Grandparent’s Day!

On November 22 we are inviting the children’s grandparents to school. We need their addresses to send the invitation out. Please bring it on a note to school next week. Thanks!

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Important Dates in October

Tuesday, October 4- Monthly Parent Meeting in O’Ryan Hall, 8:00am.

Wednesday, October 5- Parent Educational Workshop: A Hands-On Guide for a Pro-Active Parent 6:00-7:30pm (at Good Shepherd School)

October 9-15,  FIRE PREVENTION WEEK

Tuesday, October 18- Picture day- all students will take their individual pictures again

Thursday, October 13, OPEN HOUSE, 6:00-7:00pm

Thursday, 8:10-9:55 Art (please be at school at 8am)

Monday, October 31- HALLOWEEN!     Halloween Parade and All Saints Parade- Look out for more information about this special day! Plan on spending parts of the morning with us.  12:30 dismissal- no aftercare on this day.

Johnny Appleseed

Tomorrow we are celebrating Johnny Appleseed’s birthday with our fourth grade buddies. Please bring an apple treat share!

 

 

Here is the story about Johnny Appleseed:

Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American who planted and supplied apple trees to much of the United States of America. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was a fictional character, but he was a real person.

Johnny was a skilled nurseryman who grew trees and supplied apple seeds to the pioneers in the mid-western USA. Appleseed gave away and sold many trees. He owned many tree nurseries in Ohio, Pennsylvania,Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, where he grew his beloved apple trees and then sold or traded them. Although he was successful with his trees, Appleseed lived a simple life. He was a vegetarian, wore raggedy clothes, and was a very religious man. It is said that as Johnny traveled, he wore his cooking pot on his head as a hat (this may or may not be true)!

Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774. His real name was John Chapman, but he was called Johnny Appleseed because of his love for growing apple trees.

Johnny died at the age of 70; he is buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had spent 50 years growing apple trees and traveling to spread his precious trees around his country so that people could enjoy apples. In 1966, the US Postal Service designed a 5 cent stamp honoring Johnny Appleseed. 

 

Picture Day- Tuesday, September 27

Please be at school 8 am on Tuesday, September 27. Pre-k will be the first class to have their picture taken. Both a group picture on the stairs infront of the school and an individual picture will be taken. 

Students need to be in correct uniform clothes on this day.  

Girls: jumper, sailor blouse, tie, white socks and black tennis shoes.

Boys: long pants, belt, gray polo and black tennis shoes. 

This week in Pre-K!

We now have 17 students enrolled in our pre-k program! 🙂

Today and every Monday, Mrs. Wall, came in the afternoon to exercise with the kids in two small groups. The students had a lot of fun moving to music!

We also tasted red, green and yellow apples at snack today. After snack students picked a papershaped apple in the color of the apple they liked the most. Tomorrow morning we will find out what color apple is the most popular in our class.

The astronout is looking for the man in the moon!

Spirit Shirt

Today the spirit t-shirt was sent home. Wear this every Friday with jeans and tennis shoes.

 

Electives in Pre-K and Kindergarten 2011-2012

Dear Parents,

 

On Friday we are starting electives for the pre-k and kindergarten students. We have put together interesting activities in which your child will participate each Friday. We have placed the students into four groups which will remain the same throughout the school year. The four groups will rotate every five weeks  so that your child will have the opportunity to experience all four classes.

 

We are wondering if any of you have an exotic animal (not a dog or cat) at home or access to one that could be brought to school.  Let us know!

 

Let us know if you have any questions,

 

Mrs. Kim, Ms. Hellstrom, Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Weeks, and Ms. Murphy

More Information

~Each activity will be for 5 weeks. Every student rotate every 5 weeks so that each child will have the opportunity to expericne all 4 classes this year.

*Science (study and learn about animals) – Mrs. Kim

• Ø Fish
• Ø  Toads
• Ø  Bearded dragon
• Ø  Bunny
• Ø Review of what we learned

*Engineering (building with Lego and other materials following an instruction or create on their own) – Ms. Hellstrom

*Storytelling (flannel board stories) – Mrs. Weeks

• Ø The Gingerbread Boy
• Ø The Three Little Pigs
• Ø Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Ø The Ugly Duckling
• Ø Little Red Hen

-each lesson will include listening to a story, retell the story and color a picture or some kind of project on the story.

*Manipulatives (small/gross motor development) – Ms. Cohen

Friday, September 16

On Friday, September 16 Good Shepherd School has it’s first “subject day”, this month it is Spanish.  On this day, all students can wear red, white and green clothes in honor of the Mexican Independence Day.  Before dismissal, around noon, we will the rest of the school for some fun on the school yard.  Ms. Hernandez, the Spanish teacher in the elementary school will show some dances and the students will also try to dance.  A treat will be served:)