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September 13, 2010
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Mrs. Crofts’ Classroom Newsletter

Yippee,it’s time for week 3!
Zoo-Phonics News
School pictures will be taken this week on
We’ve been busy drawing a’s in applesauce and b’s in
Wednesday, September 15. For record-keeping banana pudding. This week we’ll finish focusing on
purposes your child will be photographed regardless of Bubba bear and move on to Catina cat. We’ll also start
whether you choose to order or not. The order form was working on distinguishing left from right. See if you
sent home on Friday. Please be sure to return it no later can incorporate the concept of left and right in your
than 8:30 AM Wednesday morning. Thanks! child’s day. Such as asking him/her to put the fork on
the left side of the plate, asking your child to show you
their right foot when it’s time for shoes or helping
The field trip to the Uesugi Farms Pumpkin him/her think about which hand they use to hold their
Patch in Morgan Hill will be on Thursday, Oct toothbrush.
14. More information regarding the details of the trip will
be sent home soon. But don’t forget you will need to have Please send in your child’s box animal
of
taken the Keeping Our Children Safe Class in order to
attend. Dates and times of the classes are noted below.
crackers by Wednesday, September
15. After eating the cookies in class (yum!) we will
Our school collects the Box Tops for Education labels use these boxes for storing some small alphabet letter
that you will find on most General Mills products—like pieces. Look for the small red box of Barnum’s Animal
Cheerios, Go-gurt, Nature Valley granola bars, etc... We cookies in the cookie aisle of your grocery store. Last
receive ten cents for each label and every little bit helps year I found them at Safeway, but let me know if you
our school! Last year we collected over 13,000 and all the have trouble finding them. I have a few extras on
teachers had their hair spray-colored in front of the hand.
student body as a prize—lots of fun! You can place any
box-tops you clip in the red container labeled “Box Tops for
Have you asked your child to teach you Allie and
Bubba’s signals? They could probably show you more
Education” in the top left corner of the cubbies in our
than that if you refer to the list from your home visit
classroom. Please contact me if you have any questions.
packet. They sure are learning fast!
Upcoming Events
Other Classroom News
Sept. 13: Hearing Screening (This is a free service that is
In our Bible lessons we will be learning about
scheduled as part of our school day.)
Keeping Our Children Safe Class—1st Time 6:20 PM
The Flood and The Birth of Isaac. Our God
truly does keep His promises and both of these
stories remind us of that! We also learn about
Sept. 15: School Pictures
God’s power over all things in these lessons.
Fund-raising Dinner at Chevy’s 5-9 PM What a great God we have!
Sept. 16: Keeping Our Children Safe Class—1st Time &
Review—3:15 PM In math we will continue with the many
aspects of the calendar and start working with
Sept. 17: Keeping Our Children Safe Class—Review 7:30 PM sorting and matching colors and shapes. We’re
working on learning our birthdays. Does your
Sept. 24: Teacher Collaboration Meeting child know the month or day of his/hers yet? 

We wish Gabriella a very happy

Sept. 26: K1-K2 Sing at the 8:45 AM service
birthday which occurred on 9/12!  Thank
Oct. 2: Keeping Our Children Safe Class—1st Time & Review you so much for the great party bags!
—10 AM