God's Most Amazing Creatures...: Newsletter

Happy Friday! We just returned from our Fall Harvest Party out in Greenwood, and the kiddos had a GREAT time! We had an absolutely beautiful day!

Thank you for all of your help this week transporting, supplying snacks, meeting with me for conferences, and praying for your child and our school! I feel like we are a great team, and I am SO thankful to God for all of you! Thanks for sharing your treasures with me every day…

Highlights from this week:

Helping with the ECC Harvest Party on Wednesday: It was so great to see our class and their servant hearts! We traveled over to the ECC, and were in charge of the games at their Harvest Party… Four preschool classes joined us, and our kids helped lead the games. It was neat to see some personality traits that I had not witnessed before. Some of our class really enjoy being around small children and helping them. J Perhaps some future teachers in our midst? ;) We were there about 2 hours. We were able to meet our pen pals from Ms. Julie’s class, which was awesome! We will be setting up a time to go back over to the ECC and connect with them again around Christmas. My hope is to work on a servant project with them and do an art project. Thank you to those of you that were able to help with this activity!

Parent/Teacher Conferences: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to meet with me. I have enjoyed visiting with you and sharing important information about your child. I love this class so much, and am so proud of them!

Our Fall Harvest Party: Today, we traveled out to Memaw’s and Pa Ron’s! When we arrived, we went on a scavenger hunt around their property. We then had about an hour to play on the trampoline, the tree house, the small zip line, and take go cart ride with the ever-so-careful daughter of the teacher, Emma! (There were no classes at the Freshman Center today!) Then we all piled on Pa Ron’s trailer and went on a hayride. We made full-circle back to the house, and got pumpkins, and then went to the old school house for lunch, snacks, and fun playing outside on the teeter totter and swings. I was able to visit with some of you that I normally don’t get too, and it was a lot of fun! It was a great day, and God supplied AMAZING weather! Thanks to you that were able to join us!

Learning about Martin Luther and the Reformation: This week, we learned about Martin Luther—his childhood, the steps he took to the Reformation, and also his life afterwards. He was an amazing man, and with the Holy Spirit’s guidance helped reform the church. We will be finishing up lessons about him next week.

Special Classes this Week:

Art-We created monsters with a Dice Monster game. They really turned out pretty cool, and not at all scary!

Writing/Computer Lab-We learned the history behind Halloween and had some great discussions about it. We took notes. After this, the kids read through some fun story-starters, and decided to write a fun autumn story. We will work more on these next week. We completed personal narratives at the computer lab. I will printing these out soon!

P.E. We played Four Quadrant Dodge Ball and learned a new game called Bombardment. This was a favorite!

Music- We met with Mr. Burns and went over our song, “Thrive!” that we will be singing on Sunday!

Upcoming Events:

*Students are singing this weekend at Blue Springs South High School. Show up in your best clothes at 9:00 to rehearse. Students will be able to sit with their families during the service, which begins at 10:00.

*Next Wednesday morning is SPECIAL! We will host something called Donuts with Dad where your child can come to school early with dad (or any other special person) to eat a breakfast of donuts together. We will have some special activities on hand for you and your child to do together. Doors will open at 7:45 and guests are always welcome to stay for chapel! We hope to see you there!!

*We have moved our picture retake day to Wednesday, November 9, at 10:30 in the music room. Photos from our first picture day are coming home with your child today. Please look for these in backpacks!

*On Friday, November 18, grades 3-6 will be going to see the Shriner’s Circus. We won’t need drivers, since we’re going to take a bus there, but we will have room for about 10 other parents to come along! A sign-up will come home next week, so look for that to come in your email if you’re interested in coming, too. (I had inadvertently planned our Thanksgiving Feast for this day, so please look at the change below! Oops! Thanks!)

*Next week, we will be back to two separate spelling lists and reading selections. We will be learning about Washington, D.C., the government, and how elections work as well!

*With our crazy schedule today, mail did not come home…It will come home on Monday. MOST of the graded work in there is from 1^st quarter.

Upcoming Events:

OCTOBER

30- K-8 Choirs Sing - Special Service at Blue Springs High School Performing Arts Center: 10:00 am. Please be there at 9:00!

NOVEMBER

1-Girls basketball practice begins 3:45-5:15; boys’ soccer party 4:00-5:00

2- Donuts with Dad 7:45-8:20 am; boys basketball practice begins 3:45-5:00

4-Mrs. Pennington’s Birthday

9-Picture Re-takes

13- K-3 Choir Sings (North Campus) 8:30 and 9:45 am

18- 3-6 field trip to Shriners Circus—8:45-1:00, School Auction that evening at

22-3^rd/4^th Thanksgiving Feast—more details to come!