So this week is a busy one on Monday In House Registration starts and the on Thursday is our Family Read In at 5:30 – 7:00. We will also be unveiling the All School Murals that we have been working on since the beginning of the year. We had several different canvas’ visit our class rooms and we each added some new art medium to them and I can’t wait to see the masterpiece that they have turned into.
And then on Saturday is the Dad & Me Breakfast at 9:00 – 10:30. I encourage all you Dads to bring the kids and let me make you breakfast. After breakfast your children can take you to our classroom and they can tell you all about their days.

Important dates and events
In-house Registration February 2nd (9:15)
Public Registration February 4th
Family PJ Read-In February 5th (5:30-7:00)
Dad & Me breakfast February 7th (9:00-10:30)
Valentines Celebrations February 12th & 13th
President’s Day / No School February 16th
Click Clack Moo February 19th & 20th (9:45 & 11:45)
LAPSK Carnival March 12th
Spring Break March 29th – April 5th
Mom’s Tea May 7th & 8th

This Week in the Sunshine Class

We will be exploring the world of Nocturnal Animals. We learn some Bat facts and play a Bat game . We will go on Owl Hunt and learn some facts about Owls. We will sort animals by night sleepers and day sleepers. We might even throw in Bingo this week!

Word Wall

This week we will feature the letter Jj again. Here are some of the words that are up on our wall so far.
Jam
Jump rope
Jellyfish
Jacket
Jonah
Jacks
Jell-O

What a blast bowling was, the children all seemed to enjoy it and I think the parents had a good time too! The purple shirts were a hit as well, some of the Teddy Bear Parents even commented on how great they looked.

So a heads up on the Valentine Celebrations, we will have a class party and I will have a sign up sheet for food but we won’t make a huge deal of parents coming just because I don’t want anyone to feel bad if their adults can’t be there. (We have the Click Clack Moo Field Trip the next week and I know some parents have to schedule it all in ) The children can bring valentines for all their friends. We basically have 12 children in each class, so to make it easy they can sign their names on the valentines but not address them. If your child has started to write their name this is great practice. The children will decorate bags to keep their valentines in. I will have the children come up with a food list, we have started the voting process. We vote on a lot of decisions to be made, the children love it and we learn some math in doing so.

We have something that was just added to the school calendar that I want you all to be aware of, The Family Read In on February 5th at 5:30 – 7:00. We will also be unveiling some All School Murals that we have been working on since the beginning of the year. We had several different canvas’ visit our class rooms and we each added some new art medium to them and I can’t wait to see the masterpiece that they have turned into.J I would really like to do this with just our class, with our morning and afternoon class. I will have each class start one and then go back and forth adding to it and expressing our ideas with each other as we go.

Important dates and events
In-house Registration February 2nd (9:15)
Public Registration February 4th
Family PJ Read-In February 5th (5:30-7:00)
Dad & Me breakfast February 7th (9:00-10:30)
Tuition Due February 10th
Valentines Celebrations February 12th & 13th
President’s Day / No School February 16th
Click Clack Moo February 19th & 20th (9:45 & 11:45)
LAPSK Carnival March 12th
Spring Break March 29th – April 5th
Mom’s Tea May 7th & 8th

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will explore Polar Animals. We will look at pictures in a book of different Polar Animals and then paint our own art that resembles the picture. We will also make some Penguins out of our footprints and some Polar Bears. We will play with ice and see what happens to it when we add water or salt to it.

Word Wall

This week we will feature the letter Jj. So help your children find words that begin with Jj.

I just wanted to thank you all for making Veronica’s farewell easy. She was very torn and you all made her feel good, thank you. We will have a substitute in our class until we find the right fit for our class. We will carry on as usual and the children should make an easy transition. As for the Spanish that we have been learning, we will continue with what I have learned and go from there. The word wall will be the main change in that area.

The Bowling Field trip is set for this Thursday and Friday for bowling at Crosley Lanes at 9:30 for morning classes and 1:00 for the afternoon classes. The cost will be $2.00 a person. As with any field trip, we will meet there and parents need to stay and enjoy the fun.
Crosley Lanes http://www.crosleylanes.com/ 2400 E Evergreen BlvdVancouver, WA 98661.

We have a couple new students to the Sunshine class since the beginning of the year so introduce yourself to them and their adults and make them feel welcome as I know you will. For those of you who are new. You can visit our blog and there is a link to our online album. You must register to have a snapfish account and I will email the password to you. Here is the link to our online album www.thesunshineclass2008.snapfish.com/snapfish . Some weeks will have more pictures than others but I try every week to have pictures of our day at school.

Here are some dates to be aware of that are coming up:
Vencor Visits January 21st & 22nd
Bowling Field Trip January 22nd & 23rd
In-house Registration February 2nd
Public Registration February 4th
Dad & Me breakfast February 7th
Tuition Due February 10th
Valentines Celebrations February 12th & 13th
Click Clack Moo February 19th & 20th

This Week in the Sunshine Class

Winter continues in our class this week. We will play with fake snow and decorate some sweaters & mittens. We will be creating snowflakes and snow people with marshmallows. We will also be playing a mitten pattern game and a mitten matching game, matching Upper Case Letter mittens and Lower Case Letter Mittens. And we will play the all popular snowball fight! To finish out our week we will go bowling!!

Word Wall

Since we will only be in school two days this week we will skip the Word Wall this week but next week we will feature the letter J.

N Words
Necklace Ninja Nuts
Nest Nine Noodle
Nickel Note Notebook
Night light Nail Nursery

School News

The fundraising committee for our school has an opening and needs your help. If you can help, they meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 9:30 in the Bethel room. I just want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the parents for the hard work and dedication to our school!!

A note from the teacher

Thank you to all of you for a great first week back and helping with our New Year’s Celebrations!! We had a fun time playing games and eating some delicious foodJ.

Teacher Veronica and I wanted to thank you all for the wonderful cards and thoughtful gifts during the holiday season. They were very thoughtful and we really appreciate being remembered, thank you.

I have been trying to book a field trip to the Fire Station and was notified that is not going to be possible this year. Fire District 6 has changed their policy and wont do field trip for schools out of their district and Vancouver Fire District doesn’t allow children under the age of five on their field trips. So that’s where the bowling field trip comes in to play. The children will have a blast and it will be nice and warm inside. So mark your calendars for January 22nd & 23rd for bowling at Crosley Lanes at 9:30 for morning classes and 12:30 for the afternoon classes. The cost will be $2.00 a person. As with any field trip, we will meet there and parents stay and play.
Crosley Lanes www.crosleylanes.com
2400 E Evergreen BlvdVancouver, WA 98661

Here are some Important dates and events to mark your calendars.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day /No School January 19th
Vencor Visits January 21st & 22nd
Bowling Field Trip January 22nd & 23rd
In-house Registration February 2nd
Public Registration February 4th
Dad & Me breakfast February 7th
Tuition Due February 10th
Valentines Celebrations February 12th & 13th
Click Clack Moo February 19th & 20th

This Week in the Sunshine Class

We are exploring winter this week. We will be creating a winter scene and going for a snowy drive through some shaving crème. We will be playing in some fake snow and have a snowball fight with paper snowballs. We will have a snowflake hunt and talk about how snowflakes are all different just like we are. We will be reading some great books about snowflakes and snowy days. We will also be playing a mitten pattern game and a mitten matching game, matching Upper Case Letter mittens and Lower Case Letter Mittens.

Word Wall

N is off to a slow but steady start. Some of the words in so far are.
Necklace Ninja
Nest Nine
Nickel Note
Night light Nail

A note from the teacher

Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their break and all the snow. It was fun having a white Christmas but it really messed up our party plans,
so …..
Our Family Holiday Party that is now our New Year’s Party is this week on Thursday and Friday at 11:00 am for the morning class and 2:15 pm for the afternoon class. We will have a book exchange for the children. The book should be under $10, gender neutral, and wrapped. The children love getting to pick a new book to take with them, you might want to talk with them about the fact that they aren’t getting the book that they bring but they will get a new one.
Since it’s snowing while I write this if the Vancouver School District is closed or on a 2 hour late start, our school is cancelled for the day. You can call the school for updated info at 693-5614 and I will send out an email as soon as I find out if our schedule has been affected

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we are celebrating the start of a new year! So we will talk about the different months in a year and what happens in those months, like different types of weather, seasons, and holidays. We will explore winter weather next week . We will be making some New Year’s Party decorations and we will also be making foil prints. We will create some textured art and make a letter N collage.

Word Wall

For the next two weeks will be talking about the letter Nn. So look for items that begin with the letter N for our word wall. This is a great activity to share with your child and it gets them interested in letter recognition.