My Community - Nov 5

Well today I learned that we don't need toys for the kids to be happy. :-) We put out all the grocery items you've been bringing us and some empty paper bags and the kids just went to town. They spent practically our entire free-time playing with the items. We also learned a new game: grocery dominoes. It's just like dominoes but the pictures are items you buy in a grocery store. The kids had fun learning to play. I took a couple pictures of the game. You can see them in the album: Our Community - Nov 5. www.apriln.shutterfly.com

In our survey one parent requested that I e-mail the newsletter on a weekly basis. I don't really want to add another thing to my to-do list but I'll copy and paste two of the most important sections into a blog each week. The information is below:


A Note From the Teacher

Well I just finished adding a ton of new information under our points of interest on our blog. I hope you take time to read through your monthly LAPSK newsletter because there are some wonderful ways that you can be involved in helping others.

Personally, it is a huge value of mine to find ways to help people in need and it is such a great thing to involve kids in these things so they can develop a compassionate heart early in their life.

So, check out the different ways you can be involved and then get creative with your kids about how they can help. If you want to donate food to help the Thanksgiving basket program, let your kids help you decide what to buy. You could work with your child to create a decorated jar that will collect your loose change to help send books to kids in Nicaragua. You could even help your little ones find small chores they do around the house in order to earn quarters to put in the jar.

All the details are in your November newsletter. They were in your buckets last week so let me know if you didn’t get one. :-)

-Teacher April

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we’ll be focusing on our community. We won’t necessarily be taking the traditional approach though. :-) We’re going to learn about pizza places and grocery stores, lakes to go fishing, the landscape of downtown and our own personal houses.

The kids have mentioned more than once how much they just love pizza. And well, I have to agree! So, we’ll be reading “Curious George and the Pizza” and we’ll make our own pizza magnets.

We’ll be talking about where we go grocery shopping and what we see there when we read “Tommy at the Grocery Store.” We’ll be practicing our sorting skills with all the grocery items that you donated to us over the last couple months.

What better way to learn about different kinds of homes then to read “The Three Little Pigs!” Plus as you bring in pictures of your homes, we’ll make a poster of them. That reminds me, I better get a picture of mine! :-)

Being that our school is pretty close to downtown Vancouver, and we live really close to a big city, we’ll be reading “Red Light, Green Light” which is all about what you see in the city. Plus we’ll make these cute city landscapes with oil pastels. That’ll be a new art medium for us, so we’ll see how it goes!

And with beautiful Vancouver Lake nearby, we'll have some fun with fish.