level to another. This is one of the most highly attended events at CES every year. Don't miss it! The flyer you are receiving says Blue Pod is performing/singing at math night. This has been changed to our performing for the PTO at the January 2015 meeting. Just come on November 3 and have a great time!!
Finally, Drug Free/ Red Ribbon week will take place at CES from October 27- October 31. The counselors work with the children all week as we begin to help our youngest students understand the effects of drug use in a developmentally appropriate manner. It is a fun week for the children, and culminates on Friday with a costume parade on Oct. 31. (NO scary costumes). You are welcome to come watch the parade ( around 8 a.m.in the main lobby area by the lunchroom) and join in the fun for this creative day at our school. Students will enjoy a Halloween party on Friday afternoon. Room moms or your teacher will be contacting you for party food if you signed up to help at our Parent Report time back in September. Our special snack will be at 1:30 on Friday afternoon.You are welcome to join us for that , too. Reminders of what to wear all week are listed in the column to your right.You can tell it is going to be a busy week!
Have a good week!
Blue Pod Teachers.
You will be receiving information this week (if you haven't already seen it in your daily folders) on two important programs going on at CES. One is sponsored through our library program. It is the Read for Auburn/Alabama contest. This is a state wide program that encourages children to be read to at home. It is free and you can complete this in a six day time frame. Check your folder for full details.
The second event coming up next Monday, Nov. 3, is CES Family Math Night. This is a great way for you to see what your child is doing in math. Plan to bring your child at 6 p.m. and they will teach you how math is done! You are encouraged to visit other classrooms so you can see the connections from one grade level to another. This is one of the most highly attended events at CES every year. Don't miss it! The flyer you are receiving says Blue Pod is performing/singing at math night. This has been changed to our performing for the PTO at the January 2015 meeting. Just come on November 3 and have a great time!!
Finally, Drug Free/ Red Ribbon week will take place at CES from October 27- October 31. The counselors work with the children all week as we begin to help our youngest students understand the effects of drug use in a developmentally appropriate manner. It is a fun week for the children, and culminates on Friday with a costume parade on Oct. 31. (NO scary costumes). You are welcome to come watch the parade ( around 8 a.m.in the main lobby area by the lunchroom) and join in the fun for this creative day at our school. Students will enjoy a Halloween party on Friday afternoon. Room moms or your teacher will be contacting you for party food if you signed up to help at our Parent Report time back in September. Our special snack will be at 1:30 on Friday afternoon.You are welcome to join us for that , too. Reminders of what to wear all week are listed in the column to your right.You can tell it is going to be a busy week!
Have a good week!
Blue Pod Teachers.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
October 13 - October 17
Welcome back! We hope you all had a fun, safe Fall Break. It's hard to believe we have already been in school for 43 days! The kids have settled in nicely and you will be seeing their progress on the report cards they bring home this Thursday. Please sign and return them after you have a chance to review them.
We hope you found the permission slip for our first field trip in last Friday's folder. We will be going to Hilltop Farm Pumpkin Patch on Friday, October 24. We will be at school for the first half of our day and follow our regular schedule through lunch. The pod teachers, CES administration, and adults at the farm will supervise the students on this trip. The cost is $7.00. This covers the cost of the bus driver and bus gas, a pumpkin for each child, and farm costs that include animals' food that children will use during the trip plus hayride expenses. Please return the signed permission form with the $7.00 as soon as possible!
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
We hope you found the permission slip for our first field trip in last Friday's folder. We will be going to Hilltop Farm Pumpkin Patch on Friday, October 24. We will be at school for the first half of our day and follow our regular schedule through lunch. The pod teachers, CES administration, and adults at the farm will supervise the students on this trip. The cost is $7.00. This covers the cost of the bus driver and bus gas, a pumpkin for each child, and farm costs that include animals' food that children will use during the trip plus hayride expenses. Please return the signed permission form with the $7.00 as soon as possible!
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
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