Helping Hands Week - Newsletter

I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend! I got in some shopping, yardwork, reading, guitar playing, piano playing, and oh yeah, lots of rest! It was nice. :-)

Don't forget, we have pictures this week on Thursday and Friday. We'll stay inside on those days so you won't have to worry about getting any picture clothes dirty.

Check back on Friday for pictures of our week.

Here's the info from this week's newsletter...

A NOTE FROM THE TEACHER
Thank you to the many of you who have already completed our communication survey! Your responses have been overwhelmingly positive! One of you mentioned wanting the days of the week noted under points of interest along with the dates. I hope you notice that I’ve made the change. :-) If you didn’t get my e-mail regarding this, you can type this link into your web browser to reach the survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OZjNk71mc0mc6iuRnIM6Og_3d_3d

The last day to complete it is Friday, Nov 23 and it is a short 9 question survey that should only take a couple of minutes. Your help is greatly appreciated! :-)

In connection with the loose change drive and our “helping hands” week, we’ll be counting pennies as a math game. Please bring your loose change in anytime this week so the kids can use it for a counting game and then it can be donated to the loose change drive.

Thanks!
-Teacher April


THIS WEEK IN THE SUNSHINE CLASS
This week we'll be talking about how we can have helping hands. It’s perfect timing with our visit to Vencore happening this week. Before we visit the grandmas and grandpas we always talk about how it makes them happy to hear our songs and see our smiles and even shake our hands.

To honor our “loose change drive” we’ll be counting pennies into groups of ten and bagging them to donate. We’d love your help. Please bring in your loose change to count and donate anytime this week.

We’ll be putting together a helping hands bulletin board that will help kids think about ways they can use their hands to help others and we’ll make up a class story and draw pictures about how we can help someone. The kids have LOVED the class books we’ve put together and kept on our shelves so we thought this would be a fun addition for them to enjoy.

The kids enjoyed reading “The Little Engine that Could” back in September so we’ll read another version this week.

Along with those fun things we’ll throw in a couple of Thanksgiving-related counting games and fine motor cutting practice.

Oh yeah, we’ll be practicing our Christmas songs a whole lot! :-)