Sept. 28

Last week certainly went by quickly! In fact, last MONTH went by quickly. Here we are about to step into October already.

This week's Language Arts will center around the story "Mrs. Brown Went to Town", and we'll be practicing the phonics skills using CVCe. This means consonant-vowel-consonant-final e. Words like this will be words such as NAME, LIKE, etc. We have enjoyed the funny stories in this theme!

In Religion this week we have two special days: October 1 is the Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, and October 2 is the Feast of Guardian Angels. Many laypeople probably don't take notice of these days unless they are a Holy Day, but I like to include them for my kids. We'll also be starting to learn about the Rosary. October is the Month of the Rosary. I found out that most of my kids didn't know the Hail Mary, so this will be a good thing to learn.

I now have four people who've sent in their donations for the soldiers. Thank you! I especially liked seeing the hunting and fishing magazines. I hadn't thought of those. I added some items on the easel in the North Entrance, but I'll add them here, too.

• POWDERED DRINK MIXES (single serving ones) like Crystal Light
• COMBOS AND OTHER PRETZEL, CRACKER TYPE GOODIES
• MICROWAVE POPCORN
• EASY MAC ( a favorite for some!)
• PADS OF PAPER
• PENS AND PENCILS

These are all pretty inexpensive items, so I hope we get more donations. They'd also be easy to ship. I sent two packages of my own using the flat rate boxes from the post office. Postage is around $11.oo or $12. oo for each these boxes which can hold up to 20 pounds.

You might want to ask at work if your co-workers would like to be included. One parent said her fellow employees wanted to do this and are collecting from them. I thought that was a great idea!

Mr. Bell came into our room on Wednesday to help the kids get started on writing. He showed them how to plan for a beginning, middle, and end of stories by using drawings on their planning sheets. He was going to come in on Friday but we had too many kids absent so I asked him to come back on Wednesday. It's great that he's willing to do this, isn't it? :-) This week we will begin planning for our October books.

Have a great week!