Our Classroom Picnic

Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 21, 2011, is our classroom picnic!

It will begin at noon. Please meet us in the classroom and we will head outside together.

Please remember:

\lunch from home unless you ordered one from the café

\blanket or towel to sit on for each child

\if you would like, please put sunscreen on your child in the morning before school- I can not put it on your child.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Ice Cream Sundae Party

Please send in the $2 for the class ice cream sundae party for the last day of school. If you have already paid, thank you! I need the money ASAP, so I can go shopping for the goodies this weekend!

THANK YOU!!

Class Picnic

Please return your response for the class picnic as soon as possible, even if no one can attend. I will need to make sure that all students will have a lunch, either provided from home or ordered from the cafe. I need responses no later than, June 14th. Thank you!

Beaver Lake Nature Center Field Trip This Wednesday

We will have out field trip to Beaver Lake Nature Center this Wednesday. Please have your child dress appropriately for a walk through the woods. SNEAKERS and SOCKS, no dresses, shorts if it will be warm, sweatshirt if necessary, boots if it is wet and muddy on the ground.

If you are chaperoning, please meet me at the classroom at 9:25, and don't forget your camera.

If it is possible, please have all children eat breakfast at home so we can leave for Beaver Lake promptly at 9:30 am. Thanks!!

Don't forget t a bag lunch with a drink, if you didn't order one from the cafe. Please try to send the lunch is stuff that can be thrown away. It is much easier! Thanks!

No School This Wednesday

The teachers have a Superintendent Conference Day this Wednesday and there will be NO SCHOOL for students.

A Few Reminders

Author Visit this Thursday with Matt McElligot

Field Trip to Beaver Lake Nature Center on Wednesday, 5/25/11 Please send in permission slips and $2 admission

Spring photos need to be paid for or returned ASAP.

Socks and sneakers needed for safety. Please have your child wear socks and sneakers for recess and P.E. classes EVERYDAY! If your child does not have sicks and sneakers he/she will not be allowed to play. Thank you for your cooperation!

Beaver Lake Nature Center Field Trip

We will be enjoying a field trip to Beaver Lake Nature Center on May 25, 2011. Please be sure to fill out the permission slip and send it into school with the $2 admission.

We will be enjoying our lunch at Beaver Lake so please plan on ordering a bag lunch from the cafe or send in a lunch with drink from home.

Chaperones are welcome, please let me know if you are interested in joining us!

Thank you!

Happy Spring?!

With spring weather upon us, please remember to have your child wear layers of clothing to accommodate for cooler mornings and warmer afternoons. Also, please have your child wear sneakers. They are much safer on the playground.

PLEASE HELP!!

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING!!! Spring Open House Basket Raffle Donations

We will be putting together a GIFT WRAP basket for our Spring Open House Basket Raffle. It is a fundraiser for our PTA. Tickets will be available at Open House. Please donate new items to put in the GIFT WRAP basket. You can also donate money and I will shop for the stuff. Please donate items by Friday, April 8.

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING!!! Spring Open House Basket Raffle Donations

We will be putting together a GIFT WRAP basket for our Spring Open House Basket Raffle. It is a fundraiser for our PTA. Tickets will be available at Open House. Please donate new items to put in the GIFT WRAP basket. You can also donate money and I will shop for the stuff. Please donate items by Friday, April 8.

THANK YOU!!!

Final Week of PARP

We are celebrating our final week of PARP this week.

Monday, 3/21: read a shirt
Tuesday, 3/22: Kindergarten musical
Thursday, 3/24: Last call for this years PTA membership. Remember it is only $5 per person.
Friday, 3/25: Dress like a pirate to wrap up PARP and every student will get their second free PARP book from MHP PTA.

Thank you, MHP PTA, for making this so much fun!!

Raising Money for Tourette Syndrome!

Thank you to everyone who raised money for the Tourette Syndrome Association through our school's Fact Frenzy!! Our class collected over $300 and the school collected over $1300!! Wow!! Thank you for your generosity!! The kids learned some math facts as well!!!

Old Socks

Our supply of erasers for our dry erase boards has dwindled. Please send an old, clean sock in to school for your child to use for a white board eraser. Thank you!

Can Donations

We collected 79 canned goods for the local food pantry! Thank you to all who donated!

Mrs. Hansen and her class delivered several boxes of the canned goods to Bernadettes Bistro for distrubtion. They were most appreciative. Then Mr. Joe, Christina Rupracht and Mrs. Stevens loaded two vans with what was left and hauled them down to the village offices.

Five big cases have been set aside to help the Patterson family who recently had a fire. the rest, about
15 large boxes was picked up at 9am last Thursday morning by ARISE to help families from our school district who need them. ARISE was most grateful also and could not thank us enough for the large donation, which she said was timed perfectly.
So thank you to all the families and staff who worked on this....it helped a lot of people!

Honesty Show

Honesty show on Friday! We will present a short honesty show in the Millard hawk Auditorium at 2:15 on Friday! All are welcome!!

We have collected 74 cans so far towards our goal of 100 cans! Please consider donating if you have not already done so! Thank you to those who have already donated!!

Valentine's Day Party

We will have our Valentine's Day Party in our classroom on Monday, February 14, 2011.

¨ Please send in an empty tissue box for the kids to decorate for their Valentines Box.

¨ Please pay $2 or the remaining $6 for the goodies for the party, use the envelope provided (if you have not already paid).

¨ Please have your child do Valentines for EVERYONE in the class so no one is left out. See list below.

¨ Please have your child do the writing on the Valentines. It is good practice for them!

Valentine List:

Nicholas

William

Jaidelynn B.

Alyssa

Destanie

Renee

Edward

Brett

Dylan

Adrianna

Abigail

Susanna

Madelyn

Caleb

Logan

John

Cheyanna

Alexandra

Madden

Christian

Jadalynn V.

Jaden

Mrs. Bishop

Nurse Jessica

Mrs. Stalsonberg

Please Consider Donating--100 Cans of Kindness

Today was the 84th day of school! We will be doing a service project for the 100th Day of School! I would like to collect 100 canned/boxed goods to donate to Caughdenoy Methodist Church's Food Pantry. Our goal is to collect 100 items by the 100th day of school. Please consider sending in some canned or boxed goods. If every student in the class donated just 5 items, we would have over 100 items to donate!!

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation!!

An Educational and Fun Field Trip to Hospital-Land!

The students enjoyed a fun trip to Hospital-Land. They acted out a short skit about a young girl going to the hospital with her parents to have her tonsils removed. Nurse Jo was the nurse who taught us all about a visit to the hospital. She was wonderful. Destanie was out "patient," Madelyn and Caleb were her parents. The doctors were Susanna, the anesthesiologist, and Brett. Eight nurses helped transport Destanie to the "operating room and back to her bed after the "surgery." These eight nurses were Jadalynn, Abigail, Renee, Madelyn, Nicholas, Edward, Christian and Cheyanna. The wake-up nurse was William who got to "wake up" Destanie after her surgery. The three nurses who helped out after the surgery were Jaidelynn, Alyssa and Jaden. Logan was the discharge nurse. John and Dylan got to help out with Gus Gutz and show the kids about the internal organs!! He was cool!!

After the skit, the students had fun taking turns in centers. They rode in a wheelchair and got to push people in a wheelchair, used a walker and crutches, rode on a stretcher, listened to their heartbeat with a stethoscope, used a blood pressure cuff, tried on casts, learned about internal organs from "Gus Gutz" and sat on a hospital bed and told Nurse Jo their hospital or doctor stories. We even saw real x-rays!!

Thank you to Mr. Haynes for chaperoning this field trip. we appreciate your help. We hope you had as much fun as we did!

Hospital-Land Field Trip

Field trip permission slips were sent home today. We will be going to Hospital-Land in Syracuse across from Crouse Hospital next Monday, January 10, 2011. Please sign and fill out the permission slip ASAP. I have to notify the cafeteria ASAP how many bag lunches will be needed. We will eat in the classroom when we return from the trip. The cafeteria will be closed. We do need chaperones. The children will be taking part in centers and it is always helpful to have an adult at each center. There is no cost for the field trip so all you need to return is the signed permission slip and bag lunch form, if needed.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR RETURNING THE FORM PROMPTLY!!!

What is Hospital-Land?

"Since 1976, Crouse Hospital has been educating first-grade students throughout Onondaga County (more than 5,000 in 2009; 165,000 since '76) with our free Visit to Hospital-Land community service program. Funded by the Crouse Hospital Auxiliary, this unique program is designed to lessen the fears and confusion of young children who may have to visit a loved one in the hospital, or stay in a hospital themselves."