A note from the teacher

We are hoping to have the children share their family holiday traditions with our class over the next few weeks. If you have a special book that you read during the holidays or a special recipe. We encourage you to come in and share that with our class. Last year one Mom came in and painted faces. Just let me know what day you would like to come in and share with us.

The Food Drive will begin this week and our class will have a box outside our room for our class’s donations. Donations will be taken until December 18th. This is a great way to talk with your children about helping others. I recently saw a T.V. interview with an eleven year boy in Seattle that was terminally ill and his “Make-a-Wish” wish was to feed the homeless. My hope is that we teach all our children to be caring and compassionate.

There are some dates that you should mark on your calendar’s…..
Breakfast with Santa December 6th
Winter Concert December 9th @ 7 pm
Family Holiday Parties December 18th & 19th


Breakfast with Santa tickets are on sale for those of you that aren’t sure what this is. We have breakfast at Applebee’s (this year it’s the Applebee’s on Mill Plain) and the children can visit with Santa. The breakfast is eggs, bacon, pancakes, and a drink. Tickets are $5.00 and you can purchase them in Maria’s office. This is a great time to visit with other Little Acorn Families and 100% of the proceeds go to our school.

Our Winter Concert is coming up fast. We have been practicing our songs for a few weeks, but will be practicing with the other classes for the next two weeks. I will be sending the words to our songs so you can practice with your child at home :) The children need to be at school by 6:40 on Tuesday December 9th.

Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school (yea). The Book Fair will be at the school the week of our Winter Concert. More details

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be talking about our families. I am hoping that if at all possible you could send a picture of your family together at Thanksgiving. We want to talk about how we celebrate holidays with our families and how some things are the same & some things are different. We are hoping to have the children share their family holiday traditions. If you have a special book that you read during the holidays or a special recipe. We encourage you to come in and share that with our class. Last year one Mom came in and painted faces. Just let me know what day you would like to come in and share with us. We also would like you to send in a copy of a favorite family recipe with our class for a class project.

A note from the teacher

There are some dates that you should mark on your calendar’s…..
Breakfast with Santa December 6th
Winter Concert December 9th @ 7 pm
Holiday Parties December 18th & 19th


Breakfast with Santa tickets are on sale for those of you that aren’t sure what this is. We have breakfast at Applebee’s (this year it’s the Applebee’s on Mill Plain) and the children can visit with Santa. The breakfast is eggs, bacon, pancakes, and a drink. Tickets are $5.00 and you can purchase them in Maria’s office. This is a great time to visit with other Little Acorn Families and 100% of the proceeds go to our school.

Our Winter Concert is coming up fast. We have been practicing our songs for a few weeks, but will be practicing with the other classes for the next two weeks. I will be sending the words to our songs so you can practice with your child at home :) The children need to be at school by 6:40 on Tuesday December 9th.

Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school (yea). The Book Fair will be at the school the week of our Winter Concert. More details to come.

Next week we will be talking about our families. I am hoping that if at all possible you could send a picture of your family together at Thanksgiving. We want to talk about how we celebrate holidays with our families and how some things are the same & some things are different. So taking that lead I’m asking for your help. We are hoping to have the children share their family holiday traditions. If you have a special book that you read during the holidays or a special recipe. We encourage you to come in and share that with our class. Last year one Mom came in and painted faces. Just let me know what day you would like to come in and share with us.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be continuing our talk about being thankful and helping others. We will finish our helping hand art. We will be reading a wonderful book about sharing, The Doorbell Rang. We’ll be making cookies to share with another class, as well as having some ourselves.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be talking about what we are thankful for and how we can help others. Sheltin’s family is training a service dog and will come in on Wednesday morning to visit Vencor with us so we will be talking about that. We will be making Turkey Handprints, you can’t have Thanksgiving without Pre-school Turkey Handprints! We will also make Helpful Handprints and talk about how we can help others. That will be our focus for our Thanksgiving celebrations as well. So next week we won’t be having a party but we will be making cookies to share with another class, as well as having some ourselves. We will be reading Ribbon Rescue, which is about a girl that shares the ribbons out of her hair to help people that she meets throughout the day.

A note from the teacher

There are some dates that you should mark on your calendar’s…..
Family Fun night November 19th
Breakfast with Santa December 6th
Winter Concert December 9th
Christmas Parties December 18th & 19th

This Wednesday is Family Fun Night at Golden Skate from 6-8 pm and if you eat at Pizza Itailina between 4 -8 that night a portion of the proceeds goes to our school. Make sure you mention that you are with Little Acorn.

Breakfast with Santa tickets go on sale Monday, for those of you that aren’t sure what this is. We have breakfast at Applebee’s (this year it’s the Applebee’s on Mill Plain) and the children can visit with Santa. The breakfast is eggs, bacon, pancakes, and a drink. Tickets are $5.00 and you can purchase them in Maria’s office.

So I just wanted to explain how the book bags will work. The kids can take a book home with them in their book bags and when they want a new book they bring their bag back and hang it on the door and we will exchange them. They can bring it back everyday they come or once a week to get a new book.

We will be visiting Vencor this week on Wednesday and Thursday (Thursday afternoon). It would be great if the children would like to wear their purple shirts on those days.

A note from the teacher

Thank you to all of you for coming to conferences and sharing great things about your child with me. It was wonderful to visit with all of you and if for some reason we weren’t able to meet we can meet sometime this week or next, just email me and we will set something up.

We have received enough money for a larger tank and some extra supplies for Pumpkin! Thank you !!!!!! You are all amazing!!

So hopefully you are all receiving my emails now, I apologize if some of you weren’t included right from the start. I want to make sure that I communicate what’s happening in our class as effectively as possible.
Speaking of communication, one of our parents has set up a social network for the Sunshine Class so that we can talk with each other and share photos, videos, and events. It is a wonderful opportunity for our class to grow closer and really be involved with each other. I Highly recommend checking it out. I have a link to it on the blog and I will also send a link in the email.

There are some dates that you should mark on your calendar’s…..
Breakfast with Santa December 6th
Winter Concert December 9th
Christmas Parties December 18th & 19th

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will explore different shapes and where shapes show up during our day. We will play a show matching game and play shape Bingo. We will sing a fun song about shapes and make a shape collage. We will be reading some good books that talk about shapes, A Circle here, a square there and Shape me a rhyme: Nature’s forms in poetry. We will also begin taking books home in our book bags!

A note from the teacher

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and a nice weekend. Thank you so much for all the orange treats that we had for our parties. The children all looked so cute!

I wanted to thank you all for helping our class by providing the items needed on our list. It is greatly appreciated! I have listed a 20 gallon reptile tank, for our guinea pig. We have a 10 gallon tank now but she really needs more room. It would be wonderful if someone had a gently used one or if you see one at a yard sale but I definitely don’t want you to feel that you need buy a new one (they run about $60 with the lid).

We are going to start a library system in our class, with book bags, the children will be able to take a class book home and then bring it back the next time they come to school.

If you haven’t turned in your Questions Sheet for Conference I ask that you please do that by Wednesday, so I have them before conferences. I will put out a list with conference times.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be discussing books and we will even try to make our own book. We will be decorating our book bags and illustrating pages for our book. Then on Thursday and Friday we have parent conferences, so there is no class on those days.

Word Wall

The Letter of the week for the next two weeks will be the letter S. Then we will move on to the letter T for two weeks. I like talking about the letter for two weeks in a row, it seems that the children benefit from two weeks to explore the letter.