Dear Unicorn Families!
It’s
Spiders and Cider tonight. I will see
many of you there based on what the children have told me. I am excited for the event. Please remember, no masks, weapons or scary
costumes. There will be many little
children there and we do not want to give anyone nightmares. Please also remember that there are no
costumes during the school day. Halloween
is a very exciting time but we would like the least number of distractions in
the classroom as possible. This also
means no candy if possible. Candy has a
negative effect on a child’s attention span and focus.
Calling all volunteers!
Our school runs with the help of parents that can give a little bit of
time to make fabulous things happen for all kids. Our garden needs some parental support. There is a sign-up for daily watering that
takes a short amount of time and can be done any time of day. On Wednesdays, parent volunteers provide a
gardening club weekly from 11 to 1:00.
We are looking for parents to help supervise the children from all grade
levels. If you are interested in helping
out, please go to the FFO website – www.sunriseffo.org and look for volunteer options. You can also email Emily Franklin at EmilyEFranklin@gmail.com to ask
more questions or she can sign you up!
Thank you for your support.
As we finish the
last full week of October (wasn’t September just last week?), we continued with
our plant unit. We sorted seeds, we
observed seeds growing in our classroom and we talked about how seeds travel to
new places. We did visit the garden to
do another observation of our decomposing pumpkins and to check out the worms
that recently joined our garden community.
There were only a few that wanted to get their hands dirty with the
worms. In reading, we started talking
about mental imagery. We read some books
this week that use figurative language to help build those images in our
minds. We will start with some poetry
next week as we continue to explore mental imagery and how it helps us to
understand what we have read. This week
we began to talk about editing our stories and going back to make sure they
have all the important information needed to be a complete story. Next week, I will introduce a check list that
your child can use to help the process. By the end of next week, I will post a
sign-up genius to help us publish some books.
Jump Rope for
Heart ends next week. This has been a
very successful fundraiser, thank you to all who have helped out. Steppers begins on Friday, November 3rd,
if you would like to help out tracking laps, you can sign up on the FFO
website. Thursday, November 9th
is a full day of school and there is no school on Friday, November 10th. Thank you to the families that collected Box
Tops and sent them in.
I
hope everyone has a fantastic fall weekend and a safe happy Halloween if you
celebrate!
Mrs.
Berk
